I used to have two different recurring dreams when I was a little girl. One when I was simply walking somewhere while not actually moving forward. The other was me running away from a faceless man dressed in all black with a black hat. I would run to my uncles front door to safety, but when he opened the door, there was like a force field preventing me from entering the living room. To me that is not sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis is when I wake up fully concious and aware of my surroundings and of the fact that I am awake yet at the same time unable to move my body, speak, or open my eyes. Like my body refuses to acknowledge the fact that I am ready to wake. It is very scary. The only way to come out of that for me is to force myself to try to scream. This usually works. It is freaky, because I want to immediatley go back to sleep, but If I don't stay awake for at least 30 minutes, it keeps happening.