Venom, you have used 'sleep paralysis' in some topics to dismiss paranormal claims.
Sleep paralysis is thought to be a mechanism to prevent sleepwalking, physically acting out one's vivid dreams/hallucinations.
I ask you what is the evolutionary advantage of lying down hallucinating dreams that have no obvious correlation to physical reality in a paralysed state?
Leaving oneself open to attack from predators? How and why did sleep paralysis evolve through natural selection?
Materialists tell us that consciousness is a by product created by physical processes. Here we have materialists now telling us the opposite that sleep paralysis (a physical process) evolved to stop dreams being acted out (a mental process). If paralysing the body evolved to prevent accidents due to sleepwalking, as materialist seem to believe, would it not have been far simpler evolutionary step/advantage just to stop vivid imagination during sleep?
Yet if we take the hypothesis that the brain is a filter of an external consciousness that naturally hallucinates. If consciousness disassociates from the physical body (a sign might be physical paralysis) one would predict the hallucination should increase (and yes sleep paralysis is associated with particularly vivid or lucid dreaming).
So once again 'sleep paralysis' explanation cannot be used to dismiss paranormal claims. One must prove the brain is generating hallucination. Can you do that?
