| Panic attacks are more common in daytime. | | | | of the physiological condition and the total |
| Studies show that 90% of panic attack sufferers | | | | experience of the sufferer. One must take note |
| go through their ordeal within their busy hours. | | | | that sleep paralysis is not the same as an out of |
| Ordinarily, that will be within office hours where | | | | body experience. Out of body episodes are more |
| the stress level is at its peak level. | | | | occupied by perceived non-equivalence with the |
| In this case, the remaining 10% of panic attack | | | | body while paralysis sufferers tend to fixate on |
| sufferers experience a totally kind of panic attack | | | | re-establishing operation of the body. |
| which occurs mostly at night time. This is known | | | | Panic attacks during sleep are more common with |
| as sleep panic attacks. Most of us may not be | | | | people suffering from insomnia. The bad thing |
| aware that such a thing exists. This is very | | | | about them is that the sufferer fears the |
| common since these panic attacks are commonly | | | | nighttime. Instead of being able to sleep |
| associated or thought as a sleep disorder. Recent | | | | peacefully, the fear creeps by causing the |
| developmental studies have proven that panic | | | | sufferer to feel the symptoms of a panic attack. |
| attacks while sleeping differed from the usual | | | | Chronic sleep deprivation results to insomnia and |
| nightmares that some of use experience while | | | | activates higher anxiety level to the sufferer. |
| sleeping. | | | | People who experience sleep panic attacks are |
| Night time panic attacks are obviously more | | | | frightened to sleep because they might just have |
| common to people with existing panic or anxiety | | | | a cardiac arrest. They are associating the |
| disorders. There is really no denying that we live | | | | symptoms of panic attack to what they might |
| in a highly stressful society. Everything is fast | | | | experience while sleeping. They think violent things |
| paced that in order to survive, one must learn to | | | | will happen and they will be comatose. |
| adapt and go with the flow. No wonder that there | | | | Remember that these panic attacks occur during |
| is an increasing rate of panic attacks. People | | | | the early stages of sleep. So that would mean |
| nowadays spend more time at work that they | | | | attacks do not happen in the REM stage of sleep. |
| deprive themselves of sleep. Thus there is a | | | | Therefore sleep panic attacks are not caused by |
| chronic sleep deprivation existing amongst us. | | | | dreams or nightmares. It is suspected that it may |
| It is very important to know that sleep paralysis | | | | be caused by false suffocation, a condition |
| is different from sleep panic attacks. Paralysis in | | | | wherein there is carbon dioxide build up in the |
| sleep occurs in the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) | | | | body. In this manner, the body responds by rapid |
| phase of sleep. This is what we call the deep | | | | heart beat and strenuous breathing. |
| sleep stage. Sleep paralysis has accompanying | | | | There is no exact reason on what causes these |
| hallucinations. Usually the person who experiences | | | | panic attacks. These attacks are primarily |
| this cannot move, but is fully conscious on what is | | | | influenced by the events of the last day. Sleep |
| happening. This the scary part of this condition. | | | | panic attacks are more prominent to people who |
| The hallucinations are so vivid that they look so | | | | lack sleep and have high stress levels. Also, the |
| real. There have been studies associating this | | | | consumption of alcohol and drugs highly influence |
| condition to alien abductions due to the similarities | | | | these attacks. Sleep repairs everything, indeed! |