@Seren I didn't know you had the hag before! You should tell me later tonight or even post it here for everyone to see (or even link it, if its already in your dream journal or something).
The idea of the hag, the experience, is frightening to me even just from descriptions. One of my first dreaming buddies who is unfortunately inactive now, Flavor of Night, had them as a child and just imagining from his descriptions was scary. Its the stuff horror stories and ghost allegations are made of and yet it has a perfectly rational explanation. The harmlessness of it, once you figure out what it is, somehow makes it more interesting to me.
Nope, no hags for me. What I meant was, I was relived to find it's a symptom of SP / parasomnia, because that means I'll never have to experience it.
It's not frightening as soon as you know what it is. You may "observe" some fear reaction at first, but anybody who has learned enough about dreaming can get past that. It's less scary than a lot of things you might encounter in dreams.
True... I imagine that if, for some reason, I did have to experience it, knowing what is happening certainly takes the fear out of it!
