Nikolai Gogol's account of sleep paralysis in the tale "The Portrait".
Sleep Medicine September 1, 2021 Carolina Aguirre, Marcelo Miranda, Ambra Stefani
Several classical writers had an impressive power of observation and often depicted medical conditions in their works long before medical literature did. Sleep paralysis is a common and frightening experience, in particular when occurring for the first time. Therefore, it is not surprising that it has been frequently described in the classical literature, eg by Dostoevsky, Kafka, Dickens, and...