Letters from the August 27, 2005, issue of Science News
By Science News
Sleeper issues
I have experienced sleep paralysis in almost all of its forms, from terrors to vibrations and auditory hallucinations to out-of-body experiences (“Night of the Crusher,” SN: 7/9/05, p. 27). Most often it is completely terrifying, but I did have one episode that was elating.
Sweet dreams.
Kathleen Milroy
Ontario, Canada
The manifestations reported by sufferers of sleep paralysis are eerily similar to the visitation of death in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” written by Ernest Hemingway and first published in Esquire in 1936: