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• Narcolepsy is a disabling neurological disorder of sleep regulation that affects the control of sleep and wakefulness. It may be described as an intrusion of the dreaming state of sleep (called REM or rapid eye movement sleep) into the waking state. ... The four classic symptoms of the disorder are excessive daytime sleepiness; cataplexy (sudden, brief episodes of muscle weakness or paralysis brought on by strong emotions such as laughter, anger, surprise or anticipation); sleep paralysis (paralysis upon falling asleep or waking up); and hypnagogic hallucinations (vivid dream-like images that occur at sleep onset). Disturbed nighttime sleep, including tossing and turning in bed, leg jerks, nightmares, and frequent awakenings, may also occur. ... Patients with the disorder experience irresistible sleep attacks, throughout the day, which can last for 30 seconds to more than 30 minutes, regardless of the amount or quality of prior nighttime sleep. These attacks result in episodes of sleep at work and social events, while eating, talking and driving, and in other similarly inappropriate occasions. ...
• Cataplexy and other REM-sleep symptoms may be treated with antidepressant medications. ... Basic lifestyle adjustments such as regulating sleep schedules, scheduled daytime naps and avoiding "over-stimulating" situations may also help to reduce the intrusion of symptoms into daytime activities.
• The NINDS supports a broad range of clinical and basic research on sleep disorders including narcolepsy. NINDS has notified investigators that it is seeking grant applications in both clinical and basic sleep and wakefulness research, including basic and clinical research in narcolepsy. ...
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• SLEEP PARALYSIS Hello, my name is Shane and I live in Johnstown, PA. ... I am having problems, and I need help!! When i was in my early teens,,,am currently 25 now,,,i have been suffering from sleep paralysis,,,,i have many experiences and troubles from this, and i need help,,,i dont not buy the scientific approach to it,,,i believe there is somthing more to it,,,much more, i just wanna know, isnt there anywhere out there who is researching this,,,or willing to help us????!!!!!! If anyone is interested in this,,please reply, and i shall write more. ...
• Re: SLEEP PARALYSIS I am sure there are many groups researching this 'phenomena' at the moment and I'd bet that if you spend a little while looking for related info on the net, you'll soon come across something that strikes your fancy. ...
• i have been i have been searching the internet, but nothing to my fancy, lol,,,,everything is so scientific or health related on it,,,i can kinda agree about the body mechanic of the paralysis so u dont act out ur dreams, but not the hallucinations, i dont believe that is it,,,especially when i was younger i was attacked while on the couch when i was going through it, and i had weird marks on my body the next morning,,,i am trying to find someone who is interested in it in a paranormal manor,,,because there is something different and more to this,,,i have been searching for almost 15 years now trying to find answers .
• Re: i have been The question here is "why don't you believe its sleep paralysis" I try to keep an open mind on all things, Sleep paralysis is a well documented and well researched phenomenon. ...
• ok? ok, then explain a waking dream where u are attacked while laying on the couch and something is beating and tearing at ur chest,,,and then when u get up after it stopped and looked in the mirror,,,u have markings on ur chest!! or explain how when i have these experiences i am able to smell and feel things and see things after the experience happens??? waking dreams? no! sleep paralyisis may be a medical condition,,,the physical aspect of it,,,but what happens while u are going through it is something all on its own,,,,so, until u experience these first hand and when u experience them for more than 15 years of ur life,,dont say i need to see a doctor!!! and drugs are not the answer, they only surpress u from having these experiences,,,its not a cure!!! When u have this happen to u for more than half ur life,,,ur going to ask for other explanations other then medical or mental!!! because ur not going through it yourself,,,and the medical community today still cannot explain why it happens .
• sleep paralysis can't sleep paralysis also be genetic? i think i've heard that somewhere. ...
• also with the hallucinations they may just be waking dreams and nothing more, if they really scare you that bad when you're experiencing sleep paralysis then when you are fully awake of course your mind will probably play tricks on you and you'll smell things that you did when you were experiencing them. ...
• Re: sleep paralysis Woah! Dude. ...
• sleep paralysis can you elaborate on "sleep paralysis". ... is this "sleep paralysis"? .
• Re: sleep paralysis The hallucinations you experience during sleep paralysis can often be physical. ...
• Self harm is pretty well documented in dreamers as well as those experiencing waking dreams but less so in sleep paralysis for obvious reasons.
• Re: SLEEP PARALYSIS Madonafrk, having the "marks" isn't terribly uncommon. ...
• EDIT: Madona, if it turns out that the most likely cause of your experience is indeed sleep paralysis and the marks you so vividly describe (lol) are of nonsupernatural causes, would you accept the explanation? .

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• Patients with rapid eye movement behavior disorder (RBD) act out dramatic and/or violent dreams during rapid eye movement (REM) stage sleep. ... RBD seems similar to other sleep disorders that involve motor activity, like sleepwalking or periodic limb movement disorder. Unlike these conditions, RBD movements occur during REM sleep, which is usually characterized by a state of atonia, or sleep paralysis. ...
• Rapid eye movement behavior disorder is an uncommon sleep disorder first described in 1986. ... It is, however, known to occur during rapid eye movement sleep, which is characterized by brain activity patterns that resemble wakefulness and which has been documented with polysomnography and other sleep tests. Most dreaming occurs during REM sleep. Another characteristic of REM sleep is a general state of atonia, or muscle paralysis. So, while the brain is very active during REM sleep, the body is usually still. ...
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• The basic mechanism for REM sleep paralysis is found in the brainstem, the part of the brain that connects the spinal chord to the cerebral hemispheres and that consists of the pons, midbrain, and the medulla oblongata. Though physicians do not thoroughly understand the complex processes, it is known that the brainstem undergoes changes in REM sleep that result in paralysis of the body’s voluntary muscles. ...

• Called sleep paralysis, this disorder - the result of a disconnect between brain and body as a person is on the fringe of sleep - is turning out to be increasingly common, affecting nearly half of all people at least once. Moreover, a growing number of scholars believe that sleep paralysis may help explain many ancient reports of attacks by witches and modern claims of abduction by space aliens. "I think it can explain claims of witchcraft and alien abduction," said Kazuhiko Fukuda, a psychologist at Fukushima University in Japan and a leading expert on sleep paralysis. Research in Japan has had a headstart because sleep paralysis is well-known to most Japanese, who call it kanashibari, while it is little-known and less studied in the West. ... "So if Americans have the experience and if they have heard of alien abductions, then they may think, `Aha, it's alien abduction!"' Sleep paralysis was once thought to be very rare. ... Sleep paralysis seems to have been described since ancient times, and an episode appears in "Moby Dick" and perhaps also in the 18th century Henry Fuseli painting, "The Nightmare," which shows a goblin sitting on the stomach of a sleeping woman. What is striking is that although the symptoms of sleep paralysis are generally very similar, the images in the hallucinations and the interpretation of them seem to vary. Europeans seem to have interpreted ancient sleep paralysis as assaults or abductions by witches taking them off for a forcible ride on a broomstick. ... In the West Indies, sleep paralysis was called "kokma" and meant a ghost baby who jumped on the sleeper's chest and attacked the throat. ... " Cheyne said that in a survey he had worked on involving more than 2,000 people identified as experiencing sleep paralysis, hundreds described experiences similar to alien abduction. ... Simon Sherwood, a researcher on sleep paralysis in England, said that in one case study he gathered, a regular sufferer of sleep paralysis watched an alien film and then had a hallucination of "little blue aliens" inserting a metal probe into his forehead.

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• Sleep Paralysis is a common sleep disorder, yet often one of the most frightening. Sleep paralysis occurs when we wake up mentally—only to discover that our bodies still are “asleep”—and we can’t move! .
• To make matters even more confusing, our awakening from REM sleep typically is only partial. ...
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• It's called Sleep Paralysis .
• From: Pitnicker I suffer from the same problem as you, it's called sleep paralysis. Basically, when you're in the deepest part of sleep your mind is not "wired in" to your body. When some people rouse suddenly from this sleep, they can be fully awake and aware but unable to move. ...
• The bad news: people who experience sleep paralysis, waking dreams, and/or night terrors can suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the same affliction which plagues some Vietnam veterans which can cause depression, anxiety, insomnia, flashbacks, and even the inability to live among society normally. ...
• If it gets to the point where it's no longer a distraction but a serious hamper on your life, I would recommend seeking the help of a doctor or a sleep specialist. ...
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• Do you sometimes wake from sleep unable to move? "Sleep paralysis" as this experience is called can be extremely terrifying. What causes sleep paralysis and what can you do about it?.
• SLEEP PARALYSIS IS NOTHING TO FEAR.
• I sometimes wake from sleep unable to move. ...
• Experiences like this are called "sleep paralysis" and they are.
•     students reported having experienced sleep paralysis at least once, and.
• 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. ...
•     at these times people have a strong drive to enter REM sleep. ...
•     dreamer enters more completely into REM sleep, he loses the awareness.
•     Sleep paralysis, variously interpreted, is the probable cause of some.
•     that they come out of the natural state of REM sleep and that the.
• Dreams that proceed from paralysis experiences are.

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• In 1953 neuroscientists discovered a physiological state which occurs periodically during sleep (every 90 minutes). There is a heightened brain activation during this time including a burst of rapid eye movement (REM), increased breathing and heart rate, genital engorgement, and paralysis of bodily movement (the person is highly aroused yet fast asleep).
• Are dreams and REM sleep synonymous?.
• Of people awakened during REM sleep, as many as 70-95% of them report dreams in contrast to 5-10% of awakenings during non-REM sleep. ...
• What part of the brain is responsible for REM sleep?.
• REM sleep is produced by the excretion of the chemical acetylcholine in the pons which is part of the brainstem. Other neurotransmitters (noradrenaline and serotonin) produced by other cells in the pons switch off the REM sleep. ...
• ) In this model, dreaming is simply an epiphenomenon of REM sleep.
• What is the evidence that REM sleep and dreaming are NOT physiologically equivalent?.
• As many as 50-70% of awakenings during sleep onset lead to dream reports i. ... , non-REM dream reports before any REM sleep during the nightalmost as many as during REM sleep. ...
• Except for the length of the dream report, sleep-onset non-REM dream reports and REM dream reports are identical. ...
• Twenty-six cases have been reported in the neurological literature of damage to the pons resulting in total or near-total loss REM sleep. ...
• In all these cases, the damage to the brain spared the pons (the center for REM sleep). REM sleep was spared in those cases despite their loss of dreaming. ...

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• Sleep Deprivation Sleep deprivation is not really a disorder. ... Not getting enough sleep can affect a person's judgement, reaction-time, hand-eye coordination, memory, and general well-being. Studies have shown that sleep deprivation can have damaging effects on a person's immune system. If a person feels drowsy during the day, falls asleep for very short periods of time (5 minutes or so), or regularly falls asleep immediately after lying down, they are probably sleep-deprived. ...
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• Two things happen in a person who suffers from sleep apnea. First, they lose sleep, because every time the windpipe closes, the person has to wake up enough to contract those muscles and resume breathing. As a result, their sleep cycle can be interrupted up to a 100 times a night. ... People who have sleep apnea are at a greater risk for heart disease and strokes. A narrowing of the nasal passages or back of the mouth, enlarged tonsils, and obesity are all factors that may contribute to obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep apnea may also be related to the use of alcohol, tobacco, or sedatives. ...

• To determine specific sleep disorders, the physician will take a medical and family history and should be told of any medications being taken. ...
• Hypnagogic hallucinations (vivid visual or auditory phenomena) experienced at the onset of sleep. ...
• Sleep paralysis (an inability to move on first awakening). ...
• Patients often seek medical help for single symptoms (eg, sleep paralysis or hypnagogic hallucinations) that might be associated with other disorders, particularly epilepsy. ...
• Another study conducted in a sleep clinic reported that more than half of narcolepsy patients were diagnosed when they were over 40 and had not realized they had narcolepsy until they experienced a bout of cataplexy. ...
• In some cases, the patient may need to consult a sleep specialist or go to a sleep disorders center for accurate diagnosis of a sleep disorder. About 250 centers are accredited by the American Sleep Disorders Associations. ... Patients should investigate centers carefully, being sure that they offer full sleep studies. One night at a sleep clinic can be very costly and is not usually covered by insurance. At most, sleep disorders centers' patients undergo an in-depth analysis, usually supervised by a multi-disciplinary team of consultants who can provide both physical and psychiatric evaluations. ...
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• Multiple Sleep Latency Test. The multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) employs a machine that measures the time it takes to fall asleep lying in a quiet room during the day. ... People with healthy sleep habits fall asleep in about 10 to 20 minutes. In patients with narcolepsy polysomnography plus MSLT will show a much shorter duration of time from wakefulness into sleep. ...
• The patient arrives at the sleep center about two hours before bedtime without having made any changes in daily habits. ...

• Twice in my life, I've experienced sleep paralysis episodes. ... I have always been interested in the paranormal and occult as a subject of study, speculation, and research (not necessarily belief), and I am convinced that after years of self-imposed indoctrination to that material and at a time of great stress, during a sleep paralysis episode my mind conjured an image that I would expect under those circumstances. Interestingly enough, I was also very familiar with the phenomena of sleep paralysis itself, and so as the creature stared at me, silouetted by the light coming through the slatted doors of the room I was sleeping in, I was able to fully wake myself up after 60 terrifying seconds by managing to yell at myself. ...
• The second sleep paralysis episode I experienced came during another time of change and incredible stress for me, in the December of 2003. ... Often during this time I would deprive myself of sleep in order to get more work done. ...
• I knew I must be having another sleep paralysis experience, but it took at least a full minute and a half of this night terror before I was able to wake myself completely. ...

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• '''Sleep paralysis''' (also '''hypnagogia''') is a sleep disorder in which the sufferer, about to fall asleep or upon just waking, is unable to move, speak or otherwise cry out. ...
• In Japan, 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.
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• In Reply to: Sleep Paralysis posted by Mike on March 19, 1998 at 16:54:15:.
• "Sleep Paralysis" (what he called it) is pretty much where you wake up and can't move, literally. ... I can't get out of it, unless I go back to sleep and wake up again, which isn't easy, you're essentially paralyed! I have had seizures in my sleep before, but he said that it's not related.
• Sleep paralysis is a condition (sometimes familial ) when the muscle .
• paralysis which is a feature of the REM stage of sleep is carried over.
• These attacks can be a feature of the sleep disorder narcolopsy, but are not.

• Called sleep paralysis, this disorder -- the result of a disconnect between brain and body as a person is on the fringe of sleep -- is turning out to be increasingly common, affecting nearly half of all people at least once. Moreover, a growing number of scholars believe that sleep paralysis may help explain many ancient reports of attacks by witches and modern claims of abduction by space aliens. ...
• "I think it can explain claims of witchcraft and alien abduction," said Kazuhiko Fukuda, a psychologist at Fukushima University in Japan and a leading expert on sleep paralysis. Research in Japan has had a headstart because sleep paralysis is well-known to most Japanese, who call it kanashibari, while it is little-known and less studied in the West. ...
• Sleep paralysis was once thought to be very rare. ...
• Sleep paralysis seems to have been described since ancient times, and an episode appears in "Moby Dick" and perhaps also in the 18th century Henry Fuseli painting, "The Nightmare," which shows a goblin sitting on the stomach of a sleeping woman. What is striking is that although the symptoms of sleep paralysis are generally very similar, the images in the hallucinations and the interpretation of them seem to vary. ...
• Europeans seem to have interpreted ancient sleep paralysis as assaults or abductions by witches taking them off for a forcible ride on a broomstick. ...
• In the West Indies, sleep paralysis was called "kokma" and meant a ghost baby who jumped on the sleeper's chest and attacked the throat. ...
• Cheyne said that in a survey he had worked on involving more than 2,000 people identified as experiencing sleep paralysis, hundreds described experiences similar to alien abduction. ...
• Simon Sherwood, a researcher on sleep paralysis in England, said that in one case study he gathered, a regular sufferer of sleep paralysis watched an alien film and then had a hallucination of "little blue aliens" inserting a metal probe into his forehead. ...
• The growing professional literature on sleep paralysis has often mentioned the parallels with reports of alien abductions. ...
• Tomoka Takeuchi, a Japanese expert on sleep paralysis who is now conducting research at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, said that a connection might eventually be demonstrated scientifically but added: "I hesitate to speculate too much. ...
• Those who believe in alien abductions deny that sleep paralysis could be behind it all. ... Mack, a Harvard University Medical School professor who is the most prominent defender of the possibility of abductions, argues that sleep paralysis simply does not fit the evidence. ...
• Other defenders of abduction theories say aliens may be clever enough to use sleep paralysis in their kidnappings. ...

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• Sleep paralysis Does anyone here suffer from sleep paralysis? Or know someone else who does?There's a thread about it developing at http://www. ...
• I don't know if that is paralysis w/out the suffocating sensation. I have dreams which I think are connected to sleep paralysis where i feel I am being sucked thru walls and such. ...
• In researching sleep paralysis on the internet I have found that alot of the symptoms sound extremely similar. ... htmHere is a link on sleep paralysis:http://www. ... com/jorgeconesa/Paralysis/sleepQA. ... Also, maybe you can get some helpful information from this other site on night terrors, they distinguish between the terrors and sleep paralysis here. ...
• Although this isn't entirely what your talking about, I once saw a show talking about sleep paralysis and how some believe it's what people that are being abducted by aliens are actually experiencing. ... You fall asleep, your arm falls dropping the keys into the pan, the sound shocks you awake, and this is when you experience sleep paralysis. ...
• sleep paralysis (Anonymous) 2003-10-08 11:09 (link) .
• htmDoes Recurrent Isolated Sleep Paralysis Involve More than Cognitive Neurosciences? Jean-Christophe Terrillon, PhD and Sirley Marques-Bonham, PhD (Reply to this) .

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• Sleep Paralysis and Associated Hypnagogic. ... describe many of the features of sleep paralysis and associated experiences. ... our own research into the sleep paralysis experience. ... A comprehensive site dealing with sleep paralysis, hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations.
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• sleep paralysis This article submitted by on 12/3. ... prognosis for those diagnosed with sleep paralysis. ?Is this sleep disorder hereditary. ... t wake up dreams (2/7/97) 3:03 PM sleep paralysis or OBE? (2/3/97) 10:10 PM sleep paralysis. ... A thread dealing with sleep paralysis (1995-1997).
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• SLEEP PARALYSIS Updated January 26, 1999 What is sleep paralysis? Sleep paralysis consists of a period of inability to perform voluntary movements. ... 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.

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• RJ forwarded me a really interesting article on Sleep Paralysis and Associated Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Experiences this morning. ...
• Sleep paralysis is a condition in which someone, most often lying in a supine position, about to drop of to sleep, or just upon waking from sleep realizes that s/he is unable to move, or speak, or cry out. ...
• The paralysis was also more of an imperative feeling not to move, rather than an out and out inability -- like moving would bring whatever it was down on me, so it was vital to remain perfectly still, like a small animal in view of a predator. ...

• Sleep Paralysis Linked to Anxiolytics Use, The Lancet, April 17, 1999 p 1334.
• One Explanatory Basis for the Discrepancy of Reported Prevalences of Sleep Paralysis Among Healthy Respondents, Perceptual and Motor Skills, December 1993, p 803(5).
• Sleep Research Has Broad Sweep, The Journal of the American Medical Association, September 8, 1993, p 1172.
• Sleep Paralysis, The Lancet, February 13, 1993, p 406(2). ...
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• At night I fall asleep within 10 minutes of going to bed but I’m awake within 3-4 hours and have a very hard time returning to sleep. ...
• Instead, your dream is easily explained by physical events that occur in the body during dreaming sleep. ...
• The clinical name for your experience is “REM Paralysis. ... During REM our bodies effectively become paralyzed, to protect our physical safety, and to preserve the continuity of sleep. ...
• The lighter sleep that you experience when your husband is away (you do not sleep as deep, and sleep with “one ear open”), is causing you to occasionally feel this paralysis of your body during REM. Other common sensations during REM paralysis are pressure in the chest area, feelings that you are being held down or pushed into the bed, difficulty breathing or calling for help, and also feelings that you are elevating or levitating off the bed. ...
• Instead, feelings of restricted movement during sleep cause feelings of vulnerability, which are then translated into fears of attack. ...
• The cure for “REM Paralysis” dreams is knowledge. ... To awaken yourself immediately from this dream, try wiggling a toe or finger—some small movement that will break the “spell” of paralysis. Or, as you grow more comfortable with the dreams, simply try to relax and roll over for more sleep. Sleep paralysis is annoying, but one cure for it is to get a plenty of REM sleep, so that the body does not keep you trapped in REM—when the rest of your mind wants to awaken! .
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• Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder with no known cause. The main characteristic of narcolepsy is excessive and overwhelming daytime sleepiness, even after adequate nighttime sleep. ... Daytime sleep attacks may occur with or without warning and may be irresistible. ... In addition, nighttime sleep may be fragmented with frequent awakenings. Daytime sleepiness, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations can also occur in people who do not have narcolepsy. ...
• Sleep paralysis: temporary inability to talk or move when falling asleep or waking up. ...
• The other symptoms may begin alone or in combination months or years after the onset of the daytime sleep attacks. There are wide variations in the development, severity, and order of appearance of cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations in individuals. ... The excessive daytime sleepiness generally persists throughout life, but sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations may not. ...
• This sleep state is called non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. After about an hour and a half of NREM sleep, the brain waves begin to show a more active pattern again, even though the person is in deep sleep. This sleep state, called rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, is when dreaming occurs.
• In narcolepsy, the order and length of NREM and REM sleep periods are disturbed, with REM sleep occurring at sleep onset instead of after a period of NREM sleep. Thus, narcolepsy is a disorder in which REM sleep appears at an abnormal time. Also, some of the aspects of REM sleep that normally occur only during sleep--lack of muscle tone, sleep paralysis, and vivid dreams--occur at other times in people with narcolepsy. ... Sleep paralysis and vivid dreams can occur while falling asleep or waking up.

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• Thank you for your entry on sleep paralysis - the description of this phenomenon exactly parallels an experience I had as a youth, in which I seemed to be unable to move in my bed, yet was "aware" somehow of an evil, buzzing entity in the corner of the room. ...
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