The House That Returned: A Recurrent Dream, Paralysis, and Felt Presence

About this episode

MJ Smith shares a personal account of a recurring dream involving sleep paralysis and a sense of presence.

In this episode, MJ Smith recounts a recurring dream experienced over several years, centred on repeatedly entering the same house and encountering overwhelming fear, heaviness, and paralysis. The conversation focuses on the lived details of the experience, including the sense of presence without visual form, escalating emotional intensity, and restricted movement, and how the dream eventually stopped. This episode presents the account as described, without interpretation or explanatory overlay. Sleep Paralysis News — Connect & Contribute Do you experience sleep paralysis? Take the short quiz to explore how your experiences relate to sleep paralysis and threshold states: Find out here Share Your Experience If you have lived experience of sleep paralysis or related threshold contact experiences, or professional insight into altered or liminal states, you’re welcome to get in touch. Email: spn@sheilaprycebrooks.com About Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks is a researcher, author, and experiencer reframing sleep paralysis through the Threshold Contact Experience (TCE) framework. Her work bridges science, spirituality, and consciousness studies to offer clearer…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks, Cyrus Richardson

Guest: MJ Smith

Topics covered

• recurring dreams
• sleep paralysis
• emotional intensity
• lived experiences
• threshold states

Keywords

• sleep paralysis
• recurring dream
• emotional intensity
• lived experience
• threshold states

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sleep Paralysis News, Threshold Contact Experience (TCE), sheilaprycebrooks.com, Substack, donorbox.org

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