Ashley McMullen

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1,095 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2020 last heard May 2023

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The Nocturnists · Visions and Voices with Emily Silverman, MD · 4 May 2023 podcast

Is this something that you've experienced often?

I've only heard more about sleep paralysis in the context of certain sleep medications or people who've been sleep deprived for a while.

How have you experienced it?

It's happened for me, I think I can recall maybe one time.

It was actually pretty frightening, something that I actually never wanted to experience again.

And it didn't help having certain medical shows on cable networks talking about people who awake during anesthesia.

So in my mind, it kind of coalesces into this very kind of frightening, disturbing experience.

But it seems like for you, you're able to at least distance yourself from the experience and not be so overwhelmed or frightened by it.

I love these opportunities to kind of pull ourselves outside of some of the rigidity around scientific thinking and really appreciate just like the awe and mystery and wonder of what it means to live in this conscious body.

Before we touch more on that, I actually want to dig a little bit into the dream that you had in medical school.

As you're describing this man in the bowler hat and his silhouette just staring at you, that to me actually felt like a bit of a horror movie.

I find it equally enthralling that you decided to actually Google this image years after the fact.

How did you decide to do that?

And what were you thinking about this image, this man when he first appeared in that dream in medical school?

or whatever.

Yeah.

I mean, I definitely can resonate with that theory.

At the same time, I'm pro supernatural, like weird stuff happening that we can't explain.

Admittedly, I had to Google what a bowler hat actually looks like because I don't see a lot of people that I know walking around with one.

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