Welcome To Sally Adee's Nightmare

“This is how it happens for me: I’m completely asleep, and then something terrible creeps across the room, reaches spindly, pincer-like fingers for my hand, and pinches. That pinch is what wakes me up in terror, gasping and whimpering and trying desperately to pull my arm under the covers. But I can’t. I can’t do anything because no matter how I struggle, I can’t move a muscle.”
 — The Last Word On Nothing’s Sally Adee writes about the science, the history and her own experience of a condition known variously as “the incubus,” “witch’s pressure,” “old hag syndrome” or, most commonly, night terrors.