Occasionally I will wake up while I'm still "asleep." Or am I asleep? It really is like paralysis. I have to really fight to get back to full consciousness or to have the ability to move. Or reconnect my mind and body. I'm not even sure how to describe it. It's like the other sleep paralysis events I've read about here with the exception of moving figures or the sense of something malevolent near. It used to be frightening but not so much now. More of a curiosity thing I guess.

On that struggle thing... when I say "really fight" I mean it is an intense struggle. It probably only takes seconds but feels like a lot longer. It's kind of like I am fighting desperately to reconnect or become lost forever. When I "come back" I feel shaken and drained.

[medkev13]

Yeah, that's standard paralysis. This malevolent other feeling that people get is usually a subconscious attempt to find a cause behind being unable to move. The reason you have to fight to reconnect yourself is because your body is still lingering in REM sleep, even though the theta stage has started. It's like being tied in the middle of a tug of war rope - eventually one side is going to win, and you'll fall over when it happens. The falling over is your body being drained because you spent much of your energy forcing the reconnection. Again - pretty standard.