[kj] OT~ sleep paralysis?

[Brendan]

If you're having wet dream nightmares I think your cup is half cracked ;)


> You've got the key there IMHO.  An adrenalin? rush created by the brain to

> jolt you.  'Waking up in a cold sweat'. It could be after a nightmare or a

> wet dream depending on your forté.  The reason for it's occurance is the

> same.  Some see it as a religious episode, some as being dropped into the

> Garden of Earthly Delights.

>

> A functional state from which many artists come bearing fruit.

>

> There we truly find out whether our cups are half full or half empty.

>

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>> would love to hear of some of your tales, mr. potanga...

>>

>> thinking aloud here...

>> in regards to the bliss after the fear, perhaps its just some brain

>> chemical that builds up while the scare is on, and then, like in my

>> case when i relaxed and went with it (only had the courage to do that

>> once) , the chemical floods then body with euphoria... as i say, when

>> i gave in to it, it was like a full two minute body orgasm!

>> if this happens to you alot mr. P, have you experimented with it?

>>

>>

>> =)

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>> On Feb 7, 2008 12:09 PM, fatpotanga <fatpotanga at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> had it lots & lots & lots & lots.

>>> I'm tired & can't be arsed typing but had some very scary shit happen.

>>>

>>> apparently your body naturally paralyses itself when you enter deep

>>> sleep to stop you thrashing & hurting yourself I guess.

>>> sometimes you wake up while your paralysed so in a sense you are

>>> awake but asleep at the same time.

>>>

>>> some people have experienced rather nasty things in this state.

>>> Like I said, I've had a huge amount of them - the last one a month or

>>> so ago & they never get any better,

>>> where you are attacked/assaulted it's also referred to as, amongst

>>> other things, the dream demon or entity attacks.

>>> try googling those.

>>>

>>> will maybe type some up when I get 5

>>>

>>> fatty

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>> On 6 Feb 2008, at 19:28, bongo wrote:

>>>

>>> > anyone here ever had sleep paralysis??

>>> > this subject may have come up years ago, but there's a fresh new crop

>>> > of gatherers here now...

>>> >

>>> > it seemed to be more of a talking point/phenomenon 5 or so years ago,

>>> > but with all the googling i done i still couldn't find a plausible

>>> > explanation for it...

>>> >

>>> > for those unaware of it, it was waking up, unable to move a muscle,

>>> > with a creepng noise/sensation that started at the feet and worked

>>> its

>>> > way up the body... the noise got louder the higher it got, with an

>>> > accompanying rise in fear, with the feeling that if it crept as high

>>> > as your head, it will surely mean death!

>>> > there were various explanations i read, but none seemed to account

>>> for

>>> > the noise/fear part of it...

>>> >

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>>> >

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>>> >

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