Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations during Sleep Paralysis: Neurological and Cultural Construction of the Night-Mare

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 319-337

  Cheyne, J Allan ^a   Rueffer, Steve D ^a   Newby Clark, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DREAM; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; PARASOMNIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REM SLEEP;

ADULT; AROUSAL; CULTURE; DREAMS; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; SLEEP PARALYSIS; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 0033190752     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ccog.1999.0404     Document Type: Article

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