What is the meaning of getting on the dead? When we talk about letting the dead rise, we are referring to sleep paralysis. It consists of the inability of a person to move when we are in the moments before going to sleep or in the first moments when waking up. This feeling subsides after a few minutes on its own, but during that time great anguish is perceived.
The person who suffers from it can perceive sounds and touch, however he is not able to speak or move in any way In this way, this can lead to high levels of anxiety due to the impotence of not being able to do anything while respect. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) it is included in the group of parasomnias.
Keep reading Psychology-Online to understand what does it mean that the dead one rises, why is it happening to you, what is happening to your body and what you can do about it.
What is the cause of sleep paralysis? There are several reasons why someone can develop this disorder. The causes of sleep paralysis are as follows:
- It is common in people with irregular sleep schedules or they are jet-lagged.
- Other common reasons are lack of sleep, that is, sleeping less than you should, or sleeping on your back.
- Another cause of sleep paralysis is stress.
What happens when you get dead? These different reasons can provoke a dissociation in the person between the mechanisms that promote the muscle relaxation that appears at the time of sleep and the mechanisms that cause alertness upon waking so that the person wakes up while his body remains in the same state as it would be during the deep phases of sleep. Therefore, when the dead body rises, you are awake, but the muscular atony continues and you cannot move.
For its diagnosis, it is quite common to do a sleep study, that is, to monitor the person's sleep for one or several nights in order to have more objective data.
How to avoid sleep paralysis? It is very important to have good sleeping habits. A regular schedule for going to bed and getting up, reducing naps and caffeine intake and technologies in bed can facilitate a good rest and reduce this problem. Here you can see some guidelines of sleep hygiene.
Remembering that it is a benign disorder, that is, it does not affect your physical health, it is also very important to be able to relax, just as it is important to emphasize that hallucinations are temporary and do not in any way represent the reality.
In order to start moving your body, it is important to remember that it will only last a few minutes. Relax, focus on breathing And thus perceiving that we can breathe and, furthermore, moving limbs very little by little first, such as fingers, can help the body to wake up a little faster.
Other relaxation techniques that could be useful in this situation is the progressive muscle relaxation, that is to say, focus on the tension that our muscles have at that moment and go one by one unloading them of said tension.
On the other hand, in therapy the distancing from hallucinations. This would consist of working so that we perceive hallucinations as a radio in the background without constantly trying to eliminate them but not paying too much attention to them. In addition, in this way the separation of these hallucinations from what is reality would also be worked on.
In this article you will find more information about the sleep paralysis.
This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.
