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| quote: | Originally posted by kadomony
ya, the levitation thing happens to me a lot, also the sound. more of a sharp falling feeling though. havent experienced the paralysis though.
the levitating feeling comes from being still in one position for a while. your body has no comparison of different changes in the force of gravity over time when this happens.
the sound is probably a random part of your brain firing as it prepares to shut down for sleep.
the falling is the same thing, random signals being interpreted.
the fear? same. as the concious thought of the brain shuts down, the center part is the only part fully active. this is where the fight or flight response lies. so any signal passing thru here might yield a fear reaction.
the paralysis is probably that your body takes a while to come out of sleep state, and requires more time to activate your muscles again. |
nice guess, partially right.
there are 5 stages o sleep, once you fall asleep your brain activity decreases, level 1 - 4, then it increases in activity by going from level 3 to 2, then instead of going to level 1 it jumps to level 5...which is REM sleep.
Rem sleep is crazy cause your entire brain is active, much like it is when your awake, but your unconscious. Also during REM all of your major muscles are paralyzed. its not a wierd thing, its just how it is. So when you suddenly wake up from rem, you could still be paralyzed. Your brain is also going crazy with activity which can cause auditory or visual hallucinations.

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