Quote Originally Posted by Pride
SLEEP PARALYSIS

often accompanied by slight hallucinations and auditory hallucinations (small voices, knocks, footsteps, etc)

The reason for hallucinating while you are asleep and feeling weight on your chest like your dead grandmother is sitting on you...
It's called sleep paralysis.
It happens when you're under a lot of stress.
It is VERY common in Japan (#1 stress country go figure) and they call it kanishibari
In old times they say kanishibari happens because spirits are trying to take control of your body or some shit like that. So what spirits do is sit on top of you to stop you from breathing so they can take over you.
Many describe the 'aura' as evil or unpleasent.

It happens very rarely..
I doubt you will face it again unless you are under a lot of stress.
Nothing religous happened, but religous people believe monsters are trying to possess them.
And many artists drew paintings of kanishibari.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
That's true. I have heard that many alien abduction cases have been reduced to being sleep paralysis. :smokin:
Binzhoubum Reviewed by Binzhoubum on . This is a long read, but sort of interesting Uh, I wasn't really sure where to post this, so I came here...You all seem like highly intelligent people and will most likely give me some sort of tangable feedback, so here goes. I am not really a "religous" person. So I don't know what to think of all of this, most likely dreams, but who knows. About 3 years ago I would hear people say my name while I was trying to sleep. And not just a whisper, I actually woke up once because I serioulsy thought my grandmother was standing next to me, Rating: 5