https://lucid-dream-research.com/sleep-paralysis-something-positive-encouraging-share/ This is a network for lucid dreamers and scientists to share research information and lucid dream experiences, connect for future studies, and expand the knowledge of the lucid dream phenomenon. Wed, 05 Jun 2019 21:02:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://lucid-dream-research.com/sleep-paralysis-something-positive-encouraging-share/#comment-87 Wed, 05 Jun 2019 21:02:34 +0000 http://lucid-dream-research.com/?p=782#comment-87 One hears all sorts of nonsense about sleep paralysis. Most sleep related phenomena are really very basic, simple and natural. Many are evolved DNA hold overs from when we were apes and slept in trees for safety. The sense of falling as one becomes unconscious (“falling asleep’), the hypnagogic jerk and myoclonic jerk (biological gyroscope) and sleep paralysis (sedation to maintain immobility) keep you from moving about and losing your balance) and are merely survival mechanism. It is why a cat tossed into the air and falling will always right itself. Without such systems we would have fallen out of trees or out of beds or wandered around in reaction to our dreams, endangering ourselves and others (falling down stairs, homicidal somnambulism, etc.

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