Considering 67% of us experience parasomnias, we want to find out more. So, we're exploring what the most common parasomnias ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...