Comments on: The Woman Who Tramples on You in Your Sleep: Sleep Paralysis in Folklore https://allpsych.com/the-woman-who-tramples-on-you-in-your-sleep-sleep-paralysis-in-folklore/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-woman-who-tramples-on-you-in-your-sleep-sleep-paralysis-in-folklore The Virtual Psychology Classroom Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:05:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Truth https://allpsych.com/the-woman-who-tramples-on-you-in-your-sleep-sleep-paralysis-in-folklore/#comment-2452 Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:05:35 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=582#comment-2452 In reply to Joe eldred.

If you don’t believe in God! Don’t believe in your existence as well. Even animals believe in God

]]> By: grace https://allpsych.com/the-woman-who-tramples-on-you-in-your-sleep-sleep-paralysis-in-folklore/#comment-2451 Sat, 25 Nov 2017 08:48:00 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=582#comment-2451 sleep paralysis isn’t happening to me. it’s something more evil more dark. i dream and dream and wake up not being able to move. im in a dark room with no one but me and I hear this woman laughing and crying. she usually comes to me and chokes me. last night she didn’t. she did something i couldnt control. she kept saying this name. and scratched me with her fingernail on my thigh and I woke up screaming with the scratch on my thigh. sometimes I can’t even tell what’s real when I’m awake. does anyone knows what’s happening to me?! please I need help…. before she actually kills me.

]]> By: Neil Petersen https://allpsych.com/the-woman-who-tramples-on-you-in-your-sleep-sleep-paralysis-in-folklore/#comment-2450 Thu, 29 Sep 2016 20:48:05 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=582#comment-2450 In reply to Joe eldred.

It is interesting how much similarity there is in people’s experiences. I don’t think there’s any scientific consensus on this…yet!

]]> By: Neil Petersen https://allpsych.com/the-woman-who-tramples-on-you-in-your-sleep-sleep-paralysis-in-folklore/#comment-2449 Thu, 29 Sep 2016 20:45:36 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=582#comment-2449 In reply to baseball55.

The estimate I’ve seen is about 5 – 10 percent of people. So there’s a good number of people out there — which doesn’t necessarily make it any more fun, of course!

]]> By: Joe eldred https://allpsych.com/the-woman-who-tramples-on-you-in-your-sleep-sleep-paralysis-in-folklore/#comment-2448 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 21:58:24 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=582#comment-2448 I’ve had lots of sleep paralysis episodes over the years, usually at times of stress or lack of sleep ( I work nights & have 3 kids) I’ve also had 2 visits from “the old hag”. Now I don’t believe in ghosts, God, aliens, paranormal activity or anything like that but I still can’t get my head around the old hag. What bugs me & what I can’t get a reasonable or scientific answer for is how other people from all around the world have accounts of the old hag & describe in eery detail EXACTLY what happened to me?……..weird……!

]]> By: baseball55 https://allpsych.com/the-woman-who-tramples-on-you-in-your-sleep-sleep-paralysis-in-folklore/#comment-2447 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 00:01:39 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=582#comment-2447 Probably once a month I sort of wake up feeling like I am unable to breathe and I try to scream and call for help or to move and sit up but am unable to. I am aware enough to know that it is simply sleep paralysis and I will not suffocate and it will pass after a minute or two. But it’s still a terrifying feeling. I mentioned how awful sleep paralysis is to a friend, thinking everyone must experience it, but she had no idea what I was talking about.

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