Sleep Paralysis Research Paper

Oscar Mendez

Prof. McKinney

ENGL 1301.067

April 10th, 2017

Rough Draft: Sleep Paralysis Condition

Have you ever had a nightmare? maybe you think that Chucky, Freddy Krueger or It the Clown were coming to get you, then you begin to get that feeling that someone is in your room while your tucked in bed but you know that all of it is fake and could never truly happen Right?. Well, you would be wrong, imagine it truly come to life and you can see, feel and even hear the nightmare getting closer to you. That would be Sleep Paralysis a condition where you wake up to nothing more than the inability to move your arms, body, and legs. Which studies made by Web M.D and the American Sleep Foundation (Verywell), have been said that it was
The causes and effects of this condition are known to be because of sleep habits as a whole but it truly is an unknown phenomenon that causes hallucinations to come to life.

There are a few articles explaining the background of why we experience the paralyzing of our entire body and even a few cures to it. The number of articles and stories told about the sleep paralysis hallucinations outnumbers the real causes and effects. According to the Library database Neurological Sciences, Michele Terzaghi states that "Sleep paralyses are viewed as pure motor phenomena featured by a dissociated state in which REM-related muscle atonia coexists with a wakefulness state of full consciousness" With this being the best reason to why we live our nightmares, we are able to break down the cures. It has been said by the Web MD that the reason why we become conscious in our sleep is most likely because of the way we receive or position ourselves while going to sleep. It is best to gain more sleeping hours, not to lay on your back,
In Stage 1, "the brain produces high amplitude theta waves, which are very slow brain waves." (P.6). This sleep lasts for a brief period of time, being up to 10 minutes. Usually this tends to be the part where if someone were to awaken the person during this stage, they may report that they were not sleeping. During stage 2 it is stated that people become less aware of their surroundings, their body temperature drops and the heart rate and breathing then start to become more regular This is the second stage of sleep and lasts a little longer than 10 minutes but no more than 20. The brain wave activity begins producing fast rapid rhythmic pulses known as sleep spindles which is what causes you to day dream and get slightly sleepy. This is when the body temperature commences to decrease and the heart rate adjusts and slows down. According to Kendra Cherry, people spend about "50 percent of their total sleep in this stage". Stage 3 would be where your muscles become relaxed, blood pressure drops, heart rate drops, and this is the deepest sleep that occurs. The last stage is abrupt but it is the primary stage where most of the condition occurs and is the main reason why you begin to develop sleep paralysis hallucinations. REM sleep occurs when your body has fully became immobilized while your brain is unable to stop itself from being active, and your eye movement becomes rapid, increasing