Disbelieving Inquirer caught my eye. It referred to an article
called "The Aliens Among Us: Monotonous Regression Revisited," by
Dr. Robert A. Baker. In it, Baker challenged UFO abductions by
coming up plus sundry alternatives to the ET Speculate,
with Fantasy-Prone Personalities and Hypnogogic/Hypnopompic
Hallucinations. These last two are special wish states
grown-up upon roving off to sleep/waking up, in which one
can feeling paralyzed and/or see data in their bedroom that
aren't intensely present-day. Out of Shape Experiences and Extraordinary
Abductions take pleasure in been qualified to this phenomenon by selected
research psychologists.
For instance I conventional few responses to my post on the Lunar manifest
symptomatic of Hypnogogic/pompic phenomena as a Achievable explanation
for OOBEs, I rumored by chance this contact would be enlightening:
I would touch on to thank Robert A. Baker for his article "The
Aliens Among Us: Monotonous Regression Revisited" (SI, Icy
1987-88). I take pleasure in been snowed under by hypnogogic hallucinations to the same degree
elderly, but until analysis this article I didn't cotton on what
they were called or traditional that other humanity had them.
My definitive eyesight goes everything touch on this: I am on the
shore of plummeting under. A loud clanging in my ears, sometimes
accompanied by a variety of ghostly voices, signals the set out
of pristine full stop. Conversely I fjord sleepless, my thing is specifically
paralyzed. I feeling my "living being" hurl my thing. The bordering thing I
cotton on I am drifting anywhere round the highest, looking down at
for myself and my companion at my side. Like free of my thing, I can commonly
control everywhere my ethereal self goes. Sometimes I drift all
re the house, and on one happening I floated fluff the wall
and out in vogue the yard. Occaionally I peak the mischievous spirit of other
beings re me. At selected good I get worn-out or restless by the
ecologically aware thing and profit to my thing and go to catnap.
Somewhat of an out-of-body convene, I sometimes take pleasure in an
tremendously gorgeous acoustic and/or lifelike eyesight. High-class the
being I take pleasure in seen and talked to "ghosts," been visited (even as
not yet abducted) by aliens, seen three-dimensional heads
drifting by my bed, heard knocks on my talk (like no one else
was in the house), and was following attacked by a healthy-looking untreated
Doberman. These experiences fjord as real as life.
I take pleasure in never rumored of these experiences as at all pompous than
what they confidently are: my head playing deceit on itself. The
few other humanity I've customary who take pleasure in had smooth experiences
were all settled that they were, in Baker's speech,
"incontrovertible proof of selected exemplar of high point or consensual
reality." These otherwise available and intelligent humanity likewise
mistrust that Uri Geller can intensely warp spoons plus his head.
Run one hypnogogic eyesight and one fantasy-prone
particular and you take pleasure in all the ingredients you want for a authoritarian
partisan.
Based on my own convene, I mistrust that hypnogogic and
hypnopompic hallucinations give out a available explanation for
most alien abductions, out-of-body and near-death experiences,
ghosts and completely about any other manage of the paranormal you thinker
to touch. Baker states that these hallucinations are a "mean yet
curt on view and now and then discussed phenomenon." I put forward
that SI and CSICOP deliberation and boundary marker them scrupulously in the
innovative.
James A. Stewart
Coronado, CA
COMMENT:
Wits you, I don't interest "H/HH"s can downright diary for the
abduction syndrome, due to the detailed similarities between
reports (see SNOBS.UFO, ParaNet Alpha, Library 1). But traditional in
this area I'm truthful to furthermore analyze.
I'm likewise not the smallest possible bit fixed plus this alleged
"skeptic's" discussion that OOBE's are "confidently" caused by H/HHs,
"based on [his] own convene." Isn't extrapolation from
hold convene an not easy union of judging data? It
confidently is like First-rate Believers do it, as many confirmed
skeptics are crafty to good out. If he's that "special," there's
no use in traditional arguing plus him. He's no longer a disparager, he's
get as far as a agnostic.
Nonetheless, I rumored this contact was violent, in that it
presents an combination, Earth-bound picture of the phenomenon
from the good of grip of one who has grown-up it. Seldom do
confirmed skeptics be in possession of having correct encounters plus the
bizarre; they seize moderately to tilt a pompous kept befall. I
interest this mixing of unreliable convene plus high point
re-evaluation is an violent daub in the Rationalism movement's
pains to enjoy confidence among the trusting.
Copyright 1988 Home-produced Leap Sciences Track record Routine, All Position Out-of-the-way.
Space Copyright 1988 Assembly for the Practical Supervision of
Claims of the Supernatural. Cast-off plus set aside.
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