Sleep Paralysis: Seeing Shadow Entities, Demons and Scary Things
Sleep Paralysis: Seeing Shadow Entities, Demons and Scary Things
Have you ever experienced sleep paralysis?
Waking up with sleep paralysis is like waking up from a nightmare with the terror of not being able to move your body. What’s worse is that the underlying cause of sleep paralysis remains unclear up to this day.
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What is Sleep Paralysis?
Many conventional scientists consider sleep paralysis as a benign experience that refers to the brief feeling of inability to perform voluntary movements. It could happen either on the onset of sleep, during the hypnogogic state, or when you wake during the hypnopompic state. Many people generally believe that paralysis lasts a long time. However, the reality is that the experience lasts no longer than a few seconds. Sleep paralysis is not an uncommon phenomenon. But even so, it is not well understood. The people who experienced it say that it is a very frightening experience. The truth, however, is it is harmless and has no known effect on one’s health.
Also, the negative experience stems from the psychological effect of not knowing the actual processes concerning the experience. The paralysis is not the only experience associated with this mysterious, terrifying sleep disorder. Most who have experienced sleep paralysis also reports a shadowy, evil figure lying that draws near while they are unable to move.
The first clear documentation of this sinister experience is in the 17th century, written in a medical treatise by Isbrand Van Diembroeck, a Dutch physician. According to the treatise, the case was of a woman that was 50 years of age, healthy, and strong. However, she complained of terrifying and mysterious experiences at night.
In Van Diembroeck’s explanation, he said that when the woman prepared to sleep, she believed that the devil was on her, or that a great dog was choking her or that a thief was lying on her breast, preventing her from speaking or breathing. More so, when tried to throw the burden on her chest off, she cannot find the strength even to stir her hands.
It seems like a truly frightening experience that most people would say due to supernatural reasons. However, what the woman experienced is the condition that came to be called sleep paralysis. The technical term for this experience, if not related to pathological catalepsy, is projective catalepsy.
When Does Sleep Paralysis Happen?
Projective catalepsy or sleep paralysis is said to happen when you become aware of leaving or returning to your physical body with your astral body. Sleep paralysis occurs at the moment when your physical body and astral body did not fully align. In that case, you are said to feel that you are inside your body.
However, if your physical body and astral body is misaligned, your physical brain will not respond to your command. Many people speculate that to be in the unique position of sleep paralysis is a great opportunity to have some perception of life’s non-physical reality. It provides positive implications that there is life beyond the physical body.
What Causes Sleep Paralysis?
No one really knows what causes sleep paralysis. Although people have been experiencing this phenomenon since the dawn of time, there is still no definitive explanation or at least general consensus of its underlying cause. Science says that it is in part because it is difficult to establish the cause for a phenomenon. It is easier to find things that might be related to sleep paralysis.
The Sleep Cycle
To understand why sleep paralysis has such terrifying effects, it is important to first learn about the sleep cycle and how it works. There are four stages in “sleep.” During sleep, your breathing rate, heart rate, and brain activity all slow down. These changes will occur since your body is trying to relax and get the rest that it deserves.
A normal sleep pattern should be organized. It starts with you being awake, then a light sleep, followed by deep sleep, and then the dream state that is known as Rapid Eye Movement (REM)-sleep. An entire sleep cycle usually lasts about 90 minutes, which normally repeats a few times every night. During the REM-sleep, you experience eye flickering or rapid-eye-movement.
The first REM period usually lasts for about 10 minutes. The period of the REM sleep then gradually lengthens up to about an hour. During REM, you experience the most vivid, recalled dreams. At the same time, increase in heartbeat and twitching of muscles or myoclonia occurs during this time.
When you are in REM sleep, almost all of the muscles of the body stop with the exception of the eye movement and of course, breathing. This is a temporary paralysis that prevents you from injuring yourself such as when you unconsciously act out your dream. You are now probably wondering how the body paralyzes itself.
Why Do You Feel Fear During Sleep Paralysis?
There are two brain chemicals that make it happen – the GABA and glycine. These chemicals put a signal between brain cells that make the neurons allowing the muscles to be active to switch off. Your muscle control usually resumes before you regain consciousness. If you wake up before a complete REM sleep, your body might not regain its function in sync with your mind. This is the part when sleep paralysis could take place.
In this case, you might consider sleep paralysis to be some kind of intrusion into your REM sleep. When during REM, a natural process occurring nightly becomes slightly out of sync then you encounter a temporary, involuntary paralysis of your body’s regular function. It is a common report of people who experienced sleep paralysis to sense an intruder or evil spirit during the phenomenon. One of the explanations given for this experience is that the person is having a hallucination. A figment of imagination that feels so real.
It is not so much a hallucination, but most the likely explanation is it is an illusory experience, some kind of dream imagery. This is probably why there is no consensus on what others see as some say they saw a demon, an evil spirit, a massive dog, or an old hag. Usually, the person experiencing sleep paralysis recognizes and understands that what they are experiencing is physiological or is related to out of body experience. When they do, their fear dissipates.
Since fear was able to fade away, it means that sleep paralysis is not entirely a biological reaction. The biological basis of sleep paralysis must be due to high levels of activity in the amygdala, the brain’s emotional center. Besides the paralysis and fear, another aspect of sleep paralysis frequently reported is the difficulty in breathing.
This is likely related to the muscle paralysis in the upper airways, which causes the feeling as if one is choking and suffocates. For people who only just experienced sleep paralysis, this could lead to the illusions of entities, such as the old hag pressing down on them or the massive dog choking them.
Who Does Sleep Paralysis Happen To and How Common Is It?
There are several surveys concerning sleep paralysis, and reports say that about 25% to 30% of the population has experienced at least mild sleep paralysis in no less than once. Reports also suggest that about 8% of the overall population that experience this phenomenon with some regularity. However, it can strike all people in a rate between 40-60% at least once. The possibility is high so you must be knowledgeable enough on how to cope and get over sleep paralysis.
This suggests that this phenomenon is not rare. In actuality, sleep paralysis is universal and common. Sleep paralysis can occur at any age but the first episodes happen during the first three decades of life, particularly in puberty. Neurology experts say that this phenomenon is often reported as an experience by people who experience near death experience or out-of-body experience.
Is Sleep Paralysis Dangerous? Is there a Benefit to It?
Many people ask if sleep paralysis is harmful or if it is dangerous. It is not. At first, it is scary with a lot of people reporting the experience of not being able to move their body is frightful. However, this phenomenon is harmless and carries no risk. On the other hand, some people ask if there are benefits to the experience.
Possibly, the benefit you can draw from this experience is the opportunity presented by being able to explore what is beyond the physical body. The non-alignment of the astral and physical body, as well as out-of-body experience, would allow the person to have the chance to perceive the multidimensional reality of life.
What to do When You Have Sleep Paralysis
What can you do if you wake up with sleep paralysis? How do you cope up with the fear and the muscle paralysis that terrorizes you? The best thing to do is to work on having better sleep so you can reduce the occurrences. On that note, here are some of the things you can do to deal with sleep paralysis.
Sleep Enough
A simple and effective way of coping with sleeping paralysis is to sleep enough. You have to make sure that you at least get six hours of sleep during the night. Much better if you can get eight or nine hours. This coping method means you need to put a priority in sleep and pay careful attention to the time you go to bed.
Good Sleeping Environment
In order for you to sleep better, you need a good sleeping environment. What makes an environment that allows you to sleep better? A cool room is often the best choice, plus some layers that will give you the warmth that you need. If the place is noisy, wearing earplugs ensure that you can sleep peacefully. You should also block out the light as much as you can. With the lights on, you will be tempted to glance around, think, and get distracted. You will not be able to just focus on getting comfortable and fall asleep.
Follow a Sleep Schedule
Your body expects a sleep schedule to be able to sleep better. On that note, you should make sure to tuck in at the same time every day and wake up at the same time as well. This way, your body will learn and become sleepy when you reach your bedtime. Then you will be able to sleep more easily and better, which can improve your chances of getting sleep paralysis. You should develop a routine that your body can regularly follow.
Stop Doing Bad Habits before Going to Sleep
There are some habits you probably do before sleep that contributes to your chances of experiencing sleep paralysis. Thus, the coping method is to cut them out or do other things. These could be drinking alcohol or caffeine, both of which can affect your sleeping pattern negatively. Setting aside your phone and other devices at least two hours before bedtime also makes your sleep better. You must refrain from thinking about various thoughts that can divert you from sleeping. You should let go of all your worries and just enjoy the night to relax and have a full rest.
Exercise
There’s no need to go to the gym for this. All you need is a simple, low-impact routine for exercise to do every day. It could just be walking in the morning which is not only good for your sleep but your entire health as well. Note, however, that it isn’t ideal to exercise too close to your bedtime. Doing so will energize you and make it difficult to sleep instead. Do it at least 4 hours before going to sleep.
You don’t really need to worry about sleep paralysis as it is not at all harmful or dangerous. However, with the fear it usually accompanies you might need to learn some way on how to deal with it. Fortunately, you can reduce the risk by simply ensuring you have a better sleep every day.
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