I grow up hearing people narrating mythological stories like this, only to discover that it is a natural phenomenon called sleep paralysis

I can say it’s the most scariest moment ever, you won carry hand up hand no gree , you won move leg , leg self no gree move , to change sleep position na wahala and the worst part is you are unable to open your eyes

Wahala Dey o. Oyinbo don call am Sleep Paralysis.
Na winch joor….

Chai..


Nkan be!

At times, you can even be seeing things while you're still lying down only to finally wake up and know that nothing that you were seeing was actually happening!

You were just about to die from sleep but nature brought you back to life, that it wasn't your time yet!!

Mikespecialone:
I can say it’s the most scariest moment ever, you won carry hand up hand no gree , you won move leg , leg self no gree move , to change sleep position na wahala and the worst part is you are unable to open your eyes

That's sleep paralysis, according to science. And I'm a scientist. But I always wonder why it goes away after shouting Jesus

thesicilian:

That's sleep paralysis, according to science. And I'm a scientist. But I always wonder why it goes away after shouting Jesus

How you dey shout Jesus for sleep paralysis
Abeg teach me

Zaheertyler:

How you dey shout Jesus for sleep paralysis
Abeg teach me

Lol
Once I realise what's going on na to begin saying Jesus Jesus Jesus in my mind until suddenly it just bursts out of my mouth
Works 100% of the time.

PS:
Sleep paralysis will always gradually resolve on its own without doing or saying anything but as a superstitious African, why take chances?

thesicilian:

Lol
Once I realise what's going on na to begin saying Jesus Jesus Jesus in my mind until suddenly it just bursts out of my mouth
Works 100% of the time

Dey fool yourself mumu

I have personally experienced it, abeg no be any sleep paralysis, there is an invisible force behind it.

thesicilian:

Lol
Once I realise what's going on na to begin saying Jesus Jesus Jesus in my mind until suddenly it just bursts out of my mouth
Works 100% of the time.

PS:
Sleep paralysis will always gradually resolve on its own without doing or saying anything but as a superstitious African, why take chances?

You truly get the firsthand understanding of how it works. For me after much experience about it,I just catch my fun when the sleep paralysis gets hold of me , I just laugh and rest even proper that way I defeat fear and restlessness , in due time it goes away without your knowledge.
From my small research l found out that this WALL GECKO causes such ,it hangs just right above you and tilt it's tails somehow,until it leaves that's when u get relieve from that attack, since then I exterminate every wall gecko I sight in my house , I hate that creature now to the call. During when we where little our seniors back then do tell us not to kill them but the reason not yet known to me.
We Yoruba's call them Omoni'ile(house children) .But I still kill them because of their nature, it's poisonous if it drops in your pot of soup, if it hangs in between your wears when putting it on ,you will know the origin of madness.

Zaheertyler:

How you dey shout Jesus for sleep paralysis
Abeg teach me

Calling Jesus is even primary, back then I speak in other tongues for hours ,something I can't do in real life.

paxonel:
I grow up hearing people narrating mythological stories like this, only to discover that it is a natural phenomenon called sleep paralysis

When someone or something is pressing you, you no go know?

See the deceitful word they are using.to describe the phenomenon. Why does it come only when i want to sleep? Why do they not paralyze in they day when i'm strong?. Evil things

It is spiritual oppression.... by demons, witches and wizards.

These forces are very real but unfortunately some people think they are imaginary.

thesicilian:

That's sleep paralysis, according to science. And I'm a scientist. But I always wonder why it goes away after shouting Jesus

Also ponder why it comes only.when.one wants to.rest very well and very deeply.

thesicilian:

Lol
Once I realise what's going on na to begin saying Jesus Jesus Jesus in my mind until suddenly it just bursts out of my mouth
Works 100% of the time.

PS:
Sleep paralysis will always gradually resolve on its own without doing or saying anything but as a superstitious African, why take chances?

Fear dun catch me

judedwriter:
It is spiritual oppression.... by demons, witches and wizards.

These forces are very real but unfortunately some people think they are imaginary.

have you first understood the science behind sleep paralysis before concluding that it is a spiritual oppression?

paxonel:
have you first understood the science behind sleep paralysis before concluding that it is a spiritual oppression?

What science of sleep paralysis??

The Supernatural can't be fully understood or explained by the most brilliant academic minds.

Infact, the supernatural comes before the physical.

paxonel:
I grow up hearing people narrating mythological stories like this, only to discover that it is a natural phenomenon called sleep paralysis

Who them never press well go call am sleep paralysis.

Psady:
Calling Jesus is even primary, back then I speak in other tongues for hours ,something I can't do in real life.

Haba! Sleep paralysis doesn't last for hours just few minutes.

Dtruthspeaker:


When someone or something is pressing you, you no go know?

See the deceitful word they are using.to describe the phenomenon. Why does it come only when i want to sleep? Why do they not paralyze in they day when i'm strong?. Evil things

Sleep paralysis is not evil, it's natural. Do you know that it is possible to induce it??
https://remspace.net/how-to-induce-sleep-paralysis/

judedwriter:
It is spiritual oppression.... by demons, witches and wizards.

These forces are very real but unfortunately some people think they are imaginary.

It is possible to induce this your so called spiritual oppression by using techniques
https://remspace.net/how-to-induce-sleep-paralysis/

justlove91:


Haba! Sleep paralysis doesn't last for hours just few minutes.

Oooh ! U keep to timing it. I don't believe you abeg.

Psady:
Oooh ! U keep to timing it. I don't believe you abeg.

When we dream during rem sleep our body is paralysed to prevent us from acting out the dream using the physical body. The normal route is for the paralysis to be lifted before your mind (consciousness ) wakes up.

Sleep paralysis occurs when your mind (consciousness) wakes up before the paralysis as been lifted, this make you aware of the paralysis.

And this phenomenon can be induced using techniques.

justlove91:

Sleep paralysis is not evil, it's natural. Do you know that it is possible to induce it??
https://remspace.net/how-to-induce-sleep-paralysis/

Haba someone or something is attacking and over presssing and over powering you till the point of powerlessness only in the night, against the usual dreams and sleep.were you are able to move you and you are still admiring words used to.describe the experience? Cmon.

Dtruthspeaker:


Haba someone or something is attacking and over presssing and over powering you till the point of powerlessness only in the night, against the usual dreams and sleep.were you are able to move you and you are still admiring words used to.describe the experience? Cmon.

If you belief demons are involved, how do you explain the fact that I and thousands of people can induce this phenomenon using technique.

justlove91:

When we dream during rem sleep our body is paralysed to prevent us from acting out the dream using the physical body. The normal route is for the paralysis to be lifted before your mind (consciousness ) wakes up.

Sleep paralysis occurs when your mind (consciousness) wakes up before the paralysis as been lifted, this make you aware of the paralysis.

And this phenomenon can be induced using techniques.

Apt

The interesting part about this is just as the body fails to wake up from the paralyzed state leading to sleep paralysis, the body also sometimes fails to be paralyzed during sleep leading to the acting out of dreams like you said hence you have sleep walkers, talkers and others like me who sometimes act out their dreams with subtle and sometimes violent movement and in the process injuring themselves. It's a 2 way street really but people focus on one more than the other cause its more scary i guess. People simply fear what they don't understand.

Lucifyre:
Apt

The interesting part about this is just as the body fails to wake up from the paralyzed state leading to sleep paralysis, the body also sometimes fails to be paralyzed during sleep leading to the acting out of dreams like you said hence you have sleep walkers, talkers and others like me who sometimes act out their dreams with subtle and sometimes violent movement and in the process injuring themselves. It's a 2 way street really but people focus on one more than the other cause its more scary i guess. People simply fear what they don't understand.

You're right, sometimes the body lift the paralysis too early while the mind is still dreaming and sometimes the body lift the paralysis too late after the mind is "awake"

Infact to be factual, you're not really fully awake during sleep paralysis but you're aware of the body's paralysis while still partially dreaming.

The reason why must people think sleep paralysis is the work of demons or finds it scary is because when the mind becomes aware of the paralysis, the common reaction is fear, but remember that during this state the mind is partially awake and partially dreaming at the same time.
So the fear reaction is incorporated into the dream plot and one can actually hallucinate seeing a demon or stranger in the room.

I am a lucid dreamer and the fascinating thing about sleep paralysis is that it is easy to convert it to lucid dream, how?

Next time you experience sleep paralysis, just forget about the body and room you're in and imagine yourself somewhere else, your awareness will gradually shift into the imagined scene.

justlove91:

If you belief demons are involved, how do you explain the fact that I and thousands of people can induce this phenomenon using technique.

If you can induce it then it means that you are not sleeping if not men would not need to masturbate as they can just conjour that bitch that came to Bleep them the first time.

Lucifyre:
Apt

The interesting part about this is just as the body fails to wake up from the paralyzed state leading to sleep paralysis, the body also sometimes fails to be paralyzed during sleep leading to the acting out of dreams like you said hence you have sleep walkers, talkers and others like me who sometimes act out their dreams with subtle and sometimes violent movement and in the process injuring themselves. It's a 2 way street really but people focus on one more than the other cause its more scary i guess. People simply fear what they don't understand.

Act out ke? like when you were walking in your sleep you were not walking somewhere in your dream? or when you were violent, it was.not that you were trying to defend or attack sonething in your dream?.Self deceit at its finest!

If you can induce it then it means that you are not sleeping

Sleep paralysis is one manifestation of a state called the phase state (coined by Michael Raduga). The phase state is a state in which the body is asleep but the mind is awake that's why the state is also called "body asleep mind awake state".
Other manifestations of this state include : out of body experience, lucid dream, astral projection, false awakening etc.

if not men would not need to masturbate as they can just conjour that bitch that came to Bleep them the first time.

Actually men don't need to masturbate to pixels on screen as they can have sex with anybody they desire through lucid dream sex. https://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/lucid-dreaming-sex.html

Dtruthspeaker:


Act out ke? like when you were walking in your sleep you were not walking somewhere in your dream? or when you were violent, it was.not that you were trying to defend or attack sonething in your dream?.Self deceit at its finest!

Reasoning with you would be akin to one reasoning with a dog not to eat vomit, roll in the mud, or sniff buttholes. It's pointless as the planes of reasoning are so far apart. So i don't think i want to be part of your usual typo filled incoherent mess of a tangential pov. Your comments all over this site show you to be obtuse as fvck, dense beyond gold and a demi god at being a grade A mor0n. It'll come across as an insult but one just needs to go through ur comment history to find out its fact. Anyways ill be ignoring ur dumb ass onward until u maybe decide to grow up, not holding my breath though.

justlove91:


You're right, sometimes the body lift the paralysis too early while the mind is still dreaming and sometimes the body lift the paralysis too late after the mind is "awake"

Infact to be factual, you're not really fully awake during sleep paralysis but you're aware of the body's paralysis while still partially dreaming

The reason why must people think sleep paralysis is the work of demons or finds it scary is because when the mind becomes aware of the paralysis, the common reaction is fear, but remember that during this state the mind is partially awake and partially dreaming at the same time.
So the fear reaction is incorporated into the dream plot and one can actually hallucinate seeing a demon or stranger in the room.

I am a lucid dreamer and the fascinating thing about sleep paralysis is that it is easy to convert it to lucid dream, how?

Next time you experience sleep paralysis, just forget about the body and room you're in and imagine yourself somewhere else, your awareness will gradually shift into the imagined scene.

About the bolded, i don't think you can say that as a fact, its a little bit more nuanced than that. I believe experiences defer and while what you say applies to most there's still some anecdotal evidence to the contrary. Example a little anecdote from myself, my first overwhelming sleep paralysis experience, i was clearly awake even though in that groggy state and was struggling to get up but couldn't. Was shouting and no one heard me. It looked like a dream state but why i got to know it ws not was cause everyone in the room was exactly where they were in real life like in the "dream like state" when i was struggling and shouting to get their attention.

The caveat here been that they told me "you were just lying there nau", you didnt even flinch, mind you not like they were paying close attention to me, cause they were gisting. Maybe i was experiencing some sort of psuedo astral projection as well but i really doubt that as i don't even believe in astral projection in its literal form. So you see its a little bit more nuanced than partially dreamy partially awake. Your lucid dream thought process is quite spot on though. That's what ive been doing anytime i get sleep paralysis although it rarely happens to me. Also sometimes when im lucid dreaming, i wake up and then go back to sleep to continue from where i stopped exactly especially when i liked the dream. Doesn't happen often though.