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  2. Sleep paralysis demon physical touch - Pseudoscience and the...

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    Sleep Paralysis Forget about what the psychiatrists tell us… When we are asleep our physical and astral bodies are attached by what is termed by a silver chord. The silver chord only separates when we die. When we sleep, our spiritual body roams the Astral and because the Astral or spiritual world is the 4th dimension there is no time.

  3. Sleep Paralysis and Apparitional Experiences - CFI Forums

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    Sleep paralysis is caused by transient reductions in brain blood flow or oxygen,It causes a feeling of dizziness and sometimes even altered awareness or loss of consciousness.The patient may also complain of chest pain, dyspnoea, blurred vision, paraesthesias, muscle cramps and fatigue, This feeling is accompanied by such physical symptoms as ...

  4. Dear Tucker Carlson… We Can Help! - Center for Inquiry

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    Millions have experienced sleep paralysis, which is related to the body shutting down your muscles while asleep. Before we knew about this state, cultures attributed this unpleasant sensation to all kinds of folkloric entities including incubi, jinn, old hags, alien visitors, and, yes, demons.

  5. Dispelling Demons: Detective Work at The Conjuring House

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    stirred from sleep to feel a “presence” and see a grotesque female figure loom-ing above her while she was “immobi-lized” (Perron 2011, 185–187; Johnson 2009, 70–71). Clearly, she experienced a common waking dream that occurs between sleep and wakefulness, coupled with sleep paralysis since her body was still in the sleep mode.

  6. Zanzibar’s Popobawa Demon Still Attacking Skeptics

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    This occurs when the percipient is in a state between being asleep and awake, and exhibits features of both: A person has a dreamlike (hallucinatory) experience while seemingly awake; the sense of being held down—called “sleep paralysis”—comes from the body’s still being in the sleep mode.

  7. Abduction by Alien s or Sleep Paralysis? - Center for Inquiry

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    The Sleep-Paralysis Experience In a typical sleep-paralysis episode, a person wakes up para-lyzed, senses a presence in the room, feels fear or even terror, and may hear buzzing and humming noises or see strange lights. A visible or invisible entity may even sit on their chest, shaking, strangling, or prodding them. Attempts to fight the

  8. Night Terrors, Slee p Paralysis, an d Devil Stricken Demonic...

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    aspects. The first is sleep paralysis. This is a relatively normal condition characterized by awakening to find oneself unable to move. Although it is on e of many indicators of the mental illness narcolepsy, normally, in the absence of other problems, it is a fairly unimportant, relatively common condition. When one is aslee p certain portions

  9. Latest Pseudoscience and the Paranormal topics - CFI Forums

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    Perpetual motion machines, bigfoot, ESP, spoon bending, and other similar topics are discussed in this category.

  10. EDITOR'S NOTE Skeptical Inquirer - Center for Inquiry

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    abduction experiences is that they are elaborations of the sleep paralysis experience. She goes on to relate experiments showing how the imagery invoked in sleep paral­ ysis and waking dreams is related to amount of television watched. Social psychologist Robert E. Bartholomew reminds us that stories of a crashed

  11. Exploring Mind, Memory, and the Psychology of Belief - Center for...

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    sleep-paralysis hallucinations, but con-scious experiences, and urged the audi-ence to keep an open mind in these matters. To balanc e di proceedings, Donna Bassett, a researcher who had partici-pated in John Mack's recent study, was then called up to speak. At first Bassett seemed to indicate she was one of Mack's "abductees." But she quickly