Bump in the Night

ver wonder where Witches, ghosts, goblins come from? And why they seem to attack at night? Turns out that many of the things that go “Bump in the Night" are caused by Sleep Paralysis (SP)- a sleep phenomena where you feel awake and alert but can't move. hose who believe in aliens tend to have higher instances of Sleep Paralysis.(5,6) Alien encounters are also similar to “fairy" encounters from the Middle Ages. neubus and Succubus, two common Sleep Paralysis (SP ) visions, were sometimes called "ghost oppressors", "the devil on your back" and "the old hag." It's thought that SP visions played a decisive role in the Salem Witch Trials. Both Bridget isitations from the dead are common SP in Literature. Bishop and Susanna Martin were convicted of witcheraft based on visions their neighbors had during sleep.(8) •A Christmas Carol • Dracula • Frankenstein • The Fall of the House of Usher ightmare comes from "mare", mean- "The Crusher" Old English.(7) Grendel, the monster from Ryan Hurd ing in larel Acderma Cebe Pastau Stephan Farepas Beowolf, was called a "Mare." Casteapap W hat is Sleep Paralysis? W ho has Sleep Paralysis? • Seientifically speaking, SP occurs when features of REM sleep - like bodily paralysis and dreams - intrude into Light sleep. • Common sensations include - hearing shufling footsteps - feeling cold air - smelling something rotten - secing a dark mist • Women tend to have more SP 14-18% of SP instances include an apparition (1) 40-60% of the world's population has reported at least 1 instance of sleep paralysis (2) 75% of college students who reported instances than men.(4) an instance of SP also had visual hallucinations (3) • Those with constant sleep debt, such as night shift workers, students, truck drivers, and nurses, tend to have higher instances of SP Bump in the Night Sources: 1, Huffoed, DJ, Sleep Paralysis as Spiritual Experience, Transeultural Psychiatry, 42(1), March 2005: 11-45 2. French I& French CC, Terror in the Night, The Paychologist, 28 Aug 2009: 672-675 & Santomauro J, "Something wicked this way comes, " in Tall Takes about the mind and brain: Sepurating fact from fiction, Oxford, 2007 3. 4, Simard V& Nielson TA, Sleep paralysis-associated sensed presence as a possible manifestation of social anxiety, Dreaming. 15(4), Dec 2005: 245-260 S.French CC, et al., Psychological aspects of the alien contact experience, Cortex, 44(10), Nov-Dee 2008: 1387-95 6. McNally RJ & Clancy SA, Sleep Paralysis, sexual abuse, and space alien abduction, Transcultural Psychiatry, 42(1) March 2005: 113-22 7, en wikipedia org/wiki Mare_(folklore) 8. Cooke, WH. Justice At Salem, htip://www.justicesatsalem.com zeo: www.myZeo.com