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 ...

Around 30% of people will experience sleep paralysis at least once. Here’s why and what you can do about it.

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

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 ...

While sleep paralysis is generally harmless, it can be a sign of, and caused by, more concerning issues. One cause of the sleep condition is stress, a feeling we're all too familiar with in the ...

Sleep paralysis appears to occur when you're entering or exiting REM sleep, and if things don't line up right, you'll still be flooded with those sleep chemicals when you gain consciousness.

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.

Sleep paralysis, experienced by 30% globally, involves hallucinations during REM sleep. Baland Jalal, a Harvard researcher, studies its causes and terrifying experiences.

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 ...

The causes of sleep paralysis are surprisingly mundane. Consider the two states of consciousness—being asleep and being awake. There is normally a transition period between these states.

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 ...