Skeptophilia

One of the most terrifying sleep-related phenomena is sleep paralysis . I say this only from hearing about the experiences of others; I have...

The main character of Haruki Murakami's brilliant and terrifying short story "Sleep" is a perfectly normal middle-class woman ...

In Ursula LeGuin's amazing and disturbing novel The Lathe of Heaven , a very ordinary guy finds that he has a completely unordinary abil...

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation  episode "Night Terrors," the ship gets trapped in a phenomenon called "Tyken's Rif...

I have to resist the temptation of scoffing too quickly, but sometimes it turns out to be justified. This comes up because of an article f...

Last night I dreamed I was in my classroom.  It wasn't my real classroom, however -- it looked like a 19th century lecture hall.  Woode...

One of the most terrifying sleep-related phenomena is sleep paralysis . I say this only from hearing about the experiences of others; I ha...