The temporary sleep paralysis terrifying experience at the other, and its symptoms, the inability to move the body or one of its members at the beginning of sleep or when you wake up, can also be accompanied by hallucinations frightening.
The symptoms of sleep paralysis takes seconds to several minutes, during which some patients trying to ask for help or even to cry, but to no avail, and the symptoms disappear with the passage of time or when someone comes into contact with the patient or when the noise occurs.
Studies have shown that 2% of people exposed to the sleep paralysis at least once a month, and may affect one of this disease at any age, and 12% of exposed people for these symptoms for the first time during childhood .
Studies have shown that 2% of people exposed to the sleep paralysis at least once a month, and may affect one of this disease at any age, and 12% of exposed people for these symptoms for the first time during childhood .
What happens in the brain during this strange phenomenon ?
Is scientifically hard to sleep consists of several stages, one of these stages (rapid eye movement), and dreams occur during this phase, God has created us in a way prevent us from implementing our dreams, and know the situation (muscle relaxant).
And muscle relaxant means that all the muscles in your body be paralyzed during REM except muscle diaphragm and the muscles of the eye, even if I dreamed that the man Ripper, the mechanism of muscle relaxant guarantee you when you stay in your bed, and ends this mechanism as soon as you move to the other stage of sleep or you wake up from sleep, but he sometimes wakes up the patient during REM sleep, while this mechanism (muscle relaxant) were not stopped yet, and the result is that the patient fully conscious and aware of what around him, but he can not movement at all, since the brain was in the process of dream, it could lead to terrifying hallucinations and the patient's sense of imminent death or the like .
Do you sleep paralysis mischievous ?
Think some of the injured paralysis sleep that the hour of death has come, and others believed that there reap the pressure on his chest, but that it has no scientific basis, as he did not prove the occurrence of any event of the death during sleep paralysis, veil barrier is not affected, and remains breathingnaturally, as well as the level of oxygen in the blood.
Have sleep paralysis only offer more patients, but in some cases, be accompanied by another disorder called bouts of sleepiness or sleep disorder, sleep disorder sleep disorder characterized by attacks resistance and can not be uncontrollable sleepiness affects the patient's sleep.
And patients with sleep paralysis associated with the sleep disorder in need of medical treatment and medical follow-up for the treatment of sleep disorder.
On the other hand, patients who do not have sleep paralysis have accompanied a sleeping disorder, we would like to be reassured that this disorder is benign and does not carry any risk of their lives, and most of these patients do not need medical treatment.
Have sleep paralysis only offer more patients, but in some cases, be accompanied by another disorder called bouts of sleepiness or sleep disorder, sleep disorder sleep disorder characterized by attacks resistance and can not be uncontrollable sleepiness affects the patient's sleep.
And patients with sleep paralysis associated with the sleep disorder in need of medical treatment and medical follow-up for the treatment of sleep disorder.
On the other hand, patients who do not have sleep paralysis have accompanied a sleeping disorder, we would like to be reassured that this disorder is benign and does not carry any risk of their lives, and most of these patients do not need medical treatment.
Treatment :
Needs patients with sleep paralysis is associated with the sleep disorder should be aware that they are not infected with any mental illness or serious organic disease, and that most of them do not need any medical treatment.
And the best he could do sleep paralysis patients during a heart to try to move the muscles of the face and eyes move from one point to another, he did so sponsor terminate these symptoms.
In cases of repeated increase in the incidence of these symptoms Khadduthha more than once a week, for example, your doctor may prescribe drugs to be used.
It is well known that stress and tension in addition to insufficient sleep increases the incidence of these symptoms, so, to reduce the likelihood of this happening advised to follow the following:
1. Try to get enough sleep.
2. Try to reduce the pressure on.
3. March aerobics, but before going to sleep well in advance.
4. Keep the schedule regular sleep and wake up.
5. According to some hypotheses that sleep on the side helps in getting rid of these seizures.
