There are two ways people may experience hallucinations during sleep paralysis:

1) Hypnagogic hallucinations, which occur when drifting off to sleep.

2) Hypnopompic hallucinations, which occur upon waking.

Each age range of children has its common difficulties with sleep. A lot of questions are about younger children and infants. So I will address that today.

The body only wants to breathe through the nose and you're not in control. So it's working automatically. It's doing what it does on its own. And it prefers to breathe only through the nose while you're asleep. That's true for all age groups.

If you're sleeping long enough, you should be able to wake up on your own without any intervention.

Between 40 and 55 years of age, whether you're a man or a woman, sleep problems tend to affect you more.

And you should ask the question why?