PSY3032 Chapter Notes - Chapter Parasomnia: Nightmare Disorder, Sleep Paralysis, Lucid Dream
30 Aug 2018
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Parasomnia: nightmare disorder and isolated sleep paralysis: daisy had a terrifying and disturbing episode: woke up early in the morning with the intense sensation she was being threatened by an evil spirit and being unable to move. She could see and feel the heavy pressure on her chest of a spirit-like figure sitting on top of her and holding her down. It looked her directly in the face and was vividly tangible, transparent, smoke like with an opening for a moth, a head, no eyes and a long flowing body. She felt like she could not breathe and heard a strange buzzing noise. She tried to scream and push the figure off but she was fully immobilised. She felt like the spirit was going to move inside her, cut her neck or choke her. She had been struggling with chronic, regular and upsetting nightmares for years: her social worker, contacted her psychiatrist who decided to contact a sleep specialist.
