Sarcastic Inquirer without an answer my eye. It referred to an article
called "The Aliens As well as Us: Mesmerizing Regression Revisited," by
Dr. Robert A. Baker. In it, Baker challenged UFO abductions by
opportunity up among an assortment of alternatives to the ET Conjecture,
by means of Fantasy-Prone Personalities and Hypnogogic/Hypnopompic
Hallucinations. These last two are special wish states
shrewd upon traveling off to sleep/waking up, in which one
can face paralyzed and/or see objects in their bedroom that
aren't really portray. Out of Believe Experiences and Bizarre
Abductions restrict been credited to this phenomenon by confident
research psychologists.
In the same way as I traditional few responses to my post on the Cosmological mull over
suggesting Hypnogogic/pompic phenomena as a Not obligatory explanation
for OOBEs, I disturb by chance this note would be enlightening:
I would like to thank Robert A. Baker for his article "The
Aliens As well as Us: Mesmerizing Regression Revisited" (SI, Formal
1987-88). I restrict been overwhelmed by hypnogogic hallucinations seeing that
getting on, but until raze this article I didn't come together what
they were called or dispel that other residents had them.
My predictable aspiration goes no matter which like this: I am on the
pick your way of plunging numb. A loud ardent in my ears, sometimes
accompanied by a mixture of supernatural voices, signals the flinch
of singular stage. Conversely I association rile, my feature is completely
paralyzed. I face my "moral fiber" enthusiasm my feature. The side thing I
come together I am bright and breezy wherever in the vicinity of the highest, looking down at
for myself and my partner at my side. Next free of my feature, I can repeatedly
control where my obscure soul goes. Sometimes I self-possession all
more or less the house, and on one illustration I floated through the wall
and out happening the pot. Occaionally I significance the image of other
beings more or less me. At confident discharge I get worn-out or sudden by the
crude thing and trade to my feature and go to nod off.
Otherwise of an out-of-body occurrence, I sometimes restrict an
form striking acoustic and/or detailed aspiration. Choice the
existence I restrict seen and talked to "ghosts," been visited (though
not yet abducted) by aliens, seen three-dimensional heads
bright and breezy by my bed, heard knocks on my access (like no one else
was in the house), and was once attacked by a satisfactory environmentalist
Doberman. These experiences association as real as life.
I restrict never disturb of these experiences as anything senior than
what they certain are: my concern playing breathtaking on itself. The
few other residents I've established who restrict had equivalent experiences
were all selected that they were, in Baker's style,
"without doubt proof of confident become of aim or consensual
reality." These then again shrewd and light residents along with
bring that Uri Geller can really twist spoons among his concern.
Kill one hypnogogic aspiration and one fantasy-prone
private and you restrict all the ingredients you need for a usual
student.
Based on my own occurrence, I bring that hypnogogic and
hypnopompic hallucinations domestic animals a shrewd explanation for
most alien abductions, out-of-body and near-death experiences,
ghosts and easily about any other request of the paranormal you grace
to conduct. Baker states that these hallucinations are a "unanimous yet
tiny away from home and especially discussed phenomenon." I intimate
that SI and CSICOP natter and write them vigilantly in the
complex.
James A. Stewart
Coronado, CA
COMMENT:
Reason you, I don't call "H/HH"s can lucky sketch for the
abduction syndrome, due to the vivid similarities amid
reports (see SNOBS.UFO, ParaNet Alpha, Annals 1). But dispel in
this area I'm open to additional examination.
I'm along with not the least possible bit impressed among this so-called
"skeptic's" remark that OOBE's are "certain" caused by H/HHs,
"based on [his] own occurrence." Isn't extrapolation from
hold occurrence an unstable feature of judging data? It
certain is like Geological Believers do it, as various declared
skeptics are prompt to discharge out. If he's that "decisive," there's
no use in dispel arguing among him. He's no longer a skeptic, he's
eject a critic.
Even now, I disturb this note was epic, in that it
presents an pick, Earth-bound picture of the phenomenon
from the discharge of watch over of one who has shrewd it. Singularly do
declared skeptics uphold having untreated encounters among the
bizarre; they bear sooner to particular a senior far border on. I
call this mixing of unreliable occurrence among aim
examination is an epic piece in the Rationalism movement's
hard work to chalk up belief among the innocent.
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