Did you watch "Ghostly Encounters" today...about "sleep paralysis"?

having had this happen to myself on numerous occasions, I know its a sleep disorder. No demon, no hag, no other thing sitting on my chest. just my brain waking up waiting for my body to do the same, probably from breathing stoppage. It up to everyone to decide if it something paranormal hapening to them. just remember, sleep clinics bear witness to this disorder and treat it everyday. Edit, I dont think they are showing up at the homes neither. When I read or see stories like these, it reminds me of people having something proven to them, yet they still refuse to acknowlege the facts. People go to the sleep clinics and the problem is duplicated in controlled environments, then you have a logical explanation for the problem. In this case sleep paralysis, can and has been recreated in people complaining about a demonic spirit sitting on their chest trying to kill them, and the medication is successful in stopping this sensation, then you have a cure. while not being disrespectful of anyones beliefs or experience, I think the answer has been found and its not paranormal or demonic, its medical.

Sleep paralysis is not a sleep disorder nor is it caused by ghosts. When you are asleep your brain emits a chemical that paralyzes you to prevent you from acting out your dreams. It is a natural defense mechanism to protect you from yourself while you sleep. When you wakeup suddenly like from a night mare you may be unable to move for a few seconds this is natural as well because it takes that long for the chemical to wear off. A person who is not paralyzed while they sleep has a sleep disorder. nothing paranormal happening here.

well when ever youre falling asleep, sometimes your body and mind fall asleep at different times. kind of like when youre falling asleep and then you suddenly feel like youre falling and you body jerks. this is your body falling asleep and loosing its sense of touch. when you wake up sometimes your mind wakes up first and your body can't move yet. at this point you would also still be a bit dreamy and prone to hallucinations. i assume that these dramy hallucination might be the reason for the devils or demons. and it probably isnt a beautiful person sitting on you because that certainly isn't what i would be imagining if i woke up paralyzed and started seeing things.

I did not see the show, but I am guessing from your question that they tried to tell you that sleep paralysis is caused by real spiritual encounters. The fact is, I grew up with chronic sleep paralysis, and I can tell you for a fact, that not once was my sleep paralysis caused by a spirit. I have even been successful in inducing sleep paralysis deliberately several times, and I can tell you the experience is quite different when you know its coming. The truth is, you have 3 things that happen when you go to sleep. 1)Your body becomes paralyzed. Otherwise you would act out your dreams. (this sometimes fails, and they call them sleep walkers.) 2)Your dream center turns on. 3)The logical thinking part of your mind shuts down. This happens in this order. Each one of these events has a chemical trigger in the brain. When the body is stressed, or sleep patterns become irregular, one or more of these triggers may fail. This is the cause of night terrors, sleep walking and sleep paralysis, and various other night time phenomena. When part 3 fails to trigger, then you have sleep paralysis. When waking up, the events are triggered in reverse. Sometimes the mind becomes conscience and the body will remain paralyzed and dreaming. This is another instance that can cause sleep paralysis.

no I didn't see it. I saw a special on what some people do while asleep and it was very drastic. Some were eating , some were walking aro9und and one Japanese guy was doing a knife ritual while asleep.

Denie, One way to approach this is to look into it from a cultural angle. If sleep paralysis is a human condition like the cold or headaches then all humans will experience it, regardless of cultural background or country of origin, right? The fact is sleep paralysis is reported in all significant human populations. The interesting part here is that although all humans who have sleep paralysis report the same symptoms, the "cause" varies from culture to culture and even from era to era. This suggests people make sense of the strange situation (paralyzed while awake) by attaching a culturally significant cause to it. In Middle Ages Europe witches caused it. In the Far East it's dragons. In the US it used to be one thing, but ever since the 1940s people have been increasingly blaming sleep paralysis on extraterrestrial creatures. http://www.csicop.org/si/9805/abduction.html

i dunno , my opinion though is sleep and the trancestate of it would make it hard to differeintiate<however thats spelt> the difference bt a encounter with a good or evil spirit or a dreamneeding to be analyzed?? I didn't see the show though, will keep my eye out for it =)

I've had these over the years, never felt the "evil" presence mentioned. One particular one happened when I was about 10 or 11 where I felt like I was being sucked down a dark spiraling tunnel. I wouldn't think too much about it myself, except I had an episode in one house that my wife and I really did feel a presence in. This time I had the leg pressure, the pressing on the chest - all the classic old hag symptoms. I guess the book is still out on this one for me.

hi denie im with you on this one, i dont usually comment on this subject, as i think theres more to it...yes why always an evil pressence why not part of the dream you are having...this happens to me quite regular, though ive never had anything sitting on top of me, always next to me, keeping me there, and the fight begins...... sometimes ive found myself out of my body...and fighting to get back in..... maybe there are two types of sleep paraylsis