Sleep Paralysis: A Guide to Hypnagogic Visions and Visitors of the Night

Sleep paralysis feels like being awake and aware in bed as someone--or something--holds you down. In this revised and updated 2nd edition of his classic Sleep Paralysis, Ryan Hurd honors these frightening hallucinations afresh from the perspective of contemporary dream science.

Praise for Sleep Paralysis

"Exuding the kindness and knowledgeability that only comes from embodied experience, Hurd gives us this readable guide to befriending these often-difficult visitors." --Toko-pa Turner, Bestselling Author of Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

"Let this masterful guide lead you into the deepest insights about the nocturnal mind, and all the discoveries waiting within." --Andrew Holecek, author of Dream Yoga and member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine

"Ryan Hurd's well-researched, newly updated, and profoundly insightful book examines this fascinating and often frightening subject with great depth and abundant personal experience." --David Jay Brown, author of Dreaming Wide Awake and The New Science of Psychedelics

"Hurd's interesting and extremely readable book helpfully includes tips for getting a better night's sleep and ways to cope with this provocative (and sometimes scary) phenomenon." --Brian A. Sharpless, PhD, clinical psychologist and co-author of Sleep Paralysis: Historical, psychological, and medical perspectives