What are sleep paralysis demons? Sleep paralysis demons are nightmarish hallucinations that often accompany episodes of sleep paralysis. This occurs when the temporary paralysis, which is a normal ...

Have you ever hallucinated getting out of bed, only to find out later that you’re still asleep? How about multiple times in a row? Ben Rein, a neuroscientist at Stanford University and a social media ...

Medically reviewed by Valerie Cacho, MD Key Takeaways Sleep paralysis hallucinations happen when you’re waking up or falling ...

It’s the stuff of nightmares. 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 ...

In response to my last posting, about a patient of mine whose house is haunted, Allison Jornlin wrote: So what relationship did hypnogogic/hypnopompic hallucinations play in the haunting: * Did the ...

Hallucinations are unreal sensory experiences, such as hearing or seeing something that is not there. Any of our five senses (vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch) can be involved. Most often, when we ...

“What did you see?” I asked her, as she sat across from me, wide-eyed and obviously unnerved even thinking back about the episode. “It was horrible,” she said, “just horrible. I was lying on my back, ...