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MuadDib · 10-10-2006, 06:10 PM

Well there is a lot of superstition that goes along with it and, to be honest, when it happens its hard to think otherwise. Sleep paralysis is used to explain the Middle Ages European succubus experience. Because two of the most common side effects of sleep paralysis is the feeling of someone else being in the room and a pressure on your chest (as though someone is sitting on it) the two supposedly explain the feeling that some demon came and got on you in the night and sucked your life force. I think thats a bit of a stretch, but what do I know. Anymore it is confused with an alien encounter/abduction phenomenon. In fact, on one occurence I could swear I saw an alien. However, I chalk that up to the mind being in a lucid half-sleep moment so you can see and experience dream-like events. Oddly, it happens to me in bouts several times a year. I'll be fine for 3-8 months then all of a sudden it'll be a problem for a couple of days to a couple of weeks then go away for another several months. Its been happening since I was extremely young so I've kinda grown accustomed to it. I still remember the first time it happened. I thought I was dead and that meant being conscious but unable to move or speak forever... it was really frightening. As the years have passed it still freaks me out sometimes, but I've found its strongest when you sense it coming and then try to fight it so it's best to just not try to struggle the paralysis and go to sleep (or back to sleep) like you normally would. If the control isn't there at the moment (which it isn't even for me all the time), I've found the quickest way to get out of it is to focus on moving a small body part (like a finger or your wrist) and once that is accomplished then it seems to break completely. Also once I broke it by speaking, but that was really hard for me. However, for me, even if I manage to break it it almost always recurs that same night so I'll have to break it multiple time and lose a couple of hours of sleep doing it. Thats another reason I've found its better to just give in an sleep; by far the easiest method of dealing with it.

10-10-2006, 06:10 PM	#21 (permalink)
MuadDib Psycho	Well there is a lot of superstition that goes along with it and, to be honest, when it happens its hard to think otherwise. Sleep paralysis is used to explain the Middle Ages European succubus experience. Because two of the most common side effects of sleep paralysis is the feeling of someone else being in the room and a pressure on your chest (as though someone is sitting on it) the two supposedly explain the feeling that some demon came and got on you in the night and sucked your life force. I think thats a bit of a stretch, but what do I know. Anymore it is confused with an alien encounter/abduction phenomenon. In fact, on one occurence I could swear I saw an alien. However, I chalk that up to the mind being in a lucid half-sleep moment so you can see and experience dream-like events. Oddly, it happens to me in bouts several times a year. I'll be fine for 3-8 months then all of a sudden it'll be a problem for a couple of days to a couple of weeks then go away for another several months. Its been happening since I was extremely young so I've kinda grown accustomed to it. I still remember the first time it happened. I thought I was dead and that meant being conscious but unable to move or speak forever... it was really frightening. As the years have passed it still freaks me out sometimes, but I've found its strongest when you sense it coming and then try to fight it so it's best to just not try to struggle the paralysis and go to sleep (or back to sleep) like you normally would. If the control isn't there at the moment (which it isn't even for me all the time), I've found the quickest way to get out of it is to focus on moving a small body part (like a finger or your wrist) and once that is accomplished then it seems to break completely. Also once I broke it by speaking, but that was really hard for me. However, for me, even if I manage to break it it almost always recurs that same night so I'll have to break it multiple time and lose a couple of hours of sleep doing it. Thats another reason I've found its better to just give in an sleep; by far the easiest method of dealing with it. __________________ "The courts that first rode the warhorse of virtual representation into battle on the res judicata front invested their steed with near-magical properties." ~27 F.3d 751 Last edited by MuadDib; 10-10-2006 at 06:16 PM..