Sleep paralysis

Rarity: Rare

A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Sleep paralysis is a state, during waking up or falling asleep, in which a person is conscious but in a complete state of paralysis. During an episode, the person may hallucinate (hear, feel, or see things that are not there), which often results in fear. Episodes generally last no more than a few minutes.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Sleep paralysis”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Henry Fuseli, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.