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Sleep paralysis can be defined as the common condition which was marked as the inability to perform the movements in your limbs or body upon waking or during the sleep.

The people who are suffering with sleep paralysis must know that this problem does not cause any serious or mental illness.

The actual cause for obtaining sleep paralysis was not found. Mostly it occurs in the people who don’t have narcolepsy except in some rare cases.

You can cope with sleep paralysis by taking proper measures.

Take a look on some of the steps which makes you to cope with sleep paralysis:

1. Recognize the symptoms of sleep paralysis
2. Ask the experiences of others who are suffering with this problem
3. Know the causes of your sleep paralysis
4. Avoid the triggers
5. Aging
6. Regular sleep

Further details regarding the steps given above are:

1. Recognize the symptoms of sleep paralysis: This problem of sleep paralysis will be affecting different people in different ways. You can be able to deal with this problem easily by knowing how it is affecting you. Some symptoms of sleep paralysis are: obtaining some sinister feelings like some evil entities are watching you, obtaining emotional feelings like an intruder was present in your room, alien abductions, rape, etc.

Sleep paralysis is a condition in which you are unable to move either at sleep onset or on awakening.

You lie down on the bed for hours, trying to wiggle your fingers or toes, but you are paralyzed.

You cannot call out for help as you can’t draw a deep enough breathe to make the sound. After sometime you are able to move slightly and your body begins to respond. This can happen to anyone.

Sleep paralysis can happen at the beginning of sleep or end of sleep. The event lasts for few minutes and there is no harm with sleep paralysis.

It’s terrifying for the first time when the event occurs. You may feel a presence which is threatening or evil. It is vaguely felt and though to be watching or monitoring you.

Sleep paralysis occurs as the body is coming out of rapid eye movement sleep. During REM sleep, your brain will be very active but you are actually paralyzed.

The main symptom of sleep paralysis is partial or complete skeletal muscle paralysis during the hypnogogic states. Events can be associated with hypnogogic hallucinations. The hallucinations can be visual or auditory.

Sleep paralysis is a condition during sleep in which the affected individual feels incapable of movement.

It is a serious sleep disorder.

Sleep paralysis sufferer will generally experience the feeling that they are unable to execute voluntary physical movement at the onset of sleep, which is sometimes referred as hypnogogic, or just upon waking, which is sometimes referred as hypnopompic period.

Sleep paralysis sufferers complain that they are unable to move their legs, arms, and trunk upon waking or at falling asleep.

In many cases, strong dream-related mentation, and sometimes even hallucinations accompany sleep paralysis. Some people report the feeling of something or someone applying pressure on their chest. [Hypnagogic Hallucinations]

A short-termed episode of muscle paralysis is cause of sleep paralysis. Fortunately, this sleep disorder does not appear to cause harm to an individual’s health.

However, sleep paralysis sufferers often report feeling frightened at not being able to move, and experience considerable stress at not knowing when the effects of a sleep paralysis episode will subside, or when a new episode will occur.