sleep paralysis

I've long known that somehow the brain disengages the body's voluntary motor control during sleep, and I've therefore long suspected that certain sleep disorders and sleep paralysis incidents involved a malfunction in this naturally dysfunctional state. Japanese researchers have now identified...

First post...please be gentle A few years back I was suffering from a bout of depression. My doctor decided to change the medication I was on for something “newer”. A few days later my next door neighbour (lovely but very religious in the speaking in tongues and falling down with the holy...

I have experienced what in most scientific communities is considered an event that happens and is caused by the brain during times of coming out of your beta/alpha/delta stages of sleep into consciousness again. To those of whom have experienced this, it is quite unbecoming and definitely not...

thought i'd put this in here as i couldn't find a thread for nested dreams/dreams within dreams (merge away if there is one) and it's odd enough i didn't think it would sit well in either the 'vanilla' dreams or sp threads. Last night i was having a dream where i was in a cinema, don't recall...

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I have just read with interest several postings on here about sleep paralysis, and people describing their experiences with it. This is most interesting, because I have had sleep paralysis several times in my life, since childhood. Let me elucidate... During childhood, I often used to dream...

ack in Christmas 2001, on the night of 27th/28th December, I had been watching the TV and had fallen asleep on the lounge sofa, however, my wife being sensible had gone to bed long before. I eventually awoke early in the morning, around 05:00 with a stiff neck, and decided that I had better go...

Maryanna Axson In Savannah, Georgia (USA) sometime around February of 2001, a friend of mine and I had been out dancing and I was spending the night at her house (as was our usual custom on Thursday nights). I had spent the night countless other times (both before and since) and have never...

Night Terrors Anyone want to discuss or offer an explanation of the phenom known as "Night Terrors"? That feeling that something is terribly wrong and you need to wake up right now , but your body feels like its trapped in molasses? My sisters get these all the time, one sister says she has...