In this episode, MJ Smith recounts a recurring dream experienced over several years, centred on repeatedly entering the same house and encountering overwhelming fear, heaviness, and paralysis.

The conversation focuses on the lived details of the experience, including the sense of presence without visual form, escalating emotional intensity, and restricted movement, and how the dream eventually stopped. This episode presents the account as described, without interpretation or explanatory overlay.

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Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks is a researcher, author, and experiencer reframing sleep paralysis through the Threshold Contact Experience (TCE) framework. Her work bridges science, spirituality, and consciousness studies to offer clearer understanding and meaningful support for those navigating liminal and nocturnal states.

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In this episode of Sleep Paralysis News, Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks is joined by Vanessa Lamorte for a thoughtful conversation exploring ancestral knowledge, embodied spiritual practice, and how cultural frameworks shape our understanding of experiences that occur in liminal states of consciousness.

Drawing on intertribal traditions and lived practice, this discussion considers how experiences now commonly labelled as sleep paralysis have historically been understood within wider spiritual, cultural, and experiential contexts, rather than solely through fear-based or pathological interpretations.

Rather than framing sleep paralysis as simply a neurological error or disorder, this episode invites listeners to consider how altered states, nocturnal encounters, and threshold experiences have long been recognised across cultures as meaningful aspects of human consciousness.

In this conversation, we explore:

1. Ancestral and intergenerational knowledge
2. Embodied spirituality and lived experience
3. Sound, vibration, and consciousness
4. Cultural perspectives on altered and liminal states
5. Rethinking sleep paralysis beyond fear-based models.

This episode is part of an ongoing effort to broaden how sleep paralysis is understood, situating it within a richer human, cultural, and consciousness-based landscape.

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In this episode of Sleep Paralysis News, Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks and co-host Cyrus speak with shamanic practitioner Rachel White about the deeper dimensions of sleep paralysis and Threshold Contact Experiences (TCEs).

Together, we explore how shamanic frameworks, lived experience, and consciousness studies can help us understand what really happens during sleep paralysis episodes — including out-of-body states, entity encounters, and the perceptual shift that happens when fear dissolves.

Rachel shares her own awakening experiences, her training, and her perspective on working with altered states safely and intentionally. This conversation bridges science, spirituality, and practice, offering new language and understanding for those navigating these phenomena.

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