I found you today because of my most recent experience last night. I have had it 5 times I remember EVERY detail of it each time.

I have had a very similar experience.. i most definitely think they are linked and I think it's where the image of death the grim reaper was born into culture. I think people started seeing this black cloaked shadowy figure and afterwards would experience death in their family and thus was born the grim reaper or also originally known as "Ankou" My experience is so much in tune with yours that I feel it in my bones that there is more to this then we understand. I think sleep paralysis puts us in a super natural state where dreams meet reality and it allows the veil to be peeled back of reality.. your experience is very important and it is one of thousands others.

This is not how sleep paralysis works.