October 18, 2024

By Katja Vujić

Photo-Illustration: Stevie Remsberg; Photos Getty Images

“I can’t move my body. My body is unconscious and my body is sleeping, but I am awake,” says Nuriman Tjiptarto, a 25-year-old IT project manager. “It just doesn’t feel right. There was once a time where I tried to scream, but nothing was coming out. It happened twice that same night — I had tried to wake up and move my body multiple times. I was like, Fuck, am I just stuck here? It feels like limbo; you can’t do anything about it.”

What Tjiptarto is describing is called sleep paralysis. The phenomenon plagues plenty of us: According to a 2011 study published in Sleep Medicine Reviews, 7.6 percent of the U.S.’s general population has experienced sleep paralysis at least once.

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