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Sufferers of sleep paralysis often feel there is an old hag, or witch, in the room tormenting them91

Sleep Paralysis: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

One day last year I was taking a nap on the couch when I heard my mother come home from work. I woke up and saw her walk through the front door, and I tried to say hello to her. I was distirubed to find...

58 comments    health sleep disorders nighttime
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Do you have Sleep Paralysis: The Old Hag Syndrome Explained

Sleep Paralysis is a condition in which a person is unable to move and senses the presence of an entity just before falling asleep or just after waking up. But the problem is that many people do not...

9 comments    sleep witches hallucinations
Sleep Paralysis, Old Hag Sydrome.86

Sleep Paralysis – Old Hag Syndrome, Shadow People and Demons in the Dark – Sleep Paralysis Treatment

Sleep Paralysis – Old Hag Syndrome, Shadow People and Demons in the Dark. Last night it happened again, but this time it was different, this time I embraced it, this time instead of the unseen...

24 comments    sleep paralysis sleep paralysis
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Sleep Paralysis or Alien Abduction ?

I suffer from a sleep disorder that I have had from time of my childhood. It has been diagnosed as sleep paralysis, or it can be called R.E.M. awakening. Its diagnoses depends on what leads to the event. As...

1 comment    sleep events sleep disorder
Old Hag Syndrome - Sleep Paralysis76

Sleep Paralysis, Shadow People and Old Hag Syndrome - 'While You Sleep'

What is Sleep Paralysis? Sleep paralysis is the term used to describe a state of paralysis that grips the body usually shortly after waking, but occasionally before falling asleep. Scientifically it is...

3 comments    hubchallenge sleep terror
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Sleep Paralysis, Anyone?

I used to be a chronic victim of sleep paralysis. It was almost everynight. Having an "attack" is almost always frightening. Sometimes it comes during or after a nightmare. It will really give you a heart...

0 comments    sleep mental prevention
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Top Twelve Explanations for Alien Abductions

The movie The Fourth Kind came and went and I missed it, due to emergency family issues on the health and home front. I was going to write this hub before the movie blew out of town, and I did want to see...

53 comments    aliens ufos folklore
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Sleep Paralysis: Supernatural or Nightmare?

The Hag In many cultures Sleep Paralysis is thought to be demons or ghosts sitting on ones chest, while the sleeper is aware of what is happening. Some of the sleepers claim to see something or someone...

1 comment    spirituality sleep spiritual
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My Bout With Sleep Paralysis

I didn't know until recently that the strange, frightening phenomenon, which I have been experiencing for the past year, is a moderately common condition called sleep paralysis. When it first started...

5 comments    sleep dreams sleep paralysis
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Are Some of Us Predestined To Seek/Find God?

Predestination, NDEs (near-death experiences), and sleep disorders such as sleep paralysis may have something in common. NDEs have been posited as the result of oxygen deprivation in the brain, the question...

2 comments    sleep disorder near death
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