Halloween 2021

Ruthanne said:
After looking at all these Halloween pictures and also other ones on the internet I fell asleep and had a nightmare. I think I even screamed in my sleep. In the nightmare I was at my father's house, which is the house I grew up in for many years, I was laying on the couch and suddenly the front door opened and stayed wide open and it was without the screen door. It was a really bright day and all the light was coming in. I was thinking I'd better shut the door when all of a sudden I could not move and there was some kind of strong force I could feel and then I could not move to get up, as if being held down, and then is when I started sort of screaming and I felt I had to look in the doorway because I new someone or something was there. All I could see was what I guess was a the bottom half of woman with a long skirt and a shawl. I tried to get up enough to see her face but something was holding me down. I screamed and woke up. It was really terrifying!
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That's called nightmare or sleep paralysis. I hate when it happens... so awful.
https://www.verywellhealth.com/symptoms-of-sleep-paralysis-3014781
 

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Butterfly said:
I've experienced that sleep paralysis thing, and it is really terrifying.
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Ruthanne said:
@StarSong Thank you. That describes what happened pretty well. It was hard to scream and get any sound out but I did somewhat. I did feel as if something was on my chest. I've had this happen a few other times in my life that I can remember. Probably more times than I remember, though. It was really frightening!
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I'm convinced that sleep paralysis is the true culprit during stories quite credible people tell of being asleep in their beds before being abducted by aliens who put them in an conscious but paralyzed state while performing experiments or physical examinations. Then they're instantly "returned" to their beds when they paralysis state has been broken.

The paralysis is so distressing. You try mightily to break free from it, knowing instinctively that if you could just move or scream you'd release yourself from that state. The dreams are intensely vivid, but on some level you're partly conscious and therefore aware of the paralysis.

A good Halloween topic - so scary.
 

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