Sleep Paralysis Among Medical Students
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 107 (2) , 247-252
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1981.9915230
Abstract
Sleep paralysis is a sensation of an inability to speak or move other muscles when falling muscle or awakening. Sleep paralysis by itself has been reported as occurring infrequently and many clinicians are uncertain of its significance. Sleep paralysis in conjunction with sleep attacks has been reported as a concomitant of narcolepsy. To further examine the incidence of sleep paralysis, the responses of 80 1st/yr medical students (69 men, 11 women) to a questionnaire were analyzed. Of the sample studied, 16.25% had experienced predormital, postdormital or both types of sleep paralysis. These episodes occurred infrequently, only once or twice for most of these students. Reports of sleep paralysis were not associated with sleep attacks or cataplexy. These results support 2 previous studies which found that sleep paralysis alone occurs frequently among normals.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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