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340. Ben Alderson-Day — Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other

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The Dark Image of Sleep Paralysis

Nocturnal predators are real. It pays to be up in the trees or whatever away from them, but don't walk around when you sleep because you fall out of the tree. So it's good to be kind of paralyzed and fearful. You should be. I mean, there's a natural fear of snakes and spiders and things like that falling off cliffs at great heights and so on. There's kind of a logic to it.

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