Sleep Apnea Causes

This is a reenactment I made in GMod of what my first ever experience with this interesting little psychological phenomena called sleep paralysis. It happened a couple of years ago when I feel asleep with the TV on in the other room. I have been having them ever since. Usually a few times a month or so, depending on my sleep pattern.

Its a common condition where your brain is literally half asleep and half conscious. Sometimes but not always accompanied by hallucinations, some more terrifying then others.

I have it happen to me regularly and I feel obligated to have such an experience. I know there are many others out there that experience it and are terrified of it, it haunts them and makes it difficult to sleep.

I just want to say stop fearing it, and learn about it. We don’t know a whole lot about our brain and I think this is a huge insight of its power and what it can do. It certainly opens up to lucid dreaming and if you learn to control your fear of it you can have yourself floating around the room or run down your street and take off flying.

Anyways, post comments or video responses of your experiences. I love to hear about them. =]

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This is a short i made after i found out about the condition sleep paralysis, as i was learning about it i thought it would make a great idea for a short film. This is the first film i have ‘completed’ using my complete hv30 rig. It was entirley shot on a canon HV30 w/ a letus flip 35mm adaptor in 24p with +6 db of gain, edited in premier pro CS3, colour corrected using magic bullet. I am open to all opinions and critisisms on the short (although some of you i’m sure will state that the picture is too dark as i have heard that from some, well this was the look i was going for and i’m very happy with it – infact i made it darker in post). Audio was recorded using Rode video mic on boom. I’m not sure what else i can say but if you have any questions please ask and i will be happy to anser. The footage has been scaled down to 720p to meet this sites 1280x720p max resolution from its original 1440×1080 24p but still looks quite good ( for internet standards ). Hope to hear some feedback regards Marty.

Heres the info on sleep paralysis :

Sleep paralysis is a condition defined by paralysis of skeletal muscles and or absence of reflexes that occurs upon awakening from sleep or during falling asleep. Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain awakes from a sleeping state, but the body paralysis persists. This leaves the person fully conscious, but unable to move. In addition, the state may be accompanied by terrifying hallucinations and an acute sense of danger .Sleep paralysis is particularly frightening to the individual due to the vividness of such hallucinations. The paralysis can last from several seconds to several minutes after which the individual may experience panic symptoms and the realization that the distorted perceptions were false.

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I get sleep paralysis often and I read that you can turn into lucid dreaming.. does anyone know how?

1.) you have my sympathy, because I know how badly sleep paralysis sucks.

#2.)the key to lucid dreaming is to know you are dreaming- are you aware that you are having sleep paralysis
WHEN you are having it?

I took over a nightmare once, as soon as I realized it was a nightmare. In my nightmare I had to battle a samurai warrior(he had full armor, and years of experience) and My only weapons were a policeman’s bullet proof vest and a large bread knife!!!

I was standing at the appointed place to battle him, and then I looked down at myself and thought- this is STUPID!
Of course! I’m dreaming! I pointed at the door (the one he was due to arrive in) and said "You will NOT come out!"

I waited for a few moments….and he didn’t arrive., I knew I stopped my nightmare.. and then proceeded to have a ton of fun.

If you can realize it’s a paralysis episode, I don’t see any reason why you can’t take it over.

People take over their dreams all the time-and sleep paralysis is a type of dream- REM is going on at the time.

Some people say one of the methods for taking over dreams is to – in waking life- always say: "Am I dreaming?" and look around your surroundings, and come to the determination if you are or not… do this often enough, and this behavior will filter into your dreams as well.

This is a short, poorly edited video response for anyone “suffering” from sleep paralysis. I feel I know quite a bit about SP (its history, common “symptoms,” techniques for avoiding it, techniques for making it more common, its ociation with lucid dreaming and out of body experiences, as well as techniques for moving from sleep paralysis to out of body experiences and lucid dreams). I started to make a video thoroughly explaining all of this, but realized it was going to be extremely long and possibly for nothing. Didn’t want to spend my time if it wasn’t worth it. Anyway, if you are interested in knowing more, you are welcome to ask. I don’t know everything, but I know how the experiences work with myself and many others. Background music by Woven from the album “Designer Codes” for sale on itunes. Worth every cent and then some!

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