Sleep paralysis
In medicine, there is such a thing as "sleep paralysis", it is also sometimes called "old witch's syndrome." Why does this phenomenon have such a “poetic” name, and what is it?
In simple terms, sleep paralysis is when a person's brain has woken up, but his body is still "sleeping". That is, in reality, the person realizes that the dream is over, but he can neither move nor open his eyes.
At this moment, a person can be overwhelmed by panic. He tries to speak, but the muscles of his face do not obey him, he tries to get up, but nothing comes of it, there is really something to be afraid of. In this state, a person receives a lot of unpleasant sensations: it seems to him that someone is strangling him, that he is suffocating, various gloomy visions flicker in his mind.
Experts who practice "lucid dreaming" say that this state does not need to be intimidated, and it can be controlled. Having subdued "sleep paralysis", you can control not only your sleep, but also go beyond the boundaries of your usual reality. But such "exits" should be not only conscious, but also cautious. When traveling around other worlds in a dream, you need to remember that they are as tangible and real as our world. Any careless action can have serious consequences.
Since childhood, Olesya has been an impressionable child. As soon as she got a little nervous or played too much, in the evening she could not calm down and fall asleep for a long time. When the dream came, Olesya saw vivid and colorful dreams, which seemed to her to be the most real reality. She seemed to have traveled to other worlds. And these worlds were much more interesting to her than the one in which she lived.
The girl told her parents about her dreams, but they blamed everything on her fantasy. The girl was growing up, and "sleepwalking" was added to the vivid sensations in her dreams. Olesya began to frighten her parents with her frequent awakenings in the middle of the night. She walked around the house, her eyes were open, but she did not react to external stimuli. The parents decided to take the girl to a psychologist. The specialist talked to Olesya, but did not find anything criminal. He chalked it up to adolescence and hormones. He advised her to be in the fresh air more often and not to overwork in class and prescribed a mild sedative.
At first everything was fine. But soon the girl realized that the medications prescribed by the doctor were not helping her. On the contrary, they make her even worse. The parents noticed that the daughter's sleepwalking attacks coincide with the phases of the moon. The closer the full moon was, the more often the girl got out of bed and talked in her sleep. In addition, Olesya began to visit the state of "sleep paralysis" more and more often. She woke up and could not move. With horror, she felt that someone huge and terrible was leaning on her and beginning to choke her. The girl tried to scream, but could not do it. She tried to fight off the monster, but her hands did not obey. It felt like she was fighting him in viscous, mercury-like water.
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With difficulty throwing off the darkness, Olesya could not catch her breath for a long time. She realized that she couldn't go on that long. Very soon, the monster that comes to her in her sleep will actually strangle her. The girl did not doubt the reality of her feelings. From early childhood, she knew that the world of dreams is as real as the world around her. She knew that in her dreams she was traveling through other realities, and this creature came for her from an alien world. The girl was very upset that none of the parents understood her horror and considered everything to be fiction.
Olesya decided that since no one believed her and did not want to help, she would have to cope on her own. She became actively interested in the practice of managing her dreams. Gradually, she learned to control her condition when she fell asleep. I tried to make her dreams light, beautiful and pleasant. Now all she has to do is learn how to wake up correctly so that in the very last phase of sleep a monster from another world does not appear to her.
One day in the middle of the night, she woke up again and felt that she was in the grip of a darkness. But the girl gathered all her will and did not succumb to panic. In special literature, she read that this is the most important thing. As soon as a person is seized by a feeling of terror in a dream, he can no longer resist the dark forces. With a huge effort of will, Olesya threw off the glamor, she opened her eyes and sat up abruptly on the bed. At some point, it seemed to her that she saw a huge shadow opposite her. The girl fearlessly stretched out her hand to her and shouted that she was not afraid of the monster. The shadow began to slowly melt into the air. Olesya understood: she managed to cope with the monster from her dreams, and the nightmares no longer bother the girl. Monsters from dreams feed on our fears, but as soon as we stop being afraid of them, they leave, realizing that there is already nothing to "profit"
Reveal and Nav
Our ancestors, the Slavs, divided the world into "reality" and "nav". Hence the expression “I see it in reality” came from. Reality is the world of the present. What surrounds us in our everyday life. Nav is a twilight world. Both worlds are closely intertwined, most often this happens in a dream. A person may not understand what is happening to him. He thinks that he has woken up in the real world, but in fact is on the twilight side of his consciousness and reality.
Natalia is a very kind, sympathetic and emotional woman. She always accepts other people's pain as her own, and is very worried about the problems of other people. In the past few years, troubles began to haunt her: relations with her husband went wrong, her health deteriorated. To top it all off, the work environment wasn't happy either. Every night Natalia began to have nightmares. They were so real that a woman sometimes could not distinguish between dream and reality. She jumped out of bed, went to the kitchen and suddenly found that she was still in bed. It happened that a woman woke up, got ready for work, left the house. Suddenly she felt a sharp jolt and again found herself in bed. And from the minute she closed her eyes until the moment she woke up, it was only a few seconds.
In her dreams, Natalya found herself in the strangest and most unexpected places. At the same time, she could swear that she saw everything not in a dream, but in reality. She felt her body, felt the coolness or heat of the surrounding world. These "failures" in a dream finally knocked her out of a rut. The woman could no longer distinguish between dream and reality. She was afraid that one day she simply would not return from her "travels". Natalia turned to her friend, who had long been interested in the problem of dreams. Larisa listened to her and said that Natalya was not just sleeping. In her dreams, she really travels. But it only "falls through" into the so-called "nav". The world is an otherworldly ghostly world in which, however, it is easy to stay forever.
The girl gave her friend an amulet: she put an amethyst crystal in her hand. At all times, this stone was considered a talisman that helps to maintain clarity and sobriety in any situation. Amethyst enhances visionary abilities, helps with fortune telling and divination. This stone, according to her friend, was supposed to become a kind of "anchor" that will keep Natalia in this world. A friend explained that the stone will be real only if Natalia is in the "real" world. In "Nav" she will not be able to take him with her. Larisa advised Natalya to keep the stone under the pillow while sleeping. And thus, control your condition. If Natalia wakes up and does not find a stone under her pillow, it means that she woke up in another world. She does not need to be scared, but needs to calm down, close her eyes again and be transported into our reality.
That same night, Natalya put the crystal under her pillow. She was very afraid to fall asleep, but soon the sleep still overcame her. The woman woke up almost immediately. Everything around was familiar: the room, the bed. Her husband is sleeping next to him. But something told her that this was not true. Natalya fumbled under the pillow. There was no stone. She realized that she was once again in the ghostly world of Navi. At the first moment, a terrible panic seized her. Is the magic crystal not working? But then she remembered her friend's advice: calm her breathing, close her eyes and focus on her sensations. Natalia did just that. She fell asleep again. When she woke up, it was already dawn on the street. With a sinking heart, the woman fumbled under the pillow - the stone lay in place. Now Natalya was no longer afraid to fall asleep. She had her own "anchor", her "beacon", which signaled to her thatin which world she wakes up, in the real or in the "fake".
Natalia was lucky that she had such a friend who was able to help and calm her down. Often people, left alone with their problem, get scared and do not know what to do. And their "journey" to the dark side of the universe and consciousness can end very badly. To prevent this from happening, and in order not to confuse "reality" and "nav", experts advise keeping some talisman at hand. This amulet will help "pull" a person out of any dark state.
