Succubi/incubi and the alien abduction phenomenon point to hypnagogia, and evo-psych explanations of anthropomorphic cognition are often washed down with arguments that anthropomorphism causes good enough decisions while being technically completely false; there’s an old comment by JenniferRM talking about how surprisingly useful albeit wrong it would be to model pathogens as evil spirits.
Succubi/incubi and the alien abduction phenomenon point to hypnagogia, and evo-psych explanations of anthropomorphic cognition are often washed down with arguments that anthropomorphism causes good enough decisions while being technically completely false; there’s an old comment by JenniferRM talking about how surprisingly useful albeit wrong it would be to model pathogens as evil spirits.