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dennis:
--- Quote from: calenlass on 08 Jun 2008, 09:13 ---I have, like Lunchy, always been rather afraid of looking around me or out a window and noticing things that should not be there. However, we moved into a house a few years ago, and it creeks a bunch at night when the air comes on. Sometimes there are footsteps that run up and down the hall! I usually count eight feet, and sometimes in the morning the carpets in the hallway are all messed up!
And then in the morning I'll get knocked over again as Oscar and Nabisco tear past me again and skid to a stop and collapse on each other with biting teeth and rabbit punching back feet and mess up the carpets I've just straightened.
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Hee!
MadassAlex:
--- Quote from: dennis on 09 Jun 2008, 14:12 ---Also, a lot of ghost sightings (and alien abductions), and it seems, many of the ones in this thread can be attributed to the phenomenon of night terrors, that is, when you become conscious before your body does. I've had this experience many times, and oftentime it ends quite spookily, where I see an apparition or feel a presence and hear a voice just before the rest of me wakes up. If you don't know what happened to you, you can invent all sorts of things to explain what happened (see pareidolia). This is the reason why a lot of ghost experiences happen to people in bed. They're basically dreaming while awake.
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I've had that experience too. It's the most terrifying thing, but in retrospect it's really cool, too.
However, the term is "sleep paralysis". Night terrors are a different thing altogether. Four of the major differences are thus:
1. Night terrors generally cannot be recalled.
2. During night terrors, your body isn't actually paralysed, so many people thrash about.
3. Night terrors generally occur in young children. There's disagreement about the age group, but different sources say anywhere from 3 years old up to about 8 years. It's incredibly rare to experience night terrors after that stage. Sleep paralysis, on the other hand, generally doesn't occur at all during childhood and kicks in at some point in adulthood.
4. Night terrors occur in stages three and four of NREM (non-rapid-eye-movement) sleep. Sleep paralysis happens during REM sleep and can ONLY happen during REM sleep, because that's the only point where you're paralysed. The theory behind that is that REM sleep is where you do most of your dreaming, so the body locks itself down so you don't act it out.
Sleep paralysis is actually relatively common. Most people experience it at some point, but probably only once. Some unlucky/lucky (depending on how you look at it) have it frequently. In fact, I believe my older brother suffers from it almost every night, but he's so used to it that he can see the fantasy of his dreams superimposed over the real world, viewing both at once. Fucking trippy.
Human sleep patterns are absolutely fascinating imo.
onewheelwizzard:
I woke one of my close friends up and accidentally gave them a night terror once. It was one of the freakiest things I'd ever seen ... she was more scared than I've ever seen a human being be, like balls fucking terrified, for 2 seconds, and then she came out of it and didn't even realize it had happened and was asking me what was wrong 10 seconds later. It was like the part of her that knew what fear was woke up before the rest of her and freaked out, and then the rest caught up and was like "what's up?"
dennis:
--- Quote from: MadassAlex on 09 Jun 2008, 16:49 ---
I've had that experience too. It's the most terrifying thing, but in retrospect it's really cool, too.
However, the term is "sleep paralysis". Night terrors are a different thing altogether. Four of the major differences are thus:
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My mistake. I've historically gotten the two conflated and confused. Thanks for correcting me.
calenlass:
I've always heard a lot of bumps in the night, but I realised long ago that they were auditory hallucinations. I do think it's quite funny, though, that auditory hallucinations tend to start right about the same point you get tired enough for your imagination to start acting up.
Also, onewheelwizard, I have found in recent years that I am capable of far more while still not conscious than I ever would have thought possible. Like, when I was younger my mom would wake me up for school, and I'd have dreams about putting my uniform on and then wake up and realise I'd not actually done it, but it wasn't until recent years that I had people tell me they startled me when I was sleeping or tripped over me or something and I carried on some sort of conversation with them or (in one case) was up and half out of the room before I fully woke up. It's kind of cool to know my subconscious has such an intact survival instinct, if that's what it is.
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