What is the difference between sleep paralysis and dream paralysis?
STUB — sleep paralysis is REM atonia outlasting consciousness for a few seconds at the threshold of waking; you are awake but cannot move. Dream paralysis is the dream ego unable to act inside the dream itself. The first is sleep architecture; the second is psychological pattern.
Is sleep paralysis dangerous?
STUB — not medically dangerous; can be highly distressing, particularly when accompanied by hypnopompic hallucinations.
Why can't I run in my dreams?
STUB — the dream ego at the constrained end of the agency spectrum, often corresponding to dorsal vagal freeze response.
Does sleep paralysis mean something is wrong?
STUB — usually not pathological in itself; can occur with sleep deprivation, irregular schedule, narcolepsy.
How do you treat sleep paralysis?
STUB — sleep hygiene, addressing underlying narcolepsy if present; for dream paralysis, depth-oriented dreamwork engaging the freeze pattern.