Coming out of your sleep and back into reality during R.E.M.Rapid Eye Movement ,it’s a safety mechanism(so they say) that prevents us from waking up in the middle of a dream in shock, our brain visualizes images depending on those images and how they may affect us consciously can result in a kind of rude awakening, so our brain has this mechanism that freezes us(Sleep paralysis)and prevents us dreamy people from falling over the cliff you could say or falling through a window.

When I was suffering with this phenomena sleep paralysis, I found that it manifest itself mostly when I was trying to sleep and then a couple of times when I awoke, I’ve had sleep paralysis many times in my life especially during the 90’s when I was suffering with depression, I could lay down in my bed or even on the sofa and within seconds and I mean seconds I would find myself frozen to the spot,I couldn’t move,it was frightening to say the least, it was like someone had stuck a fireman’s hose down my throat and suddenly turned the pressure on full blast, it’s as if every atom in your body is stuck, you can’t move. Imagine ten elephants piled on top of each other and your underneath and there is no pain just panic because it feels weird and scary,you just can’t move a muscle and you have no idea what’s going on,I even called out to a friend but then I realized I could sense I was calling but there was no sound (strange I know) while all this is happening I was completely conscious fully aware of everything around me, I can see everything that’s going on in the room and sometimes I would have visions or as the doctor might say illusions.

Centurys ago, we man believed that thoughts were generated in the heart and not the brain, it wasn’t until enough grave robbers had sold their prizes over to some budding medics of the day that we learnt that it was the brain that generated thoughts and not the heart.

Giordano Bruno.1548-1600.

Mr Bruno for his thoughts and beliefs was burnt at the stake with his tongue cut out, amongst other things he believed that the world was round and not flat as the leaders of then had us believe.

We have believed for so long that the remains of Lucy discovered by Donald Johansson in 1974 were the oldest remains of any of our ancestors 3.2 million years old,and then in 2000 comes along the millennium man at 6 million years old and now he happens to be our oldest ancestor,until the next one comes along.

My history teacher tells my class and I that Cleopatra died when she was 32, later in life I pick up an interesting book all about Cleopatra and it tells me she died at 36.

One minute egg yolk is bad for your cholesterol levels the next minute it’s not say scientist, one minute the sun is bad for you and now it’s realized that in moderation it is good for you.

What has any of this got to do with sleep paralysis? Well I believe over the years that I have learnt what it is and that it is connected to a phenomenon that we don’t fully understand yet, something so deep it’s been rooted in our beliefs since the dawn of mankind,something we have all thought about or talked and fought about at some time or other but we have never been to sure,well I’m sure that in the future once we have gotten over the hokus pokus way we think about things, we will come to realize that we don’t know everything yet and we have so much more to learn,there is so much more to us than flesh and neurons,(more than meets the eye)the human spirit.

I am not a religious man by a long way,but i do believe we have a spirit and we have to learn in order for it to evolve,nature or nurture we will get there in the end and find out what it's really all about.

We are far from knowing everything,the sooner mankind gets to know the light that shines within,the sooner he will know himself.