Sleep Paralysis

branie

could this be a rational explanation for ghostly visits and alien abductions?

Spangles

I experienced lower body paralysis the night before my sister's funeral. I awoke in the middle of the night unable to move my legs. I woke my partner and shortly drifted back to sleep. I have heard that stress can cause such an occurance but am open minded. It scared the bejaysus out of me at the time and hasn't happened since.

MagicMarker

branie wrote: »

could this be a rational explanation for ghostly visits and alien abductions?

No, there is already a rational explanation.

Dave!

It's one of many natural explanations for these experiences, yes.

Genghiz Cohen

Happened to me once. Was sure there was something in the room too.
Couldn't talk or move, just my eyes darting furiously around the room to see the intruder.

Eventually was able to move again, laughed it off and went back to sleep.

maccored

happened me once too. not only thoguh did i think someone was in the room, but I also got a mad sense of evil - couldnt move, couldnt shout etc. Ever since its always made me marvel at how evil the evil feeling was, even though it was completely just in my head. the brains a mad thing.

jonbravo

branie wrote: »

could this be a rational explanation for ghostly visits and alien abductions?

i dont know about ghosts but it doesnt explan alien abductions, at least abductions from the 80's and 90's
As budd hopkins calls it: ''junk science''
http://www.intrudersfoundation.org/junk_science_paralysis.html

wonderfulname

jonbravo wrote: »

it doesnt explan alien abductions, at least abductions from the 80's and 90's

Firstly that is the most biased and ill informed piece of writing I have ever read (the link not the post) and secondly I think some "alien abduction" experiences can be completely explained by sleep paralysis, many report an inability to move, seeing strange humanoid faces, feeling strange sensations or dread.. many people who experience sleep paralysis report an inability to move, seeing strange humanoid faces, feeling strange sensations or dread..

Also, as for the 80s and 90s, it always amazes me how aliens took such a keen interest in us just when hollywood took such an interest in them..

jonbravo

wonderfulname wrote: »

Firstly that is the most biased and ill informed piece of writing I have ever read (the link not the post) and secondly I think some "alien abduction" experiences can be completely explained by sleep paralysis, many report an inability to move, seeing strange humanoid faces, feeling strange sensations or dread.. many people who experience sleep paralysis report an inability to move, seeing strange humanoid faces, feeling strange sensations or dread..

Also, as for the 80s and 90s, it always amazes me how aliens took such a keen interest in us just when hollywood took such an interest in them..

i agree somewhat! i believe some experiences are indeed explained away by sleep Paralysis, not all experiences... can be explained by sleep paralysis.
Oh i like the piece of writing puts the question of sleep paralysis being seen as an alien abduction to bed.
have you looked into any abduction case's!?

wonderfulname

jonbravo wrote: »

i agree somewhat! i believe some experiences are indeed explained away by sleep Paralysis, not all experiences... can be explained by sleep paralysis.
Oh i like the piece of writing puts the question of sleep paralysis being seen as an alien abduction to bed.
have you looked into any abduction case's!?

Of course not all cases can be explained away with the one answer but that doesn't mean there is not a rational explanation for the others.
And I'm sorry but writing of that nature disgusts me. It is akin to the extreme evangelical rants against evolution, same disregard for science, same inability to see an issue from another viewpoint, same stubborn nature, if it was proven tomorrow without a shadow of a doubt that we were alone in the universe that man would still be spewing his garbage..

And I will answer your question with another question, have you looked into sleep paralysis from a medical standpoint rather than these twisted versions?

jonbravo

wonderfulname wrote: »

Of course not all cases can be explained away with the one answer but that doesn't mean there is not a rational explanation for the others.
And I'm sorry but writing of that nature disgusts me. It is akin to the extreme evangelical rants against evolution, same disregard for science, same inability to see an issue from another viewpoint, same stubborn nature, if it was proven tomorrow without a shadow of a doubt that we were alone in the universe that man would still be spewing his garbage..

And I will answer your question with another question, have you looked into sleep paralysis from a medical standpoint rather than these twisted versions?

IF their was a rational explanation for the other cases, what are these other explanations!?
Everyone has a view point and i like that fact - i dont believe in someone having disregard for science, its not a Law, in-which it can be followed.
And yes i've looked into sleep paralysis from a medical viewpoint, and many other viewpoints with the subject of abductions in mind.
i know you have a viewpoint or your own opinion to share, but i dont know what it is yet!?

BloodRedRose

Hey y'all stop fighting now, yahear...

lrushe

My experience of sleep paralysis were as follows:
I would wake up, not be able to move, not be able to scream, feel absolute panic, have the feeling of floating and being spun around and although I wouldn't open my eyes (too chicken ) I felt like the bedroom ceiling was just in front of my face.
This happened on and off for about a year, when I started going out with my bf and he was sleeping beside my it stopped and hasn't happen since.
I would love to believe there was a rational explaination for it, it creeps me out to think there was anything else going on

pH

It happened to me once as a child, I was in the top bed of a set of bunks, I awoke unable to move, there was a small dwarfish man standing below the bed pulling the sheets and covers down tight preventing me from moving at all.

As you'd expect it was accompanied by a sense of sheer terror, and although it seemed terrifyingly real at the time, afterwards, even as a child I recognized it as a nightmare or hallucination - I don't remember ever being convinced it had actually happened - years later I read about sleep paralysis and thought, yes that's exactly what happened to me.

scooby2791

Sleep paralysis is probably one of the most terrifying experiences out there, just the sheer helplessness and incredible panic. I generally get it if I nap during the day after training, or fall asleep in weird places like a chair or car. Been getting a bit too regular lately and more excessive, waking up with it, slowly being able to move my right arm, then my tongue slides into my throat, can't breath the eventually wake up. A few days ago I actually woke up and was moving then just went like a plank and couldn't move, was absolutely horrible. Weird aswel because the majority of my friends get it aswel. Its also been happening to me within dreams. Just crazy. A mate of mine was telling us his story of his sleep paralysis, and he woke up, could only move his eyes and there was a lady standing over his bed with a frying pan in her hand, slowly placing it over his face while he was just in dire panic.

Wish someone somewhere could figure out some sort of method to prevent it.

Subtle Troll

It happened to me once, and I heard a thuderous noise in my head like a jet engine, I think it was my own ears hearing very loudly ambient noise, i never heard of sleep paralysis.

I thought it was aliens! Noise, paralysed, and light outside the window and being half asleep, I was terrified, couldnt sleep after.

Since then I learned what it was and wouldn't be frightened again but it was unbelieveably scary at the time.