Believe in Curious Dreamers

Believe in the Curious Dreamers part 3

(Class starts)

Mr. Perry: Okay guys, here is your tests, take your time on it, do not rush, you have the whole class to finish, when you are done, you can leave, I informed the guards outside that I am always going to dismiss you guys when you are done with your tests.

Quetip: yes, okay.

Mr. Perry: for your homework, I want you guys to read up on sleep paralysis, we will have that discussion tomorrow, now get started.

              Next Day

Mr. Perry (leans against his desk with his arms folded): What is sleep paralysis?

Shonte: That's like when someone falls asleep after waking or before falling asleep, they body gets paralyzed.

Mr. Perry (points): Yeah exactly, of all the terrifying dreams, sleep paralysis is the least understood by most people, it says in your books that sleep paralysis is also known as the Hag Effect, the Incubus Effect and Witch Riding remain the dark and unknown figure in the room. The actual definition of sleep paralysis ) is an intrusion of dream imagery into the waking world, experienced by roughly half the population of narcoleptics and millions of healthy sleepers too, in your own words, what is REM sleep?

Shonte (looking up): Umm...

Mr. Perry: Besides you Shonte, I want someone else to answer this question, I want other people to answer my questions to, Anyone?

Class (silence)

Mr. Perry: I told you all that I want you to know these terms.

Corvec (hand raises): Ain't REM sleep is a fast eye movement in the body when a person falls asleep and they can't feel their muscles moving?

Mr. Perry (pointing his finger): Yes, good Corvec, as it mentions here that is ordinarily in REM (dreaming) sleep, our muscles are paralyzed as we sleep. According to evolutionary scientists, this is a feature designed to keep up with living out our dreams so we do not hurt our sleeping partner as we swashbuckle a path through a pirate adventure. But, sometimes, we "wake up" while still in REM paralysis.

follows is a confusing mixture of the waking world perception and dreaming imagination, in bullet points,

The Common symptoms are:

Feeling unable to move or held down.

Pressure on the chest, throat, and abdomen.

Extreme fear and terror pounding heart rate.

Strange sounds like buzzing or a crackling paper bag

Bizarre shifts in gravity and body felt as well as breathing difficulties.

Feeling a presence in the room.

Seeing an o, often a nightmarish figure.

Being touched by the apparition.

Full mental awareness, "It was real."

Mr. Perry: Has anyone experienced sleep paralysis before?

Class: No.

Shonte: I think I have once, where my body felt like I couldn't move, that is so scary.

Mr. Perry: Yes it is, and that was all you remembered?

Shonte: Yeah, I know I have experienced sleep paralysis a couple of times when I was little, but I forgot em.

Mr. Perry: Okay, yeah most people only remember that aspect of the dream, I have experienced sleep paralysis where I felt someone or something controlling my body, that is where I went into a moment of REM sleep, I was terrified, I was lying on my back, and the weird thing about that moment of sleep paralysis is that most people have not seen their night stalkers paralyzing them, but I

Have.

Class: Oooh.

Mr. Perry: Yeah, weird, I have seen the night stalker, and I saw some aspects of the night stalker's image.

Quetip (sits up): Mr. Perry are you serious?

Mr. Perry: Yes I am, I would not lie, it was like I was in a nightmare, but I came to terms with myself that it was not a nightmare, it was actually real.

Quetip: That is some creepy as shit.

Cheetoe: Yeah, on the real.

Mr. Perry: Yeah, it was scary, the night stalker had hairy graveyard hair, pale face, and greenish eyes, that is all I remembered seeing.

Quetip: You must been dreaming or hallucinating.

Mr. Perry: No, that was no dream or hallucination, my mother told me that she went into sleep paralysis when I was a kid, she said one night in her room, she was watching that old talk show that used to come on in the 90s, what was the name of that show? Oh yeah, that Montel Williams show.

Shonte: Awe I remember that, my mama used to watch that too a lot.

Mr. Perry: Yeah that was a good show back then, but one night, my mother was watching The Montel show with the psychic lady he always had on there named Sylvia Browne, she knew a lot about spirituality and that spirits are around a certain person who cares about them, my mother said after she watched that show, she went to sleep and all of a sudden she felt someone nailing her down hard on her legs that she could not get up, she had yelled out to the entity or whatever it was, that "whoever this is, please stop," and the entity went away, she said she'd rebuked that moment in her prayers after that experience, that was so terrifying to her, after that experience, she could not sleep at night for awhile because she was frightened that the night stalker or entity was going to come back and haunt her again.

Class: Whoo.

Cheetoe: That is some scary ass shit, where were you when all of that happened?

Mr. Perry: I was over at one of my cousin's house, I used to spend nights a lot over my different relative's houses, my mother said she could not live in a house by herself anymore since that happened, that is when I had stopped spending nights at people's houses.

Shonte: Do she live alone now?

Mr. Perry: No, she lives with her two sisters.

Shonte (bobs her head up and down): Awe that's good.

Mr. Perry: Yeah, I also found out my mother was not the only one in the family who experienced sleep paralysis.

Cheetoe (eyes gets big): What?

Mr. Perry: I have a cousin who has also witnessed the night stalker as well, she said when she experienced sleep paralysis, it felt like she was drugged somehow that she could not move or shout, she said there were two-night stalkers in her room, a man, and a woman, she said the lady night stalker was a short old woman draped in a lot of filthy shredding clothes, she said she looked liked a homeless person, the old woman would sit on my cousin's chest, she was really heavy that my cousin could not move, the man image she said was dressed in all black, but she did not make out his face, the man would hold her around the base of her neck, and the old lady would come up to the top and start choking her so hard that she could not breathe, the man had held her arms down so she could not get up, I was the only person she told that story too, because if she told anyone else, they would not believe her, she told me because she knew that I am fascinated by dreams and I told her my paralysis experience, I told her that she was not alone in that, I told her my mother's experience and she was shocked.

Shonte (mouth opens and shakes her head): Wow, I hope I won't ever experience that again.

Mr. Perry: Yeah, everyone has experienced moments of sleep paralysis, even if they have not seen the existence of a night stalker.

(Bell Rings)

Mr. Perry: Well, okay class, that is all for today, for your homework read chapter 7 through chapter 9, you will have a quiz on more dream terminologies tomorrow, I will introduce you to the topic of lucid dreaming."