I used to get sleep paralysis fairly frequently a while back. Some nights it would happen multiple times in a row. I never had any hallucinations, and for some reason I could always wake up properly by focusing really hard on my right foot.
For me it's my voice. As long as I can utter some kind of shout out, it breaks the spell. Usually something on the lines of "mmmmmroow!"
I have this every now and then except i kinda just half-wake up and everything feels profoundly wrong in some ineffable way, like the dream world merges with the real world and there's a sense that something bad is going to happen at any moment.
I can fall asleep physically while remaining awake mentally with relative ease, I've never had the entry paralysis ever associated with the typical exit paralysis sleep demons.
The worst that happens is my brain is just incredibly disoriented when I open my eyes after it thinks Im asleep. The paralysis is pretty fun actually, sometimes it can be a real challenge to break.
