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Originally Posted by azaliavictoria
My mother suffers from sleep paralysis. For those who may not know, it is characterized by waking up with the body totally paralyzed and with vivid visual/audio hallucinations. It can be brought on by stress, irregular sleep patterns, certain foods, etc. I have to check on her nightly to make sure she is okay.
Like many disorders in their early stages in history, a lot of religious folk see this disorder as, well, religious, as the hallucinations always take up a demonic form. I am not religious and am an Atheist. So I am making a note now to say that I respect others' beliefs. Please respect mine.
The point of this thread is:
I am pretty surprised that this is not a recognized disorder with available help to its sufferers.
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It's also called 'out of body experiance' and I had it twice years ago when I was totally stressed. Didn't help I was staying over my ex H's house for the holidays and fully believe the place is haunted lol (long story). I can attest to it being terrifying. I felt I'd woken up, only to realize as I sat up that my body was still laying down...then I tried to lay back down, then somehow rolled out of my body, then seemed to be asleep again. It was like I was dreaming I was waking up but I wasn't. I did FINALLY really wake up, but not before seeing a faceless man standing in the kitchen staring at me. Yeah....scary stuff.
Hasn't happened since. This happened when I was in my twenties also, without the terror (except for feeling my body fall thru the bed whilst my BODY remained...that was freaky) but I kinda understand how it happened and I think it was more a case of self-hypnosis than anything else.
Not fun.
At all.
