Breakdown & Science Behind Kendall Jenner's Fear Of Sleep Paralysis

On the recent episode of "Keeping up with the Kardashians," Kendall Jenner shared that she is now in deep fear to fall asleep as she battles a condition of sleeping paralysis.

According to EOnline, Kendall Jenner has been trying to overcome her recent personal condition of “sleeping paralysis”. On Sundays show of “Keeping up with the Kardashians,” Kendall opened up about the war within, her several panic attacks, anxiety, and “sleeping paralysis” she has been struggling with for a while now. She revealed that she has gotten to a point where she’s actually now scared to fall asleep.

While she talking to her mom Kris Jenner on the show about the “sleeping paralysis”, she made it known that when she wakes up in the middle of the night, her mind is awake but her body remains without movement which is terrifying to her. She revealed that she has gone through some stress in the past.

According to WebMD, “Sleeping paralysis” is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move and this occurs when a person passes between stages of being awake and asleep. “Sleeping Paralysis” can be developed by the lack of sleep, change of sleeping schedule, mental condition or bipolar disorder, sleeping on the back, stress.

The experts shared to Live Science that “sleeping paralysis” can indeed be frightening, and this happens when a person is in a state of dream and muscle paralysis that occurs when the eye moves rapidly in the stage of sleep. But for people who experience “sleeping paralysis,” the state of dream paralysis happens when they are still awake.

Naturally, dreams occur when a person is in a rapid eye movement sleep and while a person is in a dream state the brain paralyzes the muscles not letting the person act out of the dream physically. Two things occur during “sleeping paralysis” when a person is conscious with the eye opened and this means dreams are technically hallucination and are just a clear view of anything you would see when you’re awake.
“Sleeping paralysis” is most common to people with narcolepsy. But people who do not have narcolepsy also experience the phenomenon too, especially in their young adulthood.

Roughly 8% Americans have experienced at least one episode of sleep paralysis and most people with conditions like anxiety and depression may more likely have experienced “sleeping paralysis”. During sleep paralysis, all a person can do is to be calm and know that it will pass soon.