Hi, thanks for your thoughts everyone. I think that’s quite true about couples developing the same sleeping habits but that’s partly due to them going to bed and getting up at the same times possibly. The fact that one of them gets SP fairly regularly and the other has never had it, let alone heard of it, still strikes me as strange. I do think it may have some connection with the brain frequencies as Jack stated. After all the brains do run off electrical impulses in various waveforms (alpha, beta, theta etc) so if these signals can be read from outside the head (using techniques such as electroencephalography) then what’s to stop the signals from travelling from one brain to another when they’re in the same state next to each other.
I wouldn’t, however, say that SP is strictly physical. I think that, although it has physical implications (ie the body’s motor functions not yet switching themselves on during conciousness), this is caused by the brains state and is very closely linked with dreaming, lucidity and other such states. I believe this because I’ve been trying to get a friend of mine into lucid dreams and he’s been really keen to try as he’s sure that he had them when he was younger. He’s had SP before (which I posted about in ld4all.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p … ht=#116778 ) but I didn’t see any relevant connection. A short while ago however he sent me a text saying that he finally managed to have a lucid dream but couldn’t hold on to it and then woke up with SP. I think that becoming conciously aware whilst in the state of dreaming must be closely linked with being conciously aware and awake but without the brain giving the body the signals to turn its movement functions back on (which are switched off in sleep to prevent acting out what you dream).
Or then I suppose that the olg hag just doesn’t like witnesses, lol 