Isolated Sleep Paralysis and Lucid Dreaming: Ten-Year Longitudinal Case Study and Related Dream Frequencies, Types, and Categories
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The present summary is the fourth and final report of a dream naturalistic work begun on August 13, 1992. The initial impetus for this study was to follow in the footsteps and/or heed the need expressed by other dream researchers (4-11) to conduct naturalistic observations of dream events and content: that this approach was desirable and as genuine a methodology as dream laboratory research. The interpretation of this need by this author included the recognition of an absence of long-term studies dealing with the phenomenon of Isolated Sleep Paralysis (ISP). The author, a regular experiencer of sleep paralysis for thirty-three years (since he was 14), used himself as the focus of this study while attending graduate work in neurocognition. Additionally, this Isolated Sleep Paralysis and Lucid Dreaming: Ten-Year Longitudinal Case Study and Related Dream Frequencies, Types, and Categories
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