Get_Swole
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Copied an explanation out of wikipedia. I had my first experience last night, i think part of it due to the massive quantities of alcohol i drank this weekend.
It was a crazy feeling i awoke about 2 am and dont remember dreaming but i could not move. This went on for about a minute i would assume, I could breath fine etc. but when i tried to even talk my mouth would not move and i couldnt move my arms or legs. This was an intense crazy feeling. It happened twice last night, the second time was worse because i imagined or halucinated like it says in the explanation that something was hovering over me and i couldnt move at all. Finally it subsided and i fully awoke and immediatly thought that it was crazy but kinda cool. This ever happen to anyone else? im assuming its because i havent been drinking at all or eating unclean and this weekend at a wedding in a different city with open bars both nights just got a little excessive. Its scary but definitely pretty cool lol.
Sleep paralysis is a condition that may occur in normal subjects or be associated with narcolepsy, cataplexy, and hypnagogic hallucinations. The pathophysiology of this condition is closely related to the normal hypotonia that occur during REM sleep.[1] When considered to be a disease, isolated sleep paralysis is classified as MeSH D020188.[2]
Physiologically, it is closely related to the paralysis that occurs as a natural part of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, which is known as REM atonia. Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain awakes from a REM state, but the body paralysis persists. This leaves the person fully conscious, but unable to move. In addition, the state may be accompanied by terrifying hallucinations (hypnopompic or hypnagogic) and an acute sense of danger.[3] Sleep paralysis is particularly frightening to the individual due to the vividness of such hallucinations.[4] The hallucinatory element to sleep paralysis makes it even more likely that someone will interpret the experience as a dream, since completely fanciful, or dream-like, objects may appear in the room alongside one's normal vision. Some scientists have proposed this condition as an explanation for alien abductions and ghostly encounters.[5] A study by Susan Blackmore and Marcus Cox of the University of the West of England supports the suggestion that alien abductions are related to sleep paralysis rather than to temporal lobe lability.[6]
The paralysis can last from several seconds to several minutes "after which the individual may experience panic symptoms and the realization that the distorted perceptions were false".[7] When there is an absence of narcolepsy, sleep paralysis is referred to as isolated sleep paralysis (ISP).[8] "ISP appears to be far more common and recurrent among African Americans than among White Americans or Nigerian Blacks",[9] and is often referred to within African American communities as "the witch riding your back"[10][11]
It was a crazy feeling i awoke about 2 am and dont remember dreaming but i could not move. This went on for about a minute i would assume, I could breath fine etc. but when i tried to even talk my mouth would not move and i couldnt move my arms or legs. This was an intense crazy feeling. It happened twice last night, the second time was worse because i imagined or halucinated like it says in the explanation that something was hovering over me and i couldnt move at all. Finally it subsided and i fully awoke and immediatly thought that it was crazy but kinda cool. This ever happen to anyone else? im assuming its because i havent been drinking at all or eating unclean and this weekend at a wedding in a different city with open bars both nights just got a little excessive. Its scary but definitely pretty cool lol.
Sleep paralysis is a condition that may occur in normal subjects or be associated with narcolepsy, cataplexy, and hypnagogic hallucinations. The pathophysiology of this condition is closely related to the normal hypotonia that occur during REM sleep.[1] When considered to be a disease, isolated sleep paralysis is classified as MeSH D020188.[2]
Physiologically, it is closely related to the paralysis that occurs as a natural part of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, which is known as REM atonia. Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain awakes from a REM state, but the body paralysis persists. This leaves the person fully conscious, but unable to move. In addition, the state may be accompanied by terrifying hallucinations (hypnopompic or hypnagogic) and an acute sense of danger.[3] Sleep paralysis is particularly frightening to the individual due to the vividness of such hallucinations.[4] The hallucinatory element to sleep paralysis makes it even more likely that someone will interpret the experience as a dream, since completely fanciful, or dream-like, objects may appear in the room alongside one's normal vision. Some scientists have proposed this condition as an explanation for alien abductions and ghostly encounters.[5] A study by Susan Blackmore and Marcus Cox of the University of the West of England supports the suggestion that alien abductions are related to sleep paralysis rather than to temporal lobe lability.[6]
The paralysis can last from several seconds to several minutes "after which the individual may experience panic symptoms and the realization that the distorted perceptions were false".[7] When there is an absence of narcolepsy, sleep paralysis is referred to as isolated sleep paralysis (ISP).[8] "ISP appears to be far more common and recurrent among African Americans than among White Americans or Nigerian Blacks",[9] and is often referred to within African American communities as "the witch riding your back"[10][11]
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