Went to Penang a day before New Year eve. It was a sort of road trip. After escorting Zul and Sheikh rightly after work to meet Abg Mus, I went straight to Sect 2, after receiving several calls from Acid and Pejol, asking when to start the trip. The weird thing was, it was my idea, and they were the one that were totally excited to go, hmmm….I wonder why?
After making a quick pit stop at their house, we started the journey. It was approximately 2 AM. I was behind the wheel at that time. We talked a lot during the trip, with Pejol occasionally woke up from his sleep, joining me and Acid for awhile before went back to sleep. Instead of highway, we opt for the beach road, going through Sabak Bernam – Teluk Intan. The traffic was way cool, of course, we almost had the road to ourselves. When we arrived at Teluk Intan, it was around 4 at that time, we opt to take the highway. The plan was to follow the old beach road till Taiping, but my eyes betrayed me. We were at Ipoh at that time, Acid noticed that the car went slow suddenly although the road was clear. The conversation between him and me goes sort of like this
“ Apsal Sent?”
“Ntah, macam ada tiang jer blok jalan”
and that’s that. He asked me to pull over, and he himself took over. I immediately went to a deep slumber as soon as my head hits the seat. That’s me I guess, I’m not good at long trip without stopping. Around 6 AM, we pulled up at Sg Perak R&R for prayers and a bit of snack. We talked (we do talked a lot, don’t we?) and one of the topics that interest me was “kena hempap”.
I never knew this word. I mean, I heard about it a lot, but I don’t know exactly what’s it like. In Malay culture, “kena hempap” is a term used when someone was asleep, and when he woke up, although he was aware of his surrounding, he cannot move and speak, though in some cases he can still hear clearly. It was the working of the spirits or so they said. I’m not saying that I don’t believe in this sort of things. Oh yeah I do believe in them, before and after my encounter (I will tell you all about it in my next story). Now, when I heard about this description, it was sort of a deja-vu kind of thing, I thought about it a lot but still question remains, have I experienced it before but didn’t realized it?
I’ve been through a lot during my 26 years of living, or sleeping if you preferred. I’ve always referred it as an out of body experienced. Up until last Saturday, I thought I was the only one that experienced it, but now, I know most of you out there did. Have you been, when you want to get up from bed, which you did, or thought you did, then suddenly you see yourself on the bed again? The process goes on and on until you really woke up and you sure for certain that those thing couldn’t be a dream, which in fact, it’s not. That’s one of the symptom of “kena hempap”, which I just found out during our conversation on the trip to Penang. The other symptoms include hard to breath like someone was on top of you. Sometimes you feel like someone pinching you so hard that when you woke up you can still feel the pain. I’ve experienced it, and I’m sure you guys did too.
There are several reasons that I did not believe that those things come from the spirit world. Firstly and the far most importantly, it did happened during Ramadhan. Now, all the devils in the world, inside or outside were chained during Ramadhan, and we knew there’s absolutely no chance for any of them to break out of their chain during that month. Secondly, I’ve seen the pattern of the phenomenon, to me of course, don’t have time to study the others. It will happen to me if either I was so damn tired or if I went to sleep above 3 AM. I believed that all of this could be explained in scientific term, and yeah, I’m correct.
Actually, what I found out is that our eyes and brain sometimes doesn’t work together, especially when we are so tired that it would take a lot of effort just to raise our limbs. The symptoms will happen when our eyes were already awaken, but our brain was still asleep. That’s why we are aware of what happened around us, but our body couldn’t react to it. We want to lift our head, but we can’t. We feel that hours have passed when experiencing the symptoms but if you were to check your watch, you will see that only minutes has passed. Interesting part is that you will only experience it when you’re about to sleep, right?
The only thing that we could do is chill out, and let those thing pass, because you will eventually wake up right? I used to jump around every time I experienced it, but it resulted in another one of those symptoms, grew tired of it eventually.
After Sg Perak, Acid continued until Penang. We went to sleep, in my car, at Juru R&R till we’re awaken by a group of Mat Rempit, it was 8.30 AM. We went to have our shower in one of the masjid in Penang, have breakfast in Butterworth and went straight ahead to meet my……..(you figure it yourself laa :-)) house. We have Mee Udang for our lunch, specially cooked for us and for dinner, curry and some sprouts, also specially cooked for us, and we went back to KL around 9 PM on the same day. It’s Pejol turn to drive, during the first 20 km, Acid already lay down on the back seat, and I only manage to accompany Pejol until Ulu Bernam, after I started to forgot what I’ve said though I haven’t finished the sentences yet. Yup, it’s tiring, but I’m the most happy person on earth that day nonetheless :-)
After making a quick pit stop at their house, we started the journey. It was approximately 2 AM. I was behind the wheel at that time. We talked a lot during the trip, with Pejol occasionally woke up from his sleep, joining me and Acid for awhile before went back to sleep. Instead of highway, we opt for the beach road, going through Sabak Bernam – Teluk Intan. The traffic was way cool, of course, we almost had the road to ourselves. When we arrived at Teluk Intan, it was around 4 at that time, we opt to take the highway. The plan was to follow the old beach road till Taiping, but my eyes betrayed me. We were at Ipoh at that time, Acid noticed that the car went slow suddenly although the road was clear. The conversation between him and me goes sort of like this
“ Apsal Sent?”
“Ntah, macam ada tiang jer blok jalan”
and that’s that. He asked me to pull over, and he himself took over. I immediately went to a deep slumber as soon as my head hits the seat. That’s me I guess, I’m not good at long trip without stopping. Around 6 AM, we pulled up at Sg Perak R&R for prayers and a bit of snack. We talked (we do talked a lot, don’t we?) and one of the topics that interest me was “kena hempap”.
I never knew this word. I mean, I heard about it a lot, but I don’t know exactly what’s it like. In Malay culture, “kena hempap” is a term used when someone was asleep, and when he woke up, although he was aware of his surrounding, he cannot move and speak, though in some cases he can still hear clearly. It was the working of the spirits or so they said. I’m not saying that I don’t believe in this sort of things. Oh yeah I do believe in them, before and after my encounter (I will tell you all about it in my next story). Now, when I heard about this description, it was sort of a deja-vu kind of thing, I thought about it a lot but still question remains, have I experienced it before but didn’t realized it?
I’ve been through a lot during my 26 years of living, or sleeping if you preferred. I’ve always referred it as an out of body experienced. Up until last Saturday, I thought I was the only one that experienced it, but now, I know most of you out there did. Have you been, when you want to get up from bed, which you did, or thought you did, then suddenly you see yourself on the bed again? The process goes on and on until you really woke up and you sure for certain that those thing couldn’t be a dream, which in fact, it’s not. That’s one of the symptom of “kena hempap”, which I just found out during our conversation on the trip to Penang. The other symptoms include hard to breath like someone was on top of you. Sometimes you feel like someone pinching you so hard that when you woke up you can still feel the pain. I’ve experienced it, and I’m sure you guys did too.
There are several reasons that I did not believe that those things come from the spirit world. Firstly and the far most importantly, it did happened during Ramadhan. Now, all the devils in the world, inside or outside were chained during Ramadhan, and we knew there’s absolutely no chance for any of them to break out of their chain during that month. Secondly, I’ve seen the pattern of the phenomenon, to me of course, don’t have time to study the others. It will happen to me if either I was so damn tired or if I went to sleep above 3 AM. I believed that all of this could be explained in scientific term, and yeah, I’m correct.
Actually, what I found out is that our eyes and brain sometimes doesn’t work together, especially when we are so tired that it would take a lot of effort just to raise our limbs. The symptoms will happen when our eyes were already awaken, but our brain was still asleep. That’s why we are aware of what happened around us, but our body couldn’t react to it. We want to lift our head, but we can’t. We feel that hours have passed when experiencing the symptoms but if you were to check your watch, you will see that only minutes has passed. Interesting part is that you will only experience it when you’re about to sleep, right?
The only thing that we could do is chill out, and let those thing pass, because you will eventually wake up right? I used to jump around every time I experienced it, but it resulted in another one of those symptoms, grew tired of it eventually.
After Sg Perak, Acid continued until Penang. We went to sleep, in my car, at Juru R&R till we’re awaken by a group of Mat Rempit, it was 8.30 AM. We went to have our shower in one of the masjid in Penang, have breakfast in Butterworth and went straight ahead to meet my……..(you figure it yourself laa :-)) house. We have Mee Udang for our lunch, specially cooked for us and for dinner, curry and some sprouts, also specially cooked for us, and we went back to KL around 9 PM on the same day. It’s Pejol turn to drive, during the first 20 km, Acid already lay down on the back seat, and I only manage to accompany Pejol until Ulu Bernam, after I started to forgot what I’ve said though I haven’t finished the sentences yet. Yup, it’s tiring, but I’m the most happy person on earth that day nonetheless :-)
4 comments:
It did happened once or twice...not able to move despite of being awake...this is scary indeed...but yes, just chill out.
Been there..once or twice. Tengah2 hari time orang solat jumaat. Back in school. Rasa macam nyawa dah nak terkeluar lak dari badan. Isk.
Hi Wailer,
Yeah, scary huh? Although I knew what's going on when we are in that state, but the feeling is still there. Hmm...still wondering how to overcome those thing. Fear Factor definitely have to consider this one, definitely.
Hi Voice,
I've never experienced it other than when about to sleep. But heard about those nonetheless. Nyawa terasa mcm nak kluar? Mmg, selalu gak rasa camtu, isk.....Thanks for dropping by bro.
Hi, I just stumbled on your blog, on this post, and want to tell you what you're experiencing here is called hypnagogic hallucinations. I have them, too. This is just a FYI..
janetleigh
Poetmeister ..on the road to Parnassus
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