Sleep Paralysis: Child Abuse And Emotional Trauma

Stories originate from the imaginative mind by taking what has been seen before, and has been stored in our subconscious as natural behaviour, and portraying them as mimic play or reciting them for others to engage in. Cultural and local inventions contribute to the origin of stories as there is an underlying commonality between humans which is reflected through stories regardless of the cultural and local differences. The origin of my term project is through an experience with sleep paralysis, one the aims of the narrative is to convey the experience of sleep paralysis to the audience so that the audience can receive a general understanding of sleep paralysis.

Stories are told for entertainment, information and interaction. Stories also help us to persuade and motivate others as stories “appeal to our emotions and capacity for empathy” (Hsu, 2008). Stories inform us of different societies and cultures with different characteristic behaviours and when it is noticeable that a characteristic behaviour of one society is similar to other societies it indicates that there is something about our revolutionary past (Hsu, 2008). …show more content…
It also conveys that there is hope to move on to a better life and that the traumatic life you are living in is not permanent.

The theme of my term project is the psychological mind and how traumatic experiences can shape the way you live and the way you see the