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Sleep Paralysis Related to REM Sleep
Rapid eye movement sleep, or REM sleep, accounts for 2025% of total sleep time in normal human adults. The criteria for REM sleep include rapid eye movements as well as a rapid low-voltage EEG.
People who experience sleep paralysis find themselves awake in the dream world for anywhere from a few seconds to 10 minutes, often experiencing hallucinations with dark undertones. Cultures from everywhere from Newfoundland to the Caribbean to Japan have come up with spiritual explanations for the phenomenon.
Researchers Julia Santomauro and Christopher C. French of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Goldsmiths, at the University of London write in The Psychologist, Shift work, jet lag, irregular sleep habits, overtiredness and sleep deprivation are all considered to be predisposing factors to sleep paralysis; this may be because such events disrupt the sleepwake cycle, which can then cause [sleep-onset REM periods].
In REM sleep, youre unconscious, experiencing a variety of sensory experiences, and almost all of your muscles are paralyzed (thats called atonia). .Narcolepsy, which can be linked with sleep paralysis, has a similar pathology.
Sleep paralysis was first identified within the scientific community by psychologist Weir Mitchell in 1876.
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2107jessica(Guest)
09/08/2009
Well my name is Jessica Garza and I'm from South of Texas, and I have had sleep Paralysis frequently...and I am really cunsern...unfortanatly I do not have insurance cause I don have a job to look into this more indepth...just thought I shared this to who ever is the same as me?
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