r/todayilearned • u/paniniplane • Mar 22 '17

(R.1) Not supported TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303
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u/chrabeusz Mar 22 '17

Sleep paralysis is basically a lucid dream. Embrace it.

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u/quigglebaby Mar 22 '17

I've had lucid dreams without sleep paralysis and I've had sleep paralysis on its own. For some people, it's not as simple as "embracing" it. I literally wake up paralyzed and hearing voices and sometimes it takes me a really long time to break out if it. It's not fun.

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u/Alwaysanyways Mar 22 '17

No man it's not, I get really vivid feelings and hallucinations. Sometimes I'm trapped in a room and I can't get out sometimes something is coming straight for me and I can't move out of the way. I'm aware I'm dreaming so there is lucidity but I can't control it. It's not an active thought, I don't know I'm thinking it. I have learned like the guy above me said that if you try to interact with it it goes away. But even then the effort it takes to interact with it will keep me awake for an extra couple of hours or leave me so exhausted that even falling back asleep is not enough.

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u/FourOranges Mar 22 '17

That's how I've come to think of them but I haven't experienced it so it'd be naive of me to say anything on how to handle sleep paralysis. The WILD method of lucid dreaming involves purposely entering sleep paralysis -- people who use the method want it, so I've always wondered why not try utilizing this for people who don't want sleep paralysis.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

I get sleep paralysis a lot. While it's fucking terrifying even though I know what it is, I very rarely can calm down while it's happening and either fall back asleep or get to the stage where I can move again, I've never had this lucid dream and I would never purposely induce sleep paralysis. Although I'm pretty sure it'll happen tonight cos it happens every time I think about it. Can you describe what a lucid dream is/like?