You have at one time or another woken up unable to speak or move?
How many of you have at one time or another woken up unable to speak or move?
If you have, you are not alone.
The classic definition for this
phenomenon is called sleep paralysis.
It may last a few seconds, several
moments, or occasionally longer and usually occurs right before you are
about to fall asleep or wake up.
Many people report feeling a
“presence” that is often described as malevolent, threatening or, evil,
and usually experience a tremendous amount of terror.
The presence is usually seen, felt and
even heard.
People also report unique experiences like the sensation of
floating or being outside the body.
They believe the phenomenon to be an
extremely spiritual one.
In the modern medical world, these experiences are defined as hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations, which is often the explanation when conventional modern views of
spiritual experience is combined with medical ideas that label direct
spiritual experiences as psycho-pathological.
It is well understood that
sleep paralysis coincides with physiological mechanisms in the brain.
What is not well understood are the strange experiences individuals have
when experiencing sleep paralysis.
The discussion of spiritual
experience as an explanation for a bizarre and complex phenomenon that
little is known about has been suppressed thus discouraging discussion
of it in modern society.
Right from
the get go, almost all scientific approaches to the phenomenon of sleep
paralysis assume that the experiences that stem from it are
hallucinations.
Rather than coming from the standpoint of complete
neutrality, most studies completely shut out the idea of any reality
behind ‘hallucinations.’
Just because there are measured biological and
chemical activities during the sleep paralysis phenomenon does not mean
there is a causal relationship between the two.
There are other things
we must take into consideration and as quantum science is showing us,
there are definitely worlds within our world that we are not able to
perceive easily yet.
There is definitely a non-physical aspect to
science in general that we are just beginning to wake up to.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomenon, it will make more progress than it made in all the previous centuries of its existence – Nikola Tesla
Spiritual Experience
They involve out of
body experiences, visits from entities not of this world, near death
experiences, frequency, vibration and more.
It’s important to realize that many
experiences people have within the “spiritual” realm occur when one is
fully conscious, awake and alert and not during what sleep researchers
call sleep paralysis.
It’s quite possible that our level of scientific
understanding is not advanced enough to explain certain phenomenon, so
sometimes they are grouped into the category of hallucinations when they
are really phenomenon we do not understand and cannot yet explain in a
scientific manner.
Remote
viewing can be defined in multiple ways. It’s the ability of
individuals to describe a remote geographical location up to several
hundred thousand kilometres away (even more) from their physical
location. – See more at:
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/08/08/shocking-discoveries-made-studies-confirm-the-reality-of-remote-viewing/#sthash.L5wdaoUm.dpuf
Remote
viewing can be defined in multiple ways. It’s the ability of
individuals to describe a remote geographical location up to several
hundred thousand kilometres away (even more) from their physical
location. – See more at:
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/08/08/shocking-discoveries-made-studies-confirm-the-reality-of-remote-viewing/#sthash.L5wdaoUm.dpuf
Remote
viewing can be defined in multiple ways. It’s the ability of
individuals to describe a remote geographical location up to several
hundred thousand kilometres away (even more) from their physical
location. – See more at:
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/08/08/shocking-discoveries-made-studies-confirm-the-reality-of-remote-viewing/#sthash.L5wdaoUm.dpuf
Remote
viewing can be defined in multiple ways. It’s the ability of
individuals to describe a remote geographical location up to several
hundred thousand kilometres away (even more) from their physical
location. – See more at:
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/08/08/shocking-discoveries-made-studies-confirm-the-reality-of-remote-viewing/#sthash.L5wdaoUm.dpuf
My Experience With Sleep Paralysis
When I was
a child, I remember having a number of lucid dreams.
They seemed so
real and I felt one hundred percent conscious during the experience.
I
was able to do whatever I desired whilst dreaming.
My first experience
with sleep paralysis didn’t occur until I was a little bit older.
The
very first time it happened I remember suddenly waking up from a loud
bang, a bright flash of light (although my eyes were closed) and a loud
ringing in my ears.
I had the ability to open my eyes, but I couldn’t
move my body.
It’s almost as if my brain was awake but my body was still
sleeping.
I was terrified, and the reason I didn’t open my eyes is
because I felt the presence of two beings on my left side, and two
beings on my right side and I didn’t want to see.
Whether they were
there or not, I don’t know, whether I was dreaming or not, I don’t know.
Keep in
mind that experiences like this occur when people are totally conscious,
driving down the street, going about their everyday lives away from the
time of sleep.
Many people have totally consciousness experiences with
phenomenon that seem to be beyond our understanding, they are not
paralyzed and they are not asleep.
I have also had totally conscious
bizarre experiences away from sleep, that might contribute to my bias of
my experiences within sleep paralysis being more than just
hallucinations.
This particular experience I had during sleep lasted
approximately five minutes I would say, until I totally regained
consciousness.
Another time, again I woke up in the
middle of the night.
I could open my eyes and I was totally aware of my
surroundings.
I was on the road in a hotel room by myself, I could see
the TV, I could see the lamp in the corner of the room as well as the
chair.
I could not turn my head but I could look around.
Although my
eyes felt heavy, I could indeed open them. I couldn’t move and was
pretty scared, I remember thinking “not again, why is this happening to
me.”
I saw a dark shadowy figure come through the window, it seemed
about 5 feet tall, I was on the left side of the bed and the window was
in the right corner of the room.
It came across the room, across the
foot of my bed to the left side of my head.
It put its mouth up to my
ear and started to whisper rapidly.
I could not understand what it was
saying, but it was whispering extremely fast.
I had a few other experiences after
that, and after I woke up from these experiences which were pretty
scary, I started to desire more because I realized that although I
couldn’t move, my consciousness was still there.
I was still awake,
alert and able to perceive the environment around me.
The next time it
happened, I assured myself that I would not react in fear, and that I
would instead embrace the experience and try to “play” with it, explore
and use this state of consciousness for further discovery about a
potential world we are not able to experience, but are.
The next time it
happened, I reminded myself to stay calm, enjoy it and see what
happens, this time I actually wanted to communicate with whatever I
perceived to be there, or was there.
When I did this, nothing presented
itself.
I still couldn’t move, but didn’t try to jolt myself out of it. I
tried to float out of my body and was successful. I fully floated out
of my body, but could only go so far, about one meter. I tried to go
further but it was as if I was still attached to my body. This was a
very cool experience, unfortunately after I decided to not react in
fear, and play around the with experience, the experience stopped, and I
never had it again.
These type of phenomenon are definitely
intriguing, and nobody, including researchers within the scientific
world should dismiss the experience one has while experiencing sleep
paralysis as completely false. The scientific community should be
comfortable in a place of neutrality, instead of characterizing a
phenomenon as false without any evidence to suggest that be the case.
They don’t have to ridicule it.
I hope I’ve provided enough information
within the article, as well as adequate sources for you to further your
research if interested.
If you have experienced this phenomenon,
I’d love for you to share your experiences within the comments section.
Thanks for reading.
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