Eli5: how and why does sleep paralysis happen?

Question

Like how the hell does your brain conjur up demons

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Answer 1

Waking up from a period of REM sleep can result in sleep paralysis or atonia and how the same period of REM sleep can also result in vivid dreams which when we wake up appear to have locked our limbs in place. https://youtu.be/M88Pwwv3M8k