The Paranormal and Sleep Paralysis

The second story sounds an awful lot like sleep paralysis particularly when you said you rolled over onto your back and then it happened because I don't suffer from sleep paralysis. Alice from the podcast The Ghost Gig which is a great podcast if you are looking for a paranormal podcast to listen to. When she gets bouts of sleep paralysis she has discovered that if she concentrates on moving a finger just moving one finger then she can break out of the sleep paralysis. There are lots of people in the paranormal community who do kind of echo that belief that if you have a near death experience that somehow it leaves you more open to experiencing things.