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Causes of sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis happens when you cannot move your muscles as you are waking up or falling asleep. This is because you are in sleep mode but your brain is active. It's not clear why sleep paralysis can happen but it has been linked with: insomnia. disrupted sleeping patterns – for example, because of shift work or ...
- Sleep Cycles
- Recumbent Sleep Deprivation
- What Can Cause Sleep Deprivation in Horses?
- Signs of Sleep Deprivation
- What Can Be done?
- Conclusion
There are five stages of sleep – alert wakefulness, diffuse drowsiness, intermediate period, slow-wave sleep and paradoxical sleep (Dallaire, 1986). Horses are polyphasic sleepers requiring a total of between 2.5 and 5 hours of sleep in each 24-hour period (Houpt, 1980; Dallaire, 1986; Aleman et al., 2008; Zanker et al., 2021), which is around 15 p...
If horses are physically unable to lie down or choose not to for any reason then recumbent sleep deprivation occurs, causing a substantial impact on the health and quality of life of the individual. Recumbent sleep deprivation can cause serious injuries as often the individuals will fall into paradoxical sleep while standing and subsequently the co...
Environmental stressors can be a contributing factor to the development of sleep deprivation and may include things such as extreme temperatures, lack of social stability, lack of social contact, unfamiliar surroundings (which is likely to cause them to feel unsafe in their environment) and inappropriate housing, among others (Bertone, 2006, 2022; ...
Behavioural signs of sleep deprivation may not be obvious without overnight video facilities as sleep crashing episodes are much more likely to happen during the night. Signs will also vary between individuals, but they may include: 1. Recurrent carpal and fore fetlock abrasions (caused by collapse or partial collapse) 2. Lack of evidence of lying ...
Diagnosis and monitoring
Setting up a camera to video the horse during times when people are not present can be crucial in helping with the diagnosis of sleep disorders. If it is not possible for cameras to be used 24 hours a day, the most beneficial time to gain behaviour recordings is during the night between 8pm and 6am. Behaviours are often seen during these hours that may not be observed at other times of day and pain behaviours are more likely to be expressed during these quiet hours when there are fewer enviro...
Prevention
Where a sleep disorder is suspected, owners should be advised to ensure that the stable and any concrete areas are well padded with rubber matting on the floors and walls. A thick bed should also be provided to prevent injury where possible. Some horses may benefit from wearing padded boots on their forelegs to prevent recurrence of abrasions while further investigations take place.
Examination and identification
Clinical examination to rule out any cardiac or neurological factors for collapse is essential before further investigation into whether any causes of pain can be identified (de Klerk, 2019). If a thorough veterinary investigation is unable to identify any painful conditions, then the recruitment of an equine behaviour consultant may be necessary. Equine behaviour consultants can help the owner to evaluate and adjust, where necessary, the management and environment of the horse to address any...
Every horse suffering from sleep deprivation will have their own individual reason for not lying down to sleep. Owning a sleep-deprived horse is an emotionally exhausting experience and can have detrimental effects on the psychological well-being of the owner as well as being an obvious welfare and quality-of-life concern for the horse. So a collab...
Sleep paralysis. The Nightmare by Swiss artist Henry Fuseli (1781) is thought to be a depiction of sleep paralysis perceived as a demonic visitation. Sleep paralysis is a state, during waking up or falling asleep, in which a person is conscious but in a complete state of full-body paralysis. [1][2] During an episode, the person may hallucinate ...
Jul 13, 2016 · Research. Pain or physical discomfort. Lyme disease. Environmental insecurity. Monotony. Aggression issues. Sleep terrors. These are among the possible causes contributing to sleep disorders in horses, said Dr. Joseph J. Bertone, professor of equine medicine at the Western University of Health Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine.
The night hag or old hag is the name given to a supernatural creature, commonly associated with the phenomenon of sleep paralysis. It is a phenomenon in which the sleeper feels the presence of a supernatural, malevolent being which immobilizes the person as if sitting on their chest or the foot of their bed. The word "night-mare" or "nightmare ...
Oct 27, 2022 · For centuries, sleep paralysis has afflicted people around the world. Known colloquially in English as “old hag” syndrome, sleep paralysis has been given many names, but it is often believed to be caused by a malevolent creature from beyond the veil, attacking sleeping victims. Science has more recently attempted to explain this phenomenon ...
The findings stress the importance of distinguishing sleep paralysis from mental illnesses and other sleep issues, as it can lead to severe and unpleasant hallucinations. Choi et al. 2018: Sleep paralysis, characterized by REM sleep-related muscle atonia during wakefulness, was observed in two narcolepsy patients aged 22 and 19.
