Let's talk about astral traveling

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    You should write a short story existential horror about it.
     
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    Line the floor on your side with a mattress or a bunch of cushions.

    I've never had sleep paralysis but I think my husband may have had it once. He told me there was once he was awake but he couldn't move and couldn't speak - he had his eyes closed though, so for all intents and purposes he looked asleep. And he said how he was hoping someone/I would wake him. Only I thought he was peacefully asleep so I did nothing... :ohno: (he's normally very annoyed if someone disrupts his sleep and I was also raised to never wake people up even from a young age cus mum's a very light sleeper)
     
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    How do you know the glitch isn't the work of some demonic or supernatural presence with the power to affect your nervous system or biochemistry?
     
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    This happens to me always in the morning. Like I want to sit up and realize it's happening only in my mind. It's really terrifying, the more so you don't know how to do it to move.

    This happens to you before sleep?
     
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    This was actually the first thing I thought of. This discussion is getting reddit-ish of sorts. Mostly the "nosleep" part.
     
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    Yes. Just as I'm nodding off. Ironically, it's more likely to happen to me when I am very comfortable and relaxed, and when it's warm.
     
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    It came to mind because I know someone who also suffers from sleep paralysis and does think it is a demon or some other evil entity that she's susceptible to while sleeping, and that it holds her down. She's tried burning sage and the whole gamut of remedies, but I don't know that any of it has helped. I suppose you could get a psychological placebo effect of sorts and maybe help things that way, if the root of the problem has a psychological component.
     
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    Wicked business that is.
    When I'm having my unlucky sleep periods, I lie with my eyes shut hours on end with getting least sleepy. I literally have knock myself either with extra strong sleeping pills or shots of plumb brandy or whisky.
     
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    I'd consult a priest. A priest psyhologist at best. Much as it sounds far-fetched, it seems to me these phenomena are frighteningly more real than I ever thought.

    I've tried a shit ton of sleep placebos. Some of them SOMETINES work.

    What has helped in my case was to imagine that my brains is being drained with all its contents. It knocked me off once in two minutes.

    Or else to imagine you're emitting all your thoughts into the universe. You start to feel a very distinct pull inside your head. That's the sign it's working.

    Another trick is to switch off the damned subvocalization. Forbid all your thought to audialize and create tangible nothingness, thick void.
     
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    from what I understand the av node, the heart specialist said this is what was happening http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_arrhythmia
     
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    I was constant Atrial fibrillation which triggered Ventricular fibrillation , during the attacks I would black out and as per my NDE post, as soon as the av node let the electric pulse resume my ventricles (lower chambers) of the heart started to beat again.
    during my 24hr holter monitor test I had 3 heart attacks that lasted a minute and if they would have been longer I would have blacked out, or died as the heart specialist said.
    I did tell him about my NDE, his reply was he could not understand how I survived the initial electrocution, but did he explain my Atrial would have still been firing during the VF.

    understand at the time I did not read all the reports or ask in-depth questions, I just wanted to get better.
     
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    The reason that I asked is that 2 years ago my wife suffered a cardiac arrest (NOT a heart attack) which required 1/ CPR from our daughter to keep her going until the ambulance arrived 2/ A shock from a defibrillator to get her heart beating again.

    My point being that, from the time of the arrest (heart stops beating) until CPR started she was dead. As in, she wouldn't be here now without outside intervention.
     
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    I hallucinate if I wake up too suddenly. If I have a nightmare and pop awake with fear, I'll see things that most definitely are not there.

    At first, it was little things. Shapes floating through the air. A great darkness in the already dark room. They never made any sense, so it wasn't too bad because they were just shapes.

    But then the hallucinations grew. I saw a yellow ribbon tied to my fan, blowing erratically in the breeze. My husband got up to use the bathroom, and I told him to grab the ribbon off the fan. As soon as he said, "what ribbon?" I looked up, and it was gone.

    Now, I see people. I saw an outline of a girl, in really strange colors. Purples, greens, blues. She looked like an after-image after you stared at something for a really long time. But she was dancing ballet. Her arm came up over her head and she turned away from me, and up until this point, I still thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. Then as she turned, I saw her perfectly defined pony tail, freaked out, and turned on the light.

    Then another time, I saw a drag queen in my parking lot. He was tall, wearing a green sequins dress with high heels and a feather hat on. The outfit looked like what Sandra Bullock wore to the drag show in Miss Congeniality 2 except in green. And he was dancing too, oddly. More like salsa dancing, fast paced. I just sat and watched him for a really long time, trying to figure out if he was real or another hallucination. But it was 3 in the morning on a Tuesday. And he was doing this in between two cars, looking right at my bedroom window. I looked away once and when I looked back, he was gone.

    I know there's a medical explanation for this. But how do I know whether it's actually scientific or if I'm actually seeing spirits? Maybe I'm astral traveling in my sleep and upon waking, I'm still mildly stuck between realms? Seems odd that a dead person would be dressed in green sequins dancing in my parking lot, but hey! You never truly know, right?
     
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    I actually had it happen this morning as well.

    It used to get me super panicked and it still does kinda but I've found best method to do is try and focus on your consciousness and take deep calm breaths till you can move again. It really does suck...though.

    Also if you think or your mind wanders I've noticed my dreams and thoughts become a lot more vivid in that sleep paralysis state.
     
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    All this talk about sleep paralysis and hallucinations really makes me want enchiladas.
     
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