In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Baland Jalal. Baland is a researcher in the department of psychiatry at Cambridge University. He obtained his PhD at the Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine and was previously a Fellow at Harvard University. His research focuses on sleep paralysis and he recently designed one of the first ever treatments for sleep paralysis called meditation-relaxation therapy. Along with VS Ramachandran, he has proposed a neuroscientific account for why people see ghosts during sleep paralysis. The Telegraph Described him as "one of the world's leading experts on sleep paralysis".

The discussion mainly focus on Sleep Paralysis, its causes and its treatment as well as the science of dreaming.


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Host: Junior Okoroafor, Twitter: @JJStyles12, Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/junior-okoroafor-4b8069193/
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