Are you familiar with the statement "somebody came to press me in my sleep last night. I couldn't move nor speak until i tried to call Jesus before the person left me"? I personally have experienced this phenomenon severally since i was a teenager. I remember the first time i experienced it, It was like a strong wind besieged me in my sleep and i became paralyzed, after which i made frantic effort to scream and it felt as though i was bonded to the bed with my teeth gnashing. Then i tried to call J-e-s-u-s and subsequently regained consciousness. It was a terrifying experience.
After regaining consciousness, i remember i woke my younger sister up and told her we should to go another room in the house so we could be with adults that there was something strange in our room. I am pretty sure i didn't get over that experience that night. But then, it happened again and again at intervals, up until about six months ago.
"Sleep Paralysis" is a temporal inability to move or speak while falling asleep or waking up. It most often occurs in people with "Sleep Apnea, but it can affect anyone. Sleep Paralysis usually lasts for about a minute or two and often very frightening. The symptoms usually include not being able to move the body nor speak when falling asleep or waking up, having hallucinations, having sensation that causes fear, feeling pressure on the chest and having difficulty in breathing.
According to an article in "Medical News Today of May 24th. 2017, Sleep Paralysis can be triggered by stress, jet lag, sleep deprivation and panic disorder. It is also noted that even though sleep paralysis is a very scary experience, but it cannot randomly stop the heart. So it cannot cause death. It also most likely does not need treatment.
Personally, as an African, one thing that has worked for me whenever i experience sleep paralysis, is make as much effort to shout J-e-s-u-s until i regain consciousness. There's also a myth in Africa that sleep paralysis is cause by some form of demonic oppression by evil people popularly known as "enemies".
Its something have been familiar with right from childhiid, there is tho notion then that its cause by evil spirit and we grow up believing this, but now I knew better
Omoye weldone God bless you
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"Sleep paralysis", interesting. I have never heard of this before and can't really say for a fact that i have experienced it? But now i know :-) should it ever happen to me in the near future i will be able to relate it to sleep paralysis. On the other hand i laughed reading this because i certainly heard a lot of "somebody came to press me in my sleep" when i was in boarding school and we generally associated it with demonic activities....lol It's good to be aware.
I have had this experience twice or more times in my adult life,and it was really terrifying