They are similar to succubi and incubi, feeding off the emotions and life force of their prey.
Such sleep paralysis was widely considered the work of demons, and more specifically incubi, which were thought to sit on the chests of sleepers.
There were too many attacks by incubi to deny them.
Incubi appear and the warriors fight them off to keep them from reaching him again.
It became generally accepted that incubi and succubi were the same demon, able to switch between male and female forms.
We need to consider the historical incubi that we must discard and determine the ways of governing ourselves that would most commend themselves to those whom we represent.
You see, the bodies of incubi and succubi are much less dense than the human body, and this is greatly to their advantage in space travel.
Now, we make the connections with incubi and succubi in some form of dream state.