NationStates Jolt Archive

http://www.nightmareproject.com/index.htm
This is a really cool site. Too bad it seems the nightmare entries stop at 2003. Does anyone know of any other sites that may have taken up the cause? I found it really cool reading through the list.

Also, it was fun reading some of the crackpot dream analysis that some people do.

I found this one particularly amusing.

http://www.nightmareproject.com/nmdsp.mv?1735

I found this one particularly amusing.

http://www.nightmareproject.com/nmdsp.mv?1735

Sleep paralysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis) is a condition characterized by temporary paralysis of the body shortly after waking up (known as hypnopompic paralysis) or, less often, shortly before falling asleep (known as hypnagogic paralysis).

Physiologically, it is closely related to the normal paralysis that occurs during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, also known as REM atonia. In that, some scientists and physicians believe it to be a "natural" effect of the sleep cycle. Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain is awakened from a REM state into essentially a normal fully awake state, but the bodily paralysis is still occurring. This causes the person to be fully aware, but unable to move. In addition, this state may be accompanied by hypnagogic hallucinations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia).

More often than not, sleep paralysis is believed by the person affected by it to be no more than a dream. This is the reason why there are many dream recountings which describe the person lying frozen and unable to move. The hallucinatory element to sleep paralysis makes it even more likely that someone will interpret the experience as simply a dream, as one might see completely fanciful objects in a room alongside the normal vision one can see.

Fairly common stuff. Most cultures attribute it to some kind of demon, and speaking as someone who experienced it personally while crashing from a nasty stint of insomnia, I can't say that I blame them. It's a terrifying experience.

Fairly common stuff. Most cultures attribute it to some kind of demon, and speaking as someone who experienced it personally while crashing from a nasty stint of insomnia, I can't say that I blame them. It's a terrifying experience.

Yeah. In one culture, I forget which one, but it was said to be caused by a fat hag sitting on you. And supposedly, you could see it.

And from what I've heard, you sometimes hallucinate when that's happening, so it doesn't sound to outlandish for people to see something like that.

Yeah. In one culture, I forget which one, but it was said to be caused by a fat hag sitting on you. And supposedly, you could see it.

And from what I've heard, you sometimes hallucinate when that's happening, so it doesn't sound to outlandish for people to see something like that.

Sounds like the succubus, in the roman catholic tradition... although no doubt other traditions have analogues.

It could possibly explain a great many alien abduction testimonies as well.

It could possibly explain a great many alien abduction testimonies as well.

That's the context in which I found out about it originally. Had trouble going to sleep that night, I tell you...:eek:. Worried about waking up in such a state.

I am NOT reading this at 3:35am. I have enough of my own nightmares to contend with, they don't need outside help.

I like this one (http://www.nightmareproject.com/nmdsp.mv?1792). It is short and to the point.

I find myself in the woods being hunted by a very angry forest machine, which has a very big claw that steals my hat. Then I wake up.

http://www.nightmareproject.com/index.htm
This is a really cool site. Too bad it seems the nightmare entries stop at 2003. Does anyone know of any other sites that may have taken up the cause? I found it really cool reading through the list.

Also, it was fun reading some of the crackpot dream analysis that some people do.

Yeah I found this via Stumble a while back,but it loks to me like one of these un kept sites, I don't think it has been updated since 2003.

I like this one (http://www.nightmareproject.com/nmdsp.mv?1792). It is short and to the point.

Scary stuff. I'm terrified of angry forest machines.

Fairly common stuff. Most cultures attribute it to some kind of demon, and speaking as someone who experienced it personally while crashing from a nasty stint of insomnia, I can't say that I blame them. It's a terrifying experience.

I had it once a few years ago. Possibly the scariest experience of my life. I actually thought there was a demonic figure in the room, standing over my bed. That was bad enough, but I soon realised that I couldn't move to sit up, let alone try to protect myself.
Very nasty, and years later it still seems utterly real.

The only reason I ever figured out that it wasn't real is that at one point I imagined an ex-girlfriend walking into the room and speaking to me. Since she didn't know where I lived, I must have been dreaming. If it weren't for that, then I have no doubt that to this day I'd be claiming to have seen a demon.

Aw man, that would've been my realm. Muahahahaa.