Sleep Paralysis

What is sleep paralysis? Do you suffer from sleep paralysis? Is sleep paralysis dangerous? Is sleep paralysis contagious? Is sleep paralysis curable? A large amount of people have never heard of sleep paralysis. Yet, there is a fair number of people experience sleep paralysis quite frequently. I'll try to answer some of these questions concerning sleep paralysis.

Sleep paralysis is the inability to perform voluntary movements either the beginning of your sleep(called predormital form) or upon waking up (called postdormital form). Sleep paralysis may also be referred to as isolated sleep paralysis, familial sleep paralysis, or hynogogic or hypnopomic paralysis.

Symptoms of sleep paralysis are the inability to move the trunk or limbs at sleep onset or upon waking. Sleep paralysis can also cause brief episodes of partial or complete skeletal muscle paralysis, episodes are often associated with hallucinations or dream-like states. It is not known why some people experience sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis does not seem to be harmful, although most people report feeling very afraid because they dont know what is happening. Overall sleep paralysis is basically a mysterious yet harmless affliction.

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