Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks

26/11/2025

These experiences are relational, not random, not imagined.

There is an intelligence there: responsive, aware, interacting.

For too long, sleep paralysis has been studied only through the lens of neurology and fear. It’s time we looked beyond the paralysis to what is actually communicating.

This is where the next frontier of consciousness research begins.

— Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks

24/11/2025

Fear is often the first threshold — the initiation that asks us to pause, breathe, and see what lies beneath.

When fear dissolves, the intelligence behind the experience, whether we call it presence, contact, or consciousness, begins to reveal itself.

For many experiencers, this is the moment the journey truly begins.

— Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks

21/11/2025

Sleep paralysis is not the whole story. It’s the doorway.”

Beyond the paralysis lies an entire spectrum of experience: contact, awareness, communication, transformation.

When we begin to explore what happens next, the conversation shifts from fear to understanding, from isolation to meaning.

The doorway isn’t the end of the experience, it’s the beginning of a new kind of dialogue between human and non-human intelligence.

— Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks

18/11/2025

We are long past the point where sleep paralysis can be dismissed as a disorder.

What people are experiencing is far more complex — a threshold where consciousness, perception, and intelligence converge.

These encounters invite us to expand our understanding of what it means to be awake, to be human, and to be in contact.

14/11/2025

“Once that threshold is crossed, a range of phenomena can unfold.”

For some, this means out-of-body experiences, dialogue with non-human intelligences, or a sudden opening of psychic and intuitive capacities.

What happens beyond sleep paralysis isn’t just neurological — it’s relational, conscious, and transformative.

Every experiencer describes it differently, but one pattern remains: no one returns unchanged.

— Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks

11/11/2025

Once the threshold is crossed, contact begins. Not imagined, but relational.

We’ve outgrown the old label “sleep paralysis.”
What people are describing are intelligent, interactive experiences that bridge consciousness, perception, and something greater than self.

What if these moments weren’t symptoms, but signals — glimpses of the next layer of being human?

— Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks

07/11/2025

Coincidence isn’t always random.
Sometimes, it’s the first language of contact, the moment intelligence begins to move through pattern, timing, and repetition.

What if the signs that follow you aren’t chance, but signal?
What if they’re part of the same field that later becomes presence?

Read the full post — When Coincidence Becomes Contact — on Substack:
https://sheilaprycebrooks.substack.com/p/when-coincidence-becomes-contact?r=zdvcq

05/11/2025

“The people I work with aren’t asking whether these experiences are real. They’re asking what to do with the fact that they are.”

This is where my work begins, after the threshold has already been crossed.

Those who’ve experienced sleep paralysis or contact know: you can’t go back. What was once dismissed as dream or imagination reveals itself as something profoundly real.

Read the full post: Beyond the Spiritual Comfort Zone: https://sheilaprycebrooks.substack.com/p/beyond-the-spiritual-comfort-zone

03/11/2025

The Threshold has entered new territory.

I recently joined Jeffrey Mishlove on New Thinking Allowed to discuss the evolution of sleep paralysis research, the Threshold Contact Experience, and what happens when the scientific and spiritual worlds begin to meet.

It was a rich, grounded conversation, one that signals a shift in how these experiences are understood.

Watch the full interview here:
https://youtu.be/TwxgCpdPcqE

I’m deeply grateful to Jeffrey for opening this dialogue and to everyone helping expand the conversation around contact, consciousness, and human transformation.

Dr. Sheila Pryce Brooks received her doctoral degree from the University of York in the United Kingdom, where her dissertation examined the phenomenology of ...

08/10/2025

Crossing the threshold means letting go of frameworks that place the human self at the centre of everything.

This is where many turn back. Not because they haven’t glimpsed more, but because going further threatens too much. If you’ve crossed, you know.

03/10/2025

On one side lies accepted practice. On the other side lies contact.

Most people stop at meditation, energy work, or intuition. Few cross into the real encounters that unfold in sleep paralysis and Threshold Contact Experiences (TCEs).

If you’ve crossed that line, you know nothing is ever the same again.

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02/10/2025

Coincidence isn’t always random. Sometimes it’s the first language of contact.

Across many reports — and in my own research — repeating numbers, dream bleed-throughs, and uncanny timings often precede sleep paralysis and other altered states.

In my new essay, I explore how coincidence can act as a bridge to deeper experiences.

Coincidence isn’t always random. Sometimes, it’s the first language of contact. In this essay, I explore how repeating patterns and synchronicities can intersect with Threshold Contact Experiences (TCEs), including sleep paralysis.