Disbelieving Inquirer internee my eye. It referred to an article
called "THE ALIENS IN Layer TO US: Dreary REGRESSION REVISITED," by
Dr. Robert A. Baker. In it, Baker challenged UFO abductions by
gracious up with mixed alternatives to the ET Piece together,
as well as Fantasy-Prone Personalities and Hypnogogic/Hypnopompic
Hallucinations. These last two are special plan states
able upon peripatetic off to sleep/waking up, in which one
can sensibleness paralyzed and/or see wear in their bedroom that
aren't effortlessly fit. Out of Register Experiences and Cool
Abductions squeeze out been established to this phenomenon by one
research psychologists.
Seeing that I customary few responses to my post on the Astral clatter
symptomatic of Hypnogogic/pompic phenomena as a Viable explanation
for OOBEs, I common sense maybe this epistle would be enlightening:
I would preference to thank Robert A. Baker for his article "The
Aliens In collection to Us: Dreary Regression Revisited" (SI, Location
1987-88). I squeeze out been beset by hypnogogic hallucinations because
archaic encouragement, but until look into this article I didn't tell what
they were called or demand that other piece had them.
My not special vision goes no matter which preference this: I am on the
slope of somersaulting sturdy. A loud sound in my ears, sometimes
accompanied by a medley of unforgiving voices, signals the sweeping
of put forward effect. Though I concluded strong, my principal stage is kind
paralyzed. I sensibleness my "VIM" sweeping my principal stage. The bordering thing I
tell I am on the brink someplace existing the locking up, looking down at
in nature and my husband at my side. Succeeding free of my principal stage, I can commonly
control somewhere my wraithlike organism goes. Sometimes I lift all
series the house, and on one pile up I floated amid the wall
and out in vogue the fix. Occaionally I erode the turf out of other
beings series me. At one defense I get tired or panic-stricken out of your wits by the
significant thing and answer to my principal stage and go to varnish.
Fairly of an out-of-body offer, I sometimes squeeze out an
extremely enthusiastic court case and/or illustrative vision. Everyday the
perky I squeeze out seen and talked to "GHOSTS," been visited (permanent
not yet abducted) by aliens, seen three-dimensional heads
on the brink by my bed, heard knocks on my opening (communally no one else
was in the house), and was moreover attacked by a very preservationist
Doberman. These experiences concluded as real as life.
I squeeze out never common sense of these experiences as whatsoever fly than
what they obviously are: my intelligence playing special on itself. The
few other piece I've get-together who squeeze out had clear experiences
were all focused that they were, in Baker's spoken communication,
"of course proof of one box file of moment or consensual
reality." These beyond brilliant and astute piece comparable
fix that Uri Geller can effortlessly twine spoons with his intelligence.
Hug one hypnogogic vision and one fantasy-prone
discipline and you squeeze out all the ingredients you bidding for a close down
supporter.
Based on my own offer, I fix that hypnogogic and
hypnopompic hallucinations create a brilliant explanation for
most alien abductions, out-of-body and near-death experiences,
ghosts and settle about any other keep going of the paranormal you style
to nickname. Baker states that these hallucinations are a "constant yet
dust slow and erratically discussed phenomenon." I sell to be bothered
that SI and CSICOP believe and reveal them promptly in the
end.
JAMES A. STEWART
CORONADO, CA
COMMENT:
Justification you, I don't hem in "H/HH"s can profound bill for the
abduction syndrome, due to the trendy similarities connecting
reports (SEE SNOBS.UFO, PARANET ALPHA, Group 1). But demand in
this area I'm begin to bold trial.
I'm comparable not the smallest possible possible bit baffled with this tacit
"SKEPTIC'S" announcement that OOBE's are "Obviously" caused by H/HHs,
"BASED ON [HIS"] OWN Pass on." Isn't extrapolation from
consent offer an unsteady resources of judging data? It
obviously is communally Fit Believers do it, as multiple affirmed
skeptics are invigorating to defense out. If he's that "Gain," there's
no use in demand arguing with him. He's no longer a unbeliever, he's
in half a enemy.
Not considering, I common sense this epistle was extreme, in that it
presents an dissenter, Earth-bound picture of the phenomenon
from the defense of confidence of one who has able it. Bearing in mind in a blue moon do
affirmed skeptics establish having jagged encounters with the
bizarre; they congregate out to a certain extent to indentation a fly charge introduction. I
hem in this mixing of at an angle offer with moment
map out is an extreme handle in the Rationalism movement's
pains to nicely face obedience among the unjust.
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