Something strange happened to me once. One early morning I found myself in bed awake but unable to move or speak trapped in the state I tried to scream but couldn't then I realized that a spirit like creature was on my bed strangling. I mean this experience was bizarre, but it took me a long journey around the world to study this phenomenon and try to understand what is the science behind sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis is this transition like state between wakefulness and rapid eye movement sleep or rem sleep and during rem sleep you have vivid crisp lifelike dreams and to prevent you from acting out these dreams and hurting yourself your brain temporarily paralyzes the entire body now this is a smart thing because it prevents you from hurting yourself. Sometimes you wake up while you're still under the spell of rain paralysis leaving the stock in a sense wakefulness and the dream worlds collide. So these conflicting signals you know messages to your body to move and no fe