yuvgotmel
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Sleep Paralysis, Lucid Dreaming, and OBEs
I have spoken to a couple posters on this forum that have experienced Lucid Dreaming, "flying in their dreams," waking to feel pressure on parts of their body, hearing audible strange voices in their dreams, feeling movement of flying in a craft and so on while dreaming or during the stage immediately upon waking.
I thought that this article might stir up a conversation on this matter.
All of the things mentioned above, I too have experienced on many occassions. It seems as though, from the article below, those things have been relegated to simply "Sleep Paralysis".
What do you all think? Have you experienced things like this too?
I have spoken to a couple posters on this forum that have experienced Lucid Dreaming, "flying in their dreams," waking to feel pressure on parts of their body, hearing audible strange voices in their dreams, feeling movement of flying in a craft and so on while dreaming or during the stage immediately upon waking.
I thought that this article might stir up a conversation on this matter.
All of the things mentioned above, I too have experienced on many occassions. It seems as though, from the article below, those things have been relegated to simply "Sleep Paralysis".
What do you all think? Have you experienced things like this too?
Excerpts from:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/connected/2007/03/05/nsleep06.xml
(See Link for Full Article) 'Flying' in your sleep may be a paralysis
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
March 3, 2007
People who have out-of-body experiences, such as flying along a tunnel towards a heavenly light, are more likely to suffer a strange effect called sleep paralysis, according to a survey that adds to mounting evidence for a biological explanation for the experience.
During sleep paralysis, people experience a kind of breakdown between states of consciousness which takes place on the fringe of sleep, either when falling asleep or waking. Because the brain turns off the body's ability to move during dreaming, muscles can lose their tone, or tension, causing paralysis.
The details of sleep paralysis vary from person to person. Some hear vague sounds, indistinct voices and demonic gibberish. Others see hallucinations of humans, animals and supernatural creatures. There is a striking inability to move or to speak, or a weight on the chest.
Also common are feelings of rising off the bed or flying. In addition, people report out-of-body experiences, sometimes accompanied by "autoscopy" when they look down on themselves. Not surprisingly, these moments are accompanied by fear.
Throughout history, there have also been accounts of people having visions on the brink of death - what are now called "near-death experiences".
...
"We found that 96 per cent (24 of 25) of near-death subjects having sleep paralysis also had an out-of-body experience either during sleep transition or near-death," said Prof Nelson.
...
The sleep paralysis linked with out-of-body experiences was thought rare, but may strike between 40 per cent and 60 per cent of people at least once.
They report sensations of floating, flying, falling or leaving one's body. It ranges from relatively tranquil floating experiences to horrible feelings of falling or rising at high speed.
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
March 3, 2007
People who have out-of-body experiences, such as flying along a tunnel towards a heavenly light, are more likely to suffer a strange effect called sleep paralysis, according to a survey that adds to mounting evidence for a biological explanation for the experience.
During sleep paralysis, people experience a kind of breakdown between states of consciousness which takes place on the fringe of sleep, either when falling asleep or waking. Because the brain turns off the body's ability to move during dreaming, muscles can lose their tone, or tension, causing paralysis.
The details of sleep paralysis vary from person to person. Some hear vague sounds, indistinct voices and demonic gibberish. Others see hallucinations of humans, animals and supernatural creatures. There is a striking inability to move or to speak, or a weight on the chest.
Also common are feelings of rising off the bed or flying. In addition, people report out-of-body experiences, sometimes accompanied by "autoscopy" when they look down on themselves. Not surprisingly, these moments are accompanied by fear.
Throughout history, there have also been accounts of people having visions on the brink of death - what are now called "near-death experiences".
...
"We found that 96 per cent (24 of 25) of near-death subjects having sleep paralysis also had an out-of-body experience either during sleep transition or near-death," said Prof Nelson.
...
The sleep paralysis linked with out-of-body experiences was thought rare, but may strike between 40 per cent and 60 per cent of people at least once.
They report sensations of floating, flying, falling or leaving one's body. It ranges from relatively tranquil floating experiences to horrible feelings of falling or rising at high speed.