Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks

Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks I'm on a journey, exploring sleep paralysis as a spiritual and transcendental experience, bridging the gap between science, spirituality, and consciousness.

There is a strong assumption that dreams and sleep paralysis are fundamentally different experiences.In practice, that d...
15/04/2026

There is a strong assumption that dreams and sleep paralysis are fundamentally different experiences.

In practice, that distinction doesn’t always hold.

People report very similar features in both, including interaction, presence, and structured sequences.

What changes is not necessarily the experience itself, but how it is interpreted.

This matters because interpretation shapes how these experiences are studied, discussed, and understood.

Some experiences we call dreams don’t behave like dreams.They repeat, follow structure, and involve interaction.In this ...
09/04/2026

Some experiences we call dreams don’t behave like dreams.

They repeat, follow structure, and involve interaction.

In this week’s Substack post, I begin mapping what I refer to as Dream Contact and how these experiences relate to what is commonly known as sleep paralysis.

This marks the beginning of a new thread within the Threshold Contact Experience framework.

If this resonates, you’re welcome to explore further.
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Dreams and sleep paralysis are typically treated as separate types of experience.However, when you look at how some of t...
08/04/2026

Dreams and sleep paralysis are typically treated as separate types of experience.

However, when you look at how some of these experiences are described, there are clear overlaps.

Certain dream experiences repeat, follow consistent patterns, and involve forms of interaction that feel structured rather than random.

At that point, the distinction between categories becomes less straightforward.

A framework doesn’t create something new.It reveals what was already there.Once patterns become visible, they begin to c...
06/04/2026

A framework doesn’t create something new.

It reveals what was already there.

Once patterns become visible, they begin to change how we understand experience, and how we respond to it.

Before something can be understood, it has to be recognised.And recognition begins with language.
04/04/2026

Before something can be understood, it has to be recognised.

And recognition begins with language.

Not everything that feels unfamiliar is a problem.Sometimes, it’s a sign that our understanding hasn’t caught up yet.
02/04/2026

Not everything that feels unfamiliar is a problem.

Sometimes, it’s a sign that our understanding hasn’t caught up yet.

We often think of the space between sleep and waking as empty.In my experience, it behaves very differently.
31/03/2026

We often think of the space between sleep and waking as empty.

In my experience, it behaves very differently.

Sleep paralysis is often explained as a single condition.But when you look more closely, many of these experiences follo...
28/03/2026

Sleep paralysis is often explained as a single condition.

But when you look more closely, many of these experiences follow a recognisable pattern, across people, contexts, and interpretations.

What’s been missing is not explanation, but structure.

In this week’s post on Substack, I’ve introduced a working framework for what I call Threshold Contact Experience (TCE), outlining the conditions under which these experiences tend to occur.

Rather than asking what the experience means, this begins with what actually happens.

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If you’ve had an experience like this, you may recognise aspects of it immediately.

And if someone in your life has tried to describe something similar, feel free to pass this on.

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This is an important distinction.Not a reinterpretation, but a reclassification.
27/03/2026

This is an important distinction.

Not a reinterpretation, but a reclassification.

It’s not that people don’t understand what they’ve experiencedIt’s that they haven’t had language that holds it.
25/03/2026

It’s not that people don’t understand what they’ve experienced

It’s that they haven’t had language that holds it.

What if we’ve misunderstood the experience, not because it’s unclear, but because the language hasn’t caught up?
23/03/2026

What if we’ve misunderstood the experience, not because it’s unclear, but because the language hasn’t caught up?

Today I published something that feels foundational.A Framework for Threshold Contact Experience For a long time, these ...
20/03/2026

Today I published something that feels foundational.

A Framework for Threshold Contact Experience

For a long time, these experiences have been described as isolated, misunderstood, or reduced to pathology.

This work begins to organise them into a coherent structure.

Not as error.
But as a recognisable form of contact.

If you’ve had experiences that didn’t quite fit the language available to you, this may offer a different way of understanding them.

You’re welcome to read, or simply sit with it.
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