Scientists are now starting to understand why some people wake up but can’t shake and why sometimes they keep thinking scary things don’t happen.
I was still ten years old when it first happened to me. He was in the early hours of the morning, and I was about to wake up to school. I woke up and tried to turn to get out of bed, and my body was shaking. I was paralyzed to my toes.
Although my brain was thinking clearly, my body muscles were still asleep. I immediately felt my room warm and narrow, as if the walls were close together. I was very scared. Finally, about 15 seconds later, the suspension stopped. I wake up.
Then I learned the name of my experience: it’s’sleep paralysis’. Ironically, it’s a common nightmare where part of your brain wakes up but your body remains paralyzed.
After that first time, it returned frequently, at least once every two or three nights. The more often it became, the more common it became. In the end, it gets to the point where I feel it doesn’t matter.
But ‘paralysie du sommeil’ can actually be very life-threatening. Even for some, it brings the most terrifying ideas of the non-existent (hallucinations). The 24-year-old also has it we talked to, who asked me to just call her Victoria; he remembers it started one night when she was 18.
When does this happen often?
When I went back in my first 20 years, I had’sleep paralysis’ every two or three nights, but even then it had no effect on my life. It was a strange thing I told my friends and family. In that way, what happened to me was normal.
Colin Espie, a professor of sleep medicine at the University of Oxford, said: “For most people, it’s a special thing they live with. It just goes like walking in the sleep—most people who do it don’t even go to the doctor. It’s a family curiosity and something to talk about.”
But for those who are lucky, this disease becomes a problem for them. Brian Sharpless’ study found that between 15% and 44% of those with’sleep paralysis’ cause “the pain that would need treatment.”. The problem otherwise occurs because we react when the ‘paralysis du sommeil’ comes rather than itself. Those who get sick all day think about what will happen when they come back.
Colin Espie said, “That can cause a nuisance from the beginning of the night to the dark. Have a combination of fear and anxiety about that. The worst thing is to get to the point where you feel attacked.”
For some, sleep paralysis is a more serious symptom of ‘narcolepsy’—a’more severe sleep disorder in which the brain fails to line up sleep and wake up, causing a person to fall asleep in inappropriate situations.
Doctors say that constipation can be more common if you lose sleep on time because your partner has a problem. Some patients experience this problem when they lie down, although there is no clear explanation for this.
The most commonly used treatment for sleep paralysis is teaching; patients are only taught about the physical sciences that cause it and are assured that they are not in danger. Sometimes treatment using’meditation’ can be used. The goal is to reduce the pain and fear of this disease caused by going to bed and to train them to calm down when sleep paralysis comes.
When it is very severe, some drugs are used—contain selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs); usually used to treat severe depression; but have the effect of stopping the REM sleep mentioned above.
The most memorable part of severe paralysis is when it comes to serious thinking about things that don’t exist. These are the strange things that a person sees that cause fear, not only scientists say but also that this shows the strange things about the human brain.
When you have “sommei paralysis’, your brain’s motor begins to send instructions to the body, instructing it to vibrate. But the body is also paralyzed, so the brain does not receive the message that what it asked for has been done.
Jalal said, “Where there is chaos, you yourself are not selling.” Because of it, the brain “tries to close the gap, “and make up the meaning of why the body is not working. That’s why many non-existent thoughts include something of a creature sitting on your chest or lying on your body to the ground.
It reinforces the idea, popular among scholars who believe that man lived through biological evolution, that the human brain is a “story-counting machine.”. We find it difficult to accept that much of the world is a problem without our involvement, so our brains are always trying to find an explanation for the ambiguity.
Christopher French, head of the Department of Special Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, spent more than 10 years talking to different people in the world who have had hallucinations and writing about their findings. He said, “It is something related, but it also has different ways to see it.”
Some Hallucinations‘are difficult to explain because they are funny. During those years French heard different people see a black cat looking very badly at each other, and a man who is being seduced by plants. But others mostly see what is in their culture.
In the Newfoundland area of Canada, in these non-existent thoughts the inhabitants see an “Old Hag” (the famous idea of a bad woman) sitting on their chest. Mexicans see “a dead man” sitting on their chest, while those in the St Lucia Islands say they see “kokma”, the souls of unbaptized children, stabbing them while they sleep. The Turks say they see the “Karabasan”— mystical ghost. And the Italians think of witches.
The more you fear ‘sleep paralysis’ the more it can come
All of this strongly reinforces the idea that humans are imaginative animals and are highly culturally controlled by their expectations or expectations.
Even in a study, Jalal compared symptoms in Denmark and Egypt in volunteers of the same age and gender, seeing a cultural image in the way ‘sleep paralysis’ affects those who learn it. Egyptians were more likely to have this problem (44% compared to 25%), Egyptians believed in ghosts and gnats and were always slower than others.
Jalal’s observation is that the fear of things with other forces makes people more afraid of’sleep paralysis’, and that fear makes it more likely to come—as a sign of the very close interaction between our minds and our bodies.
AMANI Nesta