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Published: 2007-01-08 21:27:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 4060; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 71
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Have you ever had the feeling when you wake up in the middle of the night and felt something as if "someone" was sitting on you and that you couldn't move. If this sounds familiar with youthen you had the "Old Hag Experience." This tale dates back before modern science and medicine, this idea was the only explanation for this particular phenomenon. But now thanks to modern science we now know that this experience is called "sleep paralysises" which is pretty much the same thing as explained above. Other than that this is an old illustration I did for a spiritual culture class I took about a year ago. I was going for more of a comical approach giving more reason to why you can't move and I think the image can speak for itself. Enjoy!
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Yes. In our culture, we called it, "Dab Tsuam (Dah Chua)." It means Sitting Demon. Tsuam (Chua) means crush or sit on. Dab (Dah) means demon or ghost. Together combined, it means the Sitting Demon.
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That's very interesting to know.
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That happened to me this morning ... lord its creepy. Awesome artwork by the way c:
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Yes it is a totally creepy experience
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Awesome, that should be interesting
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That is very interesting to know
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i had that feeling before . i saw the old hag and a shadow . i suffer sleep parylsis every night.
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Wow crazy I haven't had any sleep paralysis for a while. That must suck on your part
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i know it does . it s scary sometimes .
last night i saw fire around my bed and the old hag.
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i know . can u add me as a frined plz ?
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You gonna have to add me first silly lol
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Your wonderful work has been featured in my journal [link]
I also have it featured in a news article which can be found here
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Thank you so much for the feature
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She actually reminds me of Baba Yaga, the witch from Russian fairytales.
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Cool, Glad it reminds of something
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I've had that experience on various occassions.....scared the heck outta me each time until I learned all about sleep paralysis.
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I'm glad that you can relate to the piece 
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I hate that feeling....
I threaten the "feeling" and it goes away though.
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I hate it too, nasty feeling.
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I usually find out it's just our cat, Zelda, who loves sleeping on my chest.
Otherwise, a most unpleasant nightmare. Amazing image!!!
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I used to get that a lot at night and I don't have a cat so it freaked the poo out of me.
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I should show this to my dad, that's happened to him a number of times. He'll just lie there with his eyes open all corpse like. I imagine the experience is almost as disturbing as your hag.
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Its pretty scary, it happened to me a few times but not recently.
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Very funny manip! I actually had one of those experiences. Mine was a mist fog in the shape of a person. Damn scarey! I couldn't move or speak, it was awful. I really thought I had seen a demon or ghost until I later found out about the sleep thingy. Has something to do with REM sleep with your eyes open. I read something about it, but really can't remember.
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It does have to do with REM, the state of being half awake and half asleep and when you wake up you still kinda in that dreaming state. Its okay about the whole manip think I kinda figure since you are so use to commenting them. Thanks for the add too
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I meant drawing, sorry, I am so used to viewing manips.
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