If you’ve ever experienced sleep paralysis, a sleep disorder during which you wake up but can’t move, you’ll know it can be an incredibly frightening experience. But what causes sleep paralysis, and can it ever be stopped while in the moment?
To coincide with Sleep Awareness Week 2024, we put that question to Dr Sophie Bostock, a leading sleep scientist, to find out more. “Sleep paralysis is an example of a parasomnia, a disorder of the switching between different sleep stages and wakefulness,” explains Dr Bostock, who goes by the name, The Sleep Scientist.
