Merry Meet YummyGummy,Originally posted by YummyGummy:For the past few months, sometime when i have difficultly sleeping at night a strange scenario takes place.
i like forcing myself go to sleep, then suddenly my warm body becomes icy cold, all my body parts freezes and i hear this strange noise in my ear like the one u hear when the mrt go through underground tunnels. i also feel like IÂ’m in a bullet train. if i force myself to open my eyes it goes away.
I ask my friends one say "it just a typical case of astral projection'
i think i know what it means but how do i stop it
Its scary even for the guy who has the reputation of seeing the scariest of scariest movies and still being able to sleep peacefully at night
Merry Meet YummyGummy,Originally posted by YummyGummy:who said i was asleep
my brain was still working and thinking on how to get out the insanity
shade,i never astral project.My friend said that i was just in the pre Stages of it and if i want to project i must be totally relaxedOriginally posted by shade343:WOw? You can astral project? What other experiences do you have?
sleep paralysisSo i have been scaring myself all this while for no reason.
Sleep paralysis is a condition that occurs in the state just before dropping off to sleep (the hypnagogic state) or just before fully awakening from sleep (the hypnopompic state). The condition is characterized by being unable to move or speak. It is often associated with a feeling that there is some sort of presence, a feeling which often arouses fear but is also accompanied by an inability to cry out. The paralysis may last only a few seconds. The description of the symptoms of sleep paralysis is similar to the description many alien abductees give in recounting their abduction experiences. Sleep paralysis is thought by some to account for not only many alien abduction delusions, but also other delusions involving paranormal or supernatural experiences (e.g., incubus and succubus).
Sleep paralysis is something many people experience once or twice in a lifetime but it is a frequent occurrence of those suffering from narcolepsy
In the middle of the night a few months ago I woke up with the terrifying sensation of being crushed in my bed - not by any living thing but by a distinctly evil presence. I know it sounds crazy, but the experience left me quaking and I spent the rest of the night sitting up in bed with the lights on.
In my search to find the source of my "night fright" I stumbled upon the website of Al Cheyne, the head of the department of psychology at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
The first thing he did was to put a name to the experience; sleep paralysis. And I was relieved to find out that it's a relatively common sleep disorder. Professor Cheyne: "Sleep paralysis is in the first instance a brief period of complete paralysis when you are either waking or falling asleep. I suspect it comes down to a fairly minor anomaly in the brain stem that regulates waking and sleeping and that for some of us there's a loose switch of an electrochemical sort which is out of balance."
Evil presence
The result is that your brain is awake, but you can't move. "A fairly large proportion of people will have a number of other experiences," Professor Cheyne says. "They may feel 'a presence' in the room watching them. They may see and hear things approaching them or attacking them. It can be terrifying, in fact many people describe it as the most terrifying event in their lives."
That's true for sleep paralysis-sufferer Andrea Parkes: "I could see this thing high up in the corner of the room. I tried to remain very calm and this thing got annoyed that I was staying so calm, so without touching me it slammed me against the walls, up through the ceiling and down through the floors and then the terror overtook me."
"The terror comes from losing control," says Hal Crawford, who experiences sleep paralysis several times a year. "It comes from being in a situation where you don't know what's going to happen next, you don't know if your breathing is going to stop or whether something otherworldly is there. In a way you're battling against yourself and you don't have the power to control your body."
Folk tales
The phenomenon of sleep paralysis is so widespread it has become part of folklore around the world. "Many traditional societies include references to sleep paralysis as part of their everyday sets of working knowledge," Professor Cheyne says. It has survived in Newfoundland, an island off the east coast of Canada. "Particularly in the small outpost communities everyone knows what the 'old hag' experience is. So someone might get up in the morning and say 'oh I was hagged last night' and everyone knows exactly what happened to them. People in these traditional societies have a great range of explanations for the experience - everything from a condition of the blood, to vampires, to being haunted by an old woman . . . this knowledge seems to have disappeared from urban societies."
In fact in urban societies you're more likely to have people describe their experience as one of 'alien abduction', according to Professor Cheyne. "The little grey men have become a modern icon, so it's not surprising that they are stored somewhere in our memory." And our brain grasps these images to explain the 'fear' it senses.
"The emotion of fear accompanies threats and dangers. When you activate fear you activate a whole set of strategies to deal with danger. If you consider the fact that the part of your brain responsible for fear [the limbic system] is active at the same time that you're awake and paralysed and helpless, this would tend to aggravate this condition." Essentially your brain strains to find clues to understand what it perceives as a threat. The sound of the fan becomes a whispering voice, a creak becomes a demon climbing on the bed, and when the brain doesn't have a stimulus, it makes one up.
That's true for sleep paralysis-sufferer Andrea Parkes: "I could see this thing high up in the corner of the room. I tried to remain very calm and this thing got annoyed that I was staying so calm, so without touching me it slammed me against the walls, up through the ceiling and down through the floors and then the terror overtook meWow lucky my brain not so violent to me!!!
hahaha u speaking from experience isit? or shld i ask rainee>?Originally posted by waliao:Whoa...first thing that comes to mind when reading the tittle was : Possessive boyfren/galfren?