Can sleep paralysis kill you

You wake up out of a murky sleep and find that you’re unable to move your body, from your forehead all the way down to your little toe. You’re completely paralyzed! You also have a crushing feeling in your chest, as if something heavy is sitting on it, and an uneasy sense that someone's in the room with you.

Your heart pounds and your thoughts spiral as you silently scream inside.

Is this a scene from a great horror movie or something more ominous?

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What is sleep paralysis?

Varying cultures have explained this frightening experience in various ways. In Brazilian folklore, a crone with long fingernails skulks on roofs and tramples on sleepers’ chests.

In Japanese mythology, vengeful spirits come to suffocate their enemies while they sleep. In contemporary American culture, sleep paralysis has taken on the mythology of alien abductions—sleepers wake up feeling the presence of aliens in the room while experiencing zapping sensations and a feeling of suffocation.

But it turns out this isn’t a slasher flick and you’re not experiencing a haunting. All of these symptoms describe s

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