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They used to call it the witch riding your back but what is it when you wake up in the middle of the night and cannot move or breath then after seemingly suffering suffocation fell immediately back?
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I read about this and it's called Sleep paralysis. This use to happen to me, and the only thing that use to help was prayer and opening The Bible.
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It is a common name for sleep paralysis, a type of nightmare that takes place in low level REM sleep. A person's body is asleep, yet their brain is awake enough to perceive their surroundings. This explains why a person's body has the sensation of being heavy or immovable, almost as if something is sitting on their chest. The fact that they are in low level REM sleep explains why they see all sorts of scary creatures like witches or demons. A good illustration of this phenomenon is Heny Fuseli's beautiful painting "The Nightmare" (1781). Such night terrors are typically reported by African Americans from (or at least with ties to) the south, particularly in Louisiana where it is known as "Cauchemare." The earliest references to this phenomenon in the US come from the Salem witch trials of 1692. The oldest source that I know of mentioning the witch is the writing of an early 14th-century French physician who noted that the common folk believed the Incubus was an "old hag" who smothered adults and children in their sleep.
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Why do people suffering from anxiety attacks breath into brown paper bags and not plastic bags?
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How does suffocation affect the circulatory system?
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