Nikolai Gogol's account of sleep paralysis in the tale "The Portrait"

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dc.contributor.authorAguirre, Carolina
dc.contributor.authorMiranda, Marcelo
dc.contributor.authorStefani, Ambra
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T22:08:53Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T22:08:53Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractSeveral classical writers had an impressive power of observation and often depicted medical conditions in their works long before medical literature did. Sleep paralysis is a common and frightening experience, in particular when occurring for the first time. Therefore, it is not surprising that it has been frequently described in the classical literature, eg by Dostoevsky, Kafka, Dickens, and Maupassant. In Nikolai Gogol's tale "The portrait" (1833) we could recognize an excellent description of a sleep paralysis, in which several components of this condition were depicted including motor paralysis, visual and auditory hallucinations, and autonomic manifestations. To the best of our knowledge, this account is the earliest description of a sleep paralysis in non-medical literature. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.sleep.2021.07.037
dc.identifier.eissn1878-5506
dc.identifier.issn1389-9457
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2021.07.037
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/94312
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000693402400041
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final320
dc.pagina.inicio317
dc.revistaSleep medicine
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectSleep paralysis
dc.subjectGogol
dc.subjectHallucinations
dc.subjectSleep
dc.subject"The&nbsp
dc.subjectportrait"
dc.subject.ods03 Good Health and Well-being
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.titleNikolai Gogol's account of sleep paralysis in the tale "The Portrait"
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen85
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sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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