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  2. Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia

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    Between 8% and 50% of people experience sleep paralysis at some point during their lives. [2] [4] About 5% of people have regular episodes. Males and females are affected equally. [2] Sleep paralysis has been described throughout history. It is believed to have played a role in the creation of stories about alien abduction and other paranormal ...

  3. Night hag - Wikipedia

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    In Kurdish culture, sleep paralysis is often referred to as motakka. It is believed to be a demon that attacks people in their sleep, and particularly children of young age, and steals their breath away as they breathe heavily and keeps it out of reach. In Pashtun culture, it is known as "Khapasa". It is believed that it is a ghost without ...

  4. Batibat - Wikipedia

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    This causes them to migrate and inhabit what is left of their tree. The batibat forbids humans from sleeping near its post. When a person does sleep near it, the batibat transforms into its true form and attacks the person by suffocating their victim and invading their dream space, causing sleep paralysis and waking nightmares.

  5. True Life: I Had a Sleep Paralysis Demon. Here’s What ... - AOL

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    In some cases, people experiencing sleep paralysis have frightening and even recurring visions. Known as sleep paralysis demons, these terrors don’t haunt nightmares, but reality.

  6. Shadow person - Wikipedia

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    The Nightmare is a 2015 documentary that discusses the causes of sleep paralysis as seen through extensive interviews with participants, and the experiences are re-enacted by professional actors. It proposes that such cultural phenomena as alien abduction , the near death experience and shadow people can, in many cases, be attributed to sleep ...

  7. 12 Horror Movies About Sleep Disorders to Watch During Spooky ...

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    The director of The Nightmare, Rodney Ascher, interviews people who suffer from sleep paralysis—when one is in a conscious state of falling asleep or waking up and could experience dream-like ...

  8. Alp (folklore) - Wikipedia

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    In a similar vein, elves are in Middle High German most often associated with deceiving or bewildering people "in a phrase that occurs so often it would appear to be proverbial: 'die elben/der alp trieget mich' (the elves/elf is/are deceiving me)". [3] The same pattern holds in Early Modern German.

  9. Rare disorder causes man to see 'demonic' faces - AOL

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    A Tennessee man has a rare disorder that causes faces to appear distorted in shape, size, texture or color. ... “My first thought was I woke up in a demon world,” said Sharrah, 59, of ...