I’m sure he knows what sleep paralysis is. And that’s why he feels like he can make those claims. Should anything come of it, he can fall back to: “I don’t know, you’re probally right, it could be sleep paralysis.”
People like him keep up with the nonsense the fringe is chattering about and into just so he can integrate it into his “down to earth, just like you” personality. Same thing has been happening with the UAP topic.
I think some people pay waaay too much attention to instances. I never pay attention to it and these groupings never surface for me. It’s all just Lemmy for me.