If anything pray and set in your mind that you're not going to let anyone or anything harm your baby and whatever you're experiencing should stop. Nothing wants to mess with mother that's prepared to protect her baby
I had a dreams similar to that early in my pregnancy. One time i could of promise that i wasn't sleep because i had just laid down and i seen a dark shadow gliding across my ceiling by my closet and i promise i was ready to protect my baby by any means but it just went from my closet to out my bedroom door. I also had dreams that something was trying to open my legs to take my baby. It went from there to every dream i had there was a man standing somewhere in the corner as if he was waiting on something. I have to admit that it scared the crap out of me even as I'm telling you about it now. I'm now afraid to go to sleep. But now no matter what type of dream I'm having in that dream i always stop to check if my baby is okay and she do be and that makes me feel better. Don't let it scare you hunny
To be honest it's hormones. I thought I was going crazy cuz every night I would dream of a horrible disaster like a hurricane or earthquake and eventually I started to believe it was going to happen lol I didn't get any sleep and I almost always woke up screaming. I still have weird dreams but nothing as dramatic. I dreamt someone stole my truck last night at a gas station, only thing is I don't own a truck...lol relax and try to take a relaxing bath before bed. And if u have any kind of lavender or chamomile lotion that really helps. ♡
How bizarre, my step sister called me this morning telling me she woke up 2 minutes before her alarm because in her dream someone walked down the hallway, into her room, sag beside here and was staring at here and breathing on her face and she was halfway waking up and could feel the bed moved and the breath moving her hairs rythmically. Anyways, sleep paralysis is a terrifying occurrence and in pregnancy can happen quite often in some women just because sleep cycles can be disturbed frequently and your mind is still not reading the signals to kind of unlock your body too. My brother has has multiple cases of sleep paralysis and the idea of it gives me such anxiety. I believe it's kind of like sleep walking, but turned around. Instead of your brain being asleep and your body being awake, your brain wakes up and forgets to inform your body
As a Christian woman I understand completely and yes what you experienced was very real. It's the worst feeling in the WORLD. Best advice I can give you is too PRAY PRAY PRAY!!!! It works I promise