Sleep Paralysis. It is a not uncommon occurrence where a person wakes in the middle of the night and cannot move. This usually comes with a panicked feeling, accompanied by noises and movement in the room, seen mostly through peripheral vision. It can also come with a heavy feeling on your chest and a shadowy mass on top of you.
Science has explained it all away, claiming that your body is simply locked in place as per usual sleep routines that your body and mind put upon you in order to prevent you from acting out your dreams. Many times, that is the case. But, every once in a while, more often than not, when a person experiences sleep paralysis, it is caused by a malevolent presence that never walked the universe in mortal form.
Shadow people, nightmare demons, dark fairy folk, and even alien visitation are a few things that could cause these nocturnal torments. However, out of them all, the worst you could experience is the assault of an incubus."..."A
soldier’s perception of a battle is limited by what he can see and hear. He may see his comrades standing next to him
or, if the smoke is not too thick, the enemy across the field. He may hear the angry buzz of the Minié balls
and the roar of the cannon. But for him,
there is no grand, overarching plan where soldiers move like pieces on a
chessboard. For him the fight is
intensely personal, often reduced to two men:
himself and the enemy soldier trying to kill him." -- The Cause of Darkness
“Man
is a malcontent; a disaffected sojourner, seeking Elysium. Someday, when we can
freely move in time, through space, even into the other dimensions, I’m afraid
we will be disappointed. Like Alice, man, too, will discover life isn’t any
better – or worse – through the looking glass, only different.”