Have you ever experienced the feeling of "ghost pressing the bed"? Can you hear the sound around you and see the shadow around you but can't wake up? In fact, ghost pressure bed is a kind of situation that many people will encounter when they sleep. It looks scary, but it's just a normal physiological reaction. Follow Xiaobian to find out what's going on.
It's the most intuitive feeling to shout desperately but not to shout, to sit up struggling but not to move, to feel overwhelmed by heavy things.
After waking up, people's intuition is that it is caused by the suppression of unknown objects, and it is very panic, so the folk superstition will have the saying of "ghost presses the bed".
In foreign countries, there are more conservative people who think that they are abducted by aliens.
Ghost pressing bed is a physiological reaction
In ancient times, because of the low level of science and cognition, people used to associate the unexplained phenomena with "ghosts and gods".
In modern times, with the development of science and technology, the phenomenon of "ghost pressing the bed" has a reasonable and scientific explanation: This is actually a symptom called sleep paralysis.
The so-called sleep paralysis is that you are awake, but part of the brain function and the body are still in a sleep state, unable to control, at this time there will be the phenomenon of the whole body unable to move.
Some people even have some hallucinations because they are half asleep and half awake. Therefore, "ghost pressing bed" is not caused by ghosts, but a special physiological reaction of the body.
Who is prone to sleep paralysis
The incidence of sleep paralysis is actually relatively high. According to the US research report, 40% to 50% of people have experienced the feeling of "ghost crushing the bed".
This kind of symptom is related to mental pressure, which is often found in teenagers and young people. In particular, the following three types of people are more likely to occur:
01
People with too much pressure and irregular work and rest time
Often stay up late, or insomnia with anxiety, these factors are likely to cause sleep paralysis.
Vigilance: most people will encounter the situation of sleep paralysis in their lives. This is a normal situation without worry. But if you often have sleep paralysis, you should pay attention to it. It may be that the body has a disease. It's better to do the corresponding examination.
02
People with narcolepsy
What is paroxysmal sleeping sickness? It is actually a syndrome with unclear etiology, characterized by abnormal sleep tendency, including excessive daytime sleepiness, night sleep restlessness and pathological REM sleep.
This kind of patients often have sleep paralysis, which is one of the typical symptoms of narcolepsy.
03
A person who is tense and over excited before going to bed
Before going to bed, listening to the story of nervousness and excitement, watching the movie of nervousness and danger, or improper education, or using the way of threat to put the child to sleep, etc., may make the child's brain wake up and body control separate, resulting in sleep paralysis.
What to do when the ghost presses the bed
Don't be afraid to worry when you have the symptoms of "ghost pressing the bed". Recommend some quick ways to "wake up" your body.
1. Do eye exercises. Turn your eyes quickly, and let them move in circles or up and down.
2. Do facial movement. Blink, contract the muscles around your mouth, move your jaw and tongue.
3. All the people who can move. As your body muscles begin to recover, move your neck, shoulders, hands, fingers, legs, feet, and toes.
4. When the body can be controlled, you can try to sit up slowly, and then do further body exercises to make the body fully 'wake up'.
Sleep paralysis has no real harm to us. It will disappear naturally in a few minutes, and the body will gradually recover.
However, this unpleasant experience will make many people feel nervous and scared, causing great psychological pressure. Some people are even easy to associate it with ghosts under the guidance of customs, and then seek some unreliable methods to deal with it, which may cause more damage.
Therefore, we should treat this symptom reasonably and deal with it in a peaceful way.