In this episode, Sheila Pryce Brooks speaks with Samuel Thomas-Holland, an experiencer and practitioner working with dreams, nightmares, and hypnotherapy.Samuel shares his early encounters and sleep-related experiences, and reflects on how these informed his current work with clients in subconscious and altered states.The conversation explores the relationship between sleep paralysis, dream experiences, and perceived contact, offering insight into both lived experience and therapeutic practice.Sleep Paralysis News — Connect & ContributeDo you experience sleep paralysis?Take the short quiz to explore how your experiences relate to sleep paralysis and threshold states: Find out hereShare Your ExperienceIf you have lived experience of sleep paralysis or related threshold contact experiences, or professional insight into altered or liminal states, you’re welcome to get in touch. Email: [email protected] Dr Sheila Pryce BrooksDr 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.Learn More🌐 Website: https://www.sheilaprycebrooks.com📰 Substack: https://sheilaprycebrooks.substack.com🎧 Sleep Paralysis News Podcast: Available on all major platforms❤️ Support the work: https://donorbox.org/support-the-work-of-dr-sheila-pryce-brooksFollow for Insights & UpdatesInstagram: @sleepparalysis_spbTwitter/X: @sprycebrooksTikTok: @sleepparalysisnewsYouTube: @sheilaprycebrooks

In this episode of Sleep Paralysis News, Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks speaks with Dr Nicole Sebastian (psychologist) and Professor Michael Sebastian (sociologist) about dreams, synchronicity, and the development of inner trust.The conversation explores how meaningful dream experiences can precede major life changes, how people make sense of repeated signs and coincidences, and how inner guidance is interpreted across personal, psychological, and social contexts. Nicole and Michael reflect on their early dream experiences, the role of intuition in decision-making, and how individuals learn to distinguish internal signals from expectation or belief.Rather than offering instruction or interpretation, this discussion focuses on how experiences are lived, recognised, and integrated, and how trust develops over time through reflection, pattern recognition, and discernment.Sleep Paralysis News — Connect & ContributeDo you experience sleep paralysis?Take the short quiz to explore how your experiences relate to sleep paralysis and threshold states: Find out hereShare Your ExperienceIf you have lived experience of sleep paralysis or related threshold contact experiences, or professional insight into altered or liminal states, you’re welcome to get in touch. Email: [email protected] Dr Sheila Pryce BrooksDr 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.Learn More🌐 Website: https://www.sheilaprycebrooks.com📰 Substack: https://sheilaprycebrooks.substack.com🎧 Sleep Paralysis News Podcast: Available on all major platforms❤️ Support the work: https://donorbox.org/support-the-work-of-dr-sheila-pryce-brooksFollow for Insights & UpdatesInstagram: @sleepparalysis_spbTwitter/X: @sprycebrooksTikTok: @sleepparalysisnewsYouTube: @sheilaprycebrooks

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.Sleep Paralysis News — Connect & ContributeDo you experience sleep paralysis?Take the short quiz to explore how your experiences relate to sleep paralysis and threshold states: Find out hereShare Your ExperienceIf you have lived experience of sleep paralysis or related threshold contact experiences, or professional insight into altered or liminal states, you’re welcome to get in touch. Email: [email protected] Dr Sheila Pryce BrooksDr 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.Learn More🌐 Website: https://www.sheilaprycebrooks.com📰 Substack: https://sheilaprycebrooks.substack.com🎧 Sleep Paralysis News Podcast: Available on all major platforms❤️ Support the work: https://donorbox.org/support-the-work-of-dr-sheila-pryce-brooksFollow for Insights & UpdatesInstagram: @sleepparalysis_spbTwitter/X: @sprycebrooksTikTok: @sleepparalysisnewsYouTube: @sheilaprycebrooks

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:Ancestral and intergenerational knowledgeEmbodied spirituality and lived experienceSound, vibration, and consciousnessCultural perspectives on altered and liminal statesRethinking 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.🔔 Subscribe for weekly conversations exploring sleep paralysis, consciousness, and extraordinary human experience. Interested in contributing to the conversation?Sleep Paralysis News — Connect & ContributeDo you experience sleep paralysis?Take the short quiz to explore how your experiences relate to sleep paralysis and threshold states: Find out hereShare Your ExperienceIf you have lived experience of sleep paralysis or related threshold contact experiences, or professional insight into altered or liminal states, you’re welcome to get in touch. Email: [email protected] Dr Sheila Pryce BrooksDr 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.Learn More🌐 Website: https://www.sheilaprycebrooks.com📰 Substack: https://sheilaprycebrooks.substack.com🎧 Sleep Paralysis News Podcast: Available on all major platforms❤️ Support the work: https://donorbox.org/support-the-work-of-dr-sheila-pryce-brooksFollow for Insights & UpdatesInstagram: @sleepparalysis_spbTwitter/X: @sprycebrooksTikTok: @sleepparalysisnewsYouTube: @sheilaprycebrooks

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.Sleep Paralysis News — Connect & ContributeTake the QuizDo you experience sleep paralysis? Find out HERE Share Your ExperienceWould you be willing to speak or write about your sleep paralysis or threshold contact experience?Email: [email protected] DR SHEILA PRYCE BROOKSI am a researcher, author, and experiencer redefining sleep paralysis through the Threshold Contact Experience framework. My work bridges science, spirituality, and consciousness studies to provide an accurate understanding and practical support for those navigating these states.For more:🌐 Website – https://www.sheilaprycebrooks.com📰 Substack – https://sheilaprycebrooks.substack.com🎧 Sleep Paralysis News Podcast – available on all platforms❤️ Support the work – https://donorbox.org/support-the-work-of-dr-sheila-pryce-brooksFollow for Insights & UpdatesInstagram: @sleepparalysis_spbTwitter/X: @sprycebrooksTikTok: @sleepparalysisnewsYouTube: @sheilaprycebrooks

Sleep Paralysis News — Connect & ContributeTake the QuizDo you experience sleep paralysis? Find out HERE Share Your ExperienceWould you be willing to speak or write about your sleep paralysis or threshold contact experience?Email: [email protected] the Weekly NewsletterReceive insights on Sleep Paralysis, Threshold Contact, Spiritual Experience & Science.https://sheilaprycebrooks.substack.comSupport the PodcastIf this podcast resonates with you, you can offer support here:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sprycebrooksExplore the Websitehttps://www.sheilaprycebrooks.comFollow for Insights & UpdatesInstagram: @sleepparalysis_spbTwitter/X: @sprycebrooksTikTok: @sleepparalysisnewsYouTube: @sheilaprycebrooks

What if sleep paralysis is not a disorder, but an invitation?In this illuminating episode, Sheila speaks with Cynthia Sue Larson, consciousness researcher and author of Quantum Jumps, to explore the deeper layers of Threshold Contact Experiences (TCEs). Together, they investigate the overlap between sleep states, non-human intelligences, and quantum awareness, revealing why fear is often the gateway, not the end.Whether you’re a seeker, scientist, or silent experiencer, this dialogue offers new language and frameworks for understanding what’s truly happening in the liminal spaces of night.Sleep Paralysis News — Connect & ContributeTake the QuizDo you experience sleep paralysis? Find out HERE Share Your ExperienceWould you be willing to speak or write about your sleep paralysis or threshold contact experience?Email: [email protected] the Weekly NewsletterReceive insights on Sleep Paralysis, Threshold Contact, Spiritual Experience & Science.https://sheilaprycebrooks.substack.comSupport the PodcastIf this work resonates with you, you can offer support here:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sprycebrooksExplore the Websitehttps://www.sheilaprycebrooks.comFollow for Insights & UpdatesInstagram: @sleepparalysis_spbTwitter/X: @sprycebrooksTikTok: @sleepparalysisnewsYouTube: @sheilaprycebrooks

Pinky shares her personal experiences, including her struggles with waking up from deep sleep and the terrifying feeling of being trapped in her own body. The discussion covers dream loops, lucid dreaming, and the profound connection between consciousness and sleep. The conversation also explores the spiritual and psychological aspects of sleep paralysis, offering insights into the mysterious world of sleep and its impact on mental and emotional health.* Do you experience sleep paralysis quiz: HERE * Would you speak/put your sleep paralysis experience in writing for the show? If yes, email [email protected].* Have a Weekly Newsletter delivered to your inbox that illuminates the connection between Spirituality, Spiritual Experiences, Sleep Paralysis and the Science that connects them.* Donate to Sleep Paralysis News: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sprycebrooks* Visit the website: https://www.sheilaprycebrooks.com* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sleepparalysis_spb/* Twitter: https://twitter.com/sprycebrooks* TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sleepparalysisnews* YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sheilaprycebrooks/podcasts

In this episode of Sleep Paralysis News, the hosts speak to Josh, who shares his lifelong experiences with sleep paralysis, starting from age 10. He recounts his initial terrifying episode, describing a suffocating weight and the inability to move or call for help. Over the years, Josh experienced around a dozen episodes, some accompanied by vivid auditory hallucinations and even out-of-body experiences. A notable episode involved feeling a light sensation and floating out of his body, offering a profound realisation about consciousness beyond the physical realm. Despite the fear, Josh has found peace with these experiences, viewing them as affirmations of a spiritual existence. He emphasises the importance of discussing sleep paralysis to reduce fear and isolation, advocating for a broader understanding of this mysterious phenomenon.* Do you experience sleep paralysis quiz: HERE * Would you speak/put your sleep paralysis experience in writing for the show? If yes, email [email protected].* Have a Weekly Newsletter delivered to your inbox that illuminates the connection between Spirituality, Spiritual Experiences, Sleep Paralysis and the Science that connects them.* Donate to Sleep Paralysis News: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sprycebrooks* Visit the website: https://www.sheilaprycebrooks.com* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sleepparalysis_spb/* Twitter: https://twitter.com/sprycebrooks* TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sleepparalysisnews* YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sheilaprycebrooks/podcasts

Dive into the unexpected and mysterious world of sleep paralysis with our latest podcast video.This gripping episode delves into one person's journey through the terror of being paralysed and haunted by shadowy figures, to life-altering spiritual encounters, including a poignant visitation from his late father. Through his story, we discover how these seemingly terrifying episodes transitioned into opportunities for profound connections with the spirit realm and a deeper communion with departed loved ones. Join us on this episode that expands the boundaries of our understanding of the unseen world around us.* Do you experience sleep paralysis quiz: HERE * Would you speak/put your sleep paralysis experience in writing for the show? If yes, email [email protected].* Have a Weekly Newsletter delivered to your inbox that illuminates the connection between Spirituality, Spiritual Experiences, Sleep Paralysis and the Science that connects them.* Donate to Sleep Paralysis News: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sprycebrooks* Visit the website: https://www.sheilaprycebrooks.com* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sleepparalysis_spb/* Twitter: https://twitter.com/sprycebrooks* TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sleepparalysisnews* YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sheilaprycebrooks/podcasts