More Interesting Reads

Some links to some interesting sites about Sleep Paralysis and Lucid Dreaming:

World of Lucid Dreaming: Article about how to cause Sleep Paralysis resulting in Lucid Dreaming.

An article entitled: "Sleep Paralysis: If You Can't Avoid its Occurrence, Can You Change the Experience?" from The Lucid Dreams Exchange.

Some questions and answers from Dr. Jorge Conesa at the Language and Cognition Laboratory/NLC in Everett, WA, USA. Here is one that I was particularly interested in:

Is there a genetic link to SP?

SP is definitely FAMILIAL. The fact that SP is familial allows for that probability. Dement observed and reported familial effects while studying narcolepsy in the seventies, and low and behold, today the same team has isolated the chromosome responsible for the syndrome (at least in dogs). But one has to be cautious about drawing causal connections between the occurrence of SP in families and a genetic link per se. It could be that family habits (nurture) and not a gene predispose some individuals more than others. Now that the Stanford team (headed by Dr. Mignot) has isolated the gene responsible for narcolepsy in an animal model, that gives us hope that the same can be done for SP. The gene was located on the 12th chromosome.

There is also a message board on the Sleep Paralysis Information Service web site where tons of people continue to share their experiences with Sleep Paralysis.