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In an old NYT Magazine article on child abuse, alien abduction, and recovered memories, I read a passing reference to "sleep paralysis - a scary but fairly common experience in which the part of the brain that inhibits motor messages during REM sleep fails to disengage as the sleeper wakes up. The sensation is of being pinned to the bed, often accompanied by hallucinations of some spectral entity at the bedside." I've had that! And it is scary (even ghostless)! It's nice to have a name to put on it, though.