Summary:
This article talks about how sleep paralysis and worry/anxiety have a correlation. The author held a study among Egyptian college students and hypothesized that those who had experienced an SP episode would have higher symptoms of PTSD and that the hallucination of sleep paralysis would lead to even greater anxiety and symptoms. Apparently, the study indicated that there was a strong link.
Author:
The author is a researcher at Harvard University and he has also posted many other articles regarding sleep paralysis.
3 Quotes:
"As indicated above, culture moderates the fear associated with because the interpretations of the meaning of the events may cause catastrophic cognitions and great fear. In some cultures, SP receives considerable elaboration, rendering the experience especially salient(Hinton et al., 2005a; Spanos et al., 1995)"
"SP worsens anxiety by the great fear caused by the events, often terror, owing to catastrophic cognitions about the event: fear that it is a supernatural attack or an indicator of severe illness"
"The increased fear makes SP more common, which in turn worsens anxiety, and creates a positive feedback cycle (Hinton et al., 2005a, 2005b). The trauma caused by SP (e.g., when SP is attributed to supernatural assault) may constitute a trauma-type event."
Value: I believe that this article would have value for my paper because it shows how sleep paralysis has an impact on fear and how fear has an impact on sleep paralysis. This is related to the framework I am using called the "nocebo" because it states that negative beliefs can lead to sleep paralysis, a negative outcome.
Key terms: The key terms in this paper may be "PTSD" and worry because the article uses that as a link between symptoms of heightened fear/worry and sleep paralysis
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