Hmm, I suppose I could take a nap on my lunch break. It seems kind of hard if you've got an FT job. Or did I miss something?

Yeah, most of the people I've read about who have tried this either did it while in school or on vacation.

How often do you get sleep paralysis?

Do you know that people used to blame sleep paralysis on witches?

Do you know that people used to blame sleep paralysis on witches?

Now they blame it on aliens.

alien witches?

I suppose some aliens could be witches. But the ones paralyzing people are probably scientist aliens. Batman's a scientist.

I once convinced a friend to try this for a few weeks while he was between jobs. I forget exactly what his sleep schedule was but he did end up having to sleep less. Then he got a job. I've always wanted to do this myself but having a regular job makes it difficult. If only alternative sleep schedules were more common.. like the 28 hour day.

Actually the alien scientists and witches work together on creating sleep paralysis in humans. Only those that have really focused on it in their studies at alien universities. Normally though, the ones with real-world experience get the good research positions.

why are there 7 days in a week?

Brette: The sleep paralysis comes and goes. If I am stressed out, I can go weeks having episodes every night. I have also gone weeks without ever having an episode. These days life is good, but I still deal with it about one night a week on average.

I've been able to take some measures to help curb the occurances and also deal with them when they happen. Watching my diet at night makes a big difference, I try to avoid dairy in the evenings. If I find myself in an episode it helps to stay calm and try to just move my fingers or toes and then slowly regain muscle movement. The hardest part is the staying calm part as the sleep paralysis is usually accompanied by paranoia and/or hallucination. It sucks to say the least.