Well, sleep paralysis is a very well-known phenomenon. But if he
doesn't want to know about it, don't tell him.
F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.
New York Neuropsychology Group
In <7mnkll$76j$1 at front2.grolier.fr> "Freddy" <fred_m at club-internet.fr>
writes:
>>Hi everybody,
>>Can you help me to find what is happening to one of my friend.
>He doesn't have internet and don't what to see a doctor saying
>that he can control the phenomenon so it ok for him.
>>It always happens during the day (and just 2 or 3 times during the
night)
>when he is having a siesta.
>He can wake up is mind, see what is happening around him but
>he has no control on his legs and arms. He says "Just try to imagine
>you want to move your arm. Then you think it while moving it. But in
>that case you think it, you have the impression in your mind that
>it 's moving, but as I'm awake I can see that it's not moving."
>>My god ! He says that's a really bad experience. He adds that he
>just have the physical possibility to move his eyes, trunk and his
>breathing.
>>He said he was really afraid of losing control of himself. He just
escaped
>this situation by accelerating his breathing while moving, the best he
>could, his trunk.
>>Then he said that he could get back his body and feel it as usual.
>>He interpret that situation as, physically, a conscious paradoxical
sleep.
>>He added that it occured when he feels deppressive.
>>What I'm telling you is not a joke. He doesn't want to see a doctor
saying
>:"I prefer to live with my illness because I can control it whereas to
hear
>somebody telling me
>that I'm finished".
>>If you could give me your viewpoint, then it'd be very nice for him.
>Bye.
>>Fred.
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