Hypnapompic hallucinations with attached sleep paralysis are often those that make people most scared, because the person usually wakes up to the physical reality rather brutally after having this kind of experience. At the very awakening just before the paralysis release, you may experience extreme horror at the same time as your heart rate is speeding because of pure and primitive fear.
Should this occur in the middle of the night and you are a very imaginative person, you may very well experience such an event as quite real, while a skeptical-minded person, at best, realize that it was the subconscious that played a prank. But it may take several minutes after waking before logic and common sense gives an explanation for the tumultuous event. It is thus not surprising that there are people who swear that their experiences are real, it’s actually the way they have understood it all. To convince these people that it was only their brain that played them a trick can be an impossible task.
Religious manifestations, ”alien abductions” and perceived ghosts are common manifestations of this type of hallucination. If the ”victims” say they have been paralyzed and completely unable to move, while being able to describe the event in detail, it should be pretty easy to uncover the cause. The experience can often be very unpleasant but also show up on normal everyday events that in retrospect, of natural reason are not experienced as being important but quite natural. You can e.g. ”hear” bells or someone calling your name, you can see a family member coming into the bedroom, etc. It is very common that you are experiencing that you are falling down and then when you ”hit the ground” it generates a great pressure throughout the body that makes waking up suddenly and quite brutal. Have you ever experienced this scenario, it has also partly seen and known as the hypnapompic hallucinations.
This condition is quite much same as Night Terror (Pavor Nocturnus), a panic attack that children can have during the night, the sleeping child suddenly sits up and screams, or even start to go around (Sleepwalking). It may take several minutes before the child calms down and it seems that the child doesn´t even recognize his parents, or the child can even be afraid of his own parents. This panic attack usually lasts a few minutes and the child probably doesn´t remember this in the morning.
All of these conditions, and speaking when sleeping, and other similar experiences seem to have genetic base, which means that if a parent is a ”Sleepwalkers”, a child may experience the ”Night Terror”.
I have myself experienced all these states and even Lucid Dreaming but I am a skeptical nature and I am sure that the things I have seen are coming from my own brain. I have even been a sleepwalker and sleeptalker and one of my children has had Night Terror attacks, only when he was sick and had fewer.
My own hallucinations use to come when I am very tired and paralysis is not a very comfortable experience but you can actually learn techniques how to break it and once you know what all is about there is no reason to be afraid. And Lucid Dreaming can be real fun.
My own hallucinations use to come when I am very tired and paralysis is not a very comfortable experience but you can actually learn techniques how to break it and once you know what all is about there is no reason to be afraid. And Lucid Dreaming can be real fun.
It is all about to be aware that our brain can create all these things.
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