Feel yourself waking up from sleep, seeing everything in the room and hearing someone in the living room talking.Think of the body, but how also can not move, struggling hard.It's hard to sit up and watch the time on your cell phoneSuddenly, I opened my eyes like a hole in the middle, and found myself still lying, my cell phone still on the table, I just woke up now.But why is what just happened so real?......
Many people have come across this "magical" experience, which is called "nightmare" in Chinese medicine, "sleep paralysis" in the west and "ghost press" in folk.
Ghost press definition
In sleep, suddenly felt as if there are one thousand jins weight burden hazy breath, awake, sleep not to wake like, want to shout shout out, don't want to move, people feel confused and terror, something like a transparent pressure in the body, plus with dreams, is to give a "image" of the name, the burden.In fact, it's also called a nightmare.
The correct medical name for this condition is sleep paralysis.
Someone during sleep, there will be a sleep disorder, sleep half asleep, also appeared a variety of illusion, can even hear the voice of the surrounding, but the strange thing is, no matter how to exert oneself to do it again, but I can't make to, want to shout loudly, also called don't make any noise, want to open your eyes or turn up, but did not move.After struggling for a few minutes, you finally wake up feeling tired and sometimes sweaty.
This is actually quite common.For example, when we wake up, we can't punch our fists up.Many people need a few more minutes after waking up, which is why the central nervous system is not working synchronously.
Most people have come across a number of "ghost presses"
Sometimes I feel my body drift to the ceiling and I see myself lying in bed."Sometimes I feel like my body is falling.""Sometimes I feel my body move up and down.""Sometimes I feel like my body is being pulled out by something and it's going to fall out of bed."
Touch and speak. "feel someone talking in your ear, or in your room.""Feeling something pressing on me, or pinching my neck, makes it hard to breathe.""Feel someone touch me.""Like being held."
"I saw a white shadow coming and squatting next to my pillow.""A shadow stood by my bed.""I felt someone come into my room and sleep next to me.""See a blurred face or figure on the head of the bed."
What about the ghost press
One, be pressed, in the heart very clear, do not be eager to resist (resistance is futile), also do not be afraid.Relax, or rest, or continue to sleep, pressure on, ignore him.Ii. If you want to immediately remove the "ghost press" :
- A very effective method is to force your foot on the foot after being hit by the "ghost press", and you will wake up within a few seconds.
Most of the body can't move, but the tongue can be flexible. You can try to stick your tongue out.Or stick out your tongue and make as much noise as you can, so that your ears can hear what you're making. - As long as someone else calls or nudges the patient, he can wake up with the help of external forces and open his hands and feet as if he had been unknotted.After the symptom is relieved, the body is much without big obstacle, happen to need not special treatment commonly.
How to avoid "ghost press"
First: keep a cheerful mood every day, more outdoor activities to absorb fresh air.
Second: ghost presses a bed to be able to happen on the friend with bad heart mostly, so, when sleeping, encourage him/her or it to sleep on the right side more, avoid to sleep on the left side or lie on the back, such meeting presses a heart, it is ghost presses a bed the culprit.Don't lay your hands on your chest while you sleep on your back.
The 3rd: proper physical exercise, can exercise myocardial function, can alleviate the mood again.
Fourth: maintain indoor air circulation.
At least once in a lifetime
Generally speaking, if you are stressed, anxious, nervous, extremely tired, suffer from insomnia, lack of sleep, or suffer from jet lag, your sleep will enter rem early (dream period), and you will experience "ghost pressuring" -- sleep paralysis.
This can happen at any age, mostly during adolescence, and rarely in a row.Don't worry too much as long as you are aware of the symptoms, unless it happens frequently and you need to seek help from your sleep physician.
According to a us study, 40 to 50 per cent of people experience at least one episode of sleep paralysis (HBP) in their lifetime. This is not a low proportion of people, so when you come across a HBP, you don't have to worry about it.
Understand the truth of sleep, you can feel at ease, no worries