I experience the loud, harsh ringing after waking up and laying in bed for a period of time. I am afraid, mostly because of the anticipation of the pain that the experience might cause, and the anticipation of potential sleep paralysis afterwards. It feels grating, and as though a large train is running over me with the sensation and noise that is being pushed through my head. I feel myself gathering my grit, and expressing my displeasure, trying to reason with the person that I know is behind the experience. It is someone who is very driven to experimentation, and wants to know what will happen, and wants to master the experience, and who knows there is information contained within the experience that is being created. I find myself slightly exasperated with them, and want them to give up on their quest for scientific knowledge for the moment, as it is hurting me, and I’d prefer not to. I grit my teeth and try to speak to them. I force out the words “Can we please not?” and it is very difficult to get them out over the sound of the ringing that is experienced as a train running over me, almost as though I am laying underneath the train tracks and trying to yell to the conductor as it passes over me, with the wheels and the rattling rocks and the blaring train whistle ringing out over me. I am uncertain if I genuinely say these words, or am just thinking I am saying them. I know that I can move, and move my body slightly, but it is extremely strenuous. I experience the person pushing me into the space hears me, and stops, and the ringing begins to recede and die down, and then I “wake up” fully, and I purposefully get up and don’t go back to sleep, as I anticipate a sleep paralysis episode would follow this if I did.