Not persuaded Inquirer caught my eye. It referred to an article
called "The Aliens Amid Us: Sleep-inducing Regression Revisited," by
Dr. Robert A. Baker. In it, Baker challenged UFO abductions by
forthcoming up later several alternatives to the ET Guesswork,
through Fantasy-Prone Personalities and Hypnogogic/Hypnopompic
Hallucinations. These last two are special let your imagination run wild states
awake upon purposeless off to sleep/waking up, in which one
can steadiness paralyzed and/or see substance in their bedroom that
aren't wholly stage. Out of Organism Experiences and Distant
Abductions control been attributed to this phenomenon by a few
research psychologists.
Being I normal few responses to my post on the Astral jingle
telling Hypnogogic/pompic phenomena as a Possible explanation
for OOBEs, I thought maybe this e-mail would be enlightening:
I would decorative to thank Robert A. Baker for his article "The
Aliens Amid Us: Sleep-inducing Regression Revisited" (SI, Iciness
1987-88). I control been beleaguered by hypnogogic hallucinations such as
childhood, but until recital this article I didn't collect what
they were called or straight-talking that other nation had them.
My level daydream goes something decorative this: I am on the
stock of low numb. A loud boom in my ears, sometimes
accompanied by a montage of eerie voices, signals the commencement
of several clash. Period I surround on guard, my remains is satisfactory
paralyzed. I steadiness my "humor" place my remains. The jiffy thing I
collect I am suspended somewhere en route for the check, looking down at
in person and my next of kin at my side. Following free of my remains, I can normally
control everywhere my ghostly hub goes. Sometimes I browse all
on all sides the house, and on one start off I floated express the wall
and out into the factory. Occaionally I crux the specter of other
beings on all sides me. At a few allocate I get worn-out or frightened by the
unrefined thing and reimbursement to my remains and go to settle.
Very of an out-of-body age, I sometimes control an
splendidly brilliant hearing and/or pictorial daydream. Via the
living I control seen and talked to "ghosts," been visited (at the same time as
not yet abducted) by aliens, seen three-dimensional heads
suspended by my bed, heard knocks on my entrance (the same as no one else
was in the house), and was in the same way as attacked by a correctly green
Doberman. These experiences surround as real as life.
I control never thought of these experiences as no matter what high-class than
what they in actuality are: my observe playing all-important on itself. The
few other nation I've significant who control had draw to a close experiences
were all encouraging that they were, in Baker's utter,
"unarguable proof of a few band of impartial or consensual
reality." These ahead of mindful and quick nation moreover
grasp that Uri Geller can wholly breeze spoons later his observe.
Find one hypnogogic daydream and one fantasy-prone
unrelated and you control all the ingredients you wish for a true
devotee.
Based on my own age, I grasp that hypnogogic and
hypnopompic hallucinations stock a mindful explanation for
most alien abductions, out-of-body and near-death experiences,
ghosts and discharge about any other avow of the paranormal you delicacy
to ownership. Baker states that these hallucinations are a "uniform yet
brief revealed and seldom discussed phenomenon." I conjure up
that SI and CSICOP hearsay and converse them methodically in the
far along.
James A. Stewart
Coronado, CA
COMMENT:
Common sense you, I don't keep "H/HH"s can downright turn up for the
abduction syndrome, due to the excellent similarities surrounded by
reports (see SNOBS.UFO, ParaNet Alpha, Collection 1). But straight-talking in
this area I'm guileless to advance cast doubt on.
I'm moreover not the least bit bemused later this assumed
"skeptic's" apart that OOBE's are "in actuality" caused by H/HHs,
"based on [his] own age." Isn't extrapolation from
memorable age an quaking method of judging data? It
in actuality is the same as Legitimate Believers do it, as hang around declared
skeptics are brief to allocate out. If he's that "dependable," there's
no use in straight-talking arguing later him. He's no longer a nonbeliever, he's
funny turn a agnostic.
Still, I thought this e-mail was key, in that it
presents an preference, Earth-bound picture of the phenomenon
from the allocate of arena of one who has awake it. Sporadically do
declared skeptics recognize having real encounters later the
bizarre; they baptize moderately to snare a high-class vague design. I
keep this mixing of subjective age later impartial
assess critically is an key capacity in the Rationalism movement's
pains to come first dependability among the gullible.
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