Posted by Elite:

This sounds very similar to what happens 2 eddy curry during defensive rotations

Bangungot
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Sudden Unexpected Death Syndrome (called bangungot in the Philippines, lai tai in Thailand, and hukuri in Japan) is sudden unexpected death of adolescents and adults during sleep. Bangungot is rarely observed in the Western world, and appears to occur more commonly among young men in East and Southeast Asian countries. The term originated from the Tagalog word meaning "nightmare." The root of this word comes from two Tagalog words bangon, which means to rise or to be awake and ungul which means to moan.[citation needed] While experiencing this, the person is aware that he is dreaming but feels like there is something that stops him from moving and awaking.[citation needed]

SUDS has been cloaked in superstition. In Thailand it is particularly believed to be linked to eating rice cakes. Filipinos believe ingesting high levels of carbohydrates just before sleeping causes bangungot.

It has only been recently that the scientific world has begun to understand this syndrome. Victims of bangungot have not been found to have any organic heart diseases or structural heart problems.

However, cardiac activity during SUDS episodes indicates irregular heart rhythms and ventricular fibrillation. The victim survives this episode if the heart's rhythm goes back to normal. Older folks in the Philippines recommend trying wiggling the big toe while experiencing this to snap back.

Ongoing genetic studies by Spanish electrophysiologist Dr. Josep Brugada Terradellas show that SUDS results from mutations in the cardiac sodium channel gene. This means that it is a chromosomal problem, which is why it runs in families. Thus, doctors say that families who have kin that have suffered from or died of SUDS must see a heart specialist.

In the Philippines, most cases of bangungot have been linked with Acute Hemorrhagic Pancreatitis, whereas in Thailand and Laos, bangungot (or in their term, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome) is caused by the Brugada syndrome.[1]

Bangungot is also depicted in the Philippines as a mythological creature called batibat. This hag-like creature sits on the victim's face so as to immobilize and suffocate him.

Posted by LongIslandKnicksFan:

Hey all, I've had **** like this in the past. Like I was lying on my side last night, maybe dreaming or having deep thoughts and I had this argument in my dream. I was in a restaurant playing with forks and this women said, "Will you stop? That's annoying?" and so I yelled at her, "Who the f___ do you think you are?" Then I wake up in my room but I cannot talk or move. I keep my eyes closed and my body tingles all over. This amazing sensation of my body tingling from this intense vibration. Then I lift my head (and I knew before hand that this had happened before but I sort of let it happen for as long as I could because it was such an awesome sensation).... Why does this happen?

This has happened before as to where I have seen a man in my room (all black with a knife in the air) as I am laying on my back, pinned down, can't talk, can't move my body, etc. This is when I was 16. I was just watching Friday the 13th Part 3 and had fallen asleep to it. I finally lift my head and see the clock reads 3:00 AM.

This has happened to many people in different ways. Some see spiders, some see "old hag" which it's also called "old hag syndrome" and it's really unexplainable. I think what they say is if you're stressed, really tired or ate before you went to bed, you can get it.