Sleep Paralysis - Night-Mares, Nocebos and the Mind-Body Connection Adler Shelley R. Paperback
Sleep Paralysis - Night-Mares, Nocebos and the Mind-Body Connection Adler Shelley R. Paperback Sleep Paralysis explores a distinctive form of nocturnal fright: the "night-mare," or incubus. Today, it…
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Sleep Paralysis - Night-Mares, Nocebos and the Mind-Body Connection Adler Shelley R. Paperback
Sleep Paralysis explores a distinctive form of nocturnal fright: the "night-mare," or incubus. Today, it is known as sleep paralysis-a state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness, when you are unable to move or speak and may experience vivid and often frightening hallucinations. In its original meaning a night-mare was the nocturnal visit of an evil being that threatened to press the life out of its victim.
Although a relatively common experience across cultures, it is rarely recognized or understood in the contemporary United States.Shelley R. Culture, history, and biology intersect to produce this terrifying sleep phenomenon. Adler's fifteen years of field and archival research focus on the ways in which night-mare attacks have been experienced and interpreted throughout history and across cultures and how, in a unique example of the effect of nocebo (placebo's