Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Have you guys expirience "Ditindih Hantu" ?

Have any of you guys ever wake up from sleep and unable to move or to scream ? Indonesian refer this phenomena to called as "ditindih hantu". But, there is a completely logical and scientific explanation for this. They call it 'Sleep Paralysis'.
Why do suddenly write about this ? Because it happened to me last night. In the last 2 or 3 years i've been having this sleep paralysis about 2 or 3 times in a year. Sometimes it lasted only a couple of seconds but i remember there is this one time where it happen about a minute long. One minute is a long time when you can't move at all and your body fells like "kesemutan" everywhere. In the past, when this episode of sleep paralysis happen to me, i used to ask my friend about this and they say it is called "ditindih hantu". I dont really believe that, so i look it up in the internet and i found this explanation that answer my problem.
Sleep paralysis basically is a condtion in which an individual is strugling to do voluntary muscle movement despite being awake and aware. During this episode of sleep paralysis, an individual will strugle to move, it's like someone or something is holding you down. And during this episode of sleep paralysis an individual often suffer hallucination, in which they felt like there is a presence of an entity in the same room. Sleep paralysis often happens during process of 'falling asleep' or during proses of 'waking up'.
What causes sleep paralysis ? Well, there are still very little knowledge abou SP. But, one of the possible answer is the hormone. When an individual is asleep, the body release hormones that relaxes your muscle to prevent you from acting out your dream.If the hormone got release to fast, than the body will get paralyze before we went to sleep. And if the hormone are taking to slow to wear off, the body will still got paralyze although we already wake up.
Is sleep paralysis harmful ? No. In most cases, sleep paralysis are not harmful.
The after effects may include a period of fright, followed by a period of restlessness. Occasionally, you may fear going back to sleep by worrying that it may occur again, but this can pass quickly. But, sometimes Sleep paralysis is sometimes associated with narcolepsy. This is a neurological condition in which a sufferer sleeps uncontrollably. There are also many people who experience Sleep Paralysis without having signs of narcolepsy. In severe cases where sleep paralysis happen at lease once a week for six month, medication maybe needed. Or you can just try to get enough sleep and exercise more, it should helo your sleeping paralysis. That is all from me about sleep paralysis. Thaks !

1 comment:

Bayu Dhanubroto said...

i forgot the source ! :

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html

http://www.spis.org.uk/