Sleep paralysis in narcolepsy: more than just a motor dissociative phenomenon?
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology February 2012 Michele Terzaghi, Pietro Luca Ratti, Francesco Manni et al.
Sleep paralyses are viewed as pure motor phenomena featured by a dissociated state in which REM-related muscle atonia coexists with a wakefulness state of full consciousness. We present a 59-year-old man diagnosed with narcolepsy experiencing sleep paralysis, who failed to establish the boundaries between real experience and dream mentation during the paralysis: the patient's recall was indeed...