We all go to bed to get a very peaceful and healthy sleep. Even if we go to sleep thinking like this, we all have to face some strange and mysterious phenomena related to sleep from time to time. Examples include sleepwalking, sleepwalking, wakefulness, and nightmares.
But today we are going to talk about the worst sleep experience of all. If you've had this experience at least once in your life, you may have felt the horror of it. Most people say that this happens during the day. Just imagine that you are sleeping upside down. Suddenly you wake up. That means you can open your eyes and look around. Now you are trying to get out of bed. This is where the scariest part of the event begins. You can't even get out of bed and shake Thea's arm.
No matter how hard you try, your body will not move a tenth. The whole body is stoned. Now you are trying. Scream for help. A lot of people shout 'Mommy Mommy'. But no matter how hard you try to speak, the sound does not come out of your mouth automatically. You will not be allowed to give any message to the outside world. But you realize that you are awake. You can see the surroundings well. Now you go back to sleep. It wakes you up again as before. You think this time I woke up. But this time too, your body is stoned as before. No matter how loud you shout, words do not come out of your mouth.
Two or three times in this way it is very difficult to wake up. Some people who have had this experience feel that their body feels like it is being hugged by a strong person. Some even feel as if someone is sitting on their chest.
We are not talking about a set of scenes in a Holman film, but about a set of experiences that a significant number of people around the world frequently experience. But this is not caused by an invisible force.
Scientists explain that this condition, called sleep paralysis, is a temporary paralysis that occurs when you wake up. This happens when our brain gradually wakes up from its slumber. Scientifically, this is an even more terrifying experience than we can describe in words.
To understand why sleep apnea occurs, it is important to know how the brain moves our muscles. As you already know, our brain controls all the optic muscles in the body. Volcanic muscles are muscles that allow us to move when we need to.
We can move our limbs and facial muscles whenever we want. This ability is due to the electrical signals that go from the brain to the signaling muscles that go through the nervous system. Our brain is not able to move the muscles of certain internal organs of the body. They are called involuntary muscles.
When we go to sleep, all the optic muscles in the body become inactive in this way. At the same time, our nervous system becomes somewhat paralyzed. This paralysis also changes with the amount of sleep you have.
As a result, a person who is barely asleep can wake up quickly even with a small noise, normal light, or even a slight touch. But to wake someone fast asleep, you need to feel more noise, light, or movement. The extent of this disorder can vary according to lifestyle, genetic makeup, and the way you spend the day before going to bed.
In what we call deep sleep, all the senses in the body are weak and the sphincter muscles are inactive. But we can see a very unusual behavior in the muscles of our eyes. With deep sleep, our eyes begin to move rapidly.
This is called rapid eye movement, which means sleep. It is often referred to as REM sleep. It is at this point that we begin to dream in our sleep.
It is said that when we dream, the electrical signals from the brain attach to the muscles of our eyes, causing the eyes to move faster.
So we talked about how our brain works during sleep. However, the way our brain gets into this state can change a lot. Like everything in our daily lives, our sleep can be affected.
Frequent exposure to computer or cell phone screens, malnutrition, stress, and sleep disorders can all change the way the brain relaxes.
These changes cause the brain to change the time it takes to go to sleep, or the time it takes to get out of sleep, as well as the neural signals it emits during the shift. All of this is unfortunately lined up in what we are talking about, called sleep stroke, or sleep paralysis.
During a stroke, our brain gradually wakes up from a deep sleep. This involves the gradual regulation of the brain by the body's voluntary muscles. However, this process requires more energy in the brain than in sleep.
As a result, breathing and heart rate begin to slow down, oxygen uptake into the bloodstream, and brain cells begin to regenerate.
However, as we talked about earlier, this natural process can be disrupted for a variety of reasons. The main reason for this is the inability to get the required energy during that period. If for some reason it is difficult to breathe fast, the brain will not be able to get oxygen quickly.
Also, as mentioned earlier, if there is a sleep-altering factor, the brain may not be able to get the oxygen it needs, even if it does not block breathing due to the improper speed of the waking process.
This is where the dreaded experience of sleep apnea begins. The brain has to be stimulated by hormones because it cannot increase the supply of oxygen while waking up naturally.
The brain misuses the adrenaline hormone, which increases heart rate and respiration when we are scared. What happens then is that you are frightened by showing a nightmare as a dream, artificially injecting adrenaline, and breathing fast.
But the problem here is that there is a feedback process in the brain or a feedback loop. Naturally, anyone is scared to see a scary face so the brain uses that kind of dream.
But as we try to breathe faster, our chest muscles tighten spontaneously. If the larynx is blocked by the way your neck is positioned at the moment, you may also feel a blockage in the throat.
Both of these sensations go back to our brains and the horrible-faced creature in question is seen sitting on our chest or trying to strangle us in a dream.
In addition to the scary face of a sleep stroke, the brain begins to look like a demon sitting on its chest and choking on feedback, or feedback.
By that time, the eye muscles, which are very close to your brain, have become active. As a result, the brain senses that there is a terrifying animal on the chest, even when the eyes are open.
Sometimes the sensations are felt in the eyes as well as in the ears near the brain. At that moment, the brain senses the surroundings of the place where you are sleeping because you can see with your eyes and hear sounds around your ears.
So what happens then is that the brain adds a horrible creature to the environment you see as an augmented reality or AR program. When it wakes up, it feels like a terrifying animal trying to strangle you.
It is an experience that is far closer to reality than a dream. One of the most frightening things about sleep apnea is the feeling that it happens.
However, none of the other muscles in the body, such as the muscles of the arms and legs, which are far away from the brain, have become active. Because of this, even if you see a terrifying animal on the chest with both eyes, there is no way for the limbs to move or shout.
Because breathing is an involuntary action, but to shout, it is necessary to activate the great parietal. For a few seconds, you have to watch the horrible devil on your chest choke you, without doing anything, without screaming. It's not a dream, it's something you see with your open eyes!
When this experience is indescribably terrifying, the adrenaline secretion quickly accelerates the heartbeat and respiration and provides the brain with the oxygen it needs. Then the brain is fully awake and the other sphincter muscles are activated. The sight of the dreaded beast on the chest also disappears. You can be fully awake in a few seconds.
But the experience will never be forgotten again. There is a saying that one does not understand what fear is until one experiences sleep apnea because of this horror.
Sleep apnea is more common in people who are sleep deprived, overworked, and sleep-deprived. It is also more likely to occur when sleeping upright, especially when holding high pillows or otherwise flexing the throat.
So you can avoid such situations, get a good night's sleep, and avoid having a sleep stroke.
Finally, sleep apnea is an amazing result of the way our human brain works. Sometimes our brain deliberately intimidates us to get the oxygen it needs. It can also be thought of as improbable ability that we have inherited.
But in reality, it would be wrong for us to torture our brain so much that it has to do something like that.
So try to avoid sleeping strokes as much as you can. If you have never experienced it, you are lucky. Once you have had a sleep attack, you will understand why.