Factors related to the occurrence of isolated sleep paralysis elicited during a multi-phasic sleep-wake schedule.
Sleep February 1, 2002 Tomoka Takeuchi, Kazuhiko Fukuda, Yuka Sasaki et al.
To further investigate mechanisms of isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) in normal individuals, we experimentally elicited ISPs by facilitating sleep onset REM periods (SOREMP), a prerequisite of ISPs, and examined behavioral and psychological measurements relating to ISP appearances. The multi-phasic sleep/wake schedule (MPS) began at approximately midnight and ended when net sleep reached 7.5...