It was Mara. Now, if you'd just confonted him you'd be the new Buddha...
I thought he was supposed to tempt me with virgins... I feel cheated!!!
(Either way, I doubt I would've become a Buddha that night)
Sleeping Paralysis
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I thought he was supposed to tempt me with virgins... I feel cheated!!!
(Either way, I doubt I would've become a Buddha that night)
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When you sleep, your brain tells your spine to send a paralyzing chemical through your nervous system.
When you dream, your brain tells your arms, legs, and body to move. You can also feel slight manifestations of pain from sleep, although they don't come close to what real pain feels like. The paralyzing chemical stops their body from performing all these actions.
People who have trouble producing the paralyzing chemical in their bodies tend to talk in their sleep, move around a lot, and sleep-walk.
People who have trouble with producing too much might wake up paralyzed.
Because its a chemical your brain releases every night, the potency and amount of this chemical is related to your diet.
Ryokan, I know you're a buddhist, so you might not be familiar with it, but when someone smokes pot, they feel similar, though usually less, pressure on their body as they get high, and less and less able to coordinate themselves. The feeling of pressure on the body is common feedback in response to paralyzing drug effects. I wouldn't be able to tell you if it's common to being physically paralyzed, though.
On a side note, pot brownies are the coolest thing in the world.
When you dream, your brain tells your arms, legs, and body to move. You can also feel slight manifestations of pain from sleep, although they don't come close to what real pain feels like. The paralyzing chemical stops their body from performing all these actions.
People who have trouble producing the paralyzing chemical in their bodies tend to talk in their sleep, move around a lot, and sleep-walk.
People who have trouble with producing too much might wake up paralyzed.
Because its a chemical your brain releases every night, the potency and amount of this chemical is related to your diet.
Ryokan, I know you're a buddhist, so you might not be familiar with it, but when someone smokes pot, they feel similar, though usually less, pressure on their body as they get high, and less and less able to coordinate themselves. The feeling of pressure on the body is common feedback in response to paralyzing drug effects. I wouldn't be able to tell you if it's common to being physically paralyzed, though.
On a side note, pot brownies are the coolest thing in the world.
How bizzare is that. I did not know that such a thing existed.
From someone who never heard of it before, I would somehow teach my brain to accept it and not to panic about it and let it pass.
There are lots of people who have responded with their experiences and suggestions. That may have helped.
Seeking a personal advice from a medical professional may help as well.
On the spiritual note:
Ryokan, How is chanting going? Keep it strong! Something (information) may come out through your chanting.
My sincere best wishes to you!
From someone who never heard of it before, I would somehow teach my brain to accept it and not to panic about it and let it pass.
There are lots of people who have responded with their experiences and suggestions. That may have helped.
Seeking a personal advice from a medical professional may help as well.
On the spiritual note:
Ryokan, How is chanting going? Keep it strong! Something (information) may come out through your chanting.
My sincere best wishes to you!
Dancing David
Penultimate Amazing
If you can seek out the services of a sleep clinic and professionals with experience of sleep disorders. There are many different paths to sleep disturbances, stress, normanl physiology, dusfunsctional physiology and life style that a practised mind helps to find the root cause.
Dancing David
Penultimate Amazing
I feel that you and I would use different terminology, I felt that the higher areas of the brain just over ride the movement centers of the cerebellum and that there was no involvement of the peripheral nervous system ,just a command from the cortex to shut off voluntary movement. But then it has been decade since I went to college.
So I am not disagreeing at all, and there are people who as you say do not shut off thier cerebellum when they do have REM sleep.
Pot brownies may be cool, I could not say, however for more people who use mj by smoking, the effects of mj are much stronger when eaten and the amount should be drasticaly reduced. I have heard many a tale of a lost weekend when people have slept for two days after eating an eigth of an ounce of old fashioned mj.
Wake up , pee , eat something go back to sleep. Not much fum, from what I have heard, but then they used like what they might smoke in three to four days!
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=9811
provides a very brief sysnopsis of medical terminology.