Scientists managed to uncover the mystery of alien abductions. If they are right, then no one kidnaps the "abducted". The fault is … paralysis. True, not simple, but sleepy.
JEAN CHRISTOF'S NIGHT NIGHT
Rarely does a week go by without Canadian physicist Jean-Christophe Terillon waking up in the middle of the night feeling the presence of a threatening evil next to his bed. At such moments, horror rolls over him. He wants to jump up, call for help, but he cannot move, he cannot make a sound. There is a ringing in the ears, the chest squeezes the weight, the unfortunate person begins to choke. “It feels like the head is squeezed in a vice and could burst at any moment,” says the scientist.
Sometimes Jean-Christophe thinks that he is rising into the air and looking down at his body, sometimes he has the feeling that an invisible force is pulling him along a long tunnel leading into the unknown. Such night attacks frighten even him, a scientist and materialist who does not believe in evil spirits persecuting people. They are frightening, although he knows that this disease is called sleep paralysis and that it is the result of a break in the connection between the brain and the body of a person who is on the verge of sleep and reality.
FROM ENGLAND TO JAPAN
Sleep paralysis has become more common lately. It is believed that half of the inhabitants of our planet have encountered it at least once in their lives. Most scientists believe that it is this disease that can explain both cases of witch attacks on people, and cases of abduction of mere mortals by aliens.
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Sleep paralysis is called differently in every country. In Japan - "kanashibari": there it is believed that this giant devil puts his foot on the chest of a sleeping person. In Canada - "old witch" because paralysis is associated with an old witch sitting on the chest of a sleeping person. The Chinese call it "gui ya" or the pressure of an evil spirit. In the West Indies, sleep paralysis is called kokma. There, the culprit of the nightmare is also a spirit, only a small one, jumping on the chest of a sleeping person to strangle him. In Europe, sleep paralysis has since ancient times been identified with witches who kidnapped sleeping people and forced them to fly with them on a broomstick.
Yes Yes. Sleep paralysis has been known since ancient times. He is described in the novel by Herman Melville "Moby Dick", and in the picture "Nightmare" he can even be seen. Heinrich Füsli, an 18th century painter, depicted a goblin sitting on the belly of a sleeping woman.
“However, today goblins and witches are no longer relevant. Give a modern person a more modern and believable explanation for strange hallucinations,”says Al Cheyne, professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
By the way, Cheyne, having interviewed more than 2 thousand people who survived sleep paralysis, heard from half that all this was very similar to an alien abduction. Someone's presence was felt, incoherent words were heard, the body was constrained by a strange immobility, and the pressure on the chest was unbearable … “Is it any wonder,” says Al Cheyne, “that today sleep paralysis is associated not with a demon attack, but with the experiments of alien scientists.
In recent years, the number of people allegedly abducted by space aliens is growing day by day. The abductees are sure that the inhabitants of another planet conducted medical experiments on them, and then released them. These stories confuse scientists, because, on the one hand, they seem to be nonsense, but on the other, they are more common.
Did the stall just open?
So what is sleep paralysis? Scientists still have no definite answer to this question. And what can we talk about if specialists cannot even say for sure: a person who is in a state of sleep paralysis is sleeping or awake.
"The classic definition is that a person is awake," says Emmanuel Minot, director of the Narcolepsy Center at Stanford University School of Medicine, "but our research shows that he is in REM sleep."
During REM sleep, the body practically turns itself off and, as it were, disconnects from the brain. In this phase of sleep, even such automatic reflexes as the shaking of the leg when tapping on the knee do not work. This state only lasts a few minutes. As the brain and body reconnect with each other, a person gains the ability to move. At the same time, he is absolutely sure that he did not sleep for a minute.
It happens that sleep paralysis is inherited. While it is completely harmless, some scholars believe there is a link between it and mysterious deaths in some ethnic groups in Southeast Asia. Strong and absolutely healthy young people die in their sleep. Sometimes they gasp, their faces are often distorted by a grimace of horror.
In ordinary people, sleep paralysis most often occurs after long flights and prolonged periods of insomnia. Sleep paralysis is completely indifferent to gender and occurs in people of all ages.
“I am glad,” says the physicist Jean-Christophe Terillon, “that I do not live in the Middle Ages, because then people like me were possessed by the devil and burned at the stake, and in the 19th and 20th centuries they were placed in psychiatric hospitals” …
Zakhar RADOV