descriptive analysis essay.docx ENGL 135 My experience with Sleep Paralysis DeVry Univ

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descriptive analysis essay.docx ENGL 135 My experience with Sleep Paralysis DeVry University ENGL 135 Here I am, lying in bed. If you were to walk in now, you would think I m sleeping but I see... you. Although my eyelids look shut, they are fluttering slightly, and they are the only parts of me that I can move. I am fully conscious, but I cannot shout out to you because my body is completely frozen. Everybody is paralyzed during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the stage of sleep where dreaming occurs. If we weren t paralyzed, we would act out our dreams, endangering ourselves and our sleeping partners. But sometimes, especially when sleep patterns are disrupted or we get exhausted, things go wrong. When REM sleep extends into our waking consciousness, our bodies become immobile and our part of the brain that sends alerts are fused with our dream state. The phenomenon of waking up during REM sleep, completely unabl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Show More]

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