# The Demon On Your Chest- The Science Of Sleep Paralysis Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-occult-rejects-4241641/the-demon-on-your-chest-the-science-of-sleep-paralysis Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-occult-rejects-4241641/the-demon-on-your-chest-the-science-of-sleep-paralysis.md Podcast: [The Occult Rejects](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-occult-rejects-4241641) Published: 2026-07-24T22:10:02+00:00 Episode link: https://www.youtube.com/@TheOccultRejects Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72859537/sleep_paralysis_audio.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-occult-rejects-4241641/episodes/the-demon-on-your-chest-the-science-of-sleep-paralysis Duration seconds: 4092 ## Resource If you enjoy this episode, we’re sure you will enjoy more content like this on The Occult Rejects. In fact, we have curated playlists on occult topics like grimoires, esoteric concepts and phenomena, occult history, analyzing true crime and cults with an occult lens, Para politics, and occultism in music. Whether you enjoy consuming your content visually or via audio, we’ve got you covered - and it will always be provided free of charge. So, if you enjoy what we do and want to support our work of providing accessible, free content on various platforms, please consider making a donation to the links provided below. Thank you and enjoy the episode! Links For The Occult Rejects https://linktr.ee/theoccultrejects Occult Research Institute https://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/ Substack https://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Cash App https://cash.app/$theoccultrejects Venmo @TheOccultRejects Buy Me A Coffee buymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejects Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects Core Sleep Paralysis Science Sharpless, Brian A., and Jacques P. Barber. “Lifetime Prevalence Rates of Sleep Paralysis: A Systematic Review.” Sleep Medicine Reviews 15, no. 5 (2011): 311–315. Sharpless, Brian A. “A Clinician’s Guide to Recurrent Isolated Sleep Paralysis.” Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 12 (2016): 1761–1767. Cheyne, J. Allan, Steve D. Rueffer, and Ian R. Newby-Clark. “Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations during Sleep Paralysis: Neurological and Cultural Construction of the Night-Mare.” Consciousness and Cognition 8, no. 3 (1999): 319–337. Cheyne, J. Allan. “Sleep Paralysis and the Structure of Waking-Nightmare Hallucinations.” Dreaming 13, no. 3 (2003): 163–179. Cheyne, J. Allan. “Situational Facto… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-occult-rejects-4241641/episodes/the-demon-on-your-chest-the-science-of-sleep-paralysis/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-occult-rejects-4241641/the-demon-on-your-chest-the-science-of-sleep-paralysis.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.