Your eyes begin to open after a good night of sleep, but something feels weird. You try to rub the tiredness out of your face but can't lift your arms. In a panic you try to take a deep breath but can ...

Imagine waking up to find you can't move a muscle. It's dark, but you're sure you feel a presence in the room, hovering near your bed — or perhaps sitting on your chest, crushing the breath out of you ...

Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move. It happens when you pass between stages of wakefulness and sleep. During these transitions, you may be unable to move or speak for a ...

Sleep paralysis is "a condition where you feel paralyzed just before falling asleep or, more commonly, when you first wake up in the morning," says Kevin Walker, MD, the medical director of ...

You wake up in the middle of the night unable to move a muscle. Panicked, you feel a presence in the room and see the image of a ghost or a demon gliding toward you. The figure approaches you, sits on ...

Sleep paralysis occurs when a person’s consciousness is awake, but their body is still in a paralyzed sleep state. A person may be unable to speak and feel pressure on their chest. It can be a symptom ...

A series of strange symptoms known as sleep paralysis may be more common in college students and psychiatric patients, finds a new review study. But the odds of these weird occurrences happening in ...