2020年10月14日 · Sleep Paralysis Forget about what the psychiatrists tell us… When we are asleep our physical and astral bodies are attached by what is termed by a silver chord. The silver chord only separates when we die. When we sleep, our spiritual body roams the Astral and because the Astral or spiritual world is the 4th dimension there is no time.

2020年1月12日 · Sleep paralysis is caused by transient reductions in brain blood flow or oxygen,It causes a feeling of dizziness and sometimes even altered awareness or loss of consciousness.The patient may also complain of chest pain, dyspnoea, blurred vision, paraesthesias, muscle cramps and fatigue, This feeling is accompanied by such physical …

2024年11月19日 · Millions have experienced sleep paralysis, which is related to the body shutting down your muscles while asleep. Before we knew about this state, cultures attributed this unpleasant sensation to all kinds of folkloric entities including incubi, jinn, old hags, alien visitors, and, yes, demons.

is going to sleep, or hypnopompic if he or she is awakened (Drever 1971, 125). Frequently the latter is accompanied by what is known as sleep paralysis, an inability to move caused by the body remaining in th e sleep mode. In th e middl ages waking dreams wer e often responsibl for reports of demon s (incubuse and succubuses)

stirred from sleep to feel a “presence” and see a grotesque female figure loom-ing above her while she was “immobi-lized” (Perron 2011, 185–187; Johnson 2009, 70–71). Clearly, she experienced a common waking dream that occurs between sleep and wakefulness, coupled with sleep paralysis since her body was still in the sleep mode.

The Sleep-Paralysis Experience In a typical sleep-paralysis episode, a person wakes up para-lyzed, senses a presence in the room, feels fear or even terror, and may hear buzzing and humming noises or see strange lights. A visible or invisible entity may even sit on their chest, shaking, strangling, or prodding them. Attempts to fight the

ing sleep paralysis, the changeable nature of memory, and how hypnosis and other techniques are used to create false memories that become very real for the abductee. SKEPTICAL INQUIRER March / April 200651 Terence M. Hines is a professor of psychol-ogy at Pace University and the author of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal (2nd

calle d abductees coul sleep easily at night. They would not have to worry about alien creatures invading their bedrooms. Instead, they could learn that sleep paralysis is the cause of their visitation. Without the abduction researchers to misinter-pret sleep paralysis a large number of people would be happier and health-ier (306).

2018年4月25日 · In an insightfully-titled “Investigative Briefs” column “Zanzibar’s Popobawa Demon Still Attacking Skeptics,” Nickell responds that Thompson “points to a couple of textual simplifications I made in republishing my article and hints at some ulterior motive. Actually, the changes were practical ones in transitioning from a newsletter ...

sleep-paralysis hallucinations, but con-scious experiences, and urged the audi-ence to keep an open mind in these matters. To balanc e di proceedings, Donna Bassett, a researcher who had partici-pated in John Mack's recent study, was then called up to speak. At first Bassett seemed to indicate she was one of Mack's "abductees." But she quickly