Des corps fantômes aux corps imaginés Entre Afrique et Europe : l'unité cognitive des réponses culturelles à la paralysie du sommeil dans leur anthro
FROM PHANTOM BODIES TO IMAGINARY BODIES

Summary/Abstract: Unlike biodiversity, cultural anthropodiversity will remain the stepchild in preservation actions. But if many phantom bodies like the two focussed here – Bantu Tokoloshe for South Africa and Chauche-vieille for Romance speaking parts of Switzerland and France – are more remote than bipedalism in our neural heritage as homeotherms, the core of their imaginarium is not at all endangered. For they epiphanize in a specific, fairly prevalent, dissociated state of the brain, sleep paralysis; and neurostimulation has now been able to account for the two main components occurring as conscious experiences: Out-of-Body perspective and more recently Alien Presence Sensed from Self Shadowing… Unless narcoleptic medication or precise neuron control becomes available to anybody who wanted to prevent definitely any intrusion of ”the terror that comes in the night”.

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