Sleep paralysis
Wikipedia contributors · 2024 · Wikipedia
This source is used as context evidence across 1 linked claim and 4 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Reference entry on sleep paralysis — REM atonia persisting into wakefulness — with its characteristic hallucinations (the 'old hag', felt presences, pressure on the chest, shadow figures) and cross-cultural folkloric framings.
How this source is used on the map
Single most-cited mechanism behind shadow-people sightings, bedroom visitations, and many folkloric night-encounter traditions.
Citation record
- Authors
- Wikipedia contributors
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- Wikipedia
- Source type
- Secondary summary
- Map role
- context
- Credibility level
- secondary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- Not recorded
- PubMed
- Not recorded
- Not recorded
Linked claims
Related evidence hubs
Evidence around dying, near-death experience, and what (if anything) continues.
Whether anything of mind continues.
Psychedelic, contemplative, out-of-body experience.
Cryptomnesia, anoxia models, cold reading. Counter-anchors.
Related sources
Direct reference for the shadow-people claim; pair with sleep-paralysis and apparitional-experience entries for the underlying mechanisms.
Covers both the anomalistic-psychology framing and the survival-research framing, making it useful context for separating experiences from spirit interpretations.
Major reference for the sceptical / cognitive-explanation side of psi-style claims.