The Bachelor is one of the veterans of reality TV: ABC is currently filming season 26. A similar program from the same franchise is The Bachelorette. In the summer of 2021, we wrote about two participants of the show who simultaneously shared stories about their sleep paralysis (SP) demons. And now, the epidemic continues: Hannah Brown, star of The Bachelorette, recently also talked about the same experience.
Sleep paralysis is a phase state (this term also includes lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences, etc.) that occurs when falling asleep or waking up. The person is conscious, but the body can neither move nor speak. Hannah calls SP “the weirdest thing” and a “super scary” experience. She detailed her experience on Instagram to make people with “any type of abnormal sleep stuff” feel less lonely.
According to Monsters and Critics, from time to time the young woman starts her morning with an episode of sleep paralysis. She tries to move, mentally tells herself to open her eyes, but she cannot. Most often, SP is frightening, even though case described above was not a nightmare.
In addition to stress, such an experience is very disorienting. As Hannah adds, following an episode of SP, she finds it difficult to understand what is real and what is not. “You just wake up really confused,” she says. “It felt like I had woken up and done a whole morning, but I couldn’t move. It’s the weirdest thing. So, I’m still just recuperating from that.”
Have you experienced disorientation after an episode of sleep paralysis? Have you ever found it difficult to distinguish reality from a dream?
