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I feel a crushing pain in my head every time I experience sleep paralysis

For the past year I have been experiencing sleep paralysis on a daily basis. Every time this happens I feel my whole brain buzzing like there is electricity flowing through it and it pulses slowly as more and more pain starts to accumulate.  It gets to be so painful it feels like my brain is about to implode and no matter what I do I always feel extreme pain. I hear myself telling myself to wake up before the pain gets unbearable but it doesn't work most of the time.   Sometimes I try fighting it and I try to wake myself up so I don't feel the pain but no matter what happens it gets so painful that I wake up teary eyed and afraid to fall asleep again after I wake up. I feel like I am going insane because sometimes in the middle of this crushing pain I can hear myself talking to myself as three different people and the more I talk the more intense the pain becomes and the faster I talk to myself.  It gets especially painful when I become aware and I try to wake up but it is like my brain is telling me no. I read from other forums that this is normal in lucid dreaming but I'm not even trying to lucid dream and no one mentions pain they say it is a comfortable buzzing.  But compared to mine it is the most intense pain I have ever felt. Please help.
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