Paralysis

this phenomenon. All these are just hallucinations accompanied by extreme fear. They just see things that are not physically present. However, that doesn’t mean those people that experience this are crazy. It’s called sleep paralysis. Over the centuries, symptoms of sleep paralysis have been described in many ways and often attributed to an "evil" presence, unseen night demons in ancient times, the old hag in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and alien abductors. A night hag or old hag is a…

myths of different countries. Although these explanations differ majorly, the core aspect of Sleep Paralysis remains the same. This website as well as the book used for reference, offers examples of nocturnal attackers; for example, Kanashibari and Old Hag. (www.thesleepparalysisproject.org, Sleep Paralysis by Shelley R. Adler, 2010 Paperback) Kanashibari is a Japanese explanation of Sleep Paralysis which means “to tie with an iron rope”. This comes from the magic of “Fudo-Myohoh” who is a…

INTRODUCTION My article of choice has the title of “Unlocking Paralysis” by Lisa Fitterman. Lisa Fitterman is a Toronto-based writer who is also known to be a reporter, editor, columnist and a freelance writer for a wide range of both national and international magazines. She has authored a variety of stories, ranging from profiles of women in the Russian opposition to immigration and racism in certain countries. In this article however, she talks about how a new invention, Endovascular…

Have you ever heard of lucid dreaming, and is it all it thought up to be? There is also a negative consequence that can occur. Are teenager more at risk from suffering from sleep paralysis due to this trend. Lucid dreaming is where you are aware of dreaming. During lucid dreaming, you may be able to have control over the dream characters, story, and environment. Can lucid dreaming have multiple negative side effects on people and especially teenagers that attempt or have succeeded in doing?…

vocal cord paralysis Just like any other organ of the body, your vocal cords can also be damaged. However, this problem is generally ignored by people in internal stages, but later on it can also be subjected to trauma and infections. Patients with this vocal damage typically experience hoarseness, vocal fatigue, a pain in the throat when speaking, mild to serve reduction in speech volume and other similar problems. Individuals with these problems are more likely to have vocal cord paralysis…

causing a person to become paralyzed. Paralysis can be caused by many different things and can cause different effects in each person. Paralysis can affect any muscle in the body, because of this a person may lose not only the ability to move but also the ability to talk or breathe unaided (Human diseases and conditions). Figure one shows the different causes of paralysis and how common each of them are. Having a stroke is the number one cause leading to paralysis at 29%, and in second at 23%…

Sleep Paralysis and Anxiety Disorders Studies have suggested that individuals who suffer from an anxiety disorder are more likely to experience isolated sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis is the inability to make voluntary movements during the onset of sleep called hypnagogic sleep paralysis or upon awakening called hypnopompic sleep paralysis. During sleep, the body alternates between REM (rapid eye movement) and NREM (non-rapid eye movement). During REM sleep, the body goes into a state of…

Sleep paralysis is a very common sleep disorder. Out of the entire population, about 7.6% of people will have at least one encounter in there lifetime. The two most common groups of people who experience sleep paralysis are students, and psychiatric patients (Sharpless 2011.). Sharpless wrote that in a study, about 28% of students and 32% of psychiatric patients have occurred at least one encounter of sleep paralysis. With the patients, their disorder could cause them to not get a good night’s…

more and more information that we are not neccessatily searching for, along with the rediculously stupid amounts of information we recieve on topics we actually care about. All of this information creates a rather perplexing delima in that we have "paralysis by analysis". In other words, we have so much information available to us that we are not sure what to begin working on first! By meditating,…

Paralysis is a condition linked with the inability to move and involves loss of muscle function. It can occur due to many different reasons such as illness, poison or trauma. Flaccid paralysis and spastic paralysis are two conditions that are considered different forms of paralysis. It can be accompanied with sensory loss as well as loss of feeling. Flaccid paralysis is the loss of muscle tone. It gives rise to limp and floppy muscles that lack firmness due to loss of activity in these muscles.…