sleep paralysis

English

Depiction of sleep paralysis perceived as a demonic visitation

Pronunciation

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Noun

sleep paralysis (countable and uncountable, plural sleep paralyses)

1. The normal paralysis of the body that occurs during REM sleep.
2. A situation where a person is not fully awake, and although conscious of their surroundings, unable to move or speak, often accompanied by hallucinations and feelings of terror.

Translations

inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening

• Arabic: شَلَل النَّوْم m (šalal an-nawm), جَاثُوم m (jāṯūm)

  Gulf Arabic: ياثوم m (yāṯūm)

  Hijazi Arabic: جاثوم m (jāṯūm)

• Catalan: paràlisi del son f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 睡眠癱瘓症 / 睡眠瘫痪症 (shuìmián tānhuànzhèng), (colloquial) 鬼壓床 / 鬼压床 (guǐyāchuáng), 鬼壓身 / 鬼压身 (guǐyāshēn)

• Finnish: unihalvaus (fi)
• French: paralysie du sommeil (fr) f
• German: Schlafparalyse f, Schlafstarre f, Schlaflähmung f
• Greek: παράλυση ύπνου f (parálysi ýpnou)
• Gujarati: ઓથાર m (othār)
• Icelandic: svefnlömun f
• Indonesian: kelumpuhan tidur
• Italian: paralisi nel sonno f
• Japanese: 金縛り (ja) (kanashibari)
• Korean: 가위눌림 (gawinullim)
• Portuguese: paralisia do sono f
• Romanian: paralizie în timpul somnului f
• Russian: со́нный парали́ч (ru) (sónnyj paralíč)
• Spanish: parálisis del sueño f
• Swedish: sömnparalys (sv) c, sömnförlamning c
• Thai: ผีอำ (pǐi-am)
• Ukrainian: со́нний пара́ліч m (sónnyj parálič)
• Vietnamese: bóng đè

See also

• insomnia