"Sleep Paralysis" explores a distinctive form of nocturnal fright:
the "night-mare," or incubus. In its original meaning a night-mare
was the nocturnal visit of an evil being that threatened to press
the life out of its victim. Today, it is known as sleep paralysis-a
state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness, when you are
unable to move or speak and may experience vivid and often
frightening hallucinations. Culture, history, and biology intersect
to produce this terrifying sleep phenomenon. Although a relatively
common experience across cultures, it is rarely recognized or
understood in the contemporary United States.
Shelley R. Adler's fifteen years of field and archival research
focus on the ways in which night-mare attacks have been experienced
and interpreted throughout history and across cultures and how, in
a unique example of the effect of nocebo (placebo's evil twin), the
combination of meaning and biology may result in sudden nocturnal
death.
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