Sleeping Paralysis - A feeling of someone is in your room while sleeping

Sleeping Paralysis

This post is not for weak heart people, so if you are one of those or planning to sleep alone tonight, its an honest request to please just hover away to something else.

It was around 3.20 am when I heard some noise coming from my sisters room. It was a cold winter night and even a small sound could be heard clearly. It was like my sister was either struggling to speak or was suffocating, I rushed to her room, her door was not locked. The next thing that I saw sank my heart, there was nobody around and it looked as if she was just having a nightmare. I woke her up, she was sweating like hell. Now that I narrate these events to you, the goosebumps just bid a Hi to me. 

She woke all of sudden, like she was trapped in her dreams, as if something was holding her from waking up. She looked around like a insane person, trying to find something. This is not something that you expect from a person who just woke up from a nightmare. A person who was having a nightmare,when woken up, thanks you and tells you about his dream, but this was different. The way she behaved was as if there was no nightmare and someone was really in her room, and that someone was definitely not pleasing. She told me that she knew she was sleeping and the light of the room was off, she was aware of everything around her, and then she felt as if someone was sitting beside her, she was unable to see her face said it was like a shadow was sitting next to her. She was trying to wake up but was unable to open her eyes, her body was not moving ans she could barely move her tongue, but she was damn sure that she was awake and this was no dream, all she could manage was make a little sound without opening her mouth and that sound barely made any sense.

That night she slept with my mother. I am not one of those who believe in superstitious things, so I took it for a nightmare, it was almost 2 years after the incident when I came to know about a Psychological phenomenon called "Sleeping Paralysis", and trust me it happens to everyone in their life span and is worstest kind of nightmare that you can imagine, cause it is not a dream, but reality.

Here is something from wikipedia that might help you understand better:

Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon in which an individual, either during falling asleep or awakening, briefly experiences an inability to move, speak, or react. This is a transitional state between wakefulness and sleep, characterized by an inability to move muscles. It is often accompanied by terrifying hallucinations to which one is unable to react due to paralysis, and physical experiences (such as strong current running through the upper body). These hallucinations often involve a person or supernatural creature suffocating or terrifying the individual, accompanied by a feeling of pressure on one's chest and difficulty breathing. Another common hallucination type involves intruders (human or supernatural) entering one's room or lurking outside one's window, accompanied by a feeling of dread.

Genetics and sleep deprivation are a major cause of sleep paralysis,^[1] and it has also been linked to disorders such asnarcolepsy, migraines, anxiety disorders, and obstructive sleep apnea.^[2][3] Sleeping in a fixed supine position increases the chance of sleep paralysis. The underlying mechanism is believed to result from disrupted REM sleep, when there should be a general inability to move muscle to prevent the sleeper from acting out their dreams. About 8% of people experience sleep paralysis at one point in their life.^[4]

Signs and symptoms[edit]

A picture of a Succubus-like vision, in contrast to the Incubus. My Dream, My Bad Dream, 1915, by Fritz Schwimbeck

Le Cauchemar (The Nightmare), by Eugène Thivier (1894)

Sleep paralysis is closely related to REM atonia, the paralysis that occurs as a natural part of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Sleep paralysis occurs either when falling asleep, or when awakening from sleep. When it occurs upon falling asleep, the person remains aware while the body shuts down for REM sleep, a condition called hypnagogic or predormital sleep paralysis. When it occurs upon awakening, the person becomes aware before the REM cycle is complete, and it is called hypnopompic or postdormital.^[5] The paralysis can last from several seconds to several minutes, with some rare cases being hours, "by which the individual may experience panic symptoms"^[6] (described below). As the correlation with REM sleep suggests, the paralysis is not complete: use of EOG traces shows that eye movement is still possible during such episodes; however, the individual experiencing sleep paralysis is unable to speak.^[7]

Visions and hearing a demonic voice when resistance is attempted are symptoms commonly experienced during episodes of sleep paralysis. Some scientists have proposed this condition as an explanation for reports of ghost parasites and alien visits.^[8][9] There are three main types of these visions that can be linked to pathologic neurophysiology: the belief that there is an intruder in the room, the incubus, and vestibular motor sensations.^[8][10]

Many people who experience sleep paralysis have a sense of terror when they sense a menacing presence in the room while paralyzed—hereafter referred to as the intruder. A neurological interpretation of this phenomenon is that it results from a hyper-vigilant state created in the midbrain.^[10] More specifically, the emergency response is activated in the brain when individuals wake up paralyzed and feel vulnerable to attack.^[8] This helplessness can intensify the effects of the threat response well above the level typical of normal dreams, which could explain why such visions during sleep paralysis are so vivid.^[8] Normally the threat-activated vigilance system is a protective mechanism to differentiate between dangerous situations and to determine whether the fear response is appropriate.^[8] Some hypothesize that the threat vigilance system is evolutionarily biased to interpret ambiguous stimuli as dangerous, because "erring on the side of caution" increases survival chances.^[8] This hypothesis could account for why the threatening presence is perceived as being evil.^[8] The amygdala is heavily involved in the threat activation response mechanism, which is implicated in both intruder and incubus SP visions.^[11]

The specific pathway through which the threat-activated vigilance system acts is not well understood. One possibility is that the thalamus receives sensory information and sends it on the amygdala, which regulates emotional experience. Another is that the amygdaloid complex, anterior cingulate, and the structures in the pontine tegmentum interact to create the vision.^[10] It is also highly possible that SP hallucinations could result from a combination of these. The anterior cingulate has an extensive array of cortical connections to other cortical areas, which enables it to integrate the various sensations and emotions into the unified sensorium we experience.^[10] The amygdaloid complex helps us interpret emotional experience and act appropriately.^[12] This is conducive to directing the individual's attention to the most pertinent stimuli in a potentially dangerous situation so that the individual can take self-protective measures.^[12]

Proper amygdaloid complex function requires input from the thalamus, which creates a thalamoamygdala pathway capable of bypassing the intense scrutiny of incoming stimuli to enable quick responses in a potentially life-threatening situation.^[10][12] Typically, situations assessed as non-threatening are disregarded. In sleep paralysis, however, those pathways can become over-excited and move into a state of hyper-vigilance in which the mind perceives every external stimulus as a threat. The hyper-vigilance response can lead to the creation of endogenous stimuli that contribute to the perceived threat.^[10] A similar process may explain the experience of the incubus presence, with slight variations, in which the evil presence is perceived by the subject to be attempting to suffocate them, either by pressing heavily on the chest or by strangulation.^[8]

A neurological explanation hold that this results from a combination of the threat vigilance activation system and the muscle paralysis associated with sleep paralysis that removes voluntary control of breathing.^[8] Several features of REM breathing patterns exacerbate the feeling of suffocation.^[8] These include shallow rapid breathing, hypercapnia, and slight blockage of the airway, which is a symptom prevalent in sleep apnea patients.^[10] According to this account, the subject attempts to breathe deeply and finds herself unable to do so, creating a sensation of resistance, which the threat-activated vigilance system interprets as an unearthly being sitting on her chest, threatening suffocation.^[10] The sensation of entrapment causes a feedback loop when the fear of suffocation increases as a result of continued helplessness, causing the subject to struggle to end the SP episode.^[8]

The intruder and incubus experiences highly correlate with one another, and moderately correlate with the third characteristic experience, vestibular-motor disorientation, also known as out-of-body experiences,^[8] which differ from the other two in not involving the threat-activated vigilance system.^[11] Under normal conditions, medial and vestibular nuclei, cortical, thalamic, and cerebellar centers coordinate things such as head and eye movement, and orientation in space.^[10] A neurological hypothesis is that in sleep paralysis, these mechanisms—which usually coordinate body movement and provide information on body position—become activated and, because there is no actual movement, induce a floating sensation.^[8] The vestibular nuclei in particular has been identified as being closely related to dreaming during the REM stage of sleep.^[10] According to this hypothesis, vestibular-motor disorientation, unlike the intruder and incubus experiences, arise from completely endogenous sources of stimuli.^[8]

Now that we know why sometimes we feel someone is in our room or that someone is looking at us from the window, our nights could be simpler cause atleast know we understand the fact that it is just a state of mind and mere overlapping of sleeping stages that gives us such a horrific experience, so its just a Psychological phenomenon.... Or is it... 

The Schroedinger’s Cat paradox

 The Schrodinger’s Cat paradox

Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The scenario presents a cat that may be simultaneously both alive and dead,a state known as a quantum superposition, as a result of being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur. The thought experiment is also often featured in theoretical discussions of the interpretations of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger coined the term Verschränkung (entanglement) in the course of developing the thought experiment.

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Still no idea what schrodinger's cat paradox is?? Well, i wont blame you, wikipedia is the most confusing and unnecessary information giving websites ever made by the human civilization. 

So lets start with a simpler explanation. According to the schodinger's cat paradox, a alive cat is kept inside a box with a poison in it, and the poison has 50% chance of breaking down and spreading, causing death to the cat, and an equal 50% chance that it wont break when we open the box to see if the cat is alive or dead. So, if we open the box to see whether our cat is alive or dead, we have equal chances of cat being alive or dead. While we are looking at the box, and have not opened it yet, within the box, the cat exists in a state, what scientists call "Superposition State" according to which, till the box is closed, the cat is dead and alive simultaneously. 

Now talking about the cat point of view, and what she might be seeing inside and remembers when we remove her dead or alive totally depends on us. If she dies on opening the box, her dead brain will have the memory that when I opened the box, the poison bottle broke and she died(she might be cursing me right now). But talking about the case when in which we remove the cat and she is alive, she will remember that the bottle of poison didn't break, and we removed her safely. Still finding it hard to swallow??

Well, schrodinger got this paradox, which is also believed to be the biggest and unsolved paradox ever in the history of science. This experiment was suggested by schrodinger to show that how actually the "quantum mechanics" works. If we look at the object, the result can't be the same if we are not looking at it.

Einstein did not like the idea of poison and opening box, so he gave a different scenario..according to Einsteins model of paradox, a cat is put inside a box with a gun powder or grenade, that have 50-50 chances of exploding. So its explosion can either kill the cat or if it didn't kill the cat, the cat will come out safety. 

More or less, this is less of an experiment and more of a philosophy that even after so many years, still scares the hell out of scientists, who work in the field of quantum mechanics. Though the scientists haven't got success in making a machine to perform this experiment, which makes it the most scary yet interesting paradox ever.

Is the time slowing down?

                 Is the time slowing down?

In the year 1998, Hubble telescope reported that the universe is expanding. The results were expected. But the turning point in this story came in the year 2004 when the same telescope reported the universe is not only expanding but also it is accelerating. This was the time when all the brilliant minds were helpless to explain the phenomenon and the Hubble telescope was reported to be a dead machine. 

But the thing was in the news and everyone wanted answers from NASA. The main problem with this theory was, the basic Newtonian law. According to which, an object can accelerate only when a external force is applied on it, the equation is F=ma. Now if the report is true and the universe is actually expanding then some external force powerful enough to push or pull it, should be acting on it. After 10 years of research, the result were just a piece of shit and the only possible and most accepted reason was the dark matter. To know more about it, you can read my post related to it. But now, a combined team of scientist and mathematicians (though they both hate each other) have come up with a revolutionary theory. "The theory of lagging time". 

According to this theory, universe is not at all accelerating, it is actually the time which is getting slower. And now from the equation V=U + AT, we can see that acceleration is inversely proportional to time, if other factors are kept constant. So if we slow down the time, we can get acceleration increased without any change in other factors.
But the theory sounds rather foolish. How can someone slow down the time? Right from primary classes we learn that time is an independent quantity (or dimensions, I won’t agree on this rather). But in the year 1949, Sir Albert Einstein gave the theory of special relativity, according to which time lags. If we apply the same here, the difference is very small but we are talking of billions of years, it does matter. What I am trying to explain is that, there is a possibility that we are looking at time in a wrong way, there are high possibility that there is no existence of time at all, all this time the humans are being fooled by something that not at all exists. There are many theories which can revolutionize the world of science proving everything else wrong including the time travel, and all this theories contradict at only point, that is the existence of time. If you think humanity is impossible without the measure of time, look around you, dogs don’t ask time from each other, neither do they were costly watches like Rado for accurate measurement of time, and all other animals are the best example of time management and none of them actually know the existence of time. It is possible that this is the reason due to which the humans have still not been able to find the grand unified theory. We have the hint of aliens and we all know that they travel faster than light, it is because they don’t have the concept of time in there science and when there is no limit, the toughest of the things comes handy.
If for some time we remove the limitation of time, everything seems so perfect. We can now travel faster than light, we know that the universe is only expanding and not accelerating and string theory is in its best of the phase.
The phenomenon that time is getting slower even points to something that is dangerous, it predicts that someday it will get so slow that it will stop. At that time the situation of the absolute zero will take place and everything will come to a halt. Then due to gravity, everything will attract each other and again all this universe will become the same point were the big bang took place. This is better called as The reversal of time.

I don’t intend to confuse you, and I am no saying you no more care for time, but I only want to hint you that very soon the most basic foundation of science "THE TIME" will be over thrown and then the era of time travel and the grand unified theory will rule the universe.

Einsteins theory of ghost existence

                      Did Einstein Proved that ghosts exits? 

Ghosts is the subject that interests and exits everybody, but this is no entertainment site, so what is the reason of posting on such a topic? Actually, ghosts have become a field of scientific research. Very recently a scientist claimed that he has got the proof of ghostly existence, when not much entertained in the news, he gave the mathematical form of it which no scientists up till now is able to prove it wrong. I don't mean to scare you but i do mean to aware you of the truth! It is because he used the most accepted theory of the universe "the theory of conservation of energy" to prove it....and to your surprise....he did it successfully!!!!

Science and religion are always a point of conflict but the best of the scientists always got the feeling that these two points are the two opposite faces of the same coin.Its  No surprise that Einstein maybe un-knowingly proved it. He gave the theory according to which he said that "energy can neither be created nor be destroyed" which became the most basic foundation of modern science after which the whole physics stood up. We all know that our body has tremendous amount of energy which when we die goes back to the environment in the from of light, sound and heat. But, there is a type of energy which even after death could not get absorbed buy the environment directly, i.e. the "Electrical energy". The whole mass of the body is burned and conserved or eaten up by microbes if buried, but the electrical energy which is the cause why our heart beats or why we are able breath, persists.

The ghost hunters best ghost finding instrument is the "Electric field detector". We generally see that in movies too. Now, here is were the two concepts unite....As the electric field has not changed it form, is still roams around in environment. This is what the ghost hunters says relating to there point scientifically.

But I am not such a great supported of the above given fact, the electrical energy also get converted to heat and all other forms of energy, hence it maybe the same phenomenon after the death too. There is no big reason that we simply unify the law of conservation of mass and lez's law and simply proclaim that we are surrounded buy death and hunted people who are out to suck our bloods.

But the experiment conducted few years ago gave the clue of some super natural existence which is worth mentioning here. In the experiment, a old person was made to lay inside a air-tight glass box which was completely transparent. The experiment was to see what happens if a person dies inside a packed box? The results gave goosebumps to the scientists and the experiment was immediately stopped with no big excuse..."we ran out of funds"........was the only but unappreciated excuse given by the chief. But what went wrong?

When the person died, the glass which was about 30 cm thick and air tight CRACKED.....The amount of energy needed to do that is equal to the energy in a complete round of machine gun. So what made that glass to crack? The glass cracked because something wanted to escape out the dead body and the barrier of glass stopped the super natural power to do that.

We don't know that what is true and what is not, but we all can bet upon in thing, there are many things that happen in our life that are beyond the logical explanation, sometimes we are thinking of someone and suddenly we have there call or message, sometimes we feel that all this happening has already happened to you once, or the dream you saw wanted to tell you something. Sometimes we feel someone is looking at us, sometimes we here our name but when you turn...nobody is around you..........Not every thing can be realized neither everything can be theorized....we don't know why, but somethings are meant to be THE UNKNOWN......  

       

How can we become invisible?

                          How can we become invisible?

I am no big fan of the harry potter series. But I am a science enthusiast, and today I am going to tell that is there any possibilities of becoming invisible. Well yes, there are possibilities but little bit critical. The best way to become invisible is to make our refractive index equal to the air or surrounding. SHOCKED? Yes, this is the only way we can become invisible. But does this work?

The working is very simple. To understand this we need to understand the working that how we are able to see the things. We see things because they reflect light from a source to our eyes which then makes an image of the object. If we stop this process, we can get invisible. Now the question arises that how we ever gonna stop the reflection of light. We can not stop the natural phenomenon, but we can stop the light falling on us. If we make our refractive index equal to air, the light ray falling on us will go though us, instead of reflecting back. 

The scientists around the world have been looking to make this happen. And to your surprise, some of them have also succeeded in this. Two scientists have made a gown that can make the light diffract around the body instead of reflecting back to the viewers eyes. 

This advancement have many plus points, like for security reason , the whole army can go undetected. An army of ten soldiers will be enough for the 3rd world war. 

Along with this, if this technology goes in the hands of terrorist, no one will survive. The terrorist will take and plant bombs like buying apples. 

But overall, this technology is not so far and is to arrive soon. Cause in science, "Today's dream is tomorrows reality"..........

What happened to Malaysian flight 370.....The Actual Story....

                               Lost Malaysian Flight 370

                                    The Actual Story....

The atmosphere was clear, the wind was slow. When the scientific data revealed this truth every one including the air crash investigation department was shocked.There is high possibilities that:

1. Hit by a meteor: When the flight took off, the pilot was reported about a celestial body
approaching its path, and due to its density and velocity, it was reported as a meteor. Hence there are high possibilities that the flight might have crashed due to that meteor. But according to the mathematical geeks, the probability of flight coming in its path with appropriate velocity is very very low, and thats according to the Bayes theorem. 

 

 

2. Hidden Air strips: That is something which is the base of the investigation, the flight was lost around the indian ocean, it is rumored that indian ocean has many small islands on its surface, on which mafias built their private air strips to land their private planes for smuggling. Malasia  have already been in news for the same smuggling matters over the past decade. Hence it is possible that the plane might have been hijacked and landed somewhere around in those hidden places.

3. Lithium batteries: Looking over the accidents of past decade, lithium batteries causing explosion in Boeing flight is common. Hence it may be just another case of the same.

4. Terrorist Attack: The fight was flying below the radar range, which goes against the law. "We prefer to be in the radar range, and watch ourself fly by...."says a experienced flight operator and X-pilot of 777. Hence the only reason as to why the flight flew below the range is that it wanted to go undetected, hence its crew might have been forced to do so.

5. Critical Gravity: You might have heard  the mysterious stories of "the Bermuda triangle". It

is possible that such super natural critical gravity centers maybe present in the deviated path of the flight. Because it is reported that the flight lost communication, the when we are around such super natural gravity, the signals with high or low penetration power goes inside it instead of coming to the transponder system. Hence if there is no other evidence of the mysteriously lost flight. Then this is the only possible interpretation to be seen for.

The last message spoken was "good night" and the flight transponder was mysteriously stopped. The things seems to be very puzzled. There are high possibilities that something very inhuman and supernatural has happened with the flight. And with the report that the cell phone bell could he heard ringing instead of beeping after the flight was reported missing puts the think tanks in the another unsolved supernatural mystery.

The Mth Dimension........unbelievable but true

                    The Master Dimension (Mth dimension)

Governing dimension or the master dimension a is theory that has taken heat recently due to the fact that scientists just dont get it as to why the hell on earth is everything so perfect in universe, why earth is situated at such an significant distance from earth. All these things made no sense but now it has started to take shape. This theory says that their is a dimension above all the dimensions that is actually governing the rest of the dimensions and their speed of expansion. yes you got it right, you might have heard that the universe is actually speeding up instead of slowing down, and the reason is known and the answer is given dark matter, but according to me thats "bullshit". Check this out, suppose you have a balloon and you blow air in it, what will happen? It expands and along with it, its dimensions expands too, the same is the case of dimension of time, suppose we are able to control the flow of times dimension, then we can actually say that the speed of universe is same, the dimension of time is being restricted. Let us suppose that the 3 dimensions are kept inside the balloon discussed with their centers at the center of the balloon from where the radius emerges, now as the air comes inside the balloon the radius increases and so does the dimensions, hence if we change the speed of flow of air into the balloon, we can actually control the speed of dimensions and hence can explain the speeding phenomenon of the universe. Similarly, the other part of the theory says that we can imagine that a dense liquid is present inside the balloon, now due to viscosity, the dimensions expansion is hindered, similar to the phenomenon of the higher mass slowing down the time due to its high gravity, so denser the liquid higher the viscosity, so higher the mass, the tougher the expansion of dimensions become, this gives us a whole new set of geometry which now comprise of 5 parts 1.height 2.breadth 3.depth 4.governing dimension(limiting the dimensions, like the balloon outer surface) 5. Gravitational flowing dimension(controlling the  flow of the dimensions such as time).

This theory can really be a grate through in the field on science as it answers to every unanswered questions of time and gravity, now we are able to understand how gravity affects flow of time, it acts as a denser flow medium for the time dimension to flow, secondly the limit of the dimensions are now defined through the spherical dimension covering the rest and giving them some finite value, this give us one more prediction that it is possible that the universe does have a boundary, but how can we reach it? the answer is by using the gravitational flowing dimension, we form such a dense situation somewhere that around it the time dimension slows down, now with this particular advantage, we will be able to catch the boundary of universe without getting own extinction.