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@article{McNally2005SleepPS,
  title={Sleep Paralysis, Sexual Abuse, and Space Alien Abduction},
  author={Richard J. McNally and Susan A. Clancy},
  journal={Transcultural Psychiatry},
  year={2005},
  volume={42},
  pages={113 - 122},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:9569785}
}

Sleep paralysis accompanied by hypnopompic (‘upon awakening’) hallucinations is an often-frightening manifestation of discordance between the cognitive/perceptual and motor aspects of rapid eye…