This is a question regarding sleep paralysis. I get that it's a thing between REM sleep and waking stages and that's why you're "paralyzed". My idea is that the hallucinations are sorta like living dreams. But why are they all evil? I haven't heard one story of a a hallucination of a cuddly puppy snuggling someone, it's always a shadow dude or some shit suffocating them. Why are they always negative?
>Tl;dr why are sleep paralysis hallucinations always evil
I'm going to say because you are subconsciously aware you cannot move. You are still dreaming and beginning to panic because of the paralysis. Your mind tries to make sense of what could be happening. Obviously, your mind is not going to assume there cuddly puppies snuggling you. It will assume some fucking demon has come in your room or whatever.
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But if I may add a few words of my own:
It's hard not to panic when your body suggests to your mind that you are suddenly paralyzed. Your mind basically just fills in the blanks.
I've only had sleep paralysis a couple of time and hallucinated once, nothing evil. I woke up on my side, my closet was open and there was a pink stuffed bunny hanging the wall. But I remembered that I don't have one and I started to panic, trying to move but I can't. Screaming but no words are coming out, but I remember what is happening and I relax and focus on moving my arm took me a while but I did it and after that I got up went to a different room.
I've only had sleep paralysis twice, first time I didn't see anything but I was young and I freaked the fuck out, second time it felt more like an out of body experience and I was evidently waking up anyways so it only lasted for like, a minute, still didn't see anything
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Dude, niggers are scary.
>ayo lemme cuddle up
I got it pretty regularly when I had a stressful job and figured out that I get it reliably if I sleep on my back.
Usually I would wake up and have this intense feeling that "something is in the other room" so I have to move right now to hide or fight it. Then, of course, I can't move and then I am panicking. Sometimes you get too caught up in the panic and start to think that you're paralyzed with terror, otherwise you just focus on moving a limb and it goes away.
I also used to get that sensation as a nightmare and not as a waking thing, like there would be some monster that paralyzed me with fear as soon as I saw it and then it would just slowly come closer and closer to me. I haven't had those nightmares since making it a point to sleep on my sides, so I assume that was a sleep paralysis I was more asleep for.
