I know sleep paralysis happens because the brain gets disconnected from controlling the body, so as to minimize taking in action in the real world based on the dream (but sometimes we notice, or there's otherwise a glitch) But there must be some similar paralysis of the gullibility part of the brain; the part of our heads that says "no, that's just weird and wacky" is weirdly suppressed.
Just read that today is kind of a palindrome 6 10 2016