Power Naps are really NDEs?!

I’ve taken plenty of power naps in my lifetime. Sometimes you’ve just gotta. If you’re driving and getting drowsy, it’s a matter of safety. You pull over at a convenient place, ease the seat back—preferably you have a pillow or something you can use as one—and grab a quick nap, awakening all refreshed. Or a quick nap can change a sluggish, lethargic day into a productive one. They are a simple pleasure, no doubt. But I’ve never experienced anything profound, spiritual, or otherwise remarkable during a brief doze. Still, the experts point to similarities that are occurring in the brains of sleepers awakening to those being brought back from clinical death. The proper term is “hypnagogia.” It describes the state between consciousness and unconsciousness, in which the brain is up to all kinds of unusual shenanigans.

Limbic activity during the hypnagogic state is also to blame, they maintain, for the phenomena of sleep paralysis. I’ve only experienced this latter, thankfully, rarely and in small doses. The person is partly awake and partly asleep, unable to move. The mind supposedly then conjures up all manner of demons to attack the helpless sleeper. Sleep paralysis and hypnagogia have been blamed for the “alien abduction” experience as well as attacks by vampires. None of this proves that there aren’t, in fact, some sinister beings out there, just waiting for a person to achieve the helpless state of sleep paralysis to attack. Could there actually be a Freddy Krueger-type creature, existing on a different plane of reality, that attacks people in their minds, while they’re asleep?

By TheCheezman

WAYNE MILLER is the owner and creative director of EVIL CHEEZ PRODUCTIONS, specializing in theatrical performances and haunted attractions. He has written, produced, and directed (and occasionally acted in) over two dozen plays, most of them in the Horror and True Crime genres. He obtained a doctorate in Occult Studies from Miskatonic University and is an active paranormal investigator. Is frequently told he resembles Anton Lavey. And Ming the Merciless. Denn die totden reiten schnell!

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