Eight people experience sleep paralysis, a condition which leaves them unable to move, speak or react.
Criminal psychologist Kate Fuller is assigned to the murder of a man who has seemingly been strangled in his sleep by his wife and the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. As Kate digs into the mystery of an ancient demon which kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and spirals through a chilling nightmare to save herself and Sophie before she dares fall asleep again.
Looking for an escape from her recurring nightmares, 18-year-old Sarah submits to a university sleep study, but soon realizes she's become the conduit to a frightening new discovery.
Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is an average social worker who, after the sudden death of her twin sister, is investigating the mysterious deaths of other people who died in their sleep. Shortly before their deaths, the victims all reported a supernatural force that appeared to them while they were suffering from sleep paralysis. When Kate investigates further into the case, she opens herself up to the creature's wrath and soon finds herself and her family suffering from an ancient evil.
A woman is plagued by constant nightmares after moving into a large, suspiciously cheap apartment. The apartment’s terrible secret soon reveals itself through her dreams.
Eyewitnesses across the globe describe encountering the same evil entity.
A man finds himself trapped inside his own nightmare with a malevolent entity and must wake up before it's too late
A troubled young woman with a disturbing past goes to see a counselor about her night terrors, ones involving a shadowy figure that attempts every night to break into her home.
A woman struggling to cope with the death of her fiancé begins to suspect she might not be as alone as she thought.
A look at the link between the Djinn and Shadow People
After confronting her fiancé, Paul, in a cheap motel, Betty discovers the horrifying secret that has kept him from sleeping for days.
A man's life is disrupted when he begins to suffer from sleep paralysis.
After an excessive night, Mafalda e Filipe return home. When they fall asleep, something sinister awakens.
A sleepy Sunday afternoon in an apartment. A woman dozes off in front of the TV. When she wakes up she finds herself in a kind of limbo between dream and reality. And in the periphery a dark figure is moving towards her.
A young woman comes face to face with her sleep-paralysis demon, defeating it once and for all.
Young college student, Catalina (played by Kara Saadet Schwarz), begins to experience extremely disturbing cases of sleep paralysis which may have rooted from an unsolved, brutal death in her family.
A man struggles with sleep paralysis.
"Sleep Paralysis" dives in to the little-known phenomenon of the same name. Affected people from different cultures tell of their frightening experiences, while scientists try to find explanations.
A man believes a dark entity is attacking him while he sleeps.