This Stress Awareness Day, we asked a neuroscientist how stress can cause sleep paralysis — here's how they recommend preventing and dealing with it ...

Sleep paralysis is "a condition where you feel paralyzed just before falling asleep or, more commonly, when you first wake up in the morning," says Kevin Walker, MD, the medical director of ...

Sleepwalking isn’t the only parasomnia, though — other sleep conditions such as sleep paralysis, bed wetting and even sleep talking can be classed as a parasomnia.So what causes them? From stress and ...

Though scientists know that wake-sleep glitch is what’s happening during a sleep paralysis episode, they’re not entirely sure why. But there are several factors that can increase the risk of ...

You wake up and you can’t move your body, a shadowy figure looms over you, but it feels too real to be a dream. If you’ve experienced this, you might have had a sleep paralysis hallucination.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Sleep Paralysis: The Uncanny Valley A story-rich first-person psychological horror game. You are in a lonely house, suffering from sleep paralysis. Deal ...

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD Sleep paralysis is the phenomenon of being unable to move upon waking from sleep. Episodes generally last for a few minutes. These episodes are often described as ...

This type of hallucination is a hallmark for many people with sleep paralysis. It occurs during transitions into or out of rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep, similar to a traffic jam at a busy ...

During sleep paralysis, however, “we regain consciousness before the muscles regain their freedom from REM-induced paralysis,” said Walker, who is also a professor of neuroscience and ...