A story probably found on the web and catalogued by Albert Rosales, apparently anonymous, says that near Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, on Summer 1978, at 11:00 p.m., the witness was getting ready to go to sleep when suddenly everything became very quiet.
He opened his eyes to look outside the window when he saw three - undescribed - creatures standing there.
The next thing he remembered was a floating sensation and some sort of strange device resembling a chronometer. He then found himself back in bed and looking out the same window to see a brilliant silver sphere floating silently outside.
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that near Little Rock, Arkansas, on Summer 1978, at 2300, the witness was getting ready to go to sleep when suddenly everything became very quiet. He opened his eyes to look outside the window when he saw three (undescribed) creatures standing there. The next thing he remembered was a floating sensation and some sort of strange device resembling a chronometer. He then found himself back in bed and looking out the same window to see a brilliant silver sphere floating silently outside.
Albert Rosales indicates that the source is "Themestream."
Points to consider:
The story shows the features of a typical hypnagogic hallucination.
I provide a few references among dozens about the topic of hypnagogic hallucination and sleep paralysis:
"The Old Hag phenomenon as sleep paralysis: a biocultural interpretation", paper by R.C. Ness, in Cultural and Medical Psychiatry, vol. 2 #1, pp 15-39, March 1978.
"Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep", book by Celia Green and Charles McCreery, Routledge publisher, U-K., 1994.
"Wrestling With Ghosts: A Personal And Scientific Account Of Sleep Paralysis", book by Jorge Conesa Sevilla, Xlibris Corporation publishers, U-K., 2004.
"Hallucinations and pathological visual perceptions in Maupassant's fantastical short stories - a neurological approach", by L.C. Alvaro, in Journal of the History of Neuroscience, vol 14, #2, pp 100-115, June 2005.
"Effects of hypnagogic imagery on the event-related potential to external tone stimuli", paper by N. Michida, M. Hayashi, T. Hori, in Sleep, Vol. 28 #7, pp 813-818, July 2005.
"Sleep and Society: Ventures into the (Un)Known", book by Simon A. Williams, Routledge publisher, 2005.
"Mental representation of space: Insights from an oblique distribution of hallucinations", paper by T.A Girard, D.L. Martius, J.A. Cheyne in Neuropsychologia, vol. 45 #6, pp 1257-1269, 2007.
"Parasomnias", paper by D.T. Plante, J.W. Winkelman, in The Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol. 29 #4, pp 969-987, December 2006.
"Paranoid delusions and threatening hallucinations: A prospective study of sleep paralysis experiences", paper preview by J.A. Cheyne, T.A. Girard, scheduled in Consciousness and Cognition for April 2007.
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May 17, 2010
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Primary source not available.
Help needed.
Opened.
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Ufology
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May 17, 2010
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Only a probably anonymous story picked up on the web, no checking, no investigation.
Help needed.
Opened.
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Probable hypnagogic hallucination.
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* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
[ar1] * "1978 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2007, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1978.shtml
