Body is physical, spirit is not, mind controls body. According to science, mind/brain is responsible for life and death but then there are phenomenas that science is unable to explain.
Science is unable to explain near-death experience where one’s heart is taken out, brain is completely dead but the patient remembers some of actions performed by surgeons during surgery and he/she actually tells the surgeon that (s)he saw it as if (s)he was standing in the room with them. Amazing stuff.
Religion tells us about spirit as a separate entity. What is it?
I have experienced a somewhat strange phenomena quite a few times now. During sleep I suddenly wake up due to noise around me (like someone trying to open bedroom door) but my body is unable to move at my brain’s request immediately (unable to move at all) then later on I feel that “something” entered my body perhaps from feet (I don’t remember if it was feet or head) and then I was able to move my body as I wished.
I know that there are some explainations (religious) like your spirit moves around while body is at rest (sleeping) and enters back into body as soon as it wakes up, the 2 (spirit entering and body wakeup) are almost always synchronized but may get unsynchronized at times which may cause the above mentioned to occur.
Yeah I’ve sometimes experienced that feeling too where I wake up and can’t move my body for a while, but I always thought maybe it was due to bad blood circulation or something, never really thought it would have a supernatural cause.
I’ve had dreams where I’m falling from a corner of my bedroom ceiling towards my bed and as soon as I reach my bed I wake up. I’ve always thought of that being my soul returning back to my body after a night out…
And HE it is who takes your soul by night and knows what you do by day, then HE raises you up again therein, that the appointed term may be completed. Then to HIM is your return. Then will HE inform you of what you used to do.
We are kind of dead while in sleep. But then it's Allah's fazal which makes us rise-up next morning....
A complaint of inability to move the trunk or limbs at sleep onset or upon awakening
Presence of brief episodes of partial or complete skeletal muscle paralysis
Episodes can be associated with hypnagogic hallucinations or dream-like mentation (act or use of the brain)
I've had the feeling of being levitated (4" to about 8"), when I'm in light sleep, whilst I'm still semi-conscious and here is the weird part, when I become aware of what is happening and suddenly awake I actually feel falling back. has anyone else had similar experiences.
As far as the spirit leaving the body I've read somewhere it leaves through the mouth, vacating the feet then legs etc, works its way into the neck and finally out of the mouth.
I have a freind who had an outer-body experience, I dont want to discuss what caused him for a short time to die , Even today he is firmly adamant as to what happened, he saw himself lying on the floor and people gathered around him incuding his brother, exactly how it actually happened.
Well, from the definitions it does look like Sleep Paralysis and Hypnagogic Hallucinations but that doesn’t really explain all of it. This is what science can get at it best today. There is no real reason known yet.
changez... your first post sounds to me like anxiety attacks, wich are common in sleep, and can also be attributed to lack of sarotonin(SP?)
a chemical found in the brain.
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Yeah I’ve sometimes experienced that feeling too where I wake up and can’t move my body for a while, but I always thought maybe it was due to bad blood circulation or something, never really thought it would have a supernatural cause.
I’ve had dreams where I’m falling from a corner of my bedroom ceiling towards my bed and as soon as I reach my bed I wake up. I’ve always thought of that being my soul returning back to my body after a night out…
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Also read Surah-e-Fateha and the last 3 Surahs from the Holy Quran and Surah-e-Kafirun along with sending Darood on the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) before going to sleep!
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changez... your first post sounds to me like anxiety attacks, wich are common in sleep, and can also be attributed to lack of sarotonin(*SP?)
a chemical found in the brain.
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how would that be "anxiety" attack?
I just experienced another one today, but it was a different way. I felt that a body came on me, pressed against me and gave me a message related to my brother and then left. I am unable to confirm the message if it was true or not.
Serotonin-lack of, results in aggressive behavior or 'suicidal thoughts', 'risky behavior'.... and I am not 'suffering' any of these.