Australian and New Zealand sleep-paralysis research

Record summary

Studies and clinical reports from Australia and New Zealand examine sleep paralysis, sensed presences, vestibular sensations, hallucinated figures and culturally shaped interpretations. These phenomena are valuable comparison material for alleged hauntings, abductions and nocturnal psi experiences because they offer established physiological and sleep-related mechanisms without dismissing the experiencer’s distress. The literature is distributed across sleep medicine, psychiatry and cross-cultural psychology rather than one canonical case. Exact samples, instruments and Indigenous cultural contexts require source-level verification.