A Series of Unexplained Events: Pinned Down

Don't resist

It's dead on 3 am again. Fully awake and alert, I'd go as far as to say, I feel I've had a full night's sleep. It's only the fact that I technically haven't that begs to differ. For the past 2 weeks, this has been my new regular wake-up time. It's been too early to actually get up and make breakfast, so I've reverted to sitting up in bed and meditating for an hour. However, I don't get to meditate this time, something else has other ideas.

Upright in bed, I'm suddenly forced back by an invisible force, or more like a pressure. Slammed to my back, I'm pinned down hard. I attempt to move, I can make a fist, I can grit my teeth in effort, I can lift my head a smidge, but this force pushing down on me is strong -- sumo strong. This force has weight, and it's evenly distributed over my entire body. A visor drops over my eyes and I'm plunged into blackness. Then I feel a laser beam scanning my body, starting at my feet and working its way up.

My heart rate is pumping, but my mind is clear. I'm making no progress fighting to try and move. After all, what you resist persists. I decide to not resist anymore. I wouldn't call it being a passive observer, cos I'm also mentally yelling, "What the actually f is happening?". The choice to not resist somewhat pays off, as the weight of the pressure is lessened. However, the laser scanning is still in full effect as I'm scanned a number of times. And as suddenly as it happened, it ends and the visor lifts off my eyes, and the pressure disappears.

It's now 4am. I immediately text a friend who would believe me. I get up and dressed, and internet search, "Did anyone get pinned to their bed last night?"... Pins and needles and sleep paralysis are turning out to be favorable results. By 9am my mum is telling me about her hospital appointment she had that morning. "My doctors are very concerned, VERY concerned!" Mum reports on the results of her pacemaker update. The doctors can read data from her pacemaker, time and dates of the heart's pace and rhythm when triggered by irregularities. "They said there was a MASSIVE spike", mums forehead creases with worry, "As if I'd shoved myself into a microwave oven and turned it on full power. But there's nothing but my phone next to me at that hour of the morning?". I lean forward, "What time was that... this morning?" "3 am" she replies.

My friend gets a hold of me, she's done some research. She found out there was a major solar storm last night. I internet search on whether pacemakers can be affected by strong solar storms. Turns out, they can. Great, I'm a human pacemaker.