# Electrongeek **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [March 1, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/electrongeek/14704 "2003-03-01T18:39:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@fez](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fez)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/electrongeek/14704/1 "2003-03-01T18:39:20Z")
i just wanted to use this as an excuse to flaunt my intelligence. electrongeek, i fear that you suffer from a condition called sleep paralysis. they had a ting about it on discovery, thats how i know. as to why i was watching discovery, well we had a hell of a lot of snow days and i was really bored. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/electrongeek/14704/2 "2003-03-01T20:14:23Z")
Umm… Huh…? Where is there a flaunt of intelligence at? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/electrongeek/14704/3 "2003-03-01T20:30:00Z")
😉 but he´s right. This is from the top of my head, what i can recall of my classes: in the XV centuries they thought that this was caused by a wicth, which was siting on the chest of the ‘victim’ in a atempt to kill it, or ghosts, demons, voodoo, etc… Later on they discovered that this happens due to a sudden brain hiper activity causing the person that was in a deep sleep (teta level i think) to instantly awake, thus jumping the beta and alfa sleep levels, and leaving the subject sound and countious but with little muscle control. the person experiences a sensing of invisible trap, from which he can´t free himself imediately. * * * Sleep levels: - alfa: the subject is half concious, first 5-15 min; - beta: the subject is unconcious, 15-30 min; - teta: R.E.M., dreams, deep sleep. it lasts about 30 min, then it goes back to beta, when the beta-teta loop begins. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/electrongeek/14704/4 "2003-03-01T20:32:03Z")
> \*Originally posted by fez \* > \*\*i just wanted to use this as an excuse to flaunt my intelligence. electrongeek, i fear that you suffer from a condition called sleep paralysis. they had a ting about it on discovery, thats how i know. as to why i was watching discovery, well we had a hell of a lot of snow days and i was really bored. \*\* Fez, I agree, on the weekends, I enjoy being an insomniac so your paralysis comment is a compliment. =) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/electrongeek/14704/5 "2003-03-01T20:43:27Z")
Blah… BAH BAH BAH **BAAAAHHHH** Anyways… 🙂 Yeah I know about the sleep stages… They teach that kind-a stuff to Seal members so that they can get optimum sleep. They teach members how to stay in teta for hours instead of returning back to beta… I for one can stay in teta for hours when I am having a really good dream… But… If it’s in the morning… I will experience a beta-teta looping cycle. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/electrongeek/14704/6 "2003-03-02T00:21:48Z")
yes. i enjoy diagnosing people…and the discovery channel ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/electrongeek/14704/7 "2003-03-02T05:34:39Z")
so many beta’s maybe thats what lost is trapped in …that beta thing guig0 is talking about alfa and beta or whatever the crap is i would love to drive an alfa romeo…dam _drools_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/electrongeek/14704/8 "2003-03-02T15:12:00Z")
mmmm…you losst me with the beta sleep cycles stuff. discovery doesnt teach you all that…