Sensed presence as a correlate of sleep paralysis distress, social anxiety and waking state social imagery.
Consciousness and Cognition June 15, 2007 Elizaveta Solomonova, Tore Nielsen, Philippe Stenstrom et al.
Isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) is a common parasomnia characterized by an inability to move or speak and often accompanied by hallucinations of a sensed presence nearby. Recent research has linked ISP, and sensed presence more particularly, with social anxiety and other psychopathologies. The present study used a large sample of respondents to an internet questionnaire (N=193) to test whether...
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.04.007 (opens in new tab)
Depressive disorder
Humans
Hallucinations
Parasomnias
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