Medical definition of sleep paralysis

Sleep paralysis is medically known as nightmare, or what the common people call ghost pressure on the bed. Sleep paralysis is when a person wakes up suddenly from a dream, part of the brain’s nerve center is already awake, but because the person wakes up suddenly, the nervous system that innervates the muscles is not yet fully awake, so there will be the symptom of feeling that the muscles can’t move. Sleep paralysis patients generally have the phenomenon of dreaming, people dreaming suddenly waking up is mostly due to the patient’s stress, anxiety caused by fire, it is recommended that the patient’s relaxation, adjusting the pressure, and at the same time pay attention to the sleeping position to avoid the occurrence of sleep paralysis when you will feel short of breath, breathing symptoms. If this symptom occurs in the elderly should also be cardiopulmonary function examination, to rule out the organic disease caused by the patient is recommended to carry out a systematic diagnosis and treatment.