Scary and confusing, need some insight!

So something happened to me the other night and left me feeling pretty nervous and scared. First off, I had a bad experience a few days before so, I don't know if it might be linked to this because of the bad feelings I had about this particular experience.

Anyway, what happened was I went to sleep the other night and as I was falling into that relaxed sleep state I suddenly felt thus string vibration. I do a lot of meditation and have felt this before and lately have also had this feeling become a little more spontaneous, but this is not what I am worried about.

So as I had this vibration I readily accepted it at first but then along with it this time I felt this strong fear. I also had some slight visuals I guess but I actually managed to open my eyes still. The visuals though scared me, more like red and black kind of squares or even a flaming feeling (I can't describe it any other way but this is closest to what I mean). I had this feeling of being squeezed or held in an oppressive way, and also like a feeling of being taunted. I couldn't move at all and my bf woke up and I could see and hear him asking me what was wrong as I was lying there with my eyes open and breathing heavily and fast (I was panicking). I was trying to say to him I wanted help and was scared and couldn't move but couldn't. After about 40 seconds maybe it was like it just released me and I gasped and sat up and said what happened.

So I know about sleep paralysis and have experienced it before, although this had a stronger feeling. So I don't know if it could be something else.

Anyway, this was not the only thing. I tried to sleep and then I woke suddenly again because I heaved, then again my fb asked what was wrong and I heaved strongly again. It came suddenly and out of nowhere, but it felt like something bad in me, not that I was actually sick.

The final thing that night I had gone back to sleep but woke up again suddenly as I sat bolt upright, but again it felt like I was pulled up into this sitting position. Again my fb asked what was wrong and I turned to look at him and I could feel I was just staring at him. I had this bad feeling and I was trying to say to him something was wrong but I just couldn't speak. It was as if something was holding me and holding my eyes on him but I couldn't say a word. Again I had the feeling of being released and gasped a little again and said I was freaked out and scared (I think after this he probably was feeling the same about me too )

Anyway, I have a close friend who has had a similar experience in everything and I wonder if it could be linked too in any way. I'd like some possible insight, but I've had sleep paralysis before and I've felt very different than this time.

Also I don't know if this is the right section for this but I don't know where this should've gone, so I apologies if it's wrong!

Hi I had something similiar happen to me when I was young I wonder if you feel sad or anxious but you need to pray that might help.

[dryad]

Close your crown chakra. Make it like a fountain. It will stop anything from getting in like that.

[yellow]

I don't know what it was that you experienced but may I recommend that you protect yourself?

Maybe when you go to bed, just imagine / visualize white light around you, protecting you. See if that helps.

This is similar to my experience in 1981. I was not asleep. I was fighting with God. I told God that God did not exist and that I was insane. I asked how to find truth and the spirit said "Deny everything until you can no longer deny it. Then it grabbed me. I could not move or breathe. My heart raced but I could not speak. I only had a few seconds left to live and in my mind I said "I yield the point" Then God released me.
In my latest manuscript "Cosmic Reincarnation" at age 76 I now know that the spirit was not God or another. It was my own soul. It came out of me so that I could see it. It looked thousands of years old.
Anyway that is what grabbed you. You have a conflict with your soul. You have lived hundreds of lives in the past and will live many more lives. You have to put yourself upon a better spiritual path. Perhaps you have been chosen for that path. My novel "Futureoids" may help you a little. It will be awhile before I find a publisher for my reincarnation theory. This will help you greatly.