Being Ridden by the Witch: Sleep Paralysis Is the Greatest Nightmare
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Being Ridden by the Witch: Sleep Paralysis Is the Greatest Nightmare
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#2You're in denial on quantum random numbers. How about nuclear decay. Fucken niggers, not scientists. Get Hawking. Nuclear fucken decay. fucken niggers.
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17:7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
17:8 And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice, 17:9 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.
17:10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
17:12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
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Gordon Ramsay serve meat a little too rare and God threw a fit. LOL. Thou shall not eat rare steak.
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#3Oddly enough, the last film I worked on is about this. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3033948/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3 if you're curious, but it probably won't come out until mid-2014 so it's in stealth mode as far as marketing materials go.
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#4I get sleep paralysis sometimes and have since I was like eleven, and honestly it isn't that big of a deal for me since it comes rarely. But as a kid? It's a religious experience, and not the good kind. If I'd known that this wad a thing, it probably would've been less terrifying.
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#5I've found that attempting to roll your tongue while this occurs tends to lift the sleep paralysis. No idea why this works though.
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#6I experience sleep paralysis often after starting study of lucid dreaming. For me, though, it is rarely the terrifying experience the OP describes. In fact, since it's such an easy situation to identify, I tend to become lucid immediately. Don't let this scare you if you're looking to start lucid dreaming.
There are also tricks you can use to escape. For me, scrunching my face and wiggling my toes always worked consistently.
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#7To expand on the uniqueness of the experience of suffocation: Suffocation is apparently the only experience that can produce fear in patients without an intact amygdala. In a recent study (http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v16/n3/full/nn.3323.html), researchers administered a mixture 35% CO2 and oxygen to three patients with bilateral amygdala damage and who could not recall experiencing fear in any decades for decades prior. All three had panic attacks. While it's thought that the amygdala contains CO2-sensitve chemoreceptors as this article states in the first paragraph, this behavioral result shows that other brain areas do too, and activation of these chemoreceptors is sufficient to produce fear even without the brain's "fear center."
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#8It's not always a nightmare. Sometimes it's quite enjoyable.
I remember going to sleep with a headache at one point and experiencing sleep paralysis. My headache was translated to black and white flashes of light. Or another time when I heard music.
Being unable to move isn't really that big of a deal as long as you are in a comfortable position. Eventually the paranoia and the sense of another presence sets in, but up until that point it can be fun.
If you try to go right back to sleep, you'll probably end up in the same state. Standing up clears sleep paralysis.
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#9I experience sleep paralysis often after starting study of lucid dreaming. For me, though, it is rarely the terrifying experience the OP describes. In fact, since it's such an easy situation to identify, I tend to become lucid immediately. Don't let this scare you if you're looking to start lucid dreaming. There are also tricks you can use to escape. For me, scrunching my face and wiggling my toes always worked consi…
Yeah, I've had it happen to me once or twice while waking up in the middle of a lucid dream. I knew what it was so it wasn't all that scary, though if I hadn't I think I would have freaked out.
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#10It's interesting the article mentions "being ridden by the witch" as a phrase from southern Americana folklore. It dates back a bit further than that, and is literally where we get the term "hagridden" from.