They say it's a ghost, and I often do. It means that when I sleep, I suddenly feel unconscious but my body can't move. Actually, I have a sleep disorder. The phenomenon of "ghost crushing the body" belongs to a symptom of sleep paralysis in sleep neurology. During sleep, the patient is half awake and half asleep, and the brain waves are awake. Some people will also have hallucinations, but the muscle tension of the whole body is minimized.

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The so-called "ghost pressing bed" is definitely not a "ghost" pressing bed, but rather an obsession with "ghost". In fact, it is a disease of sleep disorder. The phenomenon of "ghost crushing the body" belongs to a symptom of sleep paralysis in sleep neurology. At this time, the patient is half awake and half asleep, and the amplitude of brain waves is also awake. Some people will also have hallucinations, but the muscle tension of the whole body is minimized, which is similar to the state of paralysis, and the whole body can't move, just like being covered with a golden bell, which is what most people call "ghosts". The patients with cataplexy narcolepsy most often have the condition of "ghosts crushing their bodies". Such patients can fall asleep at any time, showing a state of being half awake and half asleep at any time, and often have "sleep hallucinations" and dream of strange people, things and things. When the patient is awake, whenever he is excited, laughing or angry, he will suddenly feel weak and fall down. Our sleep cycle is from sleep period, shallow sleep period, deep sleep period, and finally into "rapid eye movement period" (dreaming period). Sleep paralysis is mainly due to the early appearance of rapid eye movement, which leads to the inconsistency of rapid eye movement stage. In fact, in the rapid eye movement stage, the body is essentially at rest, and the connection signal with the brain is temporarily interrupted. This is a defensive measure, so that the human body will not realize the dreams in real life. For example, when dreaming of hitting people, it will not really act, and it will not punch and kick people at the bedside. When the sleep nerve is paralyzed, the brain recovers from sleep rest, and it is too late to reconnect with the body, which makes people half asleep and half awake, and dreams are intertwined with reality, resulting in disharmony between the body and the brain. At this time, the whole body muscle tension is the lowest, so it will cause you to remember, but you can't get up; I want to exert myself, but I have no strength at all. This is the most common situation of "ghost pressing the bed". Generally speaking, under the circumstances of excessive pressure, anxiety, tension, extreme fatigue, insomnia, lack of sleep or jet lag, sleep will enter the rapid eye movement stage (dreaming stage) ahead of time, and there will be a situation of "ghost pressing the bed"-sleep paralysis. This happens to people of any age, mostly in adolescence, and few people happen continuously. Unless it happens frequently, you need to seek the help of a sleep doctor. As long as you know this symptom, you don't have to worry too much. According to a research report in the United States, 40% to 50% people will experience sleep paralysis at least once in their lives, and the proportion is not low. Therefore, when you encounter "possessed by ghosts", you don't have to worry, go to the so-called "master" to solve your bad luck. Knowing the truth of sleep can make you feel at ease and sit back and relax. Example: A middle-aged woman often suffers from "ghost crush" and her sleep quality is not good. She thinks that she is under great pressure during working hours and has too much housework after work. Later, she quit her job and reduced housework, but as a result, her sleep did not improve. After the author made a 24-hour multifunctional sleep physiological examination for her, the patient suddenly felt an inexplicable force approaching the whole body when she slept at midnight. The dream was weird and horrible, and she couldn't scream if she wanted to. I want to get up, or open my eyes, but I can't move; I have been shouting in my heart, but I can't say it, and I can't make a sound; The muscles of the whole body are tense and paralyzed, the ears are buzzing, and waves of strength are pressing on the chest. No matter how hard I try, I can't do it. After struggling for a few minutes, I can finally do it slowly until I wake up and find myself sweating all over. The author gave her five "multiple sleep tests". A few minutes before the end of sleep, she suffered from sleep paralysis twice. Suddenly, her whole body kept trembling slightly and she couldn't make any sound. At this time, someone touched her immediately, and she immediately woke up and returned to normal. When this woman doesn't go to see a doctor, she often tells people at the bedside that if she finds out that she has the above situation, she will call her or pat her immediately, so that she will be fine. The above is scientific analysis. Simply put, it is "mentally active and physically exhausted".

Causes and solutions

1. Because you sleep on your back, sleeping on your side at night is less likely to happen. I usually relax because of my nervousness, but not at night. 3. Have enough rest. Many people have felt this way. When they just fall asleep or wake up, they will feel that their consciousness is clear, but their bodies can't control themselves and can't remember. It's like they're wrapped in something They want to talk, but they can't. They can't open their eyes and sometimes they may feel chest tightness. No matter how hard you struggle, it's no use trying to get your body moving. Some people even have hallucinations, including seeing black visions. People often call this feeling a ghost bed or a nightmare. After reading the scientific explanation above, I have a scientific understanding of "ghost press bed". . . However, all explanations are not given, and there is no immediate and effective solution. Because I am often "oppressed", I summed up a set of effective and immediate solutions: 1. Being oppressed, I know very well, don't rush to resist (resistance is futile), and don't be afraid. Relax, or have a rest, or go back to sleep. Press it and press it. Ignore him. 2. If you want to remove the "ghost press" immediately, press it: 1. All parts of your body can't move, 2. Can't open your eyes (sometimes you can force them to open, but you can't see clearly) 3. You can't talk. But you can hear sound 5. Everything is not absolute. After the ghost pressed the bed, I found that the only thing that was "active" outside the body was "mouth" (it wouldn't make you talk, and of course you wouldn't talk at that time). 6. Suck up and down with your mouth (just like kissing or feeding chickens with your mouth). Let your ears hear with your voice (point 4, your ears can hear), and then you will succeed. You can wake up immediately, that is, quickly solve the "ghost bed." 7. There is another one that can be used. I've tried it many times ~ In fact, you can control your breathing when you press the bed, so that you can take a deep breath quickly and force your body to move. 8. Another effective way is to kick your feet hard after being crushed by a ghost and wake up in a few seconds. Most of your body can't move, but your tongue can still be flexible. You can try to stick your tongue out, and if you can stick it out, you will succeed. Or stick out your tongue and shout it out as loudly as possible so that your ears can hear your own voice. Just hit the nail on the head in one sentence: "I'm energetic and tired". Are the others people who have never eaten grapes? The muscles are not fully awake, I agree. But how to explain the following phenomenon? When you are crushed, something really weighs on you. Anyone who has worked in chemical industry knows that it is necessary to wear protective clothing when handling poisonous gas and venom, but what will happen if our protective clothing leaks? Similarly, what happens if the human body is used as a protective suit and occasionally fails? And what's the poison gas outside? Think for yourself. Another reason is that I am too nervous before going to bed, afraid of thieves. Twice, I met a thief who came in and stole something, and then watched him steal it. So close the doors and windows before going to bed, make sure your room is safe and not nervous, and you can avoid the ghost bed. You can also take a laissez-faire attitude when you meet a ghost press, knowing in your heart that this is just a ghost press. You have to go back to sleep as you like and let it go. Especially for people in their twenties, they may often encounter it. Just get used to it! Another way to avoid it is to watch less movies or TV that can arouse strange imagination and put an end to ghost movies. 3. How do you sleep when you are often pressed by ghosts? Hold your arms in the middle when you sleep. In this way, when pressing, the arm will automatically hang down, and consciousness can control the body in the process of hanging down the arm. On the contrary, you can't feel your arms drooping when you sleep normally. Make the room opaque at night and hang curtains on the second floor. Because the light outside the window may make you wake up suddenly when you are asleep, you have sleep paralysis! Mental relaxation is inseparable from a person's real life. If the real life is not good, then sleep paralysis can be solved, but the root can't be solved. Therefore, I hope patients can live a real life. Usually do things with a clear conscience! !

Edit this paragraph of Chinese medicine talking about nightmares (ghost pressing bed/body)

"Strange things happen every year, especially in July?" Ghost Moon is not only taboo in Taiwan Province Province, but also a horror story. Everyone is afraid when they hear the experience of "ghosts pressing the bed", and they are even more afraid after some rumors and embellishments. One of the most common is the experience commonly known as "ghost press bed". Classical Chinese medicine called it a "nightmare". The proper term of sleep medicine is called "sleep paralysis". According to American research reports, 40% to 50% people will experience sleep paralysis at least once in their lives, and the proportion is not low. Modern medicine believes that sleep can be divided into two stages: rapid eye movement stage and non-rapid eye movement stage. In the rapid eye movement stage, you will dream when you sleep, but all the muscles of your body are relaxed except for the constant rotation of your eyes, so your body can't move and you won't listen. This happens occasionally when you just fall asleep or wake up, or when you are suddenly awakened during the rapid eye movement period, you will have sleep paralysis. Although it may only be a short minute or two before and after, people trapped in it feel like a century has passed. Because his mind is clear but tied to his body, he can't make a sound or wave for help. Even if someone is around, he doesn't know what happened to him who seems to be asleep. Generally speaking, excessive fatigue, gastrointestinal diseases, stopping using sleeping pills for several weeks in a row, and improper sleeping posture, such as putting your hands on your chest, are all the reasons for the "ghost bed" between dreams and waking up. Some scholars made routine blood tests on 223 patients with nightmares, and found that the average hemoglobin of women was 107.3g/L, and that of men was 123. 1g/L, which were lower than the normal values. If anti-anemia drugs such as invigorating qi and blood, calming nerves and regulating autonomic nerves are given, the hemoglobin value will rise normally, and the nightmare problem can be effectively improved. Anemia is one of the causes of nightmares. Anemia patients are prone to dizziness, palpitation and other symptoms due to insufficient oxygen supply to the heart and brain. In addition, after sleep, the blood pressure drops, and the hypoxia of the heart and brain is further aggravated, and the inhibition state of the motor center of the cerebral cortex is formed before the sensory center, resulting in wakefulness and motor paralysis. Women are prone to menstrual cramps or menorrhagia. Advise the public to pay attention to nutrition, avoid excessive fatigue, regulate menstruation and treat anemia. Only in this way can you not be afraid of knocking at the door in the middle of the night. Traditional Chinese medicine is helpful to those who often suffer from "ghost pressure" Both men and women, with emaciation, pale complexion, increased leucorrhea and anemia, should take10g of scientific Chinese medicine "Ginseng Yang Rong Decoction" for a long time every day. If there is too much menstrual flow every month and anemia occurs, Guipi Decoction should be used daily12g. People with poor spleen and stomach function can take "Yigan Powder"12g every day. And provide the following health tea for reference. The main indications of Acorus calamus Anshen tea are: people who are guilty and timid are suddenly frightened, leading to palpitation, palpitation, insomnia and forgetfulness. Ingredients: Acorus calamus 1.5g, 2 pieces of sour plum meat, 2 pieces of jujube meat and brown sugar. Appropriate method: slice Acorus calamus and put it in a cup. Boil jujube, sour plum and brown sugar with water and pour into a cup. It takes fifteen minutes to make tea. Nightmares are hard, but when you are awake, you can't make a sound, and you can't move your limbs, just like a soul is attached to a corpse. Not only that, at this time, the brain will be eager to fall asleep, people will fall asleep irresistibly, their eyes will gradually turn black and their consciousness will be blurred. But at this time, out of the desire for consciousness and the instinct of fear of nightmares, people try to get rid of nightmares and wake up immediately, but they can't get up because they can't move. At this time, if someone touches you or calls your name, you can wake up immediately. As we all know, nightmares have a high probability of appearing in ghost novels and are often regarded as ghosts in rumors. This is because the probability of hallucinations during nightmares is also high. Tell a story first. An authoritative research institution in the United States investigated people who claimed to have seen aliens and communicated with them, and used a lie detector when telling that experience, eliminating 70% rumors. In the survey of hundreds of other people, the researchers found that their experiences had amazing acquaintance-almost all claimed to wake up in the middle of the night and find aliens visiting their homes. Some said that they disappeared after seeing aliens strolling in the bedroom, while others claimed that they were invited to talk in a alien ufo. There are two questions here: whether their experience is true or not, and why the polygraph can't detect that they are lying. Since they didn't lie, why did they all have contact with aliens while sleeping? Because they have nightmares and hallucinations. Researchers say that the hallucinations in nightmares, that is, when you are half asleep and half awake, are extremely real, very real, and usually you can't tell the truth when you wake up. Moreover, the survey found that these people believed in the existence of aliens long ago, paid more attention to close encounters of the third kind's information in their daily lives, and longed for contact with aliens. The content of alien hair occupies a large proportion in their thoughts, so it is normal to have hallucinations related to aliens in nightmares, that is, thinking during the day and dreaming at night. Some people have nightmares and hallucinate, then go back to sleep and start dreaming. The content of the dream is probably information related to that illusion. For example, you have a ghost illusion, and the ghost finds you awake and leans over to you, and then what happens and starts a nightmare. Those surveyed dreamed of coming to an alien spaceship, and a series of stories happened ... Through this story, we can understand why some people claimed to have seen ghosts when they were overwhelmed by ghosts, because there has always been a deep ghost culture in our China tradition. The ancient people's fear of the unknown was interpreted as ghosts. Modern people understand ghosts through stories, books and movies they listened to as children, and ghosts in these contents are usually more horrible. Over time, I am used to associating what I am afraid of with ghosts. So you will be afraid when you have nightmares, and then you will have ghost hallucinations. Since ghosts have nothing to do with ghosts, how do you explain nightmares? When people are sleeping, their brains are in a dormant state, and they will dream in half. Many people know that during sleep, deep sleep and shallow sleep alternate constantly. When the brain sleeps lightly, people will dream; When you are asleep, you are completely unconscious and feel that you are in the deep sea without light. Under normal circumstances, people wake up from a shallow sleep. When you wake up from a deep sleep, the possibility of having nightmares is very high. At this time, if you wake up but can't move, it's because the center responsible for receiving information in the brain is awake, while the center responsible for exercise is still asleep. At this time, you can only blink to vent, but you can't move, even if you miss bite the tongue. The explanation of nightmares is as simple as that, but it is no different from stroke patients. Because a part of the brain is still sleeping, and the awakened part continues to sleep under the influence, it will produce an irresistible feeling. In this process of half-dreaming and half-waking, what people think at this time is very easy to be projected into hallucinations, combined with the information transmitted by the retina, and transmitted to the signal processing center of people. Because the degree of truth is extremely high, even the brain is usually deceived. Knowing the nightmare, I hope you don't feel too afraid of it, and don't leave any shadow in your heart because of the hallucinations caused by previous nightmares. I know so much because there are many such experiences, which are related to the irregular sleep in Dachuan, hehe. And because I hate the feeling of having nightmares, I must try my best to wake myself up when nightmares happen. It is not easy to do this. Let me tell you some ways to prevent nightmares first. The main thing is to develop a healthy lifestyle and drink less water before going to bed. Don't force yourself when you don't want to sleep. Because you may have nightmares when you are asleep, but it seems that the probability of hallucinations is relatively low. There are several ways to wake yourself up when you have nightmares. It is almost impossible to do things with your hands and feet in a nightmare, but you can try shaking your head. I have practiced shaking my head 90 degrees and moving my limbs slightly now. Also, don't sleep there motionless after waking up, you may have nightmares again. It's best to turn on the light and get up immediately, drink some water, sit down and go back to sleep when your mind is clear.