Thread: Why are Shadow People/Beings a universal thing?

During SP, your brain can go into a panic mode, because it is conscience but unable to move. It then tries to figure out why, and the only explaination it has is that their must be a malicous figure somewhere in your room, preventing you from moving or breathing correctly. So it may hallucinate, and create this creature. Shadow figures seem like a pretty universely scary thing, so it
/ not surprising many people over many different cultures experience similar hallucinations. About being in your dream, again a shadowet figure is not that uncommon to be honest, and the description of such a creature could vary from person to person, and if that is so, then it is a manifistaion of their mind, not an actual malicous creaure in their dreams.

Originally Posted by Stormy Skies

During SP, your brain can go into a panic mode, because it is conscience but unable to move. It then tries to figure out why, and the only explaination it has is that their must be a malicous figure somewhere in your room, preventing you from moving or breathing correctly. So it may hallucinate, and create this creature. Shadow figures seem like a pretty universely scary thing, so it
/ not surprising many people over many different cultures experience similar hallucinations. About being in your dream, again a shadowet figure is not that uncommon to be honest, and the description of such a creature could vary from person to person, and if that is so, then it is a manifistaion of their mind, not an actual malicous creaure in their dreams.

Ok, this does seem to make sense.

Originally Posted by Stormy Skies

During SP, your brain can go into a panic mode, because it is conscience but unable to move. It then tries to figure out why, and the only explaination it has is that their must be a malicous figure somewhere in your room, preventing you from moving or breathing correctly. So it may hallucinate, and create this creature. Shadow figures seem like a pretty universely scary thing, so it
/ not surprising many people over many different cultures experience similar hallucinations. About being in your dream, again a shadowet figure is not that uncommon to be honest, and the description of such a creature could vary from person to person, and if that is so, then it is a manifistaion of their mind, not an actual malicous creaure in their dreams.

Ok my first time seeing a shadow person i actually thought it was my sister so i was not in no panic mode then i realized that it wasn't and that is when i freaked out.
It does not make sense to me when we are in the sleep paralysis state for the mind to hallucinate a dark figure shadow to be the reason we cant move. How about if we do not believe in ghost or supernatural to have this manifest from our minds out of nowhere and to hallucinate so it can make sense of the situation.