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Every year in the United States, 700,000 youth are arrested and sent to juvenile detention facilities. Beyond the sheer number of children and adolescents who are exhibiting delinquent behavior, this statistic also represents a large population of young people whose neurological and behavioral development is being disrupted at a very critical time, especially when the majority of these adolescents are already entering the system having experienced adverse events.

Hypnopompic hallucinations are vivid sensory experiences that occur during the transition from sleep to wakefulness, often because dream-like brain activity overlaps with waking perception. Although they can feel extremely real and frightening, especially when combined with sleep paralysis, they are generally a normal sleep phenomenon rather than a sign of mental illness.