Who among us does not wish for ourselves and our loved ones a sound sleep and sweet dreams, but in reality all of us during such an unconscious rest (we will not consider conscious dreams in this case) are faced with many unpleasant, some kind of mystical manifestations that are explained by modern science simply not able to. We will not claim that any mysterious manifestation of sleep described in this article is experienced exclusively by every person, however …
Paralysis in sleep
A person supposedly wakes up and cannot move, as they say, either a hand, a foot, or even a finger. To this terrible state is also added the feeling of the presence of someone (certainly scary) in the bedroom. The ancients were convinced that at such a moment evil spirits enter a person's sleep.
Each of us is practically motionless during sleep, but paralysis in sleep is completely different: in this case, the muscles of the body are constrained, and consciousness suddenly begins to wake up, approximately 7 percent of the inhabitants of the Earth experience such a state at least once in their life, and, as practice shows, mostly people who like to sleep on their backs.
Sleep and manifestation of hypnagogic hallucinations
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Scientists explain this by the fact that on the verge of sleep and wakefulness, the brain of a completely healthy person can experience visions that crazy people usually see, the so-called hypnagogic hallucinations. However, independent researchers argue that both schizophrenics and healthy people, at the moment of falling asleep, simply break through their consciousness into parallel worlds, which can be very terrible. This is indirectly confirmed by the fact that such "hallucinations" are most often seen by children whose consciousness is still so plastic that in early infancy they, for example, do not distinguish the line between sleep and reality, obviously, all other travels through parallel worlds are mixed here …
Conversations while sleeping
Many people talk in a dream (the phenomenon of doubtfulness), but the sleeper himself never knows about it. From a psychological point of view, there is nothing paranormal in this, but a person with such a "sleepy pathology" runs the risk of telling strangers his innermost secrets. Most often, children and men talk in a dream. Why this happens - no one knows …
A dream in another dream
But this sleepy manifestation is experienced by many. A person wakes up, begins to do something, then suddenly realizes that he continues to sleep. He again tries to wake up and this can happen several times before the lucky man wakes up completely.
Why is he lucky? The fact is that such a person, according to esotericists, is ready for spiritual practices. Therefore, if something like this happens to you, then by all means go to the store or the Internet for literature of spiritual content, and the mentor, as the wise say, will find you a little later …
Sleep and sleepwalking
If during sleep paralysis the body is asleep, and consciousness is awake, then with sleepwalking, the opposite happens: consciousness is asleep, and the body begins to wander, to do something. It is believed that this is a very dangerous condition for a person, but it is still not clear why in this case the lunatic begins to possess some kind of supernatural powers. For example, he can easily walk along a narrow cornice of a high-rise building and not fall, jump over huge pits or even rivers, like many other things that are completely unusual for an ordinary person. And all this with closed eyes! Only, God forbid, wake him up at this time …
It is believed that children most often suffer from sleepwalking, and no more than 5 percent of people are exposed to it. It is impossible to cure a person from sleepwalking, as, indeed, from all the other mysterious manifestations of sleep considered here. At least, none of the doctors have yet succeeded, but sorcerers, magicians and shamans are another matter, which is why in all this they catch a refined "mystical meaning" …
Sleep apnea
In a dream, a person sometimes stops breathing, which is why he immediately awakens. Doctors attribute sleep apnea to obesity, smoking, old age and many other reasons, but they cannot cure this unpleasant condition, bordering on death. By the way, if a person died in a dream, then quite often, I think, this is due to the fact that when he stopped breathing, he could not wake up …
Recurring dreams
Recurring dreams are seen by many people, especially children and young people. Psychologists advise in this case to disassemble such a dream, as they say, on the shelves and try to identify the problem to which he points. By eliminating this problem in real life, you will free yourself from recurring dreams. For example, men who have completed their military service often dream that they are being recruited into service again. The fear of her remained in the subconscious. Approximately the same picture with dreams, when you endlessly pass exams, give birth, look for something, and so on.
Another unpleasant sleep state is falling from a great height. At this time, the heart literally stops, and if not for the awakening … Wow! However, note that in a dream, a person seems to be trying to avoid falling, but it is as if some force is dragging him to the abyss, the edge of the bridge, the cornice of the house, and so on. Why is this happening?..
Outside the body
In a dream (even half asleep), you can see your body as if from the side. For mystics, this is a confirmation of the existence of the soul, which approximately also leaves our mortal body after death (an example of clinical death). Scientists are also trying to explain all this somehow, but they get it very poorly and unconvincingly, I must say. It is unconvincing, probably because our genetic memory already has the experience of death and rebirth, therefore all the abstruse arguments of scientists seem ridiculous to us …
Creative enlightenment in a dream
For people who are engaged in creativity, often discoveries (like Mendeleev's famous table), poetry, music, some ideas come in a dream. Scientists again try to explain this rationally, they say, there is already an answer in the subconscious of a person, but in a state of wakefulness, he cannot "pull" this answer out of there. However, in this case, it is necessary to recognize the very fact of the existence of the subconscious and still determine what it is? After all, there is still no unambiguous answer to this question, and therefore such insights during sleep remain a mystery sealed with seven seals …
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However, the presence of mysterious, downright mystical states during sleep, which we considered in this article and which we left outside of it, is all just wonderful! Thanks to them, even the most ordinary person has an amazing, downright fabulous world in which he spends a third of his life. In this world, as we can judge even from this modest article, there are little riddles, secrets and something even more subtle and mystical. However, for this "something" you need to make certain efforts that will lead you to lucid dreams - a phenomenon not just interesting and inexplicable, but simply fantastic. By the way, the manifestation of "sleep in a dream" allows a person, even for a moment, to feel what it is - lucid dreams …