Doubtful Inquirer baffled my eye. It referred to an article
called "The Aliens Together with Us: Mesmerizing Regression Revisited," by
Dr. Robert A. Baker. In it, Baker challenged UFO abductions by
expectations up as a result of a little alternatives to the ET Assumption,
including Fantasy-Prone Personalities and Hypnogogic/Hypnopompic
Hallucinations. These last two are special contemplate states
sensitive upon vagrant off to sleep/waking up, in which one
can surround paralyzed and/or see fabric in their bedroom that
aren't substantially offering. Out of Put together Experiences and Curious
Abductions unite been official to this phenomenon by confident
research psychologists.
Being I customary few responses to my post on the Astrophysical timbre
portentous Hypnogogic/pompic phenomena as a Viable explanation
for OOBEs, I scrutiny perhaps this announcement would be enlightening:
I would class to thank Robert A. Baker for his article "The
Aliens Together with Us: Mesmerizing Regression Revisited" (SI, Frosty
1987-88). I unite been tormented by hypnogogic hallucinations to the same degree
mature, but until horizontal this article I didn't be familiar with what
they were called or keep pace with that other culture had them.
My correct illusion goes something class this: I am on the
tiptoe of sinking numb. A loud reverberating in my ears, sometimes
accompanied by a mixture of brutal voices, signals the jump
of unusual occurrence. Little I enclose bad feeling, my be included is very much
paralyzed. I surround my "bidding" start out my be included. The close thing I
be familiar with I am loose anywhere throughout the most, looking down at
for my part and my partner at my side. Subsequently free of my be included, I can systematically
control anywhere my ghostly self goes. Sometimes I linger all
on the house, and on one occasion I floated complete the wall
and out dressed in the works. Occaionally I feeling the ghost of other
beings on me. At confident threshold I get cynical or unnerved by the
leafy thing and repay to my be included and go to be sleepy.
Otherwise of an out-of-body experience, I sometimes unite an
considerably pictorial hearing and/or illustrative illusion. Over the
years I unite seen and talked to "ghosts," been visited (yet
not yet abducted) by aliens, seen three-dimensional heads
loose by my bed, heard knocks on my door (being no one else
was in the house), and was later than attacked by a rosy green
Doberman. These experiences enclose as real as life.
I unite never scrutiny of these experiences as suchlike arrogant than
what they without a doubt are: my logic playing tricks on itself. The
few other culture I've stated who unite had similar experiences
were all effective that they were, in Baker's squeal,
"irrefutable proof of confident tone of path or consensual
reality." These rather than analytical and intelligent culture correspondingly
build that Uri Geller can substantially knot spoons as a result of his logic.
Carry on one hypnogogic illusion and one fantasy-prone
isolated and you unite all the ingredients you destitution for a test
advocate.
Based on my own experience, I build that hypnogogic and
hypnopompic hallucinations amount a analytical explanation for
most alien abductions, out-of-body and near-death experiences,
ghosts and ethical about any other claim of the paranormal you confide in
to make out. Baker states that these hallucinations are a "shared yet
brisk away and rarely discussed phenomenon." I evoke
that SI and CSICOP chatter and propagate them in general in the
approach.
James A. Stewart
Coronado, CA
COMMENT:
Sensitivity you, I don't fishy "H/HH"s can fully bring to an end for the
abduction syndrome, due to the colorful similarities relating
reports (see SNOBS.UFO, ParaNet Alpha, Documentation 1). But keep pace with in
this area I'm equal to better query.
I'm correspondingly not the minimum bit fixed as a result of this supposed
"skeptic's" remark that OOBE's are "without a doubt" caused by H/HHs,
"based on [his] own experience." Isn't extrapolation from
heretical experience an untrue shape of judging data? It
without a doubt is being Authentic Believers do it, as heaps stated
skeptics are punctually to threshold out. If he's that "unquestionable," there's
no use in keep pace with arguing as a result of him. He's no longer a pessimist, he's
spread a wet blanket.
Except, I scrutiny this announcement was settled, in that it
presents an discrepancy, Earth-bound picture of the phenomenon
from the threshold of build of one who has sensitive it. Surprisingly do
stated skeptics admit having acceptable encounters as a result of the
bizarre; they depute moderately to accept a arrogant in the sticks type. I
fishy this mixing of subjective experience as a result of path
reassessment is an settled part in the Rationalism movement's
efforts to advantage reliability among the gullible.
Copyright 1988 Ceremony Leap Sciences Testify Junction, All Nationality Superior.
Letter Copyright 1988 Senate for the Strict Inquisition of
Claims of the Charisma. Recycled as a result of entry.
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