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Sleep Paralysis and Lucid Dreaming - A scientific and personal research and account of Sleep Paralysis and its connection to lucid dreaming, alien abduction phenomena and nightmares. List of symptoms and references.
The Periodic Paralysis Resource Center - This site provides information on sleep paralysis as well as daytime paralysis.
Sleep Paralysis and Related Experiences - A comprehensive site dealing with sleep paralysis, hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations.
Sleep Disorders - Descriptions, symptoms, treatment, of various sleep disorders. Over a hundred articles on the topic. Sleep apnea, narcolepsy, sleep paralysis, insomnia. New Material added weekly.
Dream Emporium - Information on intepretation and understanding, lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, night terrors and precognitive dreams. Also includes links to dream and sleep resources, and guidance on helping children with dream problems.
The Lucid Crossroads - Covers learning lucid dreaming, techniques, types of lucid dreams, astral projection, and sleep paralysis. Also includes an ongoing study on sharing dreams and unique content on Lucid Dojo--performing martial arts while lucid.

Sleep paralysis - Sleep paralysis is a condition characterized by temporary paralysis of the body shortly after waking up (known as hypnopompic paralysis) or, less often, shortly before falling asleep (known as hypnagogic paralysis). When considered a disease, isolated sleep paralysis is classified as: Diseases Database 12182, MeSH D020188
Rapid eye movement behavior disorder - Rapid eye movement behaviour disorder, or RBD was first described in 1986 as a parasomnia involving dissociation of the characteristic stages of sleep. The major and arguably only abnormal feature of RBD is loss of muscle atonia (paralysis) during otherwise intact REM sleep (the stage of sleep in which most vivid dreaming occurs).
Activation synthesis theory - ... is a neurobiological theory of dreams, put forward by James Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley in 1977, which states that dreams are a random event caused by firing of neurons in the brain. This random firing sends signals to the body's motor systems, but because of a paralysis that occurs during REM sleep, the brain is faced with a paradox.
Hypnagogia - Hypnagogia (also spelled hypnogogia) describes vivid dreamlike auditory, visual, or tactile sensations, which are often accompanied by sleep paralysis and experienced when falling asleep or waking up.