Scary Experience

Scary Experience

Maybe it was last year, or the year before. I don't remember. The thing was that I was lying on top of my bed, getting ready to sleep. Just me, closing my eyes, relaxing my body to enter the peaceful realm of dreaming. But at some point in that process, something went wrong. 

While I was there with my eyes closed, I remember I was conscious at the moment that I entered the state of sleeping. But I wasn't really sleeping. My body was asleep, but my brain wasn't. At least not all of it. I was in an intermediate stage of sleeping and consciousness. The scary thing is, that when I entered this state of "sleep paralysis" (cause that is the scientific term of this phenomenon) my mind started to play tricks on me. I started to see things, shadows all over my room. I heard people talking to me. Telling me to do things, things that didn't make sense. Like "that I belonged to the circle of creatures, but I was already dead" things like that. It was all really confusing and unsettling. I was getting scared, because all I could do was mumble giberish and I couldn't move.

After some time my body suddenly woke up and I came back to reality. It was really confusing, because I couldn't determine wether it was real or a dream. So I went to wake up my mom and told her what had just happened and what the voices were telling me. I was really dizzy and I don't remember everything clearly. My mom thought I was sleep-talking while I was sleep-walking.

One conclusion that I have come to is that maybe the food that I ate that night had something to do with what happened. I ate a lot of nuegados. Nuegados are fried balls of dough and maybe it was just to much for my stomach to bear, so it kinda gave me nightmares. I know that this is the reason for what happened, because it happened one day when I ate nuegados again.

So, no nuegados at night. 

Here is an article about sleep paralysis and how to overcome it: http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/sleep-paralysis