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The History of Sleep Paralysis Demons Explained | Sleep Paralysis

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The Sleep Paralysis Demons

Sleep paralysis demons often include an entity or a figure of some kind that is usually dubbed the sleep paralysis demon. Many people who experience this condition reportedly see the same air quotes demon in different instances of sleep paralysis. But what's interesting is that, and some people have kind of theorized that these sleep paralysis demons are shared because they were a reflection of the zeitgeist, the cultural fears of the time.

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Speaker 2

Well, before we finish looking back, Luke, let's talk after the ads a little bit more about Paris because it was a crazy finale on the Champs-Elysé. I don't think any of us were ever going to pick the winner in our WhatsApp. Prediction's league. We'll have some more listeners' questions and then maybe we'll cast our minds forward to what else is to come this year. Righto, Paris.

Speaker 1

It just seemed like a crazy day, didn't it? I think they were... Didn't they? They just raced it full gas. It wasn't... Yeah, no one threw caution to the wind. It was just raced so aggressively. And at one point I thought they could actually crack the sprinter's teams here.

Speaker 2

But it didn't quite happen. No, you had that shape of... On the nose of the peloton for most of the laps where it was also stretched out, wasn't it? You could see when you get the helicopter shot, you can see the stress that's going through the sprinter's teams just by the shape that the peloton

Speaker 1

takes. And Paris, you watch on TV and you see them sipping on the champagne, you're like, ah, this is a procession parade and then you get on the Champs-Elysé itself and you're like, this is so hard. It is in such a hard race. Maybe for me, more mentally, because you switch off the night before you're like, right, the tour's over, but that is a hard day in the saddle. The last, I don't know, hour and a half, two hours, whatever is on the circuit, but they just... They just whacked it and kept the tack in, brought back the tack in, so super hard day or super hard final for sure. But like you say, with our predictions, we've just been absolutely terrible. I mean, and then Jordy Muse just pops out of nowhere and takes the sprinter's crown.