It is known as Sleep Paralysis to the inability of a person to perform voluntary movements, for a short time (just three minutes).
This paralysis happens minutes before falling asleep completely, or the moment we wake up. Although it is a very unpleasant sensation because of how distressing it is, it is a harmless disorder that does not report any danger to our health and our lives. Total paralysis of the muscles of the body does not affect the muscles related to our breathing.
This happens when the person is subjected to tremendous stress. Some neural circuits are still active and there are nightmares that the individual feels as real, waking up abruptly and unable to carry out a physical response, since the body is completely relaxed. The decrease of certain neurotransmitters may be the cause of this annoying sensation.
However, there are those who are convinced and convinced that this goes beyond psychiatry.
Some people believe that this is the result of a spiritual possession. Well, the symptoms of this disorder are:
- Body paralysis (that's why it's called sleep paralysis)
- Feel like someone or something is on top of us.
- Terror or panic
- Feeling that something or someone is squeezing our throat to strangle us.
As we cannot open our eyes, we also believe we perceive a sinister shadow near us.
It is normal to believe that we are being possessed by an entity that wants to annihilate us.
Personally, I have suffered "Sleep Paralysis" several times in my life, and I have had a really bad time feeling that my body did not respond. But someone explained to me a "trick" so that this sensation disappeared quickly.
It was this that led me to conclude that there were no evil entities. And if there were, we had formed them with our thoughts of fear, over a long time.
The human being can create perverse entities ..
Most people I know and have had this disorder, agree that they have passed, whether in childhood, adolescence or youth one or some traumatic or very hard situations for such a young person. Everyone has had, during their past, some more or less traumatic experience.
However, through self-knowledge and therapy, this disorder disappears completely.
I have never experienced it again.
I suggest, to people who have passed this experience, to ask themselves what has happened to them in the past; Maybe there is the key.
Finally, and for those who are not able to remember anything unpleasant about their past, and have all the possibilities of experiencing a "sleep paralysis", I will give you a little suggestion that they gave me, and that has been very useful to me, while not getting this disorder to disappear.
When you feel that the body is paralyzed, or even have a feeling of cushioning (as when a member of the body falls asleep), it is best to make a small effort, very small, and move some part of the body. It can be the little finger, a toe, a hand ... This will return the movement of the body and make your psychomotor system work.
The paralysis will disappear completely.
Believe me; works.
Incubates and Succubi
The ancient medieval legends talked about demons who came at night to attack young boys and girls. These demons were called incubos (lying on top of) were male and appeared to women, sometimes they count, appeared in the form of a horse. Her feminine version was the cubes (resting below), and they appeared to the young. But of course, this was just legend.
In The Sleep Paralysis there are people who have narrated (as a rule they are usually women, although there are also men), as they felt that a body was being thrown at them with apparent intention No of sexually abusing your victim.
These types of sensations are known in psychiatry as `` hypnotic hallucinations, '' they are called that because they usually appear between wakefulness and sleep.
I will not go into this topic in depth because it is not related to the topic that concerns us. I will only say that this type of hallucinations is related to sexual abuse.
People who, in the past, suffered abuse and their subconscious betrays them in this terrible way. It is best to put yourself in the hands of professionals to be able to heal that situation and scare away all the demons there were and for having.
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