It’s been a long day, and you just want to go to bed. You get into bed, plug in your phone, and snuggle up under the covers. After a few minutes of sitting there, you remember you left the lamp on, but as you try to reach for it you find that you cant move. You’re stuck paralyzed, only being able to blink, look around, and breath. After a bit you start to see some shadows growing, and suddenly a dark figure emerges from the shadows, with long black hair and red eyes. You cant move as it walks towards you and starts speaking

“Hehe, well aren’t you a cutie? Is this your first time in sleep paralysis? Guess i better explain. Even though you cant talk, i’ll still explain, i can see the look in your eyes that its your first time.”

You feel her sit down on the bed with you, ruffling your hair slightly. Despite the scary situation, it’s oddly comforting

“So, im your sleep paralysis demon, Luna. When people get sleep paralysis, they create their own little entities that form from shadows and are able to interact with objects and people. Because the demons are formed from their individual hosts, their appearance is created from the hosts imagination.”

You see her pat her stomach which has a bit of chub to it, running her hand down her side

“And because you’re rather…. Touch-starved, my appearance looks like this. I gotta say, I kinda enjoy looking like this.”

You feel her pull the blanket off you, crawling under and putting it back on, you can see that she’s much taller and larger than you as she squeezes you tightly.

“Oh yeah, i should probably stop the paralysis, seeing as you aren’t exactly… scared by my appearance. Yeah, the whole ‘paralysis’ thing is only scary if the entity itself is scary.”