Sleep paralysis
What actually triggers sleep paralysis?
Ikechukwu Nwanze
7/8/20253 min read
What sleep paralysis is
Sleep paralysis is generally defined as the inability to move or speak while falling asleep or waking up. It is a temporary state of helplessness in which the affected person remains conscious but unable to act. This condition is a form of temporary paralysis consciously experienced during the transition between sleep and wakefulness, and its duration can vary.
Common characteristics of sleep paralysis include a sense of danger, the perception of an intruder in the room, feelings of suffocation, and a sensation of separation from the body. The experience can be frightening and stressful, often leaving the affected person anxious and questioning its cause.
What causes sleep paralysis
Sleep paralysis is triggered and sustained by negative emotions such as terror, dread, fright, panic, alarm, apprehension, horror, trepidation, consternation, phobia, worry, nervousness, unease, agitation, distress, tension, restlessness, edginess, and foreboding. These emotions arise from a person’s inner being - in other words, the afflicted individual carries them within.
What triggers these negative emotions
These include, but are not limited to, the following: fear of losing a possession, unrealistic expectations, past trauma, information overload, perceived danger or threat, stressful life events, and financial pressure.
How negative emotions generate ethereal forms
Any thought, idea, or emotion that we harbour within us immediately takes on form. The ability to form is an inherent attribute of the free will which every human spirit possesses. The free will we carry within us continuously attracts and shapes what we choose, desire, or entertain. Each time we exercise our free will - whether through thoughts, words, or actions - it exerts a pressure that automatically produces forms within the non-physical realms.
Unfortunately, negative emotions such as terror, dread, fright, panic, and alarm are also formed, regardless of whether we recognise this fact. These formations are ethereal, meaning they are not physical. Their actual location is within a realm called Fine Gross Matter, which lies below the Ethereal World. These formations are collectively referred to as “ethereal,” a term describing structures or activities that exist beyond physical perception.
The more we entertain negative emotions, the more these ethereal formations are strengthened - both by the pressure of our own free will and by the free will of other human spirits who harbour similar emotions. Over time, these similar emotional forms cluster together, forming groups through the operation of the Law of Homogeneity - like attracts like. This law ensures that every emotion or action, whether uplifting or destructive, gravitates toward its own kind.
These ethereal forms, which eventually manifest to the afflicted person as experiences of sleep paralysis, originate as negative emotions within that individual. They are sustained by the person’s continued emotional nourishment and receive reinforcement - within the realm of Fine Gross Matter - from other human spirits with a similar state of mind. These forms do not possess a life of their own; rather, they are entirely dependent on the intuition and emotional condition of their hosts. Their existence and activity are sustained only through the inner state of the individuals who generate or attract them, a dynamic governed by the Law of Homogeneity.
Negative emotions consistently attract these forms, which themselves are reinforced by negative emotions. As these forms accumulate reinforcement from multiple individuals, they grow in density and strength. Ultimately, they return to all individuals who share similar mindsets - those who have continually sustained them - through the operation of the Law of Homogeneity.
These groups become increasingly powerful because they are continually nourished by people who harbour similar negative emotions. As these emotions receive reinforcement from others who carry comparable emotions, the forms reach maturity and return to all who contributed to their existence, whether knowingly or unknowingly. This return, or feedback, is governed by the Law of Reciprocal Action, also known as fate or karma. It ensures that every human spirit encounters the consequences of the ethereal forms it has helped manifest in Creation.
In the case of negative emotions, these forms return and appear as apparitions to those who actively participated - knowingly or unknowingly - in their formation and continued existence. When such emotions are continually nourished, they receive reinforcement from others who share the same state of mind. Over time, they may take on forms described across cultures as demons, intruders, shadows, dark figures, entities, phantoms, the “old hag,” pandafeche, mære (mare), kanashibari, pisadeira, karabasan, alp, night hag, dab tsog, and many other culturally specific manifestations.
These manifestations - popularly described as sleep paralysis - are ethereal forms shaped and sustained by collective human negative emotion and returned through the immutable laws governing Creation.
Solution to sleep paralysis
Negative emotions are the cause of sleep paralysis; therefore, the antithesis would be positive emotions. Such positive emotions include courage, bravery, confidence, calmness, security, assurance, boldness, peace, serenity, relaxation, composure, tranquillity, and contentment.
Anyone who experiences sleep paralysis should cultivate the habit of practicing these positive emotional states of mind in daily life. Over time, these qualities will become part of their nature and ultimately attract reinforcement from others with similar intuition or state of mind.
This article is based on the knowledge contained in the spiritual work entitled: 'In The Light of Truth: The Grail Message' by Abd-ru-shin.
