"As you enter sleep, your brain switches on a mechanism that inhibits your motor muscles from moving much apart from the odd twitch, preventing you from getting up and acting out your dreams," explains Anderson.
"Dreams reflect waking life but take us deeper, revealing the unconscious side of our daytime experiences... They tend to feature a problem or challenge that is not overcome," said Jane Teresa Anderson.
"So, you can find yourself partially alert but unable to move your body and, naturally, this can feel terrifying if you don't understand what's happening," Anderson explains about sleep paralysis.
Sleep paralysis is the most terrifying of sleep phenomena that affects just 7.6 per cent of people, often leading to feelings of pressure and hallucinations.
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