Sleep paralysis.....real or fake?

Question

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Answer 1

Seeing as it has been happening to me since childhood (I'm now 29), I'd say 100% real. I used to hate it, but now I find it fascinating. I feel like I have a heightened sense of awareness about life, and possibly the afterlife. I know it sounds nutty to someone who only reads about it/hasn't experienced it, but it's true.

Answer 2

I have sleep paralysis all the time. I had it this morning in fact. It's just a condition where the brain wakes up while also still being asleep. So you are both conscious and dreaming, and you can't move because the major muscles are paralyzed during sleep. The mind can play tricks on you during a sleep paralysis episode and cause you to hallucinate events that aren't really happening. I mostly hallucinate stuff like taking a shower or talking to a family member, but many people hallucinate about demons or aliens.

It's a pain in the butt and can be kind of scary, but there is nothing supernatural about it.

For people who have this condition a lot, anti depressants can help it tremendously. But, if you stop taking the anti depressants the symptoms will actually worsen for a week or two. When I tried anti depressants the incidents stopped. But when I stopped taking them I had episodes multiple times a night for a week.

Answer 3

It is very real. Sleep narcolepsy will cause it and hypokalemic periodic paralysis (as the name implies) wil cause it. I know, I suffer this bullsh+t myself.

There are other views, which i believe some to be true also. Out of body experiencers will wake up paralysed before they leave their bodies.

Also some people attribute it to an evil force, a ghost, demon, etc...

I could attribute the out of body experiences to hypnogogic hallucinations, but that would defy the fact that i have retieved and verified information i saw while out of my body.

How ever, i do not believe it is any thing to fool around with, and think it might even be one of the devils tricks. Ive had o.o.b.e.s on and off since age 17 and they have never been pleasant.

the only thing that has kept me from having them, is a prayer to God.

My question, is it the physiological changes that cause paralysis and o.o.b.e.s or o.o.b.e.s that cause the physiological changes?

Answer 4

Sleep paralysis is a very real, scientifically proven phenomena.
We all know that our body shuts down most major function when we go to sleep. Ever felt a large jolt just before slumber? That's your body shutting down. The mind is the last thing to enter sleep. When you are going to wake, your body starts up again BEFORE your mind "awakens". Sleep paralysis occurs when you have a nightmare so terrifying and real that your mind wakes up BEFORE the rest of your body. Because your mind is awake and your body is not, you are literally paralyzed. This phenomena is responsible for fairy tales of witches, bogeymen, and vampires. I have Non-restorative Sleep Disorder, so I have sleep paralysis often. It is very scary if you don't understand what is happening to you. You really do feel like someone is holding you down by force. But this is TRUE science here. It has been documented scientifically and historically for the past 3 thousand years.

Answer 5

this is ******* bullshit explain this why when i had a medium come out because prior to a few episodes of been whispered to told not to worry and feeling i was been hugged and i was praying to god and the archangel michael before all this for help did it all stop happening ? when the medium told the spirit not to do this no more it stopped i have had no epidsodes since sleep paralysis pfffffff might be real for you but in my case that was no sleep paralysis and you are not gonna convince me any different just funny how the medium asked for this all to stop and it did

Answer 6

Sleep paralysis is definitely real. The cause is something that should be discussed. It is definitely not aliens or the devil! LOL

Answer 7

very real
our body releases a chemical upon REM sleep which paralyses our torso , so we do not act out our dreams
my mother suffers from this regularly

Answer 8

I've had it happen to me a few times. Real.

Answer 9

Most certainly real. Any boogeymen are optional, however.

Answer 10

real