French philosopher Gaston Bachelard wrote in 1960 that “sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms.” Recent research agrees, finding that some sleepers shriek or even gorge themselves without knowing it. These sleep-disorder sufferers experience neural glitches that mix conscious and unconscious states. Scientists are now searching for the physiological underpinnings in hopes of developing better drug therapies.
I have #1, 2, 4 and 5. People are very lucky they don't have 5, I actually hit my gf in the face once, while sleeping. I awoke after the dream shocked, that i actually hit her, she wasn't injured or anything, but really pissed and confused. I remember I was in a fist fight in the dream, and actually felt a real fist connection, which it was. I also woke up in midst of a dream somehow right before punching, a few other times, but never told her about those, but that only happened for a few months. lol, she probably thinks I'm crazy. #4 is also a crazy one (more like an adrenaline rush). I've never felt so scared in my entire life during those. After I learned it was sleep paralysis I was put at ease. As a kid not knowing what it was scared the hell outta me. One was flashes of "the devil" as a human disfigured face in neon red color with black shadows, then would flash to neon green shadows, all while laughing deeply. And the worst thing is you can't do anything about it, and also like phunktion said your brain is in a really weird paranoid state,crazy experience, but cool to look back on. Also the whole dark scary figure standing over ur bed looking down is a good one. Now that I know what it is, you can somewhat control your fearful thought and enjoy what episode will come next. the night terrors (or really twisted and scary nightmares) happen pretty often, but my subconscious made a mechanism awhile back to kind of "stop" them. Most of the time when I'm in the middle of a "night terror", a pause button randomly will appear and once I push it I wake up. Kinda cool little technique. crazy what your brain is capable of
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