The Sleep Paralysis Nightmare, Wrathful Deities, and the Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
Psychological Perspectives January 2, 2020 Oreet Rees, Leanne Whitney 5 citations
The sleep paralysis nightmare has been reported from antiquity to modernity across manifold cultures. Many people who experience nocturnal assaults by dark entities, demons, hags, or incubi during sleep paralysis ascribe them to evil spirits with varying degrees of malevolence. The majority report the episodes as terrifying, mysterious, and uncanny. Known in the neurocognitive literature as...