Unveiling the Mystery: Sleep Paralysis – The Shadow of Giants or a Disease?

During sleep, some people feel that something heavy (jinn, witch, animal or other creature) is pressing on their chest, strangling them.

Wants to kill, tries hard to free himself from this creature and then after some resistance finally succeeds, and the creature flies into the air and disappears, when the man opens his eyes. At that time he feels body paralyzed. Is. Then the person thinks that what I resisted, was it the shadow of a ghost? Or just a nightmare or something else?

There is no need to panic. It happens to very few people that they face similar resistance before waking up in the morning or during sleep or even at any time of the night.
This process is actually called ‘Sleep Paralysis’ in English.

During this sleep is a very frightening experience, which is a normal state or process, during this process, a person feels conscious, but cannot move.

Sleep paralysis often occurs either during sleep, or when a person is about to wake up from sleep, during which the person feels an intense pressure on his body, as if someone is holding him. suffocating him, or a monstrous creature climbing over his body, attacking him in various ways, but all while the person’s eyes were closed. Yes, as soon as he opens his eyes, everything changes, this condition can last from a few seconds to a few minutes, sometimes even longer.

Sleep paralysis can have many causes, such as trauma, anxiety, and stress, often leading to sleep paralysis due to these causes.

According to health experts, during sleep, the human body goes through different stages, one of these stages of sleep is called ‘RIM’, in which dreams start coming after about one and a half to 2 hours. The senses are lying down and watching the events happening in our mind, the interesting thing is that during this process our body is naturally paralyzed, so that we do not harm ourselves during the dream. Paralysis of the body is natural, which is also a gift to us.

But when a person wakes up before the end of the REM (rapid eye movement) phase of sleep, sleep paralysis occurs.
According to experts, ‘REM: Rapid Eye Movement’ is the stage of sleep when the human brain is active, and dreams begin to occur, during rapid eye movement, the muscles of our body stop moving, and This is to prevent the person from harming themselves during sleep. Sleep paralysis occurs when the person’s brain has already exited the rapid eye movement phase, but the body cannot move until that time. Paralytics experience hallucinations, and this is because the person’s mind is still in a dream state.

During sleep paralysis, a person sees strange shapes, etc. During sleep paralysis, there are many types of hallucinations, one of which is called the intruder phenomenon, in which the person with sleep paralysis feels some strange creature. He feels around him in his room, another delusion is called incubus (terrible dream), in which a person feels a strange creature sitting on his body, he thinks that the creature is strangling him. is, or is binding his body strongly, that’s why the man can’t get up for several minutes.

This condition occurs mostly in people between the ages of 10 and 35. According to psychologists, there is no specific treatment for sleep paralysis, but in the case of the severity of this condition, the patient is given anti-depressant medicine, or a specialist. Psychiatrists treat it through psychotherapy and sessions, but different psychologists treat it in different ways, cognitive therapy techniques are also used to help people overcome their sleep paralysis. Can take control.

Or when this process is starting, immediately wake up and sit down or change the direction of the body.
Earlier it used to happen to me sometimes, but I would wake up immediately or change direction.

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