Spooky Nighttime Visitors: Paranormal or Parasomnia?
As Halloween approaches, Rebecca Fuoco, visits the haunted history of sleep paralysis and the supernatural. Depiction of a creature from Romanian mythology believed to assault women in their sleep Sleep paralysis is an inability to move or speak for a few seconds up to ten minutes when falling asleep (hypnagogic) or upon awakening (hypnopompic). It…