Sleep paralysis - what the heck is it?

[brugluiz]

I heard some stuff that it could be something related to REM sleep, but I believe it's something else.

I have some sleep paralysis since I was a teenager, but it's not always. It happens generally when I'm very negative or when I eat loads of junk food. These days I had sleep paralysis twice and I found it really scary. I wonder if my house has some paranormal activity.

Can it hurt me? Sometimes I wake up out of breath due to these sleep paralysis. The dreams are scary sometimes.

Edit: I heard it can be astral projection. Why the fuck is it so scary for me? I'm really afraid of opening my eyes during sleep paralysis. Sometimes I have "dreams" where I can move freely, but I'm really scary about such stuff. When I was teenager, I read that it could have been vampires during such astral projections (that's why I'm not very fond of it... yet).

Edited December 23, 2018 by brugluiz

[Hellspeed]

Blockages in the Akasha and Plexus. 

[brugluiz]

8 hours ago, Hellspeed said:

Blockages in the Akasha and Plexus. 

What's Akasha? Is it a name for one of the chakras?

[seeking_brilliance]

I don't know why sleep - paralysis is often times scary, but that's not even always true, and if you are good at it you can will the hallucination to be something pleasant. I've heard things like it's a fear test for astral projection. 

As far as I know it is not astral projection itself, but can lead to it, once you surrender to the fear or will it into a pleasant experience.  The hallucinations stem from either dream imagery being super - imposed into 'reality', or the entire bedroom is dream imagery and you only think you have partially woken up. 

[winterknight]

It has nothing to do with vampires.

It's a well-known biological phenomenon. During rapid eye movement sleep your body paralyzes your muscles so you don't act out your dreams. If you that cycle is disturbed in the wrong way, you get a few moments of paralysis when you're awake.

[seeking_brilliance]

1 minute ago, winterknight said:

It has nothing to do with vampires.

It's a well-known biological phenomenon. During rapid eye movement sleep your body paralyzes your muscles so you don't act out your dreams. If you that cycle is disturbed in the wrong way, you get a few moments of paralysis when you're awake.

Yep.  And an excellent time to learn to surrender, from the nightmarish hallucinations which typically accompany it. 

The last time I had this, I saw my husband reaching out for me with long, creepy tree-branches for fingers, presumably trying to strangle me.  Unfortunately it scared me so much the mind put a wall up against paralysis and haven't experienced it since, even after I learned it can be used as a tool. ??

[brugluiz]

Thanks @winterknight and @seeking_brilliance!

I read that vampires could me reach me during astral projections. I'll take a look at this information again.

Edit: just found an article about astral vampires in Brazilian Portuguese.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/hugolapa.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/vampiros-astrais/amp/

Edited December 23, 2018 by brugluiz