Sleep paralysis

"I went to bed at 2:45am as I always do for some unknown reason. It's hot, I'm sweating, I know what's about to happen. It happened before. It happens all of the time. I lay in bed on my back and close my eyes. I drift to sleep. Quickly, suddenly, without realization, but I feel awake. A bright white light flashes over my eyes. Kind of like the one a doctor uses, but this light is bigger and brighter. I felt the heat radiating on to the skin of my face. I opened my eyes and I realize that I was strapped down on a table. I couldn't speak. I couldn't move. I tried looking around at my surroundings but it was impossible to even move my head." My therapist interrupts me with a question but I ignore her and carry on the story. "Aliens hover over my body. I'm frozen, I'm not sure how to get away from them. Before the Alien touches me I woke up gasping for air. I looked around my room, my eyes wide and hand over heart. The room temperature seemed to drop back down. I'm cold. freezing even. I wrapped another blanket around my body. I took a deep breath realizing I was in my room and it was all just a dream. "You only had an episode of sleep paralysis." My therapist spoke in a soft voice. "I don't believe that." I thought about the dream again and it was in that moment I realized that it wasn't a dream. That it did in fact happened. "It is real, it did happen." I whisper more to myself then to her.