The Horror of Sleep Paralysis

The nightmare, in its traditional sense, is a term seldom understood to many modern folk. Humans have been afraid and puzzled of this phenomenon for their entire history. Even the oldest Middle Eastern and Hebraic mythology we find Lilith, a demon night witch who was supposedly Adam's first very evil wife. According to tales of Vincerra and the Jewish Talmud, she uttered an unspeakable name of God irreverently and was therefore condemned to be drowned in the Red Sea. But before she died, she negotiated with God. She claimed she was put on this earth to prey on healthy mothers-to-be and their children; asked that she be released from her punishment of