![]() The recent interactive novel (Don’t) Open Your Eyes is a chilling reminder of what sleep paralysis feels like. ![]() We need to believe that something is there. It’s as if night terrors are so scary that we can’t accept they might be harmless. It combines one of our earliest and most primal fears with a powerful sensation of helplessness so effective that even with a scientific explanation for the phenomenon, we often still assign one that is spiritual. As a human experience, it’s fairly common too, a fact that no doubt plays a factor in its popularity as a narrative device. ![]() It’s fair to say that sleep paralysis is a pretty common theme in the horror genre, explored in everything from films like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Nightmare on Elm Street, to the recent series adaption of The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix.
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