Sleep paralysis can be a frightening occurrence in which your brain wakes up but your body is still asleep.
When you make a run at move, you’re able to’t.
This is the sleep cycle in which you dream, but something goes haywire.
It’s why these stories that play out only when we sleep seem so real (viaWebMD).
However, during sleep paralysis, REM sleep takes on new heights.
And that feeling of hovering or floating outside your body?
That’s triggered by the disruption of the temporoparietal junction activity in the brain.
This can also cause you to think there is an intruder in your room (viaEachNight).
While sleep paralysis can be terrifying, it is not harmful, Bender noted.
