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Hypnagogia is the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep, also defined as the waning state of consciousness during the onset of sleep. (Its corresponding state is hypnopompia –sleep to wakefulness.) Mental phenomena that may occur during this "threshold consciousness" include hallucinations, lucid dreaming, and sleep paralysis.
Sleep paralysis is a state, during waking up or falling asleep, in which a person is conscious but in a complete state of full-body paralysis. [1] [2] During an episode, the person may hallucinate (hear, feel, or see things that are not there), which often results in fear. [1] [3] Episodes generally last no more than a few minutes. [2]
Its mirror is the hypnagogic state at sleep onset; though often conflated, the two states are not identical and have a different phenomenological character. Hypnopompic and hypnagogic hallucinations are frequently accompanied by sleep paralysis, which is a state wherein one is consciously aware of one's surroundings but unable to move or speak.
Sleep paralysis occurs when your mind is awake, but your body can’t move, Xue Ming, a sleep expert and professor of neurology at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, tells me. You can ...
A hypnic jerk, hypnagogic jerk, sleep start, sleep twitch, myoclonic jerk, or night start is a brief and sudden involuntary contraction of the muscles of the body which occurs when a person is beginning to fall asleep, often causing the person to jump and awaken suddenly for a moment.
I don't think either of you know what you're talking about. Sleep paralysis can be accompanied by hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations. Thus, sleep paralysis can simply be seen as one possible aspect of hypnagogia or hypnopompia. "Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations are often associated with sleep paralysis." (Kompanje et al., 2008).
Known as sleep paralysis demons, these terrors don’t haunt nightmares, but reality. Unfortunately for me, I had my very own sleep paralysis demon. The only problem (well, besides the bone ...
G47.42 Sleep paralysis; G47.43 Hypnogogic and hypnopompic hallucination; G47.44 Any combination of narcolepsy, cataplexy, Sleep paralysis, Hypnogogic and hypnopompic hallucination; G47.48 Other forms of narcolepsy and cataplexy