Hi, today I'm going to blog about something that have occurred to me quite a few times over the years.
You may or may not want to read it because it is quite lengthy.
It is sleep paralysis - Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon in which people, either when falling asleep or wakening, temporarily experience an inability to move. it is a transition state between wakefulness and rest characterized by
complete muscle atonia (muscle weakness). It can occur at sleep onset or
upon awakening, and it is often associated with terrifying visions
(e.g. an intruder in the room), to which one is unable to react due to
paralysis. -Wikipedia
I really don't know why but many friends and people who I have asked don't experience this at all, but after researching for sometime over the internet there are others like me who have this often. It is totally NOT COOL, and very frightening. Often I wake up, still afraid of what had happened.
I think in total, I experienced about 4 - 5 times from young up till now. For the first few times, they were rather short when I was a kid. All I saw was shadowy figure passing, or standing there. Fear starts to take over, and I'm unable to move ALL THE TIME.
As I got older, the sleep paralysis starts to get longer.
Especially this morning. Let me explain my dream in vivid detail.
I was eating dimsum at what looks like 126, in geylang, with Benny's friends and him. However Benny was sitting in another table alone while I was sitting with his friends. We were joking about how Benny is sitting alone with 2 empty seats, and there might be "stuff" sitting with him. So we laughed pretty loud about it.
Then theres this waitress who came to me and told us not to joke about it, because there is really 2 "stuff" behind him. So I looked at her and laugh at her, saying how stupid that must be. And suddenly i started floating and I was being dragged out the door, everyone staring in shock.
Next moment I'm lying on my bed. I thought I was awake, but I'm not. My eyes are partially open, my room is as clear as I am awake. Everything is in its place, until I saw a head on my table. A green-faced, long hair demon head snarling at me. I begin to realize I'm in a dream, I struggle real hard and screamed for my mother, who I can see, sweeping the floor outside of my room. Nothing happened for 1 minute. I closed my eyes, opened them again. It was still there.
Panicking, I begin to pray and hope that everything will go away. I keep crying for my mum, and suddenly, her hand held mine and told me to wake up, and she called my name. I finally woke up and she was not beside me at all, she didn't hear me, and I have never moved.
The "head" was actually my camera bag, with its strap dangling down. So I googled and they said that during sleep paralysis, if your eyes are partially open, things may be blurry and transmute to your imagination. I really don't know what I should do to prevent this, should I sleep with a blindfold?
I don't think anyone takes me seriously when I tell them this occurred. Cuz they have never been through what I have, they don't know how it feels like. They think its not real, so it doesn't matter. I'm just afraid it might happen again, and what happens if I get scared to sleep every night? I am going to get serious insomnia soon. I can't find a answer and cure to this online, probably just tips on how to get out of it quickly (e.g don't struggle, try to move your muscles and you wake) but it's not easy.
I'll just pray it don't happen to me, why me? There are millions of others who have never experienced it before, whereas I have it so often. Please choose somebody else to haunt.
