Posted by aminated on January 23, 2005, at 2:01:14
In reply to Re: Sleep Paralysis » ed_uk, posted by saw on January 20, 2005, at 2:15:19
I've experienced this with the characteristics described in the above posts (shadowy man sitting on my chest plus total motor incapacitation), but only for a few minutes. I was told it was an hypnogogic (or hypnopompic?) hallucination. ( One occurs when falling asleep, the other when waking.) The brain wakes the 'wrong' way with this, so partial conciousness, really a 'waking' dream, occurs, i.e., an hullucination, and i'll add that the 2 times it happened to me i wasn't even bipolar yet. They WERE the most terrifying experiences i can recall ever having.
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