(A) Sleep Paralysis: Facts, Phenomena & My Experience | Archive Ep16

Hello all, I just wanted to let you know that I'll be out of town this week, but rather than radio silence, I'll be uploading rewind episodes today, Wednesday and Friday. I do have some fascinating episodes starting next week on Monday the eighteenth that I know you'll enjoy, so stay tuned for those until then. I hope you all have a great week and enjoy this rewind of episode sixteen. Sleep paralysis facts, phenomena and my experience. The first time it happened, I was sleeping and woke up because I felt a hand on my leg and I realized that I couldn't move. And he'd come across this object on the ground, which was the shape of a flying saucer. So he jumped out of his pickup and went down there, and there was four beings laying on the ground. I'm want to raise my head back. I was turning in my head and out of my peripheral vision I seen something hot to a tree and it was tall, about seven eight foot tall. It was black, real with harry like a gorilla. The first thing we saw was this winged creature fourteen foot wingspan at least. It was huge. It almost covered half of the road. Welcome to the show. I'm your host Nick. Today is Monday, September eighteenth, and this is episode number sixteen. Today's topic we're going to be talking about is sleep paralysis. It's a topic that I have some history with and I know a lot of people that have experienced it themselves as well. But before I get into kind of my story with it, I do want to share a little bit of the hiss of the term for those of you that maybe are not familiar with it. So, sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move. It occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep. During these transitions, you may be unable to move or speak for a few seconds up to a few minutes. Some people may also feel pressure or a sense of choking. Sleep paralysis may accompany other sleep disorders, such as narcolepsy. Sleep paralysis usually occurs at one of two times. It can occur while you are falling asleep, which if it does occur during that time, it's known as hypnagogic or predormital sleep paralysis. I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing those correctly, but if it happens as you are waking up. It's known as hypnopompic or post dormital sleep paralysis. So normally, your brain causes your muscles to relax and be still as you sleep. This is called antonia. Antonia is actually something that helps protect the body from injury by preventing you from acting out with physical movements during dreams. Sleep paralysis seems to be when this antonia occurs while you are awake. Throughout history over the centuries, symptoms of sleep paralysis have been described in many ways and often attributed to an evil presence, unseen night demons in ancient times, the Old Hag which appeared in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and even alien visitations are common themes or or sort of encounters that people claim to witness during sleep paralysis. People have long sought explanations for this mysterious sleep time paralysis and the accompanying feelings of terror. What makes different from a regular nightmare. Unlike the visuals that you would normally have in a nightmare or a lucid dream, which typically occurs when your eyes are closed in rem sleep, these hallucinations occur in the state between sleeping and waking when the mind is alert and the eyes are open. True visual and auditory hallucinations during sleep proalysis are stated by doctors to be relatively rare, but many patients do report feeling an undeniably strange or scary presence in the room. Counts of sleep paralysis can be found in medical texts dating all the way back to the tenth century, So I find that pretty interesting. Until I really started doing more research on this, I didn't realize that it has been documented that far back. Talking a little bit about my experience with it, I haven't actually encountered it for probably about twenty years now that I can remember. I may have had it as recent as maybe seven or eight years ago, but when I really recall having a traumatic event occurred, I think it was probably nineteen ninety five nineteen ninety six. If you guys listen to my other podcast where it talks about kind of me and my background briefly, and it talks about how I had a I'm not going to call it an encounter, but I witnessed kind of a light that was up in the sky. Anyway, the place that I was living at that point in time was just a little duplex in Michigan, totally different night than that night that I saw the light in the sky, but same house, same same place that we were living. So to kind of give you a little bit more of a background with me, essentially, from a young age, I suffered from what's called sleep terrors or night terrors, which, if you take a typical nightmare, night terrors are quite a bit worse. For me. I would wake up and actually, you know, i'd be looking. I would be able to see what was going on around me. I would be able to get up and walk around, but I was still able to see things, you know, whether they were hallucinations or whatever you call them. I thought I was seeing faces in the walls and stuff like that. So the night terror experience for me was pretty devastating at the time. It affected my sleep patterns and stuff a little bit here and there, but it's not something that happened every night. The sleep paralysis is something that even when I did experience it, it didn't happen real frequently. But the one night in particular that I want to tell you guys about, I'm not sure what time of the night it was. I just know I had been asleep for what felt like maybe three or four hours, and I was laying there falling asleep, completely comfortable, no dreams that I remember. Well. The next thing I know, I'm waking up on my stomach in bed with my face in my pillow, and my hands were behind my back and my feet were crossed like at the ankle, almost as if I had been like tied up or something, you know. But anyway, so I wake up, like I said, my face is in my pillow and I can't get a good deep breath because my face is being pushed down. Now. I didn't feel anything, of course, pushing on me, like on my head or my back or my legs or anything like that. I didn't feel anything sitting on me or pushing down on me. I just couldn't move. I didn't have any numbness in my extremities or anything like that. I just literally had no control over my body, and I didn't have any control over anything except my breathing and my eyes. It was pretty scary. I couldn't breathe, and I tried like lifting my head up, and I tried doing a bunch of things. Finally, after multiple attempts of just telling myself things like I think, I just kept saying to myself, wake up or get up or something like that, and I told myself just to get up, and I said it multiple times, and finally I just kind of was able to jerk myself up. And even though I had been wake for several seconds, it seemed longer than that. It seemed like it was probably like thirty or forty seconds. In actuality, it was probably only maybe five to ten seconds, but it was a very scary feeling and it was very odd to wake up in that sort of position. I was probably about I would say maybe fourteen at the time, something like that, maybe maybe sixteen. I can't remember exactly what year it was, but let me tell you that was pretty creepy. I've had other experiences where I woke up, and this again was at that time period, which was probably about twenty years ago. Where I had woken up, I was on my back, I couldn't really move. I was able to move my eyes around, but nothing else, and there was definitely several seconds of fear going on, kind of wondering, you know, what is this? Why can't I move? What's going on here? I'm not somebody that has ever experienced what a lot of people claim to experience, which is the feeling of something like sitting on their chest or a feeling of being choked or anything like that. So my experiences have only been just an ominous feeling in the room, which is pretty typical for sleep paralysis experiencers. So the other thing in more recent years that I have noticed is that I do sometimes wake up and I feel like there is like a shadow figure standing near me, like on my side of the bed. Typically, as soon as I wake up fully and I lift my head and I look, yeah, I can tell that there's well two things happen. I either realize that I'm just seeing a shadow or something on the wall, or some of my creepier experiences have included actually still seeing something but it just kind of slowly fade. It's a way, and it's almost like if you can imagine like a like a cloud, like a black or dark cloud, in a human form, a very basic human form, no details, just kind of head, shoulders and kind of a body. That's just some of my experiences. I was really anxious and excited to kind of share those with you guys. I know that there's a lot of people that experience the paralysis. I've read a lot of things that claim that younger people are more apt to experience them, which was definitely my case. But I know a lot of adults experienced sleep paralysis, so I want to really understand it more. But I don't really know if that's going to happen anytime soon, because from what I can tell, doctors really don't. They all kind of have a very generic statement, and it's kind of like what I read to you about the whole antonia thing, where it's it's your body either going to sleep or waking up, and it's a way of your brain kind of keeping you safe by controlling your muscle spasms and your body movement and stuff like that, which it definitely makes sense to me. But there's just so many people out there that witness other things during their experiences, and I am definitely not one. I'm not the type of person to immediately say, well, this is a ghost or this is some sort of entity that's in the room here. I definitely try to see a more scientific side of it initially, and then if I can't really rule something out easily, then I'll start looking into other options. But there's a lot of people that see weird, creepy things. So, like I told you, guys, I sometimes see shadow people or what I call a shadow people or a shadow person. I should say, I don't really know if that's what it is. A lot of people claim to see hooded figures, which in my opinion, kind of sounds very similar to the whole shadow person experience. I can't say that I've ever really seen anything that has a hood, but one of the more common things that people claim to see is what's called the night hag also known as old Hag syndrome, which has apparently been around for a long long time. I'm finding out it's pretty prevalent actually, So today's episode really I just wanted to kind of talk to you guys in a very organic way, and I want to know kind of what you guys have experienced with this. I know I always say that when I'm ending a show, but it's true. I love hearing from you guys. I love knowing what your guys experiences are, and it really is cool for me when I get stories from you guys. Definitely share if you guys have had an experience. This is just part one of this. We might go into it a little bit more. So I'm gonna call this part one. There might be a part two on Wednesday, kind of at the beginning of the show. Wednesday should be cool because we're gonna have just kind of a more kind of laid back sort of show like doing today me just kind of talking, not so much in the scripted sense like it sometimes is, and my wife's actually going to be coming on and sharing some of her thoughts on the topic, and we're going to be talking about the Mandela Effect. If it's something you guys have heard about, awesome, If not, we're definitely gonna be going into it. I'm gonna be talking a little bit about the history behind it, when it started, and when when my wife comes on, we're gonna have a little discussion about it. And I'm not gonna give you, guys any hints. If you don't know what it is, look it up. There's tons of information online about it. We're gonna have a good time talking about that, I think so. Anyway, Yeah, so that'll be on Wednesday, and don't forget to leave any comments below. But anyway, guys, thanks for listening wherever you listen from. As I always say, if you have questions or stories for me, please email me at Mythic Radio at gmail dot com, or you can go over to mythicradio dot com and just click on the tell your Story link that I have up there, and wherever you're listening to this, if you can hit those follow and like buttons, that really helps me out, helps me know what you guys are enjoying you know, so, so guys, thanks again, have a great night. Again, as I always say, from all of us at Mythic Radio, we really appreciate you guys listening and please remember, don't wait for the unknown to come to you, get out there and find it.