One of the delights of using feedbin and collecting rss feeds is that things like Dr. Elenaor Janega’s wonderful Going Medieval appear among the usual news BS that is usually so utterly repetitive.
The good Dr she is not: Her writing is wonderful, and the choice of topics is adding an interesting context towards all sorts of things.
Recently she wrote about 45s favorite doctor.
How people have interpreted their sleep problems in the past and what kind of stories they conjured up around it is immensely interesting. I think that much of what has been projected into the existence of incubi and succubi is caused by good old sleep paralysis. That and then cultural issues around sexuality. Young devoted Christian men wake up with boners, much like other people. But depending on your moral compass that you like to use during day hours you need to construct some kind of explanation. People being people those can be truly bizarre. Our imagination does not have boundaries in the respect on how far it can venture into outlandish possibilities. While in the same time ignoring 99.9% of all aspects of the nearest and most plausible explanation. We’d rather think about Alien DNA.