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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why is it when people are completely paralysed, the only things they can move is their eyes? What makes the eye muscles different to any other muscles?
gpt
If its paralysis due to a spinal cord injury the eyes and the associated muscles are above the break in the spinal cord causing the injury and are thus unaffected.

If its sleep paralysis, while you sleep you enter different phases of sleep,and in some of those phases your eyes rapidly move so when you sleep your eyes are never paralyzed, whereas in order to prevent you from injuring yourself while sleeping your muscles tend to be frozen by your brain thus when you wake up you can move your eyes but not your body.