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Strange Sleep Disorder Makes People See 'Demons'
livescience ^ | 31 March 2013 Time: 10:20 PM ET

Posted on 04/02/2013 6:51:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Sleep paralysis happens when people become conscious while their muscles remain in the ultra-relaxed state that prevents them from acting out their dreams. The experience can be quite terrifying, with many people hallucinating a malevolent presence nearby, or even an attacker suffocating them. Surveys put the number of sleep paralysis sufferers between about 5 percent and 60 percent of the population. [Say what?]

One man told her about his frequent sleep paralysis episodes, during which he'd experience extremely realistic hallucinations of a young child, skipping around the bed and singing nursery rhymes. Sometimes, the child would sit on his pillow and talk to him. One night, the tot asked the man a personal question. When he refused to answer, the child transformed into a "horrendous demon," MacKinnon said.

For another man, who had the sleep disorder narcolepsy (which can make sleep paralysis more common), his dream world clashed with the real world in a horrifying way. His sleep paralysis episodes typically included hallucinations that someone else was in his house or his room — he'd hear voices or banging around. One night, he awoke in a paralyzed state and saw a figure in his room as usual.

"He suddenly realizes something is different," MacKinnon said. "He suddenly realizes that he is in sleep paralysis, and his eyes are open, but the person who is in the room is in his room in real life."

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cantscream; disorders; sleep; sleepparalysis; testifying; theentity
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To: BenLurkin
I just had a doozy of one. Some obscure, leftist community organizer gets elected to the Senate and then to the presidency. And get this - he appoints Eric Holder as AG! You simply would not believe what he does to the country.

Glad I finally woke up!

21 posted on 04/02/2013 7:17:05 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: BenLurkin

22 posted on 04/02/2013 7:17:53 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: BenLurkin

Henri Fuseli - The Nightmare
1781

23 posted on 04/02/2013 7:18:44 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: BenLurkin

i had them as a’child. they are called night terrors.


24 posted on 04/02/2013 7:22:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: HerrBlucher

One time several years ago I was in a state of relaxed sleep paralysis and at the same time my two cats were meowing on the other side of my bedroom door. In that state I was able to understand what they were saying, which was to complain about the medicine I had been giving them (antibiotics and anti ear mite medicine). When I opened the door, their they stood next a turd one of them left on the carpet. I stopped giving them the medicine and took them down to the vet to get a shot to stop the ear mites.

Weird but true. There is so much to this universe we do not know.


25 posted on 04/02/2013 7:22:42 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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To: SkyDancer

well iwas/awake’and couldn’t move or talk/for awhile. the part of you that stops you moving during sleep stayed on after i was awake from a bad dream.


26 posted on 04/02/2013 7:24:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: BenLurkin
I think that we, every now and then, remember the process of waking up.
I know that happens to me, like it takes a couple of tries from dreams slipping away to reality setting in and becoming fully conscious.
The brain's awareness section, jumbled with dream info, probably leads the motor control section causing the feeling of paralysis.
Most of the time it's just snap, awake, with no memory of thoughts/dreams during the process of awakening..........Just my guess.
27 posted on 04/02/2013 7:49:24 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Sleep paralysis happens when people become conscious while their muscles remain in the ultra-relaxed state that prevents them from acting out their dreams. The experience can be quite terrifying, with many people hallucinating a malevolent presence nearby, or even an attacker suffocating them.”

What is interesting is, this description fits exactly the reported experiences of Whitley Streiber in “Communion”, and many of his legions of “alien abductee” followers.


28 posted on 04/02/2013 7:50:42 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: BenLurkin

Awake, unable to move, and convinced something that hates you intensely is standing at the foot of your bed. Not fun.


29 posted on 04/02/2013 7:50:59 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: BenLurkin

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30 posted on 04/02/2013 7:55:44 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: BenLurkin

When I had an Addison`s attack, I saw a continuous Rolodex of pictures of the faces I had seen in my life time. Every time I closed my eyes, the pictures span. Horrible extreme nausea.


31 posted on 04/02/2013 8:05:04 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: DEADROCK

Just to clarify, I wasn`t watching the game, having a beer. I was in and out of coma.


32 posted on 04/02/2013 8:09:42 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: BenLurkin

Dammit, guys! Thanks a lot! Now, I had better get some sleep tonight!


33 posted on 04/02/2013 8:11:22 PM PDT by Thorliveshere (Tais deau sá taghdedaul!)
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To: BenLurkin
Is it any surprise considering what people fill their minds with? Vampires, zombies, blood and guts murders, and other such degrading trash?
34 posted on 04/02/2013 8:14:46 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: BenLurkin

Remember this movie? THE NIGHT WALKER.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058403/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2


35 posted on 04/02/2013 8:15:31 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The murals in OKC are destroyed.)
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To: BenLurkin

When I was in my early 20s I had this exact thing happen to me many times. Half-awakening with paralysis with the eyes half open, a sensation of dying and being attacked by a demon. My demon was a demonic wolf creature with glowing red eyes and supernaturally long and big teeth and an unearthly growl. Pure evil.

Absolutely terrifying. I knew I was half-asleep and half-awake but couldn’t alter the situation. I learned that if I didn’t sleep on my back, it wouldn’t occur. Wearing a cross helped too.

As I recall, this happened only in a certain bedroom in the house. My grandmother was later put into this same bedroom, but soon declared that she would no longer sleep there, even though she refused to say why. I’ve often wondered if something more “real” than simple night terrors was going on.


36 posted on 04/02/2013 8:26:33 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Right ... like I was paralyzed and struggled to wake up.


37 posted on 04/02/2013 8:44:09 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: BenLurkin

Do NOT post a Helen Thomas pic....


38 posted on 04/02/2013 8:47:50 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: SkyDancer

not exactly the same.

I wasn’t struggling to wake up, I was awake. I just couldn’t move, but I was awake. I was struggling to MOVE, not to wake up. I would finally after minutes be able to shout and start moving again.


39 posted on 04/02/2013 8:50:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Good find!


40 posted on 04/02/2013 8:56:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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