We used Hori s EEG stages to quantitatively describe EEG changes during the sleep onset period(SOP).We have also described the significance of psychophysiological approaches to the wake-sleep transition period, the topographical characteristics of EEG activities in the SOP, and temporal dynamics of the relationship between the waking period before sleep onset and the progress of sleep onset.We...
In Japan, there is a set of experiences called kanashibari, which is symptomatically identical to sleep paralysis with or without hypnagogic hallucinations. In a former study (Fukuda et al., 1987a), the author and co-workers have investigated this phenomenon by a questionnaire method and have found that among the normal population the phenomenon is apparently more common than has been usually...