Relevance of sleep paralysis and hypnic hallucinations to psychiatry.
Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists March 1, 2004 Prakash Gangdev
To describe a patient who presented with psychopathology in the wake of sleep paralysis and hypnopompic hallucinations, and to discuss the importance of these phenomena to psychiatric diagnoses. Case report. A 25-year-old black South African woman developed paranoid beliefs and a sad and anxious mood in the wake of her first experience of sleep paralysis and hypnic hallucinations. She had no...