Things you didn’t know about sleep paralysis – Have you ever woken up from a deep sleep fully conscious but unable to move a muscle, with a great pressure on your chest and a feeling that something or someone truly abnormal is in your bedroom? That’s called sleep paralysis, a waking dream state you have absolutely no control over. Think of it as a bridge that joins the dreaming and waking world.
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Some who experience sleep paralysis report an indescribable abstract beauty, which sounds like a great time. However, most people describe it as going through a living nightmare, a sneak peek into what hell on earth would look like.
Scientists have a good hypothesis on the fundamentals of sleep paralysis. Put simply, sleep paralysis is an out of sequence REM (rapid eye movement) state. REM sleep induces total muscle atonia to keep sleepers from physically acting out their dreams. If someone becomes suddenly conscious during REM sleep, and the muscle atonia is still in effect, sleep paralysis occurs. That’s a clean explanation, and it’ll work for now, but science is ultimately just a hairless monkey’s guess at what’s going on in the universe. There is no satisfying answer to why exactly sleep paralysis occurs, and why those who go through it tend to report the same strange things.
10. Each Experience Is Unique
Despite shocking similarities among case reports of sleep paralysis, no two experiences will ever be identical. Like dreams, sleep paralysis occurs in the mind (we think), and its presentation is subject to the thoughts and experiences of whoever falls under it. Many report seeing what felt like angels or aliens, but what transpires during the event is personal. In one case, a man woke up in sleep paralysis out of his body, hanging off the side of his bed, looking into an infinite nothing.
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