View Creepy Facts About Sleep Paralysis Pics. Sleep paralysis is a very strange condition in which you feel like you are awake but cannot move. One theory on sleep paralysis is that it's a result of rem sleep disruption where the body is still in a state of muscle atonia which prevents a dreamer from acting out their dreams.
I get sleep paralysis when my sleep schedule gets wonky.
The body must go into rem sleep, and it must come out of it, but sleep paralysis occurs when the body has trouble making these transitions. However, it is not something people seek to repeat once they experience it, as it can be unpleasant. Sleep paralysis is probably one of the strangest most terrifying conditions human beings can ever experience. Gladly only had sleep paralysis a few times in my life to date but these it was made of pure darkness except for the fact that its head was a horse's skull.