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[NHS sleep paralysis](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sleep-paralysis/)", "Check whether unusual perceptions accompanied immobility; perceptions alone are insufficient, and their absence does not exclude sleep paralysis. [NHS sleep paralysis](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sleep-paralysis/)", "Distinguish transition-related immobility from emotion-triggered loss of muscle control suggestive of cataplexy; record daytime sleep attacks separately when considering narcolepsy. [NHLBI narcolepsy](https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/narcolepsy)", "Check recovery and distribution of weakness: persistent weakness after awakening or focal deficits require assessment beyond a sleep-paralysis explanation. [NHS paralysis](https://www.nhs.uk/symptoms/paralysis/)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Sleep transition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "falling asleep | awakening | outside a recognised transition | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Anchors recognition and exposes a potentially mismatched label." }, { "name": "Experienced awareness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported present | fluctuating | reported absent | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Separates remembered awareness during immobility from retrospective inference." }, { "name": "Voluntary control", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Record movement and speech separately: unavailable | partial | intact | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Preserves what the person actually could and could not do." }, { "name": "Episode duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "seconds or minutes, with estimate range and timing method", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison without treating subjective elapsed time as 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informal rating as a diagnostic threshold." }, { "name": "Associated condition", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked condition with status: reported | suspected | clinician-confirmed | assessed absent | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an episode from becoming an unsupported diagnosis of its possible underlying condition." }, { "name": "Identification status", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "unassessed report | compatible account | atypical or unresolved account | clinician-assessed", "why_it_matters": "Makes the limits of an agent's classification visible." } ], "affordances": [ "Elicit and record an episode account while preserving uncertainty about timing and awareness.", "Compare the account with recognition criteria and flag conflicting features.", "Track recurrence, distress and functional effects across explicit observation windows.", "Explore within-person associations with sleep context without claiming causation.", "Offer sourced explanations and document agreed support or clinical review.", "Prepare a concise clinical handoff containing atypical features, associated symptoms and unresolved questions." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "transition-and-immobility", "name": "Transition and immobility", "description": "The evidence that the reported event fits sleep paralysis.", "rationale": "Recognition depends on the conjunction of sleep timing, experienced awareness and impaired voluntary control.", "layers": [ { "id": "sleep-wake-placement", "name": "Sleep-wake placement", "description": "Locate the event within the person's transition into or out of sleep.", "findings": [ { "id": "transition-sequence", "name": "Transition sequence", "description": "Record the sequence before immobility, during awareness and after recovery.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was the person falling asleep, awakening or already continuously awake when immobility began?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "transition-sequence-q01" }, { "text": "Which parts of that sequence are remembered directly, witnessed or inferred afterward?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "transition-sequence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "awareness-and-control", "name": "Awareness and control", "description": "Separate perceived wakefulness from the abilities available during the event.", "findings": [ { "id": "attempted-voluntary-action", "name": "Attempted voluntary action", "description": "Capture attempts to move or speak and their reported results.", "questions": [ { "text": "What did the person perceive or understand while unable to act?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attempted-voluntary-action-q01" }, { "text": "Which movements or speech attempts failed, and which remained possible?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attempted-voluntary-action-q02" }, { "text": "Was inability to act experienced during awareness or only described as part of a remembered dream?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attempted-voluntary-action-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "experienced-episode-and-recovery", "name": "Experienced episode and recovery", "description": "What happened during the event and how it ended.", "rationale": "The model must represent frightening or unusual experiences without confusing them with verified external events.", "layers": [ { "id": "perceptions-and-sensations", "name": "Perceptions and sensations", "description": "Document the person's sensory and bodily experience in their own terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "experience-and-interpretation", "name": "Experience and interpretation", "description": "Keep reported sensations, their personal meaning and independent observations distinguishable.", "questions": [ { "text": "What, if anything, did the person see, hear, feel or sense during immobility?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "experience-and-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "Which details describe a perception, which describe its interpretation, and which have independent corroboration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": 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"frequency-and-clustering-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "preceding-sleep-context", "name": "Preceding sleep context", "description": "Record candidate associations as observations requiring comparison.", "findings": [ { "id": "affected-and-unaffected-sleep", "name": "Affected and unaffected sleep", "description": "Compare context across sleep periods rather than labelling every preceding circumstance a trigger.", "questions": [ { "text": "What sleep timing, sleep quantity and body position were reported for affected sleep periods?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "affected-and-unaffected-sleep-q01" }, { "text": "Were the same circumstances present during sleep periods without paralysis?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "affected-and-unaffected-sleep-q02" }, { "text": "Which contextual details were recorded at the time and which were reconstructed later?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "affected-and-unaffected-sleep-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "clinical-boundaries-and-burden", "name": "Clinical 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"text": "Who assessed alternative explanations, and what evidence supports the current classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "explanatory-status-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-and-between-episode-burden", "name": "Episode and between-episode burden", "description": "Separate immediate distress from subsequent changes in sleep and functioning.", "findings": [ { "id": "fear-and-functional-effects", "name": "Fear and functional effects", "description": "Record the person's priorities and effects they attribute to the episodes.", "questions": [ { "text": "How distressing was the episode using the person's stated rating anchors?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "fear-and-functional-effects-q01" }, { "text": "Has anticipation of another episode changed sleep behaviour, daytime functioning or willingness to sleep?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "fear-and-functional-effects-q02" }, { "text": "Which effect does the person most want help addressing?", "kind": "action", "id": 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[NHS sleep paralysis](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sleep-paralysis/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the record support explanation and monitoring, routine clinical review or an urgent assessment pathway for atypical symptoms?", "kind": "action", "id": "support-or-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence and unresolved features justify that response?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "support-or-assessment-q02" }, { "text": "What explanation or support has the person agreed to receive?", "kind": "action", "id": "support-or-assessment-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "response-follow-up", "name": "Response follow-up", "description": "Evaluate an agreed response against the person's episode pattern and priorities.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-change-after-support", "name": "Observed change after support", "description": "Track outcomes without treating improvement after an action as proof of efficacy.", "questions": [ { "text": "What support or clinician-directed intervention was used, when and with what consistency?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observed-change-after-support-q01" }, { "text": "How did episode frequency, distress and sleep avoidance change over comparable observation windows?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-change-after-support-q02" }, { "text": "What new symptoms, lack of improvement or remaining burden should trigger reassessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "observed-change-after-support-q03" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which authoritative diagnostic criteria should govern the distinction between recurrent episodes and recurrent isolated sleep paralysis as a disorder?", "Which episode-duration and recovery patterns warrant specialist assessment, and how should unreliable subjective timing affect that decision?", "Which distress and impairment instruments are validated for sleep paralysis across ages, languages and cultural interpretations?", "What evidence supports specific techniques used during an episode, and what limits should an agent place on recommending them?", "What minimum clinical assessment is needed before classifying episodes as isolated rather than associated with another disorder, medication or substance?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a sleep paralysis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a sleep paralysis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a sleep paralysis, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a sleep paralysis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a sleep paralysis sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a sleep paralysis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a sleep paralysis, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a sleep paralysis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a sleep paralysis from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a sleep paralysis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a sleep paralysis, by which 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is sleep paralysis operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of sleep paralysis and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of sleep paralysis?", "kind": "boundary" }, { 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ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a sleep paralysis and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a sleep paralysis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a sleep paralysis, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a sleep paralysis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a sleep paralysis is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a sleep paralysis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a sleep paralysis, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a sleep paralysis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }