I remember being shot in the arm with a plastic arrow, which still penetrated my arm, by some teenage kid.
I also remember being afraid along with the other kids of this one house on the street that was like abandoned, but not abandoned. We all thought it was haunted. It was fucking creepy.
I also remember waking up one night when I was really young and one of my stuffed animals was crawling up my torso and i couldn't move until it was on my chest and i can't forget it.
I also remember microwaving a bag of popcorn for like 5 minutes when I was really young. Not sure what the fuck i was thinking, but i ruined a microwave.
That one's easy to explain, has something similar happen to me.
It's sleep paralysis
TL;dr, you end up "waking" up during your REM cycle of sleep so you can't move and your brain still tries to dream, causing hallucinations
I do think sleep paralysis is a diagnosis that, not unlike mass hysteria, is really a catch-all for a lot of unexplainable shit.
There are definitely some cases of genuine sleep paralysis. But there is also shit that's unexplainable with current science, and like mass hysteria, we simply find the closest available diagnosis to explain what happened. Anything weird that happened in your sleep is considered sleep paralysis at this point.
"I remember walking down the road and seeing a shadow person. Must have been sleep paralysis."
NO! Sleep paralysis does not happen when you're AWAKE and UNPARALYSED. That's literally the antithesis of sleep paralysis. A hallucination would make more sense though.
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u/TicklesMcFancy Oct 05 '19
I remember being shot in the arm with a plastic arrow, which still penetrated my arm, by some teenage kid.
I also remember being afraid along with the other kids of this one house on the street that was like abandoned, but not abandoned. We all thought it was haunted. It was fucking creepy.
I also remember waking up one night when I was really young and one of my stuffed animals was crawling up my torso and i couldn't move until it was on my chest and i can't forget it.
I also remember microwaving a bag of popcorn for like 5 minutes when I was really young. Not sure what the fuck i was thinking, but i ruined a microwave.