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Download or read book Sleep Paralysis written by Ryan Hurd and published by Hyena Press. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experienced by millions as supernatural assault, isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) feels like being awake and aware in bed as someone - or something - holds you down. These sensations are sometimes accompanied by frightening and realistic hallucinations. In this book these encounters with ghosts, vampires - and even succubi - are honored afresh from the perspective of contemporary dream science. Although terrifying, ISP visions can also be a reliable portal to other extraordinary states, including lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences and otherworldly journeys.
Book Synopsis Sleep Paralysis by : Brian Sharpless
Download or read book Sleep Paralysis written by Brian Sharpless and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans throughout history have described a peculiar state between wakefulness and sleep during which they are consciously aware of their surroundings, but physically paralyzed. Sleep paralysis is also commonly accompanied by high levels of fear, feelings of suffocation, and hallucinations (i.e., waking dreams). Early interpretations of this event were that it was an actual attack by malevolent and supernatural entities such as demons, ghosts, or witches. Some of these beliefs persist to the present day in the form of nocturnal visitations by extraterrestrials and shadow people. Sleep Paralysis: Historical, Psychological, and Medical Perspectives offers the first comprehensive examination of sleep paralysis from scientific and cultural perspectives. Drs. Brian Sharpless and Karl Doghramji synthesize the many literatures while providing practical guidance for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep paralysis. Included are medication suggestions and a new psychotherapy manual for mental health professionals. The result is a volume that illuminates the cultural, medical, and intellectual importance of this understudied phenomenon.
Book Synopsis Sleep Paralysis by : Shelley R Adler
Download or read book Sleep Paralysis written by Shelley R Adler and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleep Paralysis explores a distinctive form of nocturnal fright: the "night-mare," or incubus. 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. 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. Culture, history, and biology intersect to produce this terrifying sleep phenomenon. Although a relatively common experience across cultures, it is rarely recognized or understood in the contemporary United States. Shelley R. 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 evil twin), the combination of meaning and biology may result in sudden nocturnal death.
Download or read book Sleep Paralysis written by Johnny Five and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleep paralysis is a state during waking up or falling asleep in which a person is aware but unable to move or speak. When we sleep, we fade from our physical body and our astral body leaves. Our astral body is our second body or spirit body. The state of sleep paralysis occurs when the physical body wakes up before the astral body has returned back to the physical body. What causes you to wake up could be several factors but one of the factors this book focuses on is the presence of entities. This book will give you detailed descriptions of common negative entities/spirits that cause this phenomenon and also teach you how to defend yourself against it to prevent it from happening in the future. If you have ever experienced the scary, painful, and terrifying state of sleep paralysis and seeing figures during this phenomenon that either attack you or taunt you, you will find clarity in this book on why this happens and how to stop it from happening to yourself or a loved one.
Download or read book Dark Intrusions written by Louis Proud and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his late teens, Louis Proud has suffered from chronic sleep paralysis and has undergone hundreds of such episodes, many of them terrifying but ultimately transformational and eye-opening. These experiences, he believes, allow access to the "spirit realm" and could well hold the key to a whole host of paranormal phenomena, including poltergeist disturbances, out-of-body-experiences, mediumship, spirit possession, and succubi and incubi encounters. Drawing on the work of Colin Wilson, Joe Fisher, Stan Gooch, Whitley Strieber, Robert Monroe, Dion Fortune, and a number of other paranormal experts, Proud lucidly demonstrates that many sleep paralysis experiences involve genuine contact and communication with incorporeal entities, some of them parasitic and potentially dangerous. In this comprehensive, open-minded exploration of the sleep paralysis phenomenon, filled with fascinating descriptions of his own experiences, as well as those of others, no stone is left unturned as Proud attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Book Synopsis Sleep Paralysis by : Brian A. Sharpless
Download or read book Sleep Paralysis written by Brian A. Sharpless and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource documents the significant progress made in the last decade regarding our understanding of motor control in sleep and the relationship between sleep and movement disorders. Divided into four major sections it covers sleep-related movements and the importance of recognising sleep-related movement disorders for diagnosis, differential diagnosis and treatment. Additionally, it covers new sleep-related disorders that have been classified and diagnosed.
Book Synopsis Sleep Paralysis by : Samuel Williams
Download or read book Sleep Paralysis written by Samuel Williams and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret about sleep paralysis that the enemy does not want revealed is that you really do not have anything to fear. I know how terrifying the experiences can be but I want to reassure you that the knowledge you are going to attain from this book will not only take the terror out of the experience but it will also equip you with the tools to overcome these spiritual attacks. Knowing the truth of what is really taking place will remove the shroud of deception and shine a light into the darkness of the enemy's devices. The majority of the fear comes from not understanding what is going on. Two things make this book different from others written on the subject of sleep paralysis. This book is primarily for Christians (although it most definitely will benefit others), and it reveals what the shadow entities that many see during sleep paralysis are actually doing to you. The book does not only identify the culprits, it also explains exactly what they are doing and shows the simple steps to counteract the spiritual attack.As a teacher in the Body of Christ, God has allowed me to experience attacks from the enemy. The insights I have received from these experiences have allowed me to effectively teach spiritual warfare. This book is not written for unbelievers. It is a spiritual warfare teaching for the Body of Christ. Will it be a help for unbelievers? Yes, it will. Yet, I want all who pick up this book to know from the start that it is specifically for those who believe and understand the Word of God. My purpose is to add to the understanding of those fighting the spiritual battles against our unseen enemy hiding in the darkness of this world. If you do not believe in spiritual attacks, you will be hindered in your understanding of this book. It was written to those who truly believe.When God gave me this topic to write on, I actually prayed to make sure I was receiving correctly. My research showed that there have been many books written on this subject and I could not understand why I was given a subject matter that was so saturated. Then a question came up in my spirit: What were the shadow entities doing when people wake up and see them in the room? I then noticed that no one was really dealing with the dark shadows or silhouettes that many see during their sleep attack episodes. I mean they are mentioned but very few answer the question of what they are doing. One afternoon while talking to a group of young people, God downloaded through a word of knowledge exactly what the shadow figures were doing during episodes of sleep paralysis and I was shown where it is explained in the Bible. All I could say was, "Wow!" Let's get started.
Book Synopsis The Terror That Comes in the Night by : David J. Hufford
Download or read book The Terror That Comes in the Night written by David J. Hufford and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hufford's work exploring the experiential basis for belief in the supernatural, focusing here on the so-called Old Hag experience, a psychologically disturbing event in which a victim claims to have encountered some form of malign entity while dreaming (or awake). Sufferers report feeling suffocated, held down by some "force," paralyzed, and extremely afraid. The experience is surprisingly common: the author estimates that approximately 15 percent of people undergo this event at some point in their lives. Various cultures have their own name for the phenomenon and have constructed their own mythology around it; the supernatural tenor of many Old Hag stories is unavoidable. Hufford, as a folklorist, is well-placed to investigate this puzzling occurrence.
Book Synopsis Afraid to Sleep by : Loren W Christensen
Download or read book Afraid to Sleep written by Loren W Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Cops' True Stories of the Paranormal. Up to 50% of the population has experienced sleep paralysis. They wake up in their beds to discover they can't move, not a muscle, sometimes not even their eyes. If they manage to open their mouths to scream, nothing comes out. And for many of them, the terror doesn't end there-some see something in their bedroom darkness...something moving. A human-shaped shadow-sometimes more than one-blacker than the darkest places in their bedrooms, creeps away from a corner, out of a closet, through a doorway into the bedroom... to watch them... to move closer to them... to touch them. Doctors and sleep specialists explain that sleep paralysis is natural, and our brain creates frightening sights when the body can't move. But there are three things they haven't explained to those of us who have experienced it. In fact, they ignore the questions. Why do so many of us see the same things-the so-called shadow man, shadow animals, and other shadow-like entities? Why do so many of us see these things when we wake up, but we aren't experiencing sleep paralysis? Why do some of us see these things when we are awake in other parts of our homes? In other structures? In the nighttime streets? In forests? In graveyards? Some people call their petrifying experiences Night Screams. Loren W. Christensen, author of 60 books, takes an impartial look at this phenomenon that many observers say is increasing worldwide. To do so, he interviewed "experiencers" from every walk of life to learn what they see, hear, feel, and smell. What he found was disturbing.
Download or read book Narcolepsy written by Meeta Goswami and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narcolepsy serves as a prototype of how the interaction of high quality clinical research and groundbreaking basic science can collaborate to defne the cause of a disease and change forever how we evaluate and treat it. There is scarcely a topic in this book that would have been covered in the same way 10 years ago as it is d- cussed today. We are also fortunate that many of the players in this dramatic tu- around have contributed to this volume, so that the result is a tapestry of the events that have transformed the feld over the last decade that is both authentic and detailed. The frst section of the book provides much of the basic science background. As described in the frst two chapters, the dramatic convergence of lines of evidence from two different laboratories frst demonstrated in 1999 that narcolepsy is a disease of loss of neurotransmission by lateral hypothalamic neurons making the peptides that have been called orexins or hypocretins. These fndings did much to clarify and unify a feld that had puzzled for decades over the fundamental nature of this puzzling disease, as refected in the chapters that review its epidemiology and neuroanatomical and imaging fndings.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought by : Kieran C.R. Fox
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought written by Kieran C.R. Fox and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do spontaneous thoughts come from? It may be surprising that the seemingly straightforward answers "from the mind" or "from the brain" are in fact an incredibly recent understanding of the origins of spontaneous thought. For nearly all of human history, our thoughts - especially the most sudden, insightful, and important - were almost universally ascribed to divine or other external sources. Only in the past few centuries have we truly taken responsibility for their own mental content, and finally localized thought to the central nervous system - laying the foundations for a protoscience of spontaneous thought. But enormous questions still loom: what, exactly, is spontaneous thought? Why does our brain engage in spontaneous forms of thinking, and when is this most likely to occur? And perhaps the question most interesting and accessible from a scientific perspective: how does the brain generate and evaluate its own spontaneous creations? Spontaneous thought includes our daytime fantasies and mind-wandering; the flashes of insight and inspiration familiar to the artist, scientist, and inventor; and the nighttime visions we call dreams. This Handbook brings together views from neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, phenomenology, history, education, contemplative traditions, and clinical practice to begin to address the ubiquitous but poorly understood mental phenomena that we collectively call 'spontaneous thought.' In studying such an abstruse and seemingly impractical subject, we should remember that our capacity for spontaneity, originality, and creativity defines us as a species - and as individuals. Spontaneous forms of thought enable us to transcend not only the here and now of perceptual experience, but also the bonds of our deliberately-controlled and goal-directed cognition; they allow the space for us to be other than who we are, and for our minds to think beyond the limitations of our current viewpoints and beliefs.
Download or read book Sleep Paralysis written by Patrick Lacey and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleep Paralysis: A transitional state between wakefulness and sleep, accompanied by powerful hallucinations and muscle weakness, preventing one from moving. A website that specializes in suffering. A basement filled with secrets and bones. An apartment housing more than just ghosts. These are the stories that stay with you long after you've read them. These are the things that visit your dreams. And nightmares ...
Book Synopsis Tall Tales about the Mind and Brain by : Sergio Della Sala
Download or read book Tall Tales about the Mind and Brain written by Sergio Della Sala and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does listening to Mozart make us more intelligent? Does the size of the brain matter? Can we communicate with the dead? This book presents a survey of common myths about the mind & brain. It exposes the truth behind these beliefs, how they are perpetuated, why people believe them, & why they might even exist in the first place.
Book Synopsis Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-10-13 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical practice related to sleep problems and sleep disorders has been expanding rapidly in the last few years, but scientific research is not keeping pace. Sleep apnea, insomnia, and restless legs syndrome are three examples of very common disorders for which we have little biological information. This new book cuts across a variety of medical disciplines such as neurology, pulmonology, pediatrics, internal medicine, psychiatry, psychology, otolaryngology, and nursing, as well as other medical practices with an interest in the management of sleep pathology. This area of research is not limited to very young and old patientsâ€"sleep disorders reach across all ages and ethnicities. Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation presents a structured analysis that explores the following: Improving awareness among the general public and health care professionals. Increasing investment in interdisciplinary somnology and sleep medicine research training and mentoring activities. Validating and developing new and existing technologies for diagnosis and treatment. This book will be of interest to those looking to learn more about the enormous public health burden of sleep disorders and sleep deprivation and the strikingly limited capacity of the health care enterprise to identify and treat the majority of individuals suffering from sleep problems.
Download or read book Nodding Off written by Alice Gregory and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleep plays a crucial role in our waking lives, and we need to start paying it more attention. The latest research tells us that it's essential for learning and memory, for mental health and physical well-being, and yet we tend to only think about it when it's proving a struggle. Nodding Off leads you on a fascinating journey through the science of sleep as it evolves throughout our lives; from babies to teenagers, from middle age to the later years of our life, there are constantly new challenges to our sleep. Based on knowledge accumulated over almost two decades as a sleep researcher, Professor Alice Gregory shares real-life stories and interviews with other sleep experts to find the answers to questions, such as: - Why do so many adolescents enjoy lying in at the weekends? - Why do children experiencing anxiety, behavioural problems or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder so often have co-occurring sleep problems? - Why are scientists turning to sleep disorders such as sleep paralysis to try to understand paranormal experiences? With important tips on improving your sleep, Nodding Off is an essential read for anyone who sleeps, and more important still for those who don't get enough. Fans of Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep will love this book!
Download or read book Queer Fish written by Sarah Giragosian and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PressVisceral, physical, and powerful . . . Giragosian's language is lush, uncanny, haunting. Queer Fish is a book of passions intellectual and animal, crafted by a poet of unmatched compassion and talent. -Jennifer Whitaker
Download or read book After We All Died written by Allison Cobb and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Ecopoetics. In AFTER WE ALL DIED, poet Allison Cobb examines modes of crisis not from the point of recognizing they are impending or even inevitable, but from the realization one's entire reality--on the scale of the individual, the cultural, the ecological--has been an eventuality constructed within the crosshairs of history. Combining various iterations of the anxiousness common to life in late-capitalist America with the claustrophobic awareness of Earth's biopolitical fate, the book copes with calamity through mourning, placing at its conceptual and emotional center the question when did everything die? Rather than claiming to have an answer, or providing an insufficient one, this inquiry is suspended, mid-air, so that readers might reconsider the circumstances under which such a question must be articulated: not because an answer will save us, but because acknowledging it as unanswerable begins the process of understanding one's grief. Poet Allison Cobb's new book AFTER WE ALL DIED (Ahsahta Press) is thrilling--inventive, visionary, hard-thought, and impossible to put down...Five shining stars and highly recommended.--Carolyn Forché
