nivanson

Your experience is called sleep paralysis. I get it every now and then, often with my face down in the pillow. Not dead yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Well, the dupe marked post is hours younger than this post.

I think it is the same for most people. Consider a child that is experiencing these ”thoughts” but do not have language for them. Anchoring your thoughts in words is a useful tool in order to prepare yourself to communicate them, possibly to yourself. How much you use that tool is what I believe is the variable here.