Fun Fact #213

Fun Fact # 213

The Sleeping Snakes

In early 2020 there was a noticeable uptick in Rockford of people experiencing sleep paralysis and hearing “The Rattle of a snake slithering away”. The more superstitious believed that these were snakes whose venom paralyzed the victim with fear as they feasted on happy dreams and memories. The important thing to remember however was this was the start of the Pandemic leading to increased stress in the general population. Stress can lead to a lack of sleep which is one of the biggest contributing factors in Atonia or sleep paralysis before waking up. This is because the brain has not fully stopped dreaming but has tried waking up resulting in this “Semi Sleep” where hallucinations may be created by the brain tryng to interpret the data while your imagination is running unrestrained. As for why a majority of the people saw or heard the same thing, it relates to noisy clocks being found within their homes.

So please, try not to stress about things, if you don't you may just meet one of these hallucinations yourself. Yikes! Maybe don't think about that, sounds stress inducing. Thanks for reading and please have a wonderful day!

Also this was my first time trying out an AI art creator since no one seemed to have any royalty free images of "Dream Snakes" (I really stink at drawing and this was a good excuse to try it out, I dont think it worked too well) this was from an App called "Imagine"