Quote Originally Posted by Darkmatters View Post
Sleep paralysis - that's an interesting idea. But isn't it only called sleep paralysis when you wake up and are still unable to move and sort of 'dreaming while awake'? I mean, it actually happens every time you're in REM - normally though it's called REM Atonia (its the complete slackening of the body's muscles) and if a person wakes up still in this state then it's called sleep paralysis.

I've experienced SP a couple of times when I was young, and it was different from what she's describing. When I was in SP I was basically laying in my bed awake but couldn't move, and I was seeing my room around me, but there were things there that weren't real and that were moving around - sort of like dream elements overlaid over my actual view of my room. It was sort of like I was getting mixed signals - the actual view from my eyes was entering my brain, but at the same time my brain was also producing dreamlike illusions mixed in with what I was seeing. Incidentally a lot of alien visitation stories are thought to actually be sleep paralysis episodes - isn't it ironic how many of them begin with a person 'waking up' and discovering strange little creatures standing around their bed doing weird things to them?
You are 100% correct. I think I just mis understood the op. Because now that I re-read it I think my post sounds dumb. Maybe that was meant to be posted on another thread? Haha, anyway your post are spot on. Exactly what I would say to the OP.