Deep asleep but conscious. Pressed, can't move or speek...what is really happening.

Good day and thanks for visiting my blog. I am beginning to make it a habit to address the odd topics And this post is not an exception.
Today I will be describing a situation that happens deep in your sleep. While cruising in your dreams, and all of a sudden, you are at a point between being awake and still asleep and it feels like someone has just stepped into the room where you are sleeping. Upon recognizing this fact, you try to get up but you have lost control over hands and legs. you are hit by fear as a weight press down on you. You can't move so "You try to scream But terror takes the sound before you make it"...You are paralyzed"!
The whole ordeal could take one minute of less but feels like a real long time. But what was it that tempered with your perception of time? Was it an attack? Is there something that can be done?

The Local Interpretation

• Some African culture concludes that someone in the environment just attacked you.
• Others think that you have been molested by a witch or wizard who has his or her eyes on you.
• You need to protect yourself or change your current residence.

Sleep Paralysis

Sleep Paralysis is a type of parasomnia that is the opposite of sleep walking, it is a protective mechanisms initiated by the brain, restricting the body from acting a dream so you don't hurt yourself in the process. It often takes place when you are switching between sleep and awake which often coincides with 3 to 4 AM or any other time of the day when transiting from a deep sleep to wakefulness. A very little percentage of the population who day-dream have experienced it in their wake time.
Most Sleep Paralysis episode comes with one or a combination of the following types of hallucinations
Intruder hallucinationshallucinations
This makes you think or feel like your room have been invaded by someone.
Chest pressure hallucinations
Incubus hallucinations makes you feel like you are being pressed, giving you a feeling that you are suffocating.
Vestibular-motor hallucinations
This type of hallucinations gives you the sensation that you are moving or flying or being sucked out of your body.

How you feel about this largely depends on your cultural definition of this situation. What you think is happening at that instance.

Types of Sleep Paralysis

Isolated sleep paralysis
This type of sleep paralysis is not related to narcolepsy .
Recurrent sleep paralysis
A persons condition could be described as recurrent sleep paralysis if it happens a number of times a night but is not related to narcolepsy.

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How To Manage The Condition

Sleep Paralysis will not result in any physical problem or complication but when it becomes habitrarey and affects ones sleep. It's best to seek medical advice.

• A doctor should confirm if your sleep paralysis is related to narcolepsy.
• Avoid eating heavy supper or eating too close to bed time while working on improving sleep hygiene.
• Before going to bed, engage in any activities that will calm and relax the mind such as praying, reading a book, meditation or listening to soft music.
• it's important to avoid sleeping on your back and reduce late consumption of caffeine or alcohol close to bed time.
• have a phycological reform of your view of spiritism and superstition.
• Address any underlying mental health problems that might trigger sleep paralysis
• A proactive mind that is gainfully occupied or active even in your sleep hardly suffers from sleep paralysis.

Conclusion

If sleep paralysis is actually a health condition that can be managed medically.
Just use a few moments of your time to contemplate if this could be true, and tell me what you think in the comment section below.