REM activity theory cannot be falsified, It is a typical pseudoscience.
The big difference Popper identifies between science and pseudo-science is a difference in attitude. While a pseudo-science is set up to look for evidence that supports its claims, Popper says, a science is set up to challenge its claims and look for evidence that might prove it false. In other words, pseudo-science seeks confirmations and science seeks falsifications.
There is a corresponding difference that Popper sees in the form of the claims made by sciences and pseudo-sciences: Scientific claims are falsifiable -- that is, they are claims where you could set out what observable outcomes would be impossible if the claim were true -- while pseudo-scientific claims fit with any imaginable set of observable outcomes. What this means is that you could do a test that shows a scientific claim to be false, but no conceivable test could show a pseudo-scientific claim to be false. Sciences are testable, pseudo-sciences are not.
The cause of sleep paralysis is very simple. It is caused by a very terrible the reduced blood supply to the brain, common symptoms include very terrible dizziness, palpitations, tinnitus, visual impairment that can't see, and auditory impairment that can't hear,blurred vision,weakness, fatigue, nausea and headache. Less common symptoms include syncope, dyspnea, chest pain, and neck and shoulder pain. When symptoms occur they can vary greatly in expression from one individual to another.
(Refer to lEvaluation and Management of Orthostatic Hypotension).
Hypotension, anemia, improper sleeping position or poor blood flow in the neck caused by too high pillow are several common causes of the reduced blood supply to the brain during sleep at night. In particular, anyone with too high pillow during sleep is bound to have sleep paralysis repeatedly all night. This terrible the reduced blood supply to the brain is more likely to occur during waking up during the day than during sleep at night. For example, almost everyone suddenly stands up when their blood pressure is low in summer, and has experienced the terrible symptoms of the reduced blood supply to the brain caused by orthostatic hypotension.
Accordingly, the terrible dizziness during cerebral ischemia will lead to the illusion of seeing the terrible demon, the palpitation with too fast heartbeat will lead to the illusion of being attacked by the terrible demon, and tinnitus will lead to the illusion of hearing a certain sound. Because people's instinctive reaction is that your dare not move your body when your can't see the surrounding environment clearly after waking up, therefore, the visual obstacle that your eyes can't see will lead to the illusion of being unable to move your body or can't open your eyes.
Hey I know this answer is like more than 12 years too late lol but I've just had the same experience and it's so ******* scaring. It's called sleep paralysis. It's a state between being awake and falling asleep and being asleep (but actually already awake) and waking up. I think I've read that around 8% experienced it at least once. I also just noticed that I've experienced it a few times by now but it never struck out to me like a few minutes ago, simply because it was one of the most frightful dreams/experiences that I've ever had!
However best regards from the future! :D
See a pulmonologist. I dealt with this all my life and had a sleep study which was erroneously diagnosed. When I saw the head of pulmonology at the university hospital, he not only apologized for the misread sleep study, but diagnosed this as a sever symptom of restless leg syndrome. I don’t experience the other symptoms, but I was having hypersomnia and these dreams primarily happened during my long daily naps.
I now take a very low dose of a benzodiazepine, and it helps immensely.
I had this exact dream last night. Only i could see what was chasing me and let me tell you to be glad you couldn't because they were scary demon like creatures. I kept seeing people i use to know in my dream but I couldn't talk so i wrote down everything and i basically wrote help me im trapped. But it was just an endless cycle, i kept trying to wake myself up but I'd just find myself in a different location being chased by different monsters/demons. Can someone give me insight? In scared to go back to sleep. Also has anyone had a demon named Haaridon or something along those lines in their dreams? Was wondering if my mind was making up dilutions or if he is real. This is how real it was that im confused. Pls help
I'm going through pretty much the same thing. In fact, I just woke up from a nightmare a few minutes ago. I was supposed to wake up at 10 a.m this morning, it was 12:30 p.m when I woke up. The dream went on for about 9 hours or so. I know because I went to sleep a little passed 12 a.m like 12:10. My dreams are always super real. Sometimes I would have dreams that I can't wake up from at all until it takes its full course. In my dreams I can't say anything, as though I don't have a mouth. I had a nightmare that I was running from something and I was running as fast as possible. After the dream was over I woke up and I was sweating a lot (like I ran a marathon). I was also a little out of breath. I'm so creeped out though. Nobody in my family believes me but I'm literally scared sh*tless. I've even had dreams before where I got injured and when I wake up I would have a sharp pain in that same place I was injured in my dream. I need help before it all gets worse.
I have a similar experience: so I was sleeping and I had this really weird dream and it felt so real that when I woke up I still felt like I was dreaming but I was actually awake and I would just wouldn't stop crying and I just couldn't get myself to snap out of it but I eventually did and it's happened more than once
I still have this one dream that repeats since I was a kid. It's a terrible nightmare. And my girlfriend while falling asleep is shaking. Then very often she is rapidly waking up - scared and confused, she thinks that someone was in the room. She also had insomnia.
The best solution for us is meditation and music. Something that calms and us before sleep. However we would love to try something else just to feel better.
I used to also have repeating dreams when I was a kid. I don't know if that has to with it? I have always had vivid dreams. If I finished the repeating dreams in my mind they would finally end. This was a very young girl. Now I get dreams where I go to sleep and I'm in same room but things are in room and I see them and they touch me and I can feel it.
Thank you, I actually googled this because I'm having same problem. What you explain so vividly is what I go through sometimes. I don't know what it is but I appreciate your honesty!
To me this just sounds like Sleep paralysis. I have it pretty often, sometimes one after another. This can pretty much happen to anyone so dont worry. I just woke up from one to be completely honest. I was looking across my room and there was a person.. I couldnt see their face it was just a shadow sort of and it slowly started walking towards me and it was limping... And it was muttering something along the lines of Im so lonely here and I tried so hard to wake myself up I was breathing heavily and my sister ran over to my bed and had to wake me up. That was honestly the scariest one Ive had, other than when a scary looking boy was crawling towards me.
OK so this dream of mine is a little different but i knew i was dreaming and couldnt get up in any dream i have ever had in my life when i realized it was a dream i wake up rather its a good dream or bad one it has actualy made me mad before because having such a good dream an then just a light little thought of this must be a dream and bam im awake an usually it happens when i catch a glimpse of somthing that i know just isnt real OK OK, So im looking up what this could mean because it really isnt setting with me right an i know its something. this happened to me today after having a very long sleep the night before for 1 am to 3 pm the next day i had a normal day an having argued with my wife i decided to go to sleep at about 9 pm. i woke once and saw that my wife had put the baby between us an him and her was sleeping very good i turned the other way an went back to sleep. then the dream started it was all to real i left my house drove to work and there was nothing missing every detail between here and there was there the road the houses the store the stop lights and when i got there i decided to turn around and go back home the last red light before the turn onto my road i live on was the same then there is a big hill and on the bottom of the other side is the road i live on it is dirt when you turn onto it well when i started to top the hill i realised there is a grave yard on the left but there wasnt this time then topping the hill i started looking for things that should be there but they werent coming down the other side it turned from paved to ashphalt and the houses were not there my turn wasnt so after the next couple hills im thinking how did i go the wrong way i know i didnt but then i think of turning around to head back to town watching for a driveway or turn off to turn around i space out a little like staring at the road in front of me an start to slowly fall asleep an leaning forward like i was nodding out or somthing an when i caught my self i looked over to see the driver seat empty and realizing i was in the passenger seat i looked at the road look at the verry vivid tree line passing an thought the car was gonna run off but it stayed straight in the right lane looked back to the driver seat an it still being empty i realized it was a dream an still didnt wake up this is weird anytime before in a dream if i tell my self its a dream i always wake up ALWAYS so the first and only house i saw come up on the left an wondering why i couldnt wake up an starting to worry i grab the shifter and throw it into reverse thinking that if any way possible it was real maybe it would atleast do somthing to atract attention but when the shifter hit reverse it did nothing car just kept cruising moved it from park to low an then back then looked at the road still not being able to figure out whats going on i know im dreaming so i looked to my right an through the rolled up window see the passing tree line why am i not waking up an where am i an where is this car going i get smart ill pinch myself that didnt work slap myself a little an felt both in anger and fear i ball my fist and hard as i can hit the window an it hurt so bad an i start hitting it over and over and it hurts werse and werse then it hit me im laying in bed with my baby next to me if im swinging this hard in my dream i really dont want to be doing it for real i get mad an scared i scream at myself to wake up wake up now wake up now i yell my wifes name hoping she would hear me and wake me up i strain every muscle i have trying to wake up finaly my eyes open an i say my wifes name mouth dry as can be lips stuck to gether body sore from laying the same way for awhile i look over at my wife and son still seeping i tell her to wake up and put him in his bed omg i thought i would never wake up i feel blessed to have woke up.
OK so this dream of mine is a little different but i knew i was dreaming and couldnt get up in any dream i have ever had in my life when i realized it was a dream i wake up rather its a good dream or bad one it has actualy made me mad before because having such a good dream an then just a light little thought of this must be a dream and bam im awake an usually it happens when i catch a glimpse of somthing that i know just isnt real OK OK, So im looking up what this could mean because it really isnt setting with me right an i know its something. this happened to me today after having a very long sleep the night before for 1 am to 3 pm the next day i had a normal day an having argued with my wife i decided to go to sleep at about 9 pm. i woke once and saw that my wife had put the baby between us an him and her was sleeping very good i turned the other way an went back to sleep. then the dream started it was all to real i left my house drove to work and there was nothing missing every detail between here and there was there the road the houses the store the stop lights and when i got there i decided to turn around and go back home the last red light before the turn onto my road i live on was the same then there is a big hill and on the bottom of the other side is the road i live on it is dirt when you turn onto it well when i started to top the hill i realised there is a grave yard on the left but there wasnt this time then topping the hill i started looking for things that should be there but they werent coming down the other side it turned from paved to ashphalt and the houses were not there my turn wasnt so after the next couple hills im thinking how did i go the wrong way i know i didnt but then i think of turning around to head back to town watching for a driveway or turn off to turn around i space out a little like staring at the road in front of me an start to slowly fall asleep an leaning forward like i was nodding out or somthing an when i caught my self i looked over to see the driver seat empty and realizing i was in the passenger seat i looked at the road look at the verry vivid tree line passing an thought the car was gonna run off but it stayed straight in the right lane looked back to the driver seat an it still being empty i realized it was a dream an still didnt wake up this is weird anytime before in a dream if i tell my self its a dream i always wake up ALWAYS so the first and only house i saw come up on the left an wondering why i couldnt wake up an starting to worry i grab the shifter and throw it into reverse thinking that if any way possible it was real maybe it would atleast do somthing to atract attention but when the shifter hit reverse it did nothing car just kept cruising moved it from park to low an then back then looked at the road still not being able to figure out whats going on i know im dreaming so i looked to my right an through the rolled up window see the passing tree line why am i not waking up an where am i an where is this car going i get smart ill pinch myself that didnt work slap myself a little an felt both in anger and fear i ball my fist and hard as i can hit the window an it hurt so bad an i start hitting it over and over and it hurts werse and werse then it hit me im laying in bed with my baby next to me if im swinging this hard in my dream i really dont want to be doing it for real i get mad an scared i scream at myself to wake up wake up now wake up now i yell my wifes name hoping she would hear me and wake me up i strain every muscle i have trying to wake up finaly my eyes open an i say my wifes name mouth dry as can be lips stuck to gether body sore from laying the same way for awhile i look over at my wife and son still seeping i tell her to wake up and put him in his bed omg i thought i would never wake up i feel blessed to have woke up.
I was dreaming and the music was Dimands by rehana and I woke up 3 days later th song came out
The subject: lucid dreaming offers methodologies for dealing with dreaming.. all about taking control. I have had success with relating night time fearsome dreams with awake environments.. and when ever I was in a "likely" environment I'd open my eyes wide. This is what a did in my sleep as well and started waking up before the bad stuff started. I think my subconscious got tied of failing to frighten me and gave up. This was years ago and I still very rarely have a nightmare. I do, however, have trouble mares every night and haven't been able to apply the same method as the trouble deal with varied activities, usually related to my past business life and travels.. which I am not now doing. This took me to look at Lucid Dream, read a short book by a PhD at Stanford, forget his name.. search web for Lucid Dreaming you may find help right off the web.
I absolutely know how you feel, I have exactly the same experiences, normally as I shut my eyes I feel someone sitting in the bed, I can literally feel the mattress compress. I've had people bite me, pull me, just stand there and I absolutely know that I'm dreaming but it's also completely real and terrifying. I hope you find a way to stop or reduce the frequency of your dreams, my research is only just starting....
I have never had a nightmare before,I think.
if ur still having the nightmares look up dream studios.org and look at dream paralysis. don't fight it accept it.
all u gotta know is that u can control ur own dreams, so stop being afraid and fight the nightmare. Ur mind may be on auto drive when ur asleep but ur still awake. This nightmare is probably not a nightmare but a memory.
i had this dream. im only 15 years old. and i was running away at first i didnt know who they we're, i seen classrooms and all my friends. i had daralynn there with me and two other friends but i couldnt make out there names, i just knew daralynn was there. i barely could explain the way theses places looked but they we're running away with me we were trying to escape from people, at first they were wearing masks, i remember losing all my friends while trying to run away from thoses ppl they were not after them they were after me i had that feeling. i kept running and i found this tunnel under the school, it was small enough for me to crawl and thenat the end of every tunnnel was someone crawling towards me to get me but i went left and there was a guy that way but i crawled over hm=im and got away then i went straight and i hit another guy and passed him. then i punched me way through the ground from above me, and i got out but i was still in the school i was at least a couple doors away from escaping the school, then i was up in the sealing crawling around like there was no way out, then i fell through and i stoon up and a girl with blond hair jumped on my back and i flipped here and twisted her arm and she looked in pain and said oh! you know how to fight, i dropped her arm and ran but while i was running i looked in this classroom, nd i seen all the kids just sitting there watching me run. and i was two doors away form escaping then this random guy came out of no where and tried grabbing me. i dont know how i got away but i kept running i looked at my feet and tried to run faster and faster but i couldn't.. i jumped this big fence and hid in a tree to catch my breath, then when i caught my breath i started running and jumping one fence to another,then i crawled under some random porch i remember hiding under the steps crying for awhile wondering while people are trying to take me, then i started crawiling up a building and when i go to the top i jumped... and i jumped buildings from the top i new where to go but i couldnt find it i was still running tho and i found daralynn running the next block up i called her name and she came running towards me, and she was scared i was then i told her to come fallow me, we went runnign down this block and i seen this house it looked familiar but didnt at the same time i said lets hide here for awhile. so we did, then we climbed the roof and went in the house upstairs, then all a sudden a boy came in the room and he looked at us in suprize then her grabbed me on the arm, and he said to me why did you com here, and i said i dont even know you, but i did or so i thought he had dark brown hair he was tall and he had flippy long hair, he had a sister at the table eating she didnt even glance at me, thoses people were on the way to that house, i ran away from that boy i told darlynn to get out met me somewhere go! and she left and i remember trying o get out of that window and i seen her look a me and run away, i smiled cause she was okay. then i tried getting out but that boy has my foot. i told him to let go i have to go those people are trying to kill me. so i thought he let go and i looked at him and ran away i jumped off the roof and started flying. i was lookign for daralynn. i was looking for her but i couldn't find her. then i woke up but everytime i went back to sleep the dream would start again, is that suppose to happen?
I go through the same thing I have a notebook of dreams I have had there are quite a few and when I wake up I physically go through the pain I go through a lot at home so my friends think its stress (I did also) but I believe in jesus and demons and God and my grandmother (she led me to God) says I have a demon im currently doing research because my lack of sleep has caused me to stop eating as much because eating makes me sick ill let you know what I learn I now the pain is a lot to bear ive been going through this a year maybe
I'm 12 and I stared having these dreams when I turned 3 about this little girl that exactly like me but she was a pale blue ,back hair, and she looked dead. but what is weird is that I'm blonde but she looked exactly like me .in my dreams she is a physco she kills people ,her head can do a 360 and her eyes are really red and she cant talk all she does is scream and her teeth are rotting and her gums are black and she swings from trees and I had these dreams a whole week and they would suddenly stop but start again until I turned 4 I only had these dreams twice a year and every year she gets crazier and more psychotic and she ages just like me every year. what could this mean the girl looks just like me and ages just like me could this mean something ? am I crazy?
I sort of just had dreams like this too. It's creepy..
I was sleeping and I could tell I was having one of those dreams because it happened before, but thankfully mines doesn't come frequently.
I was able to move but some what like a floaty movement I guess.
I couldn't see very well because it was dark. I think the dreams are telling us about something with our fears because I am afraid of the dark and afraid of becoming blind.
I tried waking up my mom in her sleep telling her to turn on the t.v so the room would be lighted but she wouldn't wake up. I was afraid to go any where else or afraid I might see things so I curled up in a corner and looked towards the wall. I tried screaming again to hear my voice but nothing came out and as I did so I saw a women with glowing eyes opening her mouth as if she was mocking me. I finally closed my nose to suffocate my self to snap back in reality and it worked. Woke up and told myself I cant sleep. That was some creepy ****. I hate those weird dreams.
Iv been having the same 3 nightmares sinch i was around 10 years old.
Nightmare 1: im in my bedroom and as usual i have my television on but there is no sound, im pinned to my bed unable to move,shout,roll and im extremely cold so i try to force myself to move and i get to a certain point and im flung back to my original position so i keep trying to make noise and the most i can do is mumble. but no-mattaer how hard i try i cannot do anything but await my fate until i awake
Nightmare 2: again im in my bedroom pinned down and there is 3 shadows around me they do not make sound and i cannot see them but they quickly fly in closely to me and rip me open which is when i awake screaming.
Nightmare 3: im just falling asleep when i hear "its playtime" in a deep voice i go from being able to do everything to being able to do nothing and i begin o hear creepy music at this point i know im in a nightmare but i cant control it and i cannot wake up and it feels like im having a sharp object scratched down my back. which is when i wake up.
any pain i feel in these nightmares im feeling when i wake up and sometimes im so scared i wont even bother sleeping for days on end. iv woken with a feeling in my back so paintfull i havnt been able to do daily activities without feeling it.