While falling asleep or waking up, your brain helps the muscles in your arms and legs relax. However, with sleep paralysis, ...

Sleep paralysis is a disturbing sleep disturbance. Individuals experience temporary inability to move or speak. It occurs ...

Sonakshi’s experience sounds scary with a hint of the paranormal activity, but psychologists say that there is a name for it.

In the shadows, a figure watches you, but you are powerless to scream in your sleep. This isn't just Sonakshi Sinha's ghost ...

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 ...

Maybe you’ve seen the meme: “This is my sleep paralysis demon: [insert photo].” The viral idea builds on a very real condition in which a person is conscious but unable to move. In some ...

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 ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My question to you is about an affliction I have struggled with since childhood. Apparently, it is called sleep paralysis. As explained to me in an old newspaper article, it is ...

While the aforementioned treatments can help reduce the frequency or length of sleep paralysis episodes, there isn’t yet a gold-standard treatment that can stop an episode once it’s happening.