This is something I'd probably never believe unless I experienced it. So I don't blame anyone for not believing this, it's pretty weird! This happened 9 years ago when my little brother was about 13, he was sleeping in the room next to mine and sometimes I'd have dreams of a middle-aged man who would sit at the computer in there. With each dream he would become more violent and throw things around the room.
One night I was on the phone with my best friend who could also communicate with ghosts; when I put the phone down to go to the bathroom, I noticed techno music coming from his room. But it was about 2 am! So I laughed thinking how the heck can he sleep through that? Plus there's school the next day. On my way back to my room, I looked in his door and I saw the man from my dream! He was sitting at the computer with his back to me. I backed away and went back into my room. I didn't get off the phone until daylight, I was so creeped out! The next day I told my family, and they said that there isn't even a radio in my brother's room, plus he'd been sleeping in the living room that night (I don't blame him for not wanting to sleep in there!)
My brother later told me that he saw a purple monster looking thing in his room (on all fours, I guess like a big dog). I don't think it was evil though. If anyone else in my family said this I'm not sure I'd believe them, but my brother is the most honest person I have ever met in my entire life. He also had 2 OBEs as a child, but I think recently nothing paranormal has happened to him.
Now for my experience. Around that same time, I had a very very vivid dream, that I was in this world and slipped down this tunnel into another world. It was SO beautiful! There was really deep cracks in the earth, at the bottom there were roads, and there was high mountains covered in trees. It was very breathtaking. There was a gnome who approached me and shook my hand (I guess it was a gnome?) The face, if you looked at it as is, was quite... unattractive. But there was a beautiful soul that shined through so I never thought anything about his looks. He showed me a chess set, bag, and a few other knick-knacks that were brought by some medieval guy a long time ago, and he said since then, nobody from Earth has ever been there.
There was also another creature (sprite maybe? I looked up folklore pictures after the dream and that's the closest thing to what she looked like). Her name sounded like Hiola, she had bright red hair and was gathering what looked like nutmeg. She said something about them, they were important somehow but I don't remember! Anyway a little while after, I went back to where the medieval things were, the gnome gave me a chess piece and I held it in my hand. I was really excited because I thought, I'm going to take this back with me in waking life on Earth! I knew I was dreaming and in another world. With that thought, I slowly woke up, with my hand clenched tight... As I awoke I was really excited and opened my palm like "YES!" But it was empty, lol. Talk about anti-climatic!
Then last year, my third sleep paralysis experience happened. There was a different gnome, but smaller, and he was silently walking along a path that appeared as he walked, looking really curious at me until he got to my bed. He stopped and just looked at me really curiously. I couldn't move at all, so I just lay there looking at him really curiously too! Then suddenly I could move again and the creature was gone.
Has anyone else had experiences like this, I mean besides ghosts, entities, ufos, etc? Do you think this is where ancient myths came from, from experiences like this?