Blog #5

Research Questions:

• How do descriptions of sleep paralysis differ throughout different cultures and history and what are the key similarities and differences?  

• How far do personal core beliefs and biases impact the formation of the uncanny hallucinations that stem from sleep paralysis?

• Why is sleep paralysis now commonly viewed through a completely biological paradigm and why is there a stigma against perceiving sleep paralysis through a supernatural paradigm?

 Current Works Cited:

Adler, Shelley R. Sleep Paralysis : Night-Mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection . Rutgers University Press, 2011.

De Jong, Joop T. V. M. “Cultural Variation in the Clinical Presentation of Sleep Paralysis.” Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 42, no. 1, Sage Publications, 2005, pp. 78–92, doi:10.1177/1363461505050711.

 

Hufford, David J. “Sleep Paralysis as Spiritual Experience: Sleep Paralysis.” Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 42, no. 1, Sage, 2005, pp. 11–45.

Kompanje, Erwin. “‘The Devil Lay Upon Her and Held Her down’ Hypnagogic Hallucinations and Sleep Paralysis Described by the Dutch Physician Isbrand van Diemerbroeck (1609-1674) in 1664.” Journal of Sleep Research, vol. 17, no. 4, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008, pp. 464–67, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2869.2008.00672.x.

MCNALLY, Richard J., and Susan A. CLANCY. “Sleep Paralysis, Sexual Abuse, and Space Alien Abduction: Sleep Paralysis.” Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 42, no. 1, Sage, 2005, pp. 113–22.

Olry, Régis, and Duane E. Haines. “Kanashibari (金縛り): A Ghost’s Business.” Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, vol. 23, no. 2, Routledge, 2014, pp. 192–97, doi:10.1080/0964704X.2013.862132.

Sharpless, Brian A., and Karl Doghramji. “The History of Sleep Paralysis in Folklore and Myth.” Sleep Paralysis, Oxford University Press, 2015, doi:10.1093/med/9780199313808.003.0003.