• DOI:10.1046/j.1365-2869.2002.00297.x
Corpus ID: 37037694

Situational factors affecting sleep paralysis and associated hallucinations: position and timing effects.

@article{Cheyne2002SituationalFA,
  title={Situational factors affecting sleep paralysis and associated hallucinations: position and timing effects.},
  author={J. Allan Cheyne},
  journal={Journal of sleep research},
  year={2002},
  volume={11 2},
  pages={
          169-77
        }
}

J. Allan Cheyne

Published 2002

Psychology, Medicine

Journal of sleep research

Sleep paralysis (SP) entails a period of paralysis upon waking or falling asleep and is often accompanied by terrifying hallucinations. Two situational conditions for sleep paralysis, body position (supine, prone, and left or right lateral decubitus) and timing (beginning, middle, or end of sleep), were investigated in two studies involving 6730 subjects, including 4699 SP experients. A greater number of individuals reported SP in the supine position than all other positions combined. The… CONTINUE READING

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