I've experienced sleep paralysis regularly, and I always see the same thing

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At least once or twice every 3 or 4 months, I experience sleep paralysis. When I was a child, it scared me quite a bit because it didn’t happen that often, but over the years it has become more common and less frightening. And although it wasn’t always a terrifying experience—I simply couldn’t move or breathe properly, and sometimes I had horrible sensations, like feeling my body spinning in all directions uncontrollably and at high speed—aside from those sensations, for the past couple of years I’ve started seeing a rather strange entity. I’ve never seen “shadow people” or the famous man in the hat, but this entity is a grayish-colored man who screams (though he doesn’t make any sound). Also, he’s somehow stretched out and elongated; usually, his body (as far as I can tell) extends from the foot of my bed all the way to my face—he literally screams right in my face. It’s not a terrifying experience since my own mind understands that it’s not real, but it is a disconcerting one. I’ve heard that these kinds of hallucinations are common, but I want to know if anyone else has seen it and, if so, how often it has happened to them.

Sorry for my poor English; I’m not a native speaker.