Explaining Sleep Paralysis

Ever since the beginning of time, people have been experiencing a weird phenomena that has come to be known as "Sleep Paralysis", or "Old hag syndrome". Sleep paralysis has gathered a lot of attention over the last decade with the coming of the world wide web, and legitimate information on it has been in very high demand from people of all kinds; ranging from skeptics of metaphysical and supernatural activity, to those very advanced and experienced in this field. I've spent thousands of hours dedicated to studying this phenomena and spent much of my time creating theories and coming to conclusions of why this occurs, and how. Why does it happen? Why doesn't everyone experience it? Why do the hallucinations and sensations that sometimes accompany it occur? I'll explain those questions in this article.

Why does sleep paralysis happen to people?

There is more than one reason that it happens, I'm not sure of all of them, but I know some. Since it's a subject that doesn't get much research done on it, only few things are known about it, and conclusions usually have to be made by the individual experiencing the phenomena. I'll show you here some things that I'm sure cause sleep paralysis to occur.

1. Not getting enough rest: Some people may get home from work or a good jog in the park and be extremely fatigued. If you don't get enough sleep, or at least enough for your body to be revitalized as much as it wants, when you wake up in the morning, your body might not wake up with you. What I mean by this, is that you will wake up, but your body will feel it's too tired to wake up and go back to sleep immediately, leaving your mind awake but your body asleep. If you're in a state called REM, or Rapid Eye Movement, you may start hallucinating with whatever is on your mind, whatever you fear will happen (such as you thinking that you'll be abducted by an alien, causing you to see an alien.) You could just begin dreaming again, but if you simply must wake up to go to work or to go do something, that wont really be an option, which can add to the anticipation of the situation.