The vicious cycle of Sleep Paralysis | Baland Jalal | TEDxIITGuwahati
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2022
- Dr. Baland Jalal, a neuroscientist, gives us an insight into the dreadful and terrifying phenomenon called Sleep Paralysis, the act of being paralyzed upon falling asleep. He has traveled around the world seeking explanations for puzzling aspects of this experience. He shares his findings with us in this video. He speaks about the treatment he has developed for Sleep Paralysis called the "Meditation-Relaxation Therapy". Imagine you are sleeping peacefully in bed, dreaming about how you saved your school from a terrorist attack, and the next moment you find yourself completely awake and conscious but you are unable to move or even speak. Terrifying, isn't it? Our speaker Dr. Baland Jalal is here to help you. Dr. Baland is a Neuroscientist and Visiting Researcher at University Of Cambridge in the Psychiatry Department, and is one of the world's leading experts on Sleep Paralysis. He has spent years exploring this spooky phenomenon and how people in different countries and cultures perceive it. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
i’ve been experiencing sleep paralysis for years now and over the years i’ve become less fearful while in sleep paralysis but the best way i’ve been able to wake myself up or get out of it is to calm myself down and take slow extremely deep breaths, making sure the breath goes through my whole body, it’s really hard to do especially when ur so scared but once u get that down pact it’s easier to control
Similar with me. I have mental health problems anyway, including lots of (often downright terrible and gruesome) nightmares. And episodes of sleep paraysis. And I agree. They stay very frightening and it is hard to remember the knowlegde about what is going on while your system is in such an adrenaline pumped state of fear. But it is possible. To me it feels like I still can't help for my brain to unblock my muscles and fully wake up, but while doing so, the vivid dream images playing over in reality may still be frightening, but somehow knowing they are NOT real helps being less terrified.
Im experiencing this when im about to fall asleep and in some cases i could feel when its about to hit.
Maybe it's a demon living in all mankind
Yes I also feel when sleep paralysis is about to come nd I get hallucinations too😥
Yes me too, and I know when I could prevent it to stop. When you feel it's about to hit just move your fingers vigorously.
I like my demon.
So I’m not the only one. Mine happen every night while the sun is still rising.
This dude seriously gets all the information out in such an easy to digest format. Very well done. Thanks for the info!
But not even one culture has a positive view of sleep paralysis. I’ve never heard of someone saying they experienced the warmth of an angelic being. It’s always associated with fear and a manifestly dark entity.
I have a long history of this happening to me, I am very well practiced in controlling it. I can't go into it at will, but once I feel it come on I can overcome the fear and use it to explore "another world" it's a lot like being in middle earth from the lord of the rings films. I am sometimes transported to another place completely when the fear can be overcome. Occasionally it is still very scary and I try to break out of it, but mostly I can handle it and it is very interesting. I've had quite a few out of body experiences and have been able to fly around from room to room. I have met other people and conversed with them, met other beings, angels, demons, monks, musicians, cats, mice, rats, snakes, dogs. I've been having these experiences for 25 years. I've been writing a diary of my experiences for the past couple of years.
I’ve welcomed it. Now I can control my lucid dreams and my sleep paralysis isn’t necessarily scary
For me it usually goes like this: my sleep schedule gets messed up and I miss an alarm, which I hate because I don't like being late to anything. Then, when sleeping, I realize I'm in a dream and get scared that I have missed my alarm. I force myself to wake up and boom, sleep paralysis. The more messed up my sleep schedule is, the more often I get sleep paralysis. Just today I was napping and floating on the border of sleep, and every time I woke up I had sleep paralysis. Like 5 times in a row. I am almost at the point where I can fall back asleep while in sleep paralysis because it's happening so often at the moment.
I'm at this stage right now. Sometimes I'm in paralysis and in think i managed to break out but i had to realise that it was a dream and i was still laying in my bed paralysed. Once I was trying to break out for hours and just wake up in another dream again and again and again.
Thank you for the informative video! Experiencing sleep paralysis was terrifying and thankfully I haven't gone through it in years. When it happened regularly, I was under emotional stress due to watching my dad lose his battle with cancer. Before being diagnosed w/ anxiety, I was having panic attacks often, gaining weight, and my sleep schedule wasn't healthy.
The sleep paralysis episodes were strange.. I could move my eyes to look around the room but my body from the neck down was stiff and it felt like someone was sitting on my chest. The worst part of it was feeling like something extremely bad was going to happen and it seemed as if pressure was building in my ears to the point of it exploding. Fortunately, sleep paralysis lasted a couple of months and I was able to snap out of some episodes by moving my foot or making a closed fist.
If only I had come across this video 15 yrs ago bc I wasn't aware that these terrifying sleep experiences were stress-related and at the time I was at my lowest point in life. Thanks again!
This has happened to me a few times. It's impossible to even open my mouth to speak. I felt as if something was hovering over me staring into my eyes.
Another was seeing someone at the end of the bed walking back and forth. I could hear people talking in the other room. Voices almost to a whisper as if trying not to wake someone. I felt like someone was pushing their hand down on the bed next to me. I could see everything around me. I have read that this is not harmful so I've learned to relax and calm my mind when this occurs.
, Dean here big fan now, Hi I love your body language and hand movement helps me focus on what ur saying I have adhd so now and then God bless you great voice great sound, big appreciation from South Africa
You look just like the actor Blake Michael when he was in “dog with a blog) ! (A compliment, he’s so good looking!)
I had no idea what sleep paralysis was when I had it for the first time a few months ago. At first I thought it was just a nightmare then it kept happening till this day i experience it. I was shocked that my experience is similar to others yet no one had told me how it happens
hello, I was always intrigued by how sleep paralysis happens. although there are studies that suggest associated conditions, none of them really explain the actual cause. Experiencing this parasomnia is scary but I do find it entertaining at times. It feels like an adventure ahhahahahhahaha.
I'd experience it everyday these days 🥲 It's horrible to woke up from sleep paralysis at 2:00 in the morning...
Yes today I got sleep paralysis with a hallucination of someone lying with me in my bed and screaming in my ear I got flabbergasted 🥲🥲
you do drugs then take a break
I’ve had it regularly since I was a kid but lately I’ve been having it every night. If you are as well you should consider doing a sleep study. Everything from sleep apnea to narcolepsy can cause it to happen frequently. Also if you’re chronically sleep deprived you can end up getting it all the time as well.
My sleep paralysis evolved. Now not just hallucinations but it constantly shift between dream and hallucinations. Not one time i thought that i broke out of it but i felt myself still laying in the bed and had to realize it was a dream and im still paralysed. Once i was constantly waling up just in dream but not in real life and it was a nightmare.
Interested to hear the science side but how come it's common to get sleep paralysis at 3 am? I heard sleep paralysis is like the state before Astral projection
If I were to take an (unqualified) guess, the common timing of sleep paralysis is most likely because people tend to go to sleep around the same times assuming they have standard school or work schedules, and with a regular sleep schedule, the stages of sleep tend to take a pretty similar amount of time for different people.
That’s what I’ve always wondered. Also, why do people tend to have similar hallucinations?
it’s not science. It’s a supernatural thing. A jinn. Search jathum and you’ll get your information
@@dianaplayzzz452 I do believe this as well.
Idc what some people say, it’s paranormal. It’s more than science. There’s no way this many different people, experience similar but different things. The other world is close, and I believe it’s a way to catch us while we’re vulnerable. Just my two cents
So, in your video, I watched every video on here, and most of them say the samething that it's all in your mind, bla bla bla.. that's what I thought before I use to get sleep paralysis all the time, but I will tell you the truth here when we experience sleep paralysis we are on the verge of astral projection but it doesn't happen because we freak out right away and panic, so when this happens when you are asleep when you turn off the lights and go to bed and sleep paralysis occurs remember and notice the room you are in you can see everything even in the dark you can see everything, it's because you're energy can see this way you're seeing with your energy or soul right, then you see these dark entities and that is the spirit worlds they are everywhere and now you're spirit can see them! The hooded shadow man that you can't see his face they don't want you coming out of your physical body, our body is just a sleeve for our soul. Our bodies may die, but our physical bodies die. This is just a few words but wake up.
First one, as soon as I woke up I ran out of my bedroom and ask my parents if they heard me yelling.
They said no
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we have same poster about brain anatomy 🤭
I’ve had sleep paralysis at least 200 times…. And I’m 20🤣🤣
It is very easy to rid of . Look up Noah Hines sleep paralysis
@@angelamurphy75 I don’t know but when it happens to me I know how to get out of it straight away but it is annoying
@@HarmzConscious you can get rid of it forever. Just look up the guy
I did the same experiment I was in my own room in sleep paralysis I took pen a and paper and wrote my name and woke up later but it wasn't there
How did u take a pen and paper when you were In paralysis.. u literally can’t move a morsel if u tried to, eyeballs yes, toes n fingers maybe but not often but definitely not able to get a pen n paper to write on. Maybe that was another experience outside of sleep paralysis
@@SexyJoPlai I am talking about what happened when i was dreaming in sleep paralysis , i saw and exerienced the same room in my dream when i was dreaming in sleep paralysis.
I got scared
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that's pretty much the hat man right there
Buy an Apollo Neuro Watch
hey is that micheal jackson?
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Thank you Michael Jackson
talking utterly Doo Doo only I believe a handful of people experience i, know I certainly have. he basically just stole his story from the internet