Thread: Sensory hallucination.

On wikipedia they go more into it on their page on sleep paralysis. I don't think even sensory necessarily goes away when you open your eyes, but then again I've only gotten SP once in my life and I didn't get any sensory stuff.

Oh that's weird because I've had SP a few times before and I was scared and felt dread all around me. I could see my bedroom clearly. It always happened when I was waking up, not falling asleep, too. Oh well, I guess this time was different.

Yeah it can technically happen either time, right before falling asleep or waking up, and usually there's a feeling of dread, along with a feeling of a manevolent presence, that's the typical stuff, but the spectrum is pretty wide.

SP is when your brainwaves are still that of when you would be asleep, but you happen to be awake, hence you can see whatever your mind accidentally thinks ups, or tries it's hardest not to think up, or whatever the case may be. When the brain is going through sleep brain waves (I don't know the order so that's my general word for all them) it shuts off your motor nervous system from the neck down, so you can still feel, and move your eyes and possibly your mouth, but nothing else.

It's not necessarily psychological, except through the perspective that dreams themselves are psychological, that we are unconsciously controlling what we see in our dreams, and same goes for what we see with SP.

I apologize if all this has been mentioned ina FAQ before and I'm just regurgiating common knowledge.