Re: Dead Arm

On Dec 18, 11:31 am, "Bill Hileman" <discgolf...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Edward M. Kennedy" <e...@xxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:fk8qop$k0e$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



"Bill Hileman" <discgolf...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

You know what REALLY freaky?

When you only partially wake up, very marginally conscious, but still
aware of the surroundings and you can't move at all as if you're
paralyzed. This has happened to me on occassion, really weird.
Apparently there's a natural chemical that the brain releases to
inhibit full movement while you sleep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis?wp_ml=0

Also known as "Old hag" syndrome from the frequent phenomenon of
thinking you're awake, but are unable to move, and feeling a presence
with you, like an evil witch pressing down on your chest or watching
you from very close by.

I think a lot of perceived "alien abductions" are probably this exact
experience.

I get this a lot as a form of sleep apnea. It only happens
when I sleep on my back. I usually think I hear someone
entering the house, and I can't move. The lack of oxygen
eventually kicks in and I wake up gasping for air. It is
quite freaky. It's more common when I'm stressed out or sleep
deprived.

It can get incredibly weird. I've had out of body experiences
where I wake up from a dream within a dream within a dream.
I have no idea what's real until I finally wake up. I can
see myself sleeping at times as if I were above the room,
and I sense something is horribly wrong but I don't know
what.

These dreams can be quite terrifying. I am no longer scared
of death. There are worse things. I have a premonition that
I will die in a car fire. Death can't come quickly enough.

I've done that as well, dreamed that I've woken from a dream, and I'm
usually retelling my wife what I had just dreamt - while still dreaming, of
course.

I likewise have a preminition of my own death, only it's not very specific,

When I was a kid in Washington, we used to climb really tall Douglas
firs for fun, and be up there, like 90 or 100 feet.

I dreamt that I fell from this one tree, and hit the ground, which
they say you're NOT supposed to do in dreams, and I literally had the
wind knocked out of me in bed.

Very strange.
.

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