Yes, actually I agree. I think there are issues of consciousness involved in some dream experiences and that the content isn't necessarily pathological. This has been my issue with my own experiences. I consider them to be in some sense 'real' and the consistency of the content seems to me to validate this conclusion. But if I ask professionals about it they either say they don't know and change the subject, slap a label on it (like 'sleep paralysis') and consider the discussion over, or start talking physiology.

You know, there's a physiology to explain how a person smells a rose. It doesn't explain WHY the rose has fragrance or the meaning of the experience in that moment. Nor does it mean there's no such thing as odors simply because the physiological mechanism can be described.

With sleep paralysis and the contents of sleep paralysis, the question for me is why this mechanism, what is being conveyed, why, why now, why repeatedly?

Sometimes there's no answer, but simply considering the question can put a person in a new frame of mind, a kind of 'reset', and that's not nothing. And we can't say for certain there isn't intent behind it.

There's a bracketing off that occurs with mental illness. Sometimes its a way for society to push away what it doesn't want to see.