Сонный паралич

Sleep paralysis (sleep stupor, "the old witch syndrome") is a sensation of immobility upon awakening or falling asleep. Manifested by paralysis of the muscles when the person is not asleep or already awake. The human mind already or still awake, but the body is paralyzed. This man has nothing to say or to call for help. Often, the paralysis is accompanied by a frightening sense of horror and fear, although is very short – a few seconds or a few minutes. People who have a similar condition occur frequently, you get used to it and had to stand the attacks are pretty cool.

From the point of view of physiology, sleep paralysis similar to the human condition during the REM phase (the phase of rapid eye movement or REM sleep) – that is, to the natural process. The difference is that the paralysis that occurs during REM phase, does not allow man to move in my sleep, and during sleep paralysis, the brain is already awake while the body is still immobilized for a few seconds.

About 40% of people at least once experienced sleep paralysis. For the first time, it can occur in younger years – to twenty years and sometimes into adulthood.

Often, sometimes, along with sleep paralysis a person may experience an out of body experience.

• In a moment, the man suddenly feels on top he bore down on something very hard and does not allow him to breathe, as if strangling.
• Quite often people say that in that moment, when they sleep, they feel that they can move neither head, nor foot, nor arm, literally nothing. Among other things, a person becomes unbearable fear.

Usually, experiencing these feelings you associate them with such phenomena as a house, an alien abduction, witch, hoodoo, poltergeists

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