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My research and publications explore sleep paralysis, anomalous experience and consciousness, with a particular focus on experiences that extend beyond conventional accounts of sleep paralysis. This work includes my doctoral research and the development of the Threshold Contact Experience (TCE) framework, alongside publications and ongoing research into the wider dimensions of anomalous experience.
Sleep Paralysis and Anomalous Experience
Psi Encyclopedia | Society for Psychical Research | SPR
An overview of sleep paralysis and its relationship with anomalous experiences, including sensed presence, apparitional encounters and out-of-body experiences. The entry also introduces Threshold Contact Experience (TCE) as an emerging framework for examining the wider phenomenology of sleep paralysis.
Read the full article – official Psi Encyclopedia entry.
Managing the phenomenology of sleep paralysis: re-evaluating theories and challenging conventional understanding
PhD in Sociology | University of York
My doctoral research explored the lived experience of sleep paralysis through qualitative interviews and long-term autoethnographic research. It examined the complexity of the experience beyond bodily paralysis, including its sensory, embodied and anomalous dimensions. The research provides an important foundation for my subsequent work on Threshold Contact Experience.
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My current research develops the Threshold Contact Experience (TCE) framework as a way of examining recurring patterns within sleep paralysis and related anomalous experiences.
The work focuses on five core features: Presence, Interaction, Environment, Agency and Memory Carryover, while exploring their wider implications for the study of consciousness and anomalous experience.
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