Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations during Sleep Paralysis: Neurological and Cultural Construction of the Night-Mare
@article{Cheyne1999HypnagogicAH,
title={Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations during Sleep Paralysis: Neurological and Cultural Construction of the Night-Mare},
author={J. Allan Cheyne and Steve D. Rueffer and Ian R. Newby-Clark},
journal={Consciousness and Cognition},
year={1999},
volume={8},
pages={319-337},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:23758148}
}A three-factor structural model of HHEs based on their relations both to cultural narratives and REM neurophysiology is developed and tested with several large samples and central features of the model developed here are consistent with recent work on hallucinations associated with hypnosis and schizophrenia.
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