I learned about nightmares yesterday. A nightmare is not a bad dream; it's when a 'mare' visits you at night, sits on your chest, and holds you down when you wake. I suffer from sleep paralysis sometimes (thankfully not lately), and it's terrifying. These are the times that I wake and my body won't move. I'm completely conscious, I can hear the sounds in the room, I can feel my body on the bed, and yet I have no control of my motor-functions. Some people claim that this is an out-of-body experience, and others think that we're being visited by demons. People have been known to see spirits when they're in this sort of paralysis.
"In Old English the name for these beings was mare or mære."
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