Sleep Paralysis

Darkness cast a shadow over me.  My eyes are frozen closed so I can’t see it, I only feel it’s presence.  I try to move but I am still in the end stages of REM sleep.  I am paralyzed and can’t move or even utter a sound.  Yet my heart beats faster as the darkness continues to hover.  My body is not awake but my mind is.  I try to say help - but it is only a low groan that I hear come back to me.

I have had this happen a few times before and at first I thought I was just dreaming but I learned that your body does actually paralyze itself when sleeping and if your mind wakes up before your body this can happen.  It is called hypnopompic or Isolated Sleep Paralysis.  It is generally accompanied by terrifying hallucinations and an acute sense of danger.  It is the strangest feeling when you want to move and you cannot make your body move.  It makes me wonder if that is how someone in a coma feels - are they sometimes trapped and want to so desperately say or do something.

It is amazing how intricately God has made each one of us and how everything in our body works together.  I really wonder how some people, even scientists, deny that God exists and created us.  

Psalm 139:13-16  For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.  I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.  My frame was not hidden from You when i was made in the secret lace.  When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body.  All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be. 

We think as humans we are so smart and above all things. But I believe we haven’t even scratched the surface of what this life has to offer and if you accept Jesus as your personal savior - Eternal life.  An eternity to grow and learn all there is to know....priceless.