
340. Ben Alderson-Day — Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Dark Side of Sleep Paralysis
Sleep paralysis is something that about 7% of your listeners will have experienced at some point in their lives. For over half of people who experience sleep paralysis, they suddenly realize that someone in the room with them. There's an entity there in the corner that, as you say, very often has this strong sense of a level of sense. Sometimes it will move towards people, sometimes it will feel like it presses down on the chest. It's one of the real, more consistent patterns to these presence experiences and indeed the sleep ones are the most consistently evil.
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