Good morning, hive readers. This morning I want to share the bad moment I lived last night, maybe there are those who feel identified, and it is that as soon as I woke up from my nightmare I began to investigate, and apparently it is more common than I thought, but even so it continues to be terrifying for who suffer it. I'm talking about sleep paralysis. I will tell you about my episode, which has elements in addition to a paralysis as such, it really was a nightmare in two parts.

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First moment:
Without speaking

11:00 pm, fall asleep. I find myself in the living room of my home, with my brother, who I have not seen in several years because he lives in a remote city. I begin to feel how every cell in my face retracts, it is not normal, my speech is blocked and a tiny but extensive cramp traps my face and the back of my head, my brain is compromised. I turn to my brother, and by means of signs I manage to explain what is happening to me, I am uneasy and scared, I try to reflect my face in the mirror, and what I observe freezes me: inert face, one eye lost control, fixed upwards to changed color, it is true I cannot speak, I wake up abruptly from the nightmare, escaping from the haze that enveloped his scenes.

Second Moment:
Confused Reality🌀



I have not woken up! Inert you face down I am submerged in my dream. I am aware that I was asleep, but for a moment terror seizes me again, I cannot move I am heavy and my head does not react, and if it was true? If my face was paralyzed while I was sleeping, or maybe it was yesterday and I barely come out of shock, it will be that it was like that and everyone knows it. Then my struggle to wake up and know what my reality is begins. I desperately struggle to get my body to move, I can't, I try to scream and move my legs, until finally I get progressive movements. It is only until the end of my fight that I manage to lift my head, and leave behind the sencasion that my face had. I appreciate, it was just a dream.

🌀🛌✨💢🧠👁️👥🕯️🕔

Of all my episodes the worst, it has not happened to me for a long time. But this time other elements conspired to make it a real nightmare product of my subconscious. Thank god I'm okay.

And thank you for reading my experience! I leave you this referential quote that can explain what this sleep paralysis is about.

Sleep paralysis is a temporary inability to sleep or perform any type of voluntary movement that takes place during the transition period between sleep and wakefulness. It can occur when you start to sleep or wake up and is usually accompanied by a feeling of great anxiety, and its duration is usually short, usually between one and three minutes, after which the paralysis subsides spontaneously. During the episode, the person is fully conscious, with hearing and tactile ability, but is unable to move or speak, which can cause great anxiety. However, there is no danger to life, as the respiratory muscles continue to function automatically.This disorder is included in the international classification of sleep disorders within the group of parasomnias. It is caused by a dissociation between the mechanisms that cause muscle relaxation in rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep) and those that maintain muscle relaxation.

Thanks. @cataplum💣