Nearly 8% of the general population experiences sleep paralysis, but people are unaware that REM sleep disruptions can create ...

Medically reviewed by Valerie Cacho, MD Key Takeaways Sleep paralysis hallucinations happen when you’re waking up or falling ...

In my clinic last week, a family member of one of my new patients told me the following story: “It started when my wife began having difficulty paying the bills and balancing the checkbook. She would ...

Everybody knows that he needs sleep, up to about eight hours a night, but not until last week did hardheaded medical scientists report that dreaming is even more essential to health than sleeping.

A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience shows how flickering light can cause hallucinations in our brain: it produces "standing waves" of brain activity. The work is published in ...

An increase in nightmares and hallucinations – or 'daymares' – could herald the onset of autoimmune diseases such as lupus, say an international team led by researchers at the University of Cambridge ...