Ep. 24 - Sleep Paralysis Why talk about sleep paralysis? Isn’t it usually just an explanation in itself for strange phenomenon? Actually, it’s not a definitive answer to all night time visions and experiences. Blaming sleep paralysis is simply blaming a physiological function as a means of dismissing strange experiences. Yet, it has become the go-to explanation, and we are eager to accept it as the reason for any sort of frightening tales of experience that remotely include aspects associated with this poorly understood physical response. These experiences run the gamut. Sleep paralysis is now the primary accepted explanation for the night time visitation from demons, witches, ghosts and shadow people, alien visitation and abduction, even spiritual and out-of-body experiences. So again, we are left with a phenomenon that would come up again and again in topics of the paranormal and supernatural, but itself is really just as mysterious. Just as fascinating in itself. Which means there is probably some theoryology behind it. Well, let’s try to understand sleep paralysis better. www.conspiracytheoryology.com email - [email protected] Twitter - @TheoryologyPod Facebook - @TheoryologyPodcast Patreon - www.patreon.com/conspiracytheoryology Music is by adamhenrygarcia.bandcamp.com Links: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dream-factory/201409/sleep-paralysis https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-22/edition-8/terror-night https://www.livescience.com/61123-sleep-paralysis-stress-supernatural.html https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/what-predicts-distress-after-episodes-of-sleep-paralysis.html https://theconversation.com/understanding-sleep-paralysis-a-terrifying-but-unique-state-of-consciousness-48509 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-wise-brain/201601/what-makes-you-feel-threatened https://www.luciddreamsociety.com/sleep-paralysis-stories/ https://www.nosleeplessnights.com/sleep-paralysis-stories-intruder-demon-or-delusion/ https://esotericscience.org/article12b.htm https://thriveglobal.com/stories/the-neuroscience-of-sleep-paralysis/ http://behdad.org/mirror/www.braindecoder.com/neuroscience-of-sleep-paralysis-1113306867.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanatory_gap https://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/the-seductive-allure-of-the-seductive-allure-of-the-seductive-allure-of-neuroscience-explanations http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2009/01/06/critiquing-a-classic-the-seductive-allure-of-neuroscience-explanations/#.XK7UVphKhPa http://sleepingresources.com/scary-sleep-paralysis-stories-waking-up-in-a-nightmare/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5002400/