The Japanese call it kanashibari, represented as a devil stepping on a hapless sleeper's chest; the Chinese refer to it as gui ya, or ghost pressure.
Alien Abductions: The Real Deal?Psychology Today Magazine - 27 May 2003
....Mack has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School...and... founded the Center for Psychology and Social Change...[explains that] no combination of sleep paralysis and the Sci-Fi Channel explains phenomena such as alien sightings by school children in Zimbabwe who are wide-awake. "It doesn't even come close," he says. Mack's second book, Passport to the Cosmos, chronicles abduction as a cross-cultural phenomenon; he finds evidence of sexual and ecological parallels to American abduction reports on almost every continent.
Mack is currently at work on his third book, which examines the clash between "scientific materialism and a nonrational point of view."
