In my only episode of something like sleep paralysis, it was Elvis -- white jumpsuited Elvis -- with his black hair all tendrilled out reaching for me.
On the other hand, I very commonly have dreams where I can't get away from something, which is sort of the opposite, where wakefulness is intruding into a dream just enough for me to realize that I can't move, but not enough to disrupt the dream narrative.
that sounds more like a lucid dream.