Had something similar happen twice. Not sleep paralysis for me though. One was when I was living with my sister and one was after going to a Down concert.
Living with my sister was terrifying because I woke up in the middle of the night terrified out of my mind for no reason at all. Just kept alternating Hail Mary’s and Our Father’s until I fell back asleep. Later she asked me if I had noticed anything weird that night a few days later. She asked me this totally unprompted and told me there was a shadow person lurking in her room that night.
The Down concert was concerning because some girl put a curse on me or something. I think she was literally possessed because I had a wild ass nightmare a few night’s later that appeared to me in my dream as my gf and the eyes went black and it started to strangle me. Said the Lord’s Prayer and everything stopped immediately. Sat straight up in bed and woke her up, but I never told her what that was about.
Two of my cousins and their mom, my aunt, have some wild ass stories. Mexicans always have ghost stories. Every single one. And, they are always motherfucking terrifying.