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51. Yahoo! UK & Ireland Directory > Sleep Paralysis
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52. Sleep Paralysis
- www.dreamsnightmares.com
- Sleep Paralysis.
- Sleep Paralysis.
- Sleep paralysis is now being studied as an explanation for terrors in the night, which have been experienced by people across all cultures and for thousands of years. ... Sleep paralysis is a condition in which someone, most often lying in a supine (face up) position, about to drop off to sleep, or just upon awaking from sleep realizes that s/he is unable to move, or speak, or cry out. ... In his research, Al Cheyne of the University of Waterloo has discovered that between 25 and 30 per cent of the population reports that they have experienced at least a mild form of sleep paralysis at least once. ... Cheyne believes sleep paralysis to be an hallucination created by physical things occurring in the body as a result of a dysfunction or malfunction of the normal R. ... state of sleep. This malfunction may be brought on by life stressors or sleep deprivation. Cheyne has also discovered a much higher incidence of sleep paralysis for those who sleep on their back. He has found that changing sleep position can reduce the incidence of these nightmares. ...
53. 3.1. What causes sleep paralysis?
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- Sleep paralysis, night terrors, nightmares +++++++++++++++ .
- What causes sleep paralysis?.
- The muscles that move the body are "turned off" during REM sleep, which prevents you from acting out dreamed actions in reality. Non-REM sleep paralysis after waking up ("old hag") is caused by a failure to re-activate the muscles immediately. ...
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54. Article: Sleep paralysis
- en.wikipedia.org
- Sleep paralysis.
- Sleep paralysis is a term either used to describe the normal paralysis of the body that occurs during REM sleep, or a disorder where awareness is maintained when the body becomes paralysed when entering sleep (known as hypnogogic paralysis) or remains inappropriately paralysed when awakening (known as hypnopomic paralysis). To differentiate normal sleep paralysis and the disorder, the term for the sleep disorder is often referred to as awareness during sleep paralysis. ...
- 1 Normal sleep paralysis.
- 2 Awareness during sleep paralysis.
- Normal sleep paralysis.
- Normal sleep paralysis is thought to be due to mechanisms in the brain stem, particularly the reticular, vestibular, and oculomotor neurons, which prevent bodily movements, block sensory input and provide the forebrain with the internally generated activity that characterises brain activity during REM sleep. ...
- Awareness during sleep paralysis.
- The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli (1781) It is especially common in those suffering from narcolepsy although most people experience awareness during sleep paralysis once or twice in their lives and is usually considered as harmless, although can be a frightening experience for many people. ... The state of paralysis may continue for several seconds or even minutes. ...
- Hallucinations are also common the hypnagogic and hypnopompic states and their presence in awareness during sleep paralysis may be due to the same processes. ...
- Little is known about the physiology of awareness during sleep paralysis. ...
- In Japan, awareness during sleep paralysis is referred to as kanashibari; in Canada, as a visit from the "old hag. " In medieval times, attacks of sufferrers of sleep paralysis may have given rise to the belief in incubi, succubi and other demons. ...
- Henry Fuseli's painting The Nightmare is thought to be one of the classic depictions of awareness during sleep paralysis perceived as a demonic visitation. ...
- The combination of paralysis and hallucinations has led some to speculate that sleep paralysis might be a cause of some alien abduction reports and other paranormal experiences. ...
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55. Wayne Medicine 2001 - Template
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- Sleep Paralysis Plagues African Americans .
- Imagine waking up from a night’s sleep and being unable to move. ...
- That’s sleep paralysis, a relatively understudied phenomenon that seems to occur more frequently among African Americans. ...
- Merritt-Davis is trying to understand the relationship between sleep paralysis and panic disorder.
- Merritt-Davis is part of a larger effort at the School of Medicine led by Thomas Uhde, MD, associate dean for research and graduate programs, to better understand the link between panic disorder and different types of frightening arousals from sleep. ... Attacks may occur during sleep and, like sleep paralysis, may be extremely frightening. ...
- “Right now, we’re trying to learn more about sleep paralysis and its relationship to panic disorder,” said Dr. ... “Sleep paralysis in African Americans is remarkably understudied. ...
- In one study, 15 percent of African Americans who experienced sleep paralysis also had panic disorder, Dr. ...
56. SleepMed Patient Information
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- Sleep Disorders.
- Types of Sleep Disorders.
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- Sleep Paralysis .
- Sleep Paralysis is a frightening phenomenon most people have experienced at least once. Repeated attacks of sleep paralysis are very rare except in patients with narcolepsy or in a few case reports of families in which all members are affected, suggesting a genetic basis. Usually sleep paralysis is simply a slight deviation from the normal REM sleep-to-wakefulness transition. ...
- During REM sleep, our reflex system is paralyzed, preventing us from acting out our dreams. There is an excellent chance that the final morning awakening will occur during REM sleep. ... , still in REM sleep, but our consciousness is returning—we are entering a state of wakefulness. ...
- Most people try to fight sleep paralysis. ... A few patients have given accounts that they simply try to sleep rather than trying to wake up, the episode ends, and they later awaken without difficulty. ...
57. Awareness during Sleep Paralysis Home Page
- www.trionica.com
- This is Awareness during Sleep Paralysis.
- While some experiences can be pleasant, many experiences of Awareness during Sleep Paralysis are terrifying beyond belief.
- Those who sense the presence of bedroom 'visitors' may fear that their paralysis is a prelude to sexual assualt or abduction by these intruders.
- Despite these fears, some individuals cultivate Awareness during Sleep Paralysis. ...
- Awareness during Sleep Paralysis Webring. ...
58. Yahoo! India Directory > Sleep Paralysis
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59. Basic Research Message Board Comment: Sleep Paralysis?
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- Sleep Paralysis?.
- I need some insight from someone & Im very desperate for some conforting help here! On occassion I have suffered from what seems to be sleep paralysis. ... Other than that it was average sleep paralyization. ... I cant really remember whather it was numbness or paralysis, while Im trying to come out of this I was so terrified I could have simply been dreaming that I was numb when I was simply paralyzed thought it felt it was only on the right side of the body I was also not able to move my left side either except for trying to talk out of the left corner of my mouth. ... I take Unisom basically every night, if I dont I will not sleep & for days on end. ... Maybe this is the first time I awoke before the paralysis wore off? Maybe thats why I felt numb? Im not even sure if my right side felt numb, I was too half awake to really analyze myself. ... It usually happens when I sleep on my back too. ...
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60. Conditions and Diseases - Sleep Paralysis Top Links
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61. Another Explanation for Hallucination during Sleep Paralysis: Mismatch between Brain’s Expectation and Sensory Input
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- Another Explanation for Hallucination during Sleep Paralysis: Mismatch between Brain’s Expectation and Sensory Input.
- In this web research, I have pursued the second hypothesis of my previous web paper that the corollary discharge signals may trigger hallucination during sleep paralysis (1). ... As a consequence of the comparison, I have concluded that the conflict in the brain can stimulate hallucination during sleep paralysis. ...
- In my second web paper, I have suggested a possibility that corollary discharge signals trigger hallucination during sleep paralysis (1). As a victim finds himself under total paralysis, he struggles to escape the uncomfortable, fearful condition. ... However in an episode of sleep paralysis, the skeletal muscles cannot move, and the brain receives a different sensory input from what it has expected. For one of my hypothesis in the last paper, I have proposed that this mismatch in the brain somehow causes hallucination during sleep paralysis (1). ...
- Serotonin affects various conditions in one's body, such as emotions, sleep cycles, pituitary hormone secretion, appetite control, and pain perception (6), (7), (8), (9). ... As well as in vomiting, the release of serotonin is necessary in inducing hallucination during sleep paralysis. ... And yet, because the brain's confused state in motion sickness establishes high serotonin level in the body, the increased serotonin concentration in hallucination during sleep paralysis may also follow the mismatch between internal expectation and sensory input. ...
- My hypothesis suggests that hallucination during sleep paralysis and motion sickness both involve in confusion in the brain and consequently, an increase in serotonin level; however the outcome differs in these cases. The lack of vomiting in a sleep paralysis episode may be due to the neural inhibitors, which prevents the major muscle movements from acting out a dream. ... In a person experiencing sleep paralysis, the brain may issue inhibitors not only to the muscles in the limbs but also to the abdominal and diaphragm muscles, restricting their activities only to breathing. ... During sleep stage, the brain may also inactivate the abdominal muscles in order to directly keep one from vomiting so that a sleeper does not choke on his own vomit and die, like some intoxicated people do. During sleep paralysis, hallucination may occur as an alternative response to the high serotonin concentration in the body because of a limited amount of blood flow allowed in the paralyzed body. ... Also, some parts of the brain that is still in REM sleep stage may restrict the blood flow in the major muscles to prevent them from being activated during a dream. ...
62. Yahoo! Directory Sleep Paralysis
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63. Narcolepsy
- www.psychejam.com
- The main symptoms of narcolepsy are excessive daytime sleepiness and abnormal REM sleep, sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations.
- In sleep paralysis, (a symptom considered to be an abnormal episode of REM sleep atonia), the patient suddenly finds himself unable to move for a few minutes, most often upon falling asleep or waking up. ...
- Cataplexy, a pathological equivalent of REM sleep atonia unique to narcolepsy, is a striking, sudden episode of muscle weakness triggered by emotions. ...
- More often, however, the symptoms of dissociated REM sleep such as cataplexy are mild, and a nocturnal polysomnogram, followed by the multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) is suggested.
- This test, performed at a sleep disorders clinic, will confirm the daytime sleepiness by showing a short sleep latency of usually less than 5 minutes, as well as an abnormally short latency prior to the first REM period. ...
- Current concepts in the etiology, diagnosis and treatment of narcolepsy -- Sleep Medicine.
- Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep phenomena such as cataplexy, sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations can also occur. ...
64. Sleep Paralysis
- www.nursingpower.net
- Sleep Paralysis - A Nightmare of the Conscious, Awake Mind.
- I've found that I'm usually too scared to "let go" and go back to sleep; I always try to fight it and usually can wake myself up. (Although I do remember having involuntarily fallen back to sleep and awoke later with no adverse effects. ) I also experience repeat sleep paralysis in which I just break out of paralysis only to go into it again immediately. ...
- When I was a kid I told my sister that if I start moaning loudly in my sleep to shake me awake, the episode is often terminated by a sound or a touch on the body. ...
- I am so relieved to be up and out of paralysis, and suddenly I back in the bed paralyzed. ...
- I have gotten my kids ready for school and everything 2 or 3 times a morning only to finally hear the alarm clock wake me, precluded by paralysis. ...
- With proprioceptive hallucinations, one feels suddenly released from the paralysis, but may be left with a lingering anxiety. ...
- The entity does not always accompany the paralysis. ... Why Does this Happen? What is Sleep Paralysis?.
- Sleep paralysis consists of a period of inability to perform voluntary movements either at sleep onset (called hypnogogic or predormital form) or upon awakening (called hypnopompic or postdormtal form). ... Sometimes, the paralysis lingers after you wake up. ...
- According to most researchers ( in a 1992 Gallup poll ) nearly every adult will have an episode of Common Sleep Paralysis (CSP) every couple of years. ...
- These episodes of paralysis baffled sleepers and medicals professionals for centuries. ... and its correlation to the dream state was discovered that the mystery of Sleep paralysis started to unfold. ... During most regular sleep cycles the hormones begin to wear off even before the dream is completed and thus people wake with a full funcitionning body. ...
65. Sleep Paralysis - SleepDisorders.com
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66. seekers whitehorse pg 9 sleep paralysis
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- Sleep Paralysis.
- What is Sleep Paralysis?.
- Sleep Paralysis is a disorder of sleep. ...
- Common factors include complete paralysis, panic, sensing evil (nowadays alien!) presence's, feeling suffocated/unable to breath properly. ... I have suffered from Sleep Paralysis since childhood and therefore understand that it can be a terrifying experience. ...
- Usually when we enter dream (REM) sleep, a chemical is produced in the brain to paralyse the body. ... What is happening with sleep paralysis is that although your conscious mind has almost woken up, your body is still affected by this chemical paralysis. Sometimes I have had situations where I fall asleep properly for a while then awake with paralysis then fall asleep again, dream I am awake, wake up paralysed go to sleep again etc. ... We can dream a whole days happening in a matter of minutes - likewise with paralysis. ...
- 1) Look at where you usually sleep. Do you like this room - is there anything you can do to make it feel more restful? Mechanical objects such as a television can interfere with sleep patterns. You want to feel rested and sleep well. You deserve wonderful sleep and dreams. Taking loving care of the room you sleep in is like taking care of a part of yourself. ...
- 2) If you possibly can, try to establish a regular time for sleep. I have noticed (as have others) that paralysis can occur more often in the day. ... This process induces sleep paralysis so that you can project the conscious mind out of the body. ... Click here to find out more about using sleep paralysis to trigger out of body experiences (OBE) and astral projection. ...
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67. SLEEP PARALYSIS IS NOTHING TO FEAR Q. I sometimes wake from sleep ...
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- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SLEEP PARALYSIS IS NOTHING TO FEAR Q. I sometimes wake from sleep unable to move. ... Experiences like this are called "sleep paralysis" and they are fairly common. Fifty-three percent of a class of 300 psychology students reported having experienced sleep paralysis at least once, and sixteen per cent at least once a month. Sleep paralysis is completely harmless--as harmless, in fact, as REM sleep. ... The probable cause of sleep paralysis is that the mind awakens, but the body remains in the paralyzed state of REM sleep. The state tends to occur in afternoon naps and in the latter hours of the morning, because at these times people have a strong drive to enter REM sleep. ... If the dreamer enters more completely into REM sleep, he loses the awareness of his body that had caused him to feel paralyzed. ... Sleep paralysis, variously interpreted, is the probable cause of some of the strangest night phenomena, such as visitations by aliens, demons, incubi, and succubi, and out-of-body experiences. ... Although there may be some neural basis for the strongly negative emotion that frequently colors the experience, the associated fear can be minimized if you reflect as they are happening that they come out of the natural state of REM sleep and that the bizarre events are dreams, and therefore not dangerous. ... Dreams that proceed from paralysis experiences are often quite intense and wonderful.
68. sk4p.net: Sleep Paralysis
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- Sleep Paralysis Info Page.
- What is sleep paralysis?.
- Sleep paralysis (hereafter "SP") is an ostensibly harmless, but terrifying and mysterious phenomenon experienced by a small but significant portion of the population.
- In an episode of SP, the person is about to drop off to sleep or has just woken up from sleep. ...
- SP seems to occur because the natural paralysis which occurs during REM sleep ("rapid eye movement" sleep, during which most dreams occur) kicks in prematurely (before sleep) or doesn't switch off correctly (after waking). ...
- Sleep Paralysis and Associated Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Experiences by J. ...
- Sleep Paralysis at the Stanford Sleep Well. ...
- "Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis?" from Skeptical Inquirer, May/June 1998.
- Egypt · Septempontia · Occult · Neologisms · Reviews · Sleep Paralysis · Conlangs · Tairak .
69. sk4p.net: Sleep Paralysis
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- Sleep Paralysis Info Page.
- What is sleep paralysis?.
- Sleep paralysis (hereafter "SP") is an ostensibly harmless, but terrifying and mysterious phenomenon experienced by a small but significant portion of the population.
- In an episode of SP, the person is about to drop off to sleep or has just woken up from sleep. ...
- SP seems to occur because the natural paralysis which occurs during REM sleep ("rapid eye movement" sleep, during which most dreams occur) kicks in prematurely (before sleep) or doesn't switch off correctly (after waking). ...
- Sleep Paralysis and Associated Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Experiences by J. ...
- Sleep Paralysis at the Stanford Sleep Well. ...
- "Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis?" from Skeptical Inquirer, May/June 1998.
- Egypt · Septempontia · Occult · Sleep Paralysis · Reviews · Tairak .
70. Welcome to Our Universe, The Face on Mars
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- Is there any connection between the recent alien abduction phenomenon and the historical seduction of medieval nuns by devils? Do our present day alien rapists bear any resemblance to these devilish creatures? And is Satan really an alien? It is the opinion of a vast number of parapsychologists and neurophysiologists that the answers to these questions may be found through the study of a more naturalistic phenomenon known as sleep paralysis. ...
- Sleep paralysis is a condition that occurs in the state just before a person falls to sleep (the hypnagogic state) or just before they fully awaken from sleep (the hypnopompic state). ... Normally, when a person goes to sleep, this switch disables most of the body's motor functions so that they don't act out their dreams, and re-enables these motor functions when the person wakes up. However, if there is a delay between the person waking up and their motor function's being enabled, this can lead to the person being temporarily unable to move or speak (sleep paralysis). ...
- Sceptics of the extraterrestrial hypothesis have proposed that many alien abductions are a product of these vague sensations experienced during sleep paralysis which our brain decides need fleshing out with more detail. Certainly if a person were to awaken in a state of sleep paralysis from a nightmare involving aliens, they may very likely attribute the experience to an alien encounter. ... In fact, the symptoms of sleep paralysis are very similar to the descriptions given by many alien abductees of what they remember experiencing, which tend to involve bedroom visitations from these mysterious creatures, the abductee awakening paralysed with a sense of dread, and the vague memory of strange beings or a presence in the room. ...
- Since the belief in aliens does not blatantly conflict with our current cultural and scientific world view, that intergalactic space travel is considered a real possibility, and that it is highly probable that we are not the only inhabited planet in the universe, consequently extra-terrestrials have become a popular starting point to explain away any strange and vague experiences (such as sleep paralysis) which would remain otherwise unexplained to the layman. ...
- We can laugh at the idea of medieval nuns being impregnated by devils, because it does not fit in with our own cultural prejudices and delusions; however, to a medieval nun experiencing sleep paralysis, it would seem natural to explain such an unusual experience as an encounter with a devil. ...
71. Basic Research Message Board Comment: Sleep Paralysis...Suggestions??
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72. The Straight Dope: What causes sleep paralysis?
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- What causes sleep paralysis? .
- One night as I was about to nod off to sleep, I felt a lot of energy hitting me. ... I am able to avoid any paralysis by lying on my side or stomach. ...
- Could be it's a relatively harmless phenomenon called "early sleep paralysis," which occurs in about 15-20 percent of the population. ... ) Signs of narcolepsy include sleep paralysis and "hypnagogic hallucinations"--"extremely vivid dreamlike experiences that occur as the individual is falling asleep e. ... Orr, in The Sleep Disorders, 1982). Also sez here that "normal subjects may have an occasional sleep paralysis when awakening; sleep-onset-only paralysis suggests narcolepsy. " By far the most common symptom of narcolepsy, however, is excessive daytime sleepiness, including frequent "sleep attacks. " If you've got that too, you poor guy, hustle over to a sleep-disorder specialist for a confirmed diagnosis. ...
- Again, find a sleep-disorder specialist. ...
- In your recent column concerning paralytic dreams, you suggested that the cause might be narcolepsy, which has the additional symptoms of daytime sleepiness and frequent sleep attacks. ...
- However, I have been a longtime experiencer of paralytic dream states and from childhood I have experienced excessive daytime sleepiness and frequent sleep attacks. ...
- I hopped on down to my local sleep disorder center and was told to have a sleep test to see if I had narcolepsy. The test involves being wired up and measured as you sleep. Being the nervous type, I was not able to get a good sleep during the test. I was told I didn't have narcolepsy and I thought I was doomed to a life of paralytic dreams and frequent sleep attacks as well as extreme nervousness if I didn't get my naps in.
73. Sleep Paralysis & The Internet
- www.personal.psu.edu
- SLEEP PARALYSIS & .
- Considering both the lack of research in the area of sleep paralysis and the increasing popularity of health-related websites and bulletin boards, this study seeks to understand how members of an online bulletin board devoted to sleep paralysis (SP) use the Internet to share their story and obtain information about their condition. By examining how bulletin board members use the Internet to socially construct their condition, and more specifically, by studying how this social construction affects their experience of the condition, this study seeks to establish the role of the Internet and of online communication in a sleep paralysis sufferer's SP experiences. Since sleep paralysis victims usually express much embarrassment over their condition (Paradis, Friedman, & Hatch, 1997) and are therefore "disinclined to make their experiences public" (Cheyne, Newby-Clark, & Rueffer, 1999a, p. ...
74. Sleep Paralysis
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75. page10
- ourworld.compuserve.com
- SLEEP PARALYSIS.
- Could Charles Dickens have been a sufferer of a REM sleep phenomenon known as sleep paralysis? It seems likely that he was.
- Unlike most folk who count sheep to speed the onset of sleep, Scrooge counts coins of the realm.
- Nevertheless, when Charles Dickens wrote 'A Christmas Carol', it seems incredible that he could have painted such an accurate picture of the curious REM (rapid eye movement) condition known as sleep paralysis - unless he had experienced the phenomenon himself.
- Nevertheless, sleep laboratory experiments prove that they are in REM sleep. ...
- In fact, it is thought that sleep paralysis might be responsible for substantial numbers of ghost sightings - many report seeing ghostly apparitions in the bedroom, perhaps even sensing a phantom sitting on the bed.
- However, one thing that everybody shares in common, is the inability to move during an episode of sleep paralysis. ... It is because the condition occurs during REM sleep that the lack of muscle tone is evident.
- It is thought that the incapacity to move during REM sleep is a defence mechanism inherited from our ancestors, to protect us from acting out our dreams. ...
- A number of unfortunate souls who undergo sleep paralysis believe that they have died, are dying, having a stroke, or a heart attack. ...
- A minority, however, regard sleep paralysis as an interesting episode, and carry out experiments, among which are attempts to achieve an out of body experience. To the skilled dream enthusiast, sleep paralysis can represent a golden opportunity. ...
- There are a small number of people who find sleep paralysis so terrifying that physical manifestations can result. In 1996, during a prolonged bout of sleep paralysis, a woman was convinced that the devil was actually licking her neck. ...
- There is a very simple method of overcoming the traumatic effects of sleep paralysis. First, recognise it as a REM sleep condition and acknowledge that what you see or experience is the product of the dreaming mind - no matter how convinced you may be that you are wide awake. In other words, 'label' the condition as sleep paralysis. ...
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