Last night was in a word scary, I saw nightmares the whole night... But one incident has been bothering me this whole day. Last night at two o'clock I saw a nightmare, something was chasing me and so on, but then all of a sudden I was laying in my bed, well, I tought that I had woken up just now and decided to go to the bathroom, but I could not move a muscle, no matter how hard I tried. I took me about 2 seconds to realize that I was still dreaming, but wait... how come I do not wake up? That was the moment when I heared something closing in on me or I "felt" it, something evil under the bed... I got really scared and struggeled to get up from the bed and move my arms even! I remember thinking "WTF! what's happening... Nico! You need to get up NOW or "it" will kill you!" and then I woke up for real, sweaty and out of breath. The cat seemed to be scared too:D I might have screamed or something during my sleep paralysis. Scary huh?!
This, sleep paralysis is considered to be normal, everyone will experience it at some point of their lives. It is a sleep disorder and has something to do with the fact that you don't really move much while you dream. The paralysis of the body prevents you for living out your dreams physically. The real mechanism is unknown but melatonin and serotonin levels have an effect. Stress, drugs and alcohole all have negative effects and can cause sleep paralysis.
I just hope I don't have the same thing happening this night too:D Ya all sleep well now! Don't let the bed bugs bite;D
Picture from John Henry Fuseli - The Nightmare
(Depicts sleep paralysis)
this has happened to me very often. Its really scary... Like you´d have to face your own demons or something. I don't know if the scientific explanation is enough to calm people who have experienced an event like this... :S
ReplyDeleteAnd more scary is that all the time young people die in their sleep without a medical explanation...
Or maybe it's just an urban legend..
Well... Nice dreams to you too ;D
(ja miksköhän mä innostuin kirjottamaan englanniks... :D:DD)
Well, you make a good point, `mind over matter` ;)But, everything happens in your "sleep"... And it is a urban legend... I haven't heard a single non-crazy story, ever about people dying in their sleep without some medical evidence.
ReplyDeleteAnd I found this when studying this sleep paralysis:
"When I had my heart attack last year, I slept through the first four hours of it. I know this because when it first started, I mistook it for a cold coming on, and I took a nap. When I woke up, the pain had steadily grown so intense that 12 units of morphine couldn't touch it."
All I can say is that it is really scary, but unfortunately the people with the best answers are dead... ;/