Akiko
Female
Hello, I would like to discuss with you the topic of sleep paralysis or shadow people since its something that I suffer from myself.
If you don't know what it is, it is a condition where after waking up you are completly paralysed and can only breath and move your eyes. It is said to be a medicial condition and occurs after rapidly waking up from like a very vivid dream and parts of your brain are still asleep and don't function correctly. However to some people it never happened in their whole life time and when it happens there is always a shadow figure somewhere next to you. The night is more of a dark blue even if it looks black and the shadow figure is always pitch black.
For a long time I believed the medicial explanation since it made sense even if the shadow figure that comes with it is strange since why not just be paralysed without it but maybe thats how the brain functions. But I had 2 occurrences that made me question the explanation.
The first one was I woke up and was paralysed and the shadow figure was on the other site of my bed but this time did not stand still but moved around as if it had not noticed that I woke up.
The second one was I woke up with my head lying on my arm and my arm pointed outwards to the left site of my bed and the shadow figure was right before my hand. I tried to move and touch it and suddenly broke free from the sleep paralysis and as I was about to touch the shadow it shrunk down and vanished. It was in a manner similar to a kokeshi doll where you can open them up and inside is a smaller one and this goes on untill the last one is really small.
So something I would like to know from you if you suffer from this too is do you think its a simple medicial condition or is the shadow something like the spirit of a dead that could not cross over to the after life ? and what do you think does the shadow do or want from you ? do you have a technique how you isolate yourself to the shadow realm ?
If you don't know what it is, it is a condition where after waking up you are completly paralysed and can only breath and move your eyes. It is said to be a medicial condition and occurs after rapidly waking up from like a very vivid dream and parts of your brain are still asleep and don't function correctly. However to some people it never happened in their whole life time and when it happens there is always a shadow figure somewhere next to you. The night is more of a dark blue even if it looks black and the shadow figure is always pitch black.
For a long time I believed the medicial explanation since it made sense even if the shadow figure that comes with it is strange since why not just be paralysed without it but maybe thats how the brain functions. But I had 2 occurrences that made me question the explanation.
The first one was I woke up and was paralysed and the shadow figure was on the other site of my bed but this time did not stand still but moved around as if it had not noticed that I woke up.
The second one was I woke up with my head lying on my arm and my arm pointed outwards to the left site of my bed and the shadow figure was right before my hand. I tried to move and touch it and suddenly broke free from the sleep paralysis and as I was about to touch the shadow it shrunk down and vanished. It was in a manner similar to a kokeshi doll where you can open them up and inside is a smaller one and this goes on untill the last one is really small.
So something I would like to know from you if you suffer from this too is do you think its a simple medicial condition or is the shadow something like the spirit of a dead that could not cross over to the after life ? and what do you think does the shadow do or want from you ? do you have a technique how you isolate yourself to the shadow realm ?