Bec - Sleep paralysis

I've been getting this quite often recently.

This blog post is going to scare Yineng hard LOL

Definition of sleep paralysis:

A frightening form of paralysis that occurs when a person suddenly finds himself of herself unable to move for a few mintues. It is due to an ill-timed disconnection between the brain and the body.

• In chinese culture: 鬼壓身/鬼压身": guǐ yā shēn or "鬼壓床/鬼压床": guǐ yā chuáng, which literally translate into "ghost pressing on body" or "ghost pressing on bed
• In korean culture: 가위눌림 literally meaning "being pressed down by scissors". It is often associated with a superstitious belief that a ghost or spirit is laying on top of or pressing down on the sufferer.
• In phillipine culture:"bangungut", or sudden unexplained death syndrome has traditionally been attributed to nightmares.People who have claimed to survive such nightmares have reported experiencing the symptoms of sleep paralysis.

Symptoms:

Sensations of noises, smells, levitation, paralysis, terror and images of frightening intruders

Causes:

Sleeping facing upwards (supine)

Increased stress

Change of environment

Irregular sleeping patterns

Lucid dream that precedes the episode

Alcohol consumption coupled with inadequate sleep

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It started off with weird sound kind of like TV friction.. with a feeling of like being in a tunnel, vortex type thing, not being able to move my body but trying to. In my head i was just going "move, move, move".

But now it's what everyone talks about. Like a 'ghost is sitting on you'. Yeah that feeling.

Few nights ago I tried to move then i got the feeling i was falling, like completely off the bed, and trying to hold on. But when i snapped out of it - I was just lying in my bed and fine.

Last night I felt like someone was sitting on me. Then i tried to move and I felt like could see a man coming towards my bed. I tried to scream.. Like I could hear myself full scream in my head something like "get the fuck away". But nothing came out.

Keith says it's because I eat then sleep straight away. Gonna stop that.

♥Bec