Examples Of Sleep Paralysis

Sleep Paralysis: Is It For Real?

After a long day of activities, you decide you have enough time to squeeze in a nap. You are slowly waking up and becoming aware of what is going around you. You can hear someone in another room, moving around, and through the open window by your bed, you can hear the sounds of the kids of the neighborhood running and playing. You can even hear the old lady down the street yelling at the neighborhood boys for using her yard as a shortcut. You got about an hour rest, and you feel alert. So you open your eyes, or that is what you tried to do. For some reason they are still closed. You start to wonder, “Did I forget to open my eyes?” So you try again. This time you actually tell your brain, “Open my eyes”, but still, nothing happens. Now you think maybe you are really out of it, and that you are probably still tired. You decide to rub your eyes a little to get them moving. You go to move your arm, but it is stuck

Although it does not affect everyone, it does occur. Those of us who suffer from it are living proof of that. Some try to pass it off as mere hallucination and do not believe in it because it is not commonly discussed or well-known. In researching sleep paralysis, I feel that even those who do know about it and have written about it do not validate the emotional injury that suffering from this condition brings upon a person. Many web pages would state that sleep paralysis was not harmful to a person physically -which is true, but they rarely made any mention of the anxiety and fear and loss of control that is experienced when a person goes through it. There was only one page that actually offered suggestions as to what a person can do to calm down when waking up in paralysis. It is easy enough to say, "Take deep breaths and concentrate on trying to move one small body part" when a person is awake, but it is totally different to try to do that when you are in the middle of a full-blown