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The Oneironaut’s Diary

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“An estimate of up to 40 percent of the general population has experienced sleep paralysis at least once in their lifetime... In the Abruzzo region of Italy, east of Rome, an evil witch called a pandafeche was thought to be responsible. In Egypt, it was a vicious spirit creature called a jinn. In China, a visitation by a ghost. Among the Inuit, a shamanistic attack on the dreamer’s vulnerable soul. The eighteenth- century Swiss- born artist Johann Heinrich Füssli depicted sleep paralysis as a goblin-like demon perched on the chest of a sleeping woman. More recently, space aliens bent on abduction have been blamed... The most common element of sleep paralysis, reported across peoples and cultures, is the sensation of a lurking intruder... It seems likely that the shadow figure that is a central aspect of sleep paralysis is the result of some sort of electrical disturbance in this part of the brain, creating a creepy or malevolent “other” at the blurry edge of our imagined body.”

“Mungu akikubariki kipaji chako watu watasema ni laana. Maisha yako ni sawa na mto. Unakoelekea ni baharini. Lakini sasa umefika kwenye mlango wa bahari. Unahangaika upite wapi kufika baharini, ambapo utaogelea kwa kadiri utakavyoweza. Utakapofika baharini, watu, badala ya kusema umebarikiwa, watasema umelaaniwa, badala ya kukuita malaika, watakuita shetani. Mafanikio hayapimwi kwa pesa au mali kiasi gani unayo, mafanikio yanapimwa kwa amani ya moyo au maisha ya watu kiasi gani umeboresha.”

“Ukiwaza kwa kufuata kanuni ya nguvu ya uvutano (ambayo ni kuwaza na kuamini kama kile unachokiwaza tayari umeshakipata bila hata kujua umekipataje) utaishi kama ulivyowaza. Ukiwaza kuwa jambazi utakuwa jambazi hakika, ukiwaza kupona ugonjwa unaokusumbua utapona hakika, na ukiwaza kuwa tajiri utakuwa tajiri hakika. Mafanikio hayo yanaweza kuchukua mwezi mmoja kutimia au yanaweza kuchukua miaka kumi. Unachotakiwa kufanya ni kuwaza na kuamini.”