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Published: 2014-03-10 17:18:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 1898; Favourites: 66; Downloads: 0
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I make a lot of book covers as I'm sure you've seen, but few are as meaningful to me as this one. I was thrilled to be able to work on it with Chris White, as its a fantastic and coherent explanation of Sleep Paralysis that answers the questions on what it is and provides a solution that actually works, even though Science teaches there is no solution.If you experience any form of sleep paralysis and are like me having read all the explanations on whats going on and why it happens etc. but felt like the answers are mixed, contradictory, unhelpful or don’t even apply to you, then you should read this book. It details the only answer that works.
Its out now on Amazon
And there’s a free audiobook version online here
This video is the short version of ‘how to stop it’ as well
Concepts here
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lol, saw this and though to add to favorite. turns out it's your work!
now I'm definitely not adding it.
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Gross Yeah please don't associate with me!
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Very impressive! That certainly shows the dread of night terrors!
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Hmm, I haven't read that
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Ha, well haven't seen that yet either!
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I like this cover. The picture conveys a feeling of emergency, like "open this book or the man / you will get eaten by these demons", and while I don't really approve of the use of scary imagery in relation to sleep paralysis (as it will only reinforce the fear people have of it), I can definitely see it working as a sales argument. I haven't read the book, but the deviation's description seems to point that the book isn't exactly scientific (since the scientific answer is unsatisfactory), and I think the cover does reflect this by depicting sleep paralysis as people experience it rather than a picture of brains or something, which is what I'd expect from a science book. In this way, I think it's appropriate, although it's probably not what I'd have chosen. ^_^
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Thanks! I agree with what you said about the scientific answer being unsatisfactory. Originally the author was going to go a more 'scientific' route with the research he had gathered, to try to win naturalist better or something. But when it came down to it in the end, the end result is still the same for what SP is so why beat around the bush.
We were going to do something less 'monstrous' with the cover, if you look at the concepts link, that one with the inkblot test image on it was more the initial direction, but it didn't quite convey the overall feeling needed.
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I infrequently suffer from bouts of sleep paralysis, which unpleasant to say the least. I was hoping this would give me some practical advice on how to shorten or prevent such attacks, but all I found was several paragraphs explaining that sleep paralysis is caused by demons.
Dreaming puts the human brain in a state that is actually quite similar to being awake. Normally there are a few other stages of sleep in between dreaming and waking, but since the two are so similar activity wise the brain can jump from one to the other to quickly and effectively be both dreaming but conscious and awake at the same time, which is why people may see things during sleep paralysis. The paralysis comes from the fact that the brain mostly shuts down muscle movement while dreaming, which is why sleep walking is not a common occurrence. Many report seeing demons and the like sitting on them during sleep paralysis, these demons are just your dreaming brain trying to justify that you can't move and that your are terrified.
So, if you fall into dreams to quickly or wake from one to suddenly, you effectively get stuck between both dreaming and awake which is a terrifying experience.
Hopefully that helps point people in the right direction if they don't agree with the writings found here.
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Thanks for writing, I have heard all of those explanations before, that is the baseline scientific answer from a naturalists point of view. I think its totally fine to think that its all in your brain up to a point, and I do think our brains can do some weird things. But I can't say I agree that it accounts for every circumstance in the slightest.
I have never experienced it with the normal 'falling asleep or just waking up' scenarios as science only deals with. Most of my sleep paralysis has encountered in broad daylight without any act of sleeping or napping type situation involved.
Some reports talk about when people 'see or hear' things its stress induced, or perhaps something they ate, really the explanations are numerous. But my problem with that view is, when someone experiences a daytime incident of Sleep Paralysis WITH another person in the same room, and they BOTH see the same thing. What is that? Did we just have a shared hallucination based off of MY stress level or something I ate? That right there is the convincing factor for me, and seeing the actual solution proven workable in my own life I know without any doubt that it has supernatural connotations.
I totally understand people don't want there to be any supernatural aspect to this, and thats fine thats their worldview and prerogative. But that doesn't necessarily mean its true just because you say it, it doesn't answer the question satisfactorily or provide a workable solution for all cases.
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If it's happening without sleep being a factor then it probably isn't sleep paralysis, the sleep part is a keystone factor. I feel like you should be more concerned about this then you are.
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Hah, well you have no idea of my concern level. But thanks for your concern
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Also, because sleep paralysis is mostly a dreaming state, it can be used as a starting point for lucid dreaming. ^_^
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