Lyndsey Frondarina

Summary

The text describes a personal experience with sleep paralysis, likening the sensation to being trapped and immobilized underwater.

Abstract

The author of the poem vividly conveys the terrifying experience of sleep paralysis by comparing it to the helplessness of being submerged in the depths of the ocean. The poem illustrates the struggle to move or escape the paralysis, with the weight of the water symbolizing the heavy, immovable state that the body is trapped in. Despite the mind's commands to act, the body remains unresponsive, as if frozen by the overwhelming force of the sea. The imagery of drowning and being engulfed by tidal waves emphasizes the intense feeling of suffocation and despair that accompanies this sleep disorder.

Sleep paralysis

A poem

I felt like I was on the ocean floor with a million gallons of water weighing me down. I couldn’t move or even struggle, all I could do was lay there and drown.

My eyes were so heavy they wouldn’t open. I was completely blind, helplessly immersed at the bottom of the ocean.

My brain kept telling my body to move but it was paralyzed and frozen, being engulfed by the angry tidal waves of the ocean.

My lungs filled with water as I gasped for air, hopelessly drowning in the vast ocean of despair!

Illumination

Sleep Paralysis

Poetry

Mental Health

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