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2. Sleep Paralysis Demon: What’s Really Going On Here?

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   Sleep paralysis happens when you wake up during the dream phase of sleep. During this period, your brain turns off signals to the rest of your body to keep it from moving or acting out your dreams ...

3. All About ‘Old Hag’ Syndrome or Sleep Paralysis - Healthline

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   hypnopompic hallucinations, or visions that happen as you’re waking up. auditory hallucinations, or imagining sounds. olfactory hallucinations, or imagining smells. a sense of heaviness or ...

4. Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia

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   Sleep paralysis. The Nightmare by Swiss artist Henry Fuseli (1781) is thought to be a depiction of sleep paralysis perceived as a demonic visitation. Sleep paralysis is a state, during waking up or falling asleep, in which a person is conscious but in a complete state of full-body paralysis. [1][2] During an episode, the person may hallucinate ...

5. Common Nightmares Could Actually Be Warnings About Mental Health

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   However, there’s one thing that nightmares may actually “warn” us about: our physical and mental health. According to research, nightmares are more common in people who have mental health ...

6. Sleep Paralysis: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment, and Prevention

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   Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move. It happens when you pass between stages of wakefulness and sleep. During these transitions, you may be unable to move or speak ...

7. Night hag - Wikipedia

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   Night hag. The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli (1781) is thought to be one of the classic depictions of sleep paralysis perceived as a demonic visitation. The night hag or old hag is the name given to a supernatural creature, commonly associated with the phenomenon of sleep paralysis. It is a phenomenon in which the sleeper feels the presence of a ...

8. Understand What Dreams are and What They Could Mean - WebMD

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   Technically, dreams are an involuntary series of sensations, emotions, ideas, and images that mainly occur during the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep. REM sleep is a high brain activity ...

9. Baku (mythology) - Wikipedia

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   Baku (獏 or 貘) are Japanese supernatural beings that are said to devour nightmares. They originate from the Chinese Mo. According to legend, they were created by the spare pieces that were left over when the gods finished creating all other animals. They have a long history in Japanese folklore and art, and more recently have appeared in ...