Thread: Sleep Paralysis Demystified

^^ As Mzzkc notes above, Sivason, your knowledge, experience and abilities are virtually unique here. So too I think are your expectations. This matters a lot with subjects like SP.

You may be able, from experience alone, to parse various "SP's," and prepare your expectations accordingly, but the vast majority of viewers here can not -- or rather choose not to do so. Just count views on a SP thread as opposed to one that really matters like Zot00's recent post: SP threads, and all their requisite amazing (and usually incorrect) claims are viewed by an order of magnitude greater than thoughtful balanced threads like Zoth00's. The mythology of SP has eclipsed nearly every other subject on this site (and others), which says a lot about the successful hyping of a bit of noise that successful LD'ers seem to consistently shrug off; it also throws up a serious caveat to those wishing to redefine it. Better I think to just leave it lie.

Nuance doesn't matter here. What you say is sensible, I think, but it doesn't help, given your audience: Define SP more ways, and you only elevate the importance of the single greatest distraction in LD'ing among those who learn about it here. It doesn't matter if what you say is correct -- your words will not only be taken out of context, but added to the existing SP lexicon -- and thick bibles are all the more impressive, whether they're ever opened or not.

Originally Posted by Mzzkc

I've done what I can.

No, Mzzkc, you can do more. And will. Many of us are counting on that...