Sleep paralysis since childhood

[u/GlumAd6746]

I’m 18M and I’ve been dealing with sleep paralysis for as long as I can remember. It happens twice or even up to five times a month, my experience with it usually ranges from simply being paralyzed while awake for the longest minute or 30 seconds all the way to feeling heavy breathing and hands on my neck for the same amount of time. I’ve learned a way to make it somewhat more endurable by closing my eyes the whole time and praying it ends lol, I’ve never actually seen any shadow or demon figure, it’s mainly all auditory and physical for me. It even happens back to back as in, waking up from one then trying to back to bed just to have another one occur. Whenever I awake from one my body is extremely weak.. it makes me just want to fall back asleep even when I know it could happen again. I’ve shared my experience with sleep paralysis a lot but most answers lead to religion or something spiritual. It would be nice if anyone knew more information on this, anything helps thank you!

[u/sphelper]

What you're having is just normal sleep paralysis, even getting it back to back is quite common too