When Science Meets the Supernatural

Dear Living Dark reader,

Having suffered from traumatizing visionary sleep paralysis attacks for years in my twenties, and having delved deeply into the literature about this phenomenon, I’m nonplussed whenever I read things like the following, which comes from a recent article in The Wall Street Journal titled “If Not Demons, What Causes Sleep Paralysis?” (Note: It’s behind a paywall.)

We know the temporoparietal junction uses touch and feedback so that your brain can figure out where your body i...