We’ve likely all experienced it at one point or another. You’re falling asleep, or just waking up, and you go to turn on your side… but you can’t. Your legs and arms are like cement, plastered to your mattress, and you can’t move.
This condition is called sleep paralysis and occurs when a person goes through stages of wakefulness and sleep. It is that terrifying feeling when you are still asleep but partially awake and cannot move even though you are aware of all that is going on around you.
Fortunatelly it is a very common happening and it doesn’t cause harm to the human body. Sleeping paralysis occur between two stages:
“Hypnagogic” and “Hypnopompic”. The hypnagogic sleep paralysis happens when you are yet to fall asleep, while the hypnopompic sleep paralysis happens when you are just about to awake from your rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Read the full article here ▶
