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I've never had a sleep paralysis dreams, but I have had dreams where I've been killed, others where I've been nearly killed, as well as dreams of being stalked and molested. Mostly though nightmares that involve killing I usually watch other people getting killed though.
As for the "if it's based on your childhood" part, I use a scale on how realistic the dream is as an indicator. A dream feels real while you are dreaming, because while you are asleep, a dream is your reality. But after you wake up...and think about it for awhile, was the dream compatible with reality? Was the setting someplace you know from somewhere...even if it's from something fictional like movie or TV? Or is just a warped mash-up of places that you've been? Did the dream "flow" like it does in life, or did time setting, etc, jump all over the place? Just some of the things I use. Often the dream itself is not a memory, but when you break it down into fragments the information they hold is useful.
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