It can cause you to hallucinate and feel like you’re suffocating, which, HELL NO.
, her educational series for teens in which she profiles women working in STEM . When the “Breakaway” singer asked Cosgrove about her favorite topic covered in the series, she said a sleep paralysis segment hit close to home.
“I’ve experienced sleep paralysis before. I don’t know if that’s ever happened to you guys,” she told Clarkson and fellow guest Djimon Hounsou. ”It’s where you wake up—your eyes are open and you’re lying in bed—but you’re asleep, so your dreams that you’re having seem like they’re happening in the room you’re in. Like, your eyes are open, but you can’t move.”
“That’s terrifying. Have you ever experienced that?” Clarkson asked Hounsou, who said he, indeed, had experienced “something similar” in which he seemed “asleep briefly” but “wide awake” while feeling “paralyzed in the bed.”, sleep paralysis occurs during or while shifting out of rapid eye movement sleep, a stage in which some muscles are temporarily paralyzed—also known as muscle atonia. When it happens, consciousness resumes, but your body remains unable to move.
Episodes also often involve hallucinations, usually of a dangerous person or presence in the room, as well as feelings of chest pressure perceived as suffocation, per the NIH.
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