How I Turned My Sleep Paralysis into Music and a Horror Short Film.

Gerardo Preciado
2 min readMar 30, 2022

As a child and up to my early twenties I suffered from sleep paralysis from time to time, and anyone who has experienced it knows that it is no fun at all.

If you don’t know what sleep paralysis is, it is basically waking up and being unable to move your body or speak, it is often accompanied by horrific hallucinations.

It wasn’t until a couple of years ago that I discovered that most -if not all- people (who suffer from sleep paralysis) see the same thing, a sort of black silhouette or…

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Gerardo Preciado

Screenwriter, Comic Book Creator, Composer of Imaginary Horror Soundtracks. Follow me for my thoughts on Art, Magick, Religion and more.