The occurrence of sleep paralysis in the absence of narcolepsy is not uncommon in the population. A good number of normal individuals sometimes report the experience of episodes of profound muscular paralysis on waking from sleep in the morning or during the night. These episodes are very disturbing, especially since the individual is generally unable to breathe deeply or voluntarily. Previous...
Background and Objectives: Nightmare is a common sleep disorder.While a sleep disorder such as insomnia can readily be associated with psychiatric disorders, the same cannot be said of nightmare.The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence rate of nightmare in a sample of psychiatric patients, and to compare this rate with the rate obtained in age-and sex-matched healthy control...