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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16569, 5 June 1914, Page 10

According to one theory, nightmare is due to a suspension of power in tne muscles of inspiration. The weign • the want of breathing, and tho sense ot suffocation prove this, and « stl _ greater nroof is that, after the sufferer can epoak only one syllable, tue paroxysm is at an end. The word cannot be spoken without breath breatn cannot come out of the lungs until it i? brought in, nor bi-ought in without tlie action of tne muscles of the broast ana ribs. Nothing, asserts tho family Doctor,” can bo simpler than the onus©; it is the temporary paralysis ot tho pectoral muscles, through the medium of the nerves which supply theM with feeling.