Sleep paralysis is a neurological phenomenon wherein the subject is partially awake an in a dreamlike state as their motor functions are still asleep. Hence one is in a state of waking up but paralyzed bye the fact that their body is not responding to concious input. Moving your eyes left and right helps activate your motor functions, though your body typically comes out of it within thirty seconds or so.
I know this because my other, a well known Middle Eastern figure, suffers from this, and regrettably assigns it a religious cause; supernatural forces.
This episode of Star Trek tries to bring that to the Star Trek the Next Generation audience, and gives an alien explanation for the phenomenon. It's another episode that brings personal issues to the fore as plot fodder, but it's pretty ham-fisted, and offers a non-solution by trying to make the audience feel better by giving an alien or outside source for the condition.
That, as opposed to aliens abusing the condition for their own means, which this episode sort of does, but not really, or not sufficiently.
Again, Star Trek the Next Generation was designed for a broader and younger audience, and so the episodes are not as well written nor dynamic as they might otherwise have been.
The lighting is very bright and full of fill light as opposed to key light and fill light for the background. It gives the show a hospital like look and feel. Again, perhaps implying that one the viewer is no longer watching the show and no longer a die hard fan that their issues may be over.
Sleep paralysis is a very scary thing. Just stream a session off of YouTube or some other online media venue, and watch people struggle with it. But, in the end its harmless. I'm just sorry that this episode of Trek didn't do a better job of addressing the condition.
I know this because my other, a well known Middle Eastern figure, suffers from this, and regrettably assigns it a religious cause; supernatural forces.
This episode of Star Trek tries to bring that to the Star Trek the Next Generation audience, and gives an alien explanation for the phenomenon. It's another episode that brings personal issues to the fore as plot fodder, but it's pretty ham-fisted, and offers a non-solution by trying to make the audience feel better by giving an alien or outside source for the condition.
That, as opposed to aliens abusing the condition for their own means, which this episode sort of does, but not really, or not sufficiently.
Again, Star Trek the Next Generation was designed for a broader and younger audience, and so the episodes are not as well written nor dynamic as they might otherwise have been.
The lighting is very bright and full of fill light as opposed to key light and fill light for the background. It gives the show a hospital like look and feel. Again, perhaps implying that one the viewer is no longer watching the show and no longer a die hard fan that their issues may be over.
Sleep paralysis is a very scary thing. Just stream a session off of YouTube or some other online media venue, and watch people struggle with it. But, in the end its harmless. I'm just sorry that this episode of Trek didn't do a better job of addressing the condition.