A few minutes ago I suddenly woke up , I didn’t sleep well
At the beginning everything was normal , then I blinked and …
The lighting suddenly became more yellow (and unnatural) and the closet I was looking at turned into a frightening and shocking appearance (the closet itself, it was vandalized in a way that I can’t even remember to describe). I remained in shock for three or four seconds, then I found myself closing my eyes tightly ( it was an involuntary reaction ), and when I opened my eyes again, everything returned to normal.
This is the first time in my life that this has happened to me
So … any scientific explanation?
Thanks in advance
Pretty sure that the main symptom of sleep paralysis is, that you can’t move. Hallucinations can occur, but OP has not mentioned the inability to move.
Sleep paralysis is a state, during waking up or falling asleep, in which a person is conscious but in a complete state of full-body paralysis. During an episode, the person may hallucinate
They said they were “in shock for three or four seconds”, and they describe their only movement during the episode—closing their eyes—as involuntary.
We need to consider OP’s actual physiological response, not just the vocabulary they use to describe it.
Ok - not describing any movement, does not mean that they did not move, or were unable to. Just like not describe their breathing or heartbeat, does not mean that they were not able to breathe or had a cardiac arrest.
Further more, they mention that they were in a chock for 3-4 seconds, after seeing the closet change appearance. Anyone would be that while experiencing a hallucination or something that they perceive unnatural. Also they say that they initially woke up and everything was normal, to start with. If it had been sleep paralysis, this would not be the case.
In any case, this is not programing - it is a human describing a weird situation. If it had been sleep paralysis, you would expect them to specifically describe their inability to move, and not describe it as in being in a shock.
I am much more prone to agree with the other user, who mention hypnagogia, or rather just a case of prolonged transition between sleep and awake.
Sleep paralysis is an aspect of hypnogogia—it’s referenced several times in the article linked to in the other comment. It’s a type of hypnogogia associated with both immobility and fear-inducing hallucinations, and OP describes both. They just (mis)attribute their immobility to shock, instead of a condition they’d never heard of before.
