The terrors of sleep paralysis Ami Angelowicz

View full lesson: Imagine you re fast asleep and then suddenly awake. You want to move but can t, as if someone is sitting on your chest. And you can t even scream This is sleep paralysis, a creepy but common phenomenon caused by an overlap in REM sleep and waking stages. Ami Angelowicz describes just how pervasive (but harmless) it is and introduces a cast of characters from sleep paralysis around the world. Lesson by A