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Title
Sleep Paralysis: The Original Nightmare and How it Became a Medical Phenomenon
Description
Sleep paralysis is when a person finds themselves in a state of conscious paralysis as they are falling asleep or waking up. It is often accompanied by shallowing breathing, visual and auditory hallucinations, and a sense of terror. Sleep paralysis has a rich folklore consisting of sleep demons, spirits, and curses some of which are still told to children today. This thesis will explore a timeline of this folklore that involves modern day sleep paralysis, a history of sleep science, and how they collided resulting in the official diagnosis of sleep paralysis as a sleep disorder.
Date Created
2022-05
Contributors
- Busselle, Olivia (Author)
- Boyce-Jacino, Katherine (Thesis director)
- Petrov, Megan (Committee member)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
- Chemical Engineering Program (Contributor)
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In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Series
Academic Year 2021-2022
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.166040
System Created
- 2022-05-03 12:03:25
System Modified
- 2022-06-01 11:45:21
- 2 years 5 months ago
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