Examples Of Sleep Paralysis

Imagine you’ve just arrived home from an extremely long and tiring day at school. You’re so exhausted you go straight to bed and as you are falling asleep you begin to notice that you can no longer feel your arms or legs and eventually you can't even move your head. You’re completely frozen. You open your eyes and frantically look around your room, you try to talk or call out to someone but no sound comes out. You start to panic. What is happening to me? Why can’t I move? And in your panicked state you fail to see the small black creature that had blended itself into the dark corners of your room until it is crawling up onto your bed and onto your terrified, frozen body.

Now I know what you’re thinking, what kind of messed up horror movie did I just describe to you all, well that was in fact one common example of Sleep Paralysis. And today I’m here to tell you what sleep paralysis is, what might you see? And how can you avoid this unfortunate phenomenon.

Sleep paralysis is a common occurrence in which a person falls out of the normal sleep patterns and can end up suffering severe hallucinations. Normally when we fall asleep and wake up, our
well unlike nightmares which happen in in REM sleep, these hallucinations only happen when you're awake enough to be aware of your surroundings and the fact that you're paralysed. And if knowing you're frozen isn't bad enough many people will hallucinate some very creepy images that they will believe are true. These are the 3 common hallucinations that you might see: you will either imagine that there is an intruder in the room with you, you can feel a crushing feeling on your chest or back which can make you stop breathing, or a feeling of levitation or flying. Some people find the levitating one kind of enjoyable but i’m not so sure. People who experience the intruder or crushing hallucinations sometimes see demons, dark foggy shapes, burglars and many more unwelcome