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 Media Coverage and Appearances 

• ​Exploding head syndrome? Inside a mysterious, disturbing sleep condition
• The Secret History of UFOs (Documentary) 

• Sleep paralysis most common in students, psychiatric patients
• This upsetting sleep phenomenon is very real -- and very mysterious
• ​Kendall Jenner’s sleep paralysis is actually pretty common

• What it's like to have severe sleep paralysis
  
• We talked to someone with 'Exploding Head Syndrome'

• How culture shapes your mind - and your mental illness
• The night hag and other terrors of sleep​
  
• When it's more than just a bad dream

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• Mysterious exploding head syndrome makes people feel their head will pop as they sleep

• How many beliefs are due to sleep deprivation?

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• The CW: Mysteries Decoded, Season 02, Episode 05 (Sleep Demons)

• Reelz TV: The Shocking Truth, Season 02, Episode 08   (A Nightmare on Elm Street)

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• From real blood-sucking vampires to people who believe they are zombies
• Is exploding head syndrome the reason you can't sleep?

• What it’s like to have exploding head syndrome

• Wide awake and dreaming

•  Exploding head syndrome: Largest study ever of this mysterious condition 

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• An Interview with Dr. Brian Sharpless

• The pathologies of vampirism
• The imitation game: The delusional misidentification disorders
• Necrophilia
• Let's get this off our chest: Sleep paralysis

• Dämonen der Dunkelheit

• Are ghosts real? Astonishing theory explains why people see spirits in the dead of night

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• The strangest sleep disorder

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• How the test for psychologists fails applicants

• That loud bang that startles you awake

• Sleep paralysis is real and can be as terrifying as any horror movie

• What is sleep paralysis?

• Sleep paralysis segment (12/23/24)

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