Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks

23/09/2025

Crossing it requires stillness, not struggle.

This is one of the hardest lessons. When you surrender the fight, you receive the invitation. The experience softens. The threshold opens.

18/09/2025

It is easy to frame such moments only as attacks. But what happens if we ask: What is fear during sleep paralysis guarding?

This threshold is not for the mind alone. It is for the whole being. Sometimes the grotesque figure is the guardian at the gate.

— Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks

16/09/2025

What happened that night wasn’t random.

There’s a deeper pattern in sleep paralysis, and in all Threshold Contact Experiences. Patterns of fear, presence, recognition. When we track them, a map begins to form.

11/09/2025

The experiencer recognises the presence.
The presence recognises that they are recognised.

This is the moment when the threshold opens — and contact becomes relational. It is not random. It is not always hostile. It is a knowing.

— Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks

09/09/2025

It is easy to frame such moments only as attacks. But what happens if we ask: What is fear guarding?

Sometimes the grotesque is a doorway. Sometimes the struggle is the signal. The fear you feel may be a boundary — or an invitation.

— Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks

04/09/2025

Fear was always the threshold.

This line echoes through nearly every Threshold Contact (Sleep Paralysis) Experience I've studied. Fear doesn't just block us — it *marks the crossing*. When we stop resisting and start witnessing, everything changes.

— Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks

18/07/2025

Between Sleep and Contact
Today closes the 5-day series with an integration reflection and a short audio voice recording for paid subscribers.

If you’ve followed the sequence, thank you.

This is just the beginning.

You can read Day 5 — and access the bonus audio — here: https://buff.ly/f6O6nv2

16/07/2025

Between Sleep and Contact
What does your body already know — even before your mind catches up?

Today we explore how physical sensations in TCEs — vibration, paralysis, pressure — may hold key information about what’s really happening.

You can catch up here: https://buff.ly/PzxJ0zM

14/07/2025

Between Sleep and Contact – Day 1
What if sleep paralysis isn’t a malfunction, but the beginning of contact?

Today’s post introduces the idea of Threshold Contact Experiences (TCEs) — a term for what’s really happening when perception expands in liminal states.

You’re not imagining it. You’re not alone.

Read Day 1 here:https://buff.ly/5PgvHRq

10/07/2025

A 5-day sequence begins Monday:
Between Sleep and Contact.

If you’ve ever woken up unable to move — or felt something was present in the room — this is for you.

We’re creating space for a different kind of conversation: grounded, clear, and free of panic or pathologising.

Posts will arrive daily next week (Mon–Fri). Feel free to share it with someone who needs it.

Read more here:https://buff.ly/EMzlIjU

A free 5-day sequence, exploring night-time paralysis, presence, and the real meaning behind Threshold Contact Experiences. For experiencers, clinicians, and the quietly curious.

07/07/2025

Clarity doesn’t come from thinking harder.
It comes from safety — the kind that lets the body feel what it once had to bury.

Safety is the doorway.
Feeling is the key.
Perception is what follows.

04/07/2025

A new post is now live on Substack: “Not All Dreams Are Dreams.”
This one is personal. It explores the kind of contact that doesn’t come with visions or messages — just a deep body-knowing that something happened.

You don’t have to remember it clearly.
You just have to feel the trace.

Includes a new downloadable tool: the Dream Contact Decoder.
This is the first of its kind, designed to help you map and track these subtle energetic thresholds.

Read + download here: https://buff.ly/oh7L8CC