The hallucinating art of Heinrich Füssli.
Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience 2007 Christian Baumann, Franziska Lentzsch, Marianne Regard et al.
Der Nachtmahr (The Nightmare) was painted 1781 by the Swiss-born artist Heinrich Füssli (1741-1825). Neurologists, sleep medicine specialists and sleep researchers are familiar with this popular work, which became a symbol for the phenomenon of sleep paralysis. Notably, Füssli created this work decades before the first scientific description of the syndrome. Therefore, the following chapter...