Originally Posted by
AL3ZAY
Sleep paralysis is not a sleep disorder, it's an automatic process that prevents you from physically acting out your dreams with your muscles moving and contracting. While you sleep and are dreaming, your brain, hormones, and muscles are all active. If you are struck in the arm multiple times in a dream, struggle with an enemy, and then are shocked awake, when you open your eyes, your breathing is intensified, your arm is in pain where you were hit, and you are sweating from your struggle with an enemy. Sleep paralysis prevented you from doing all of these things physically, and rolling out of bed, or even striking your partner. Sleep paralysis is a harmless, automatic process, not a disorder. Not being able to get sleep paralysis would be a disorder.