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Ufological Dreams
Could Abductions Just Be Dreams?
The idea of one dreaming about UFOs and extraterrestrials may not be farfetched for most people to have such dreams occasionally, with abductees and in some cases researchers of ufology this seems to be far more frequent. In the case of the researcher’s studying the subject of ufology and abductions, writing a book can be quite stressful, this was the case of author Jordan Hofer, writing his books “Evolutionary Ufology” as well as his book “Little Grey Bastards” claims to have suffered from possible hallucinations and bad dreams. The author states; “Many strange, perhaps paranoid, coincidences occur when I write a UFO book. Jordan Hofer also states; “I suffered nightmares and “hallucinations” while writing Evolutionary Ufology. Further stating ; “ Now its happening again, and this time its not just me in gray cross hairs but David as well (referring to his co author David Barker suffering from the same bad dreams and hallucinations).
Further more the author is quoted as stating; “The Grays are in full control, I have not been sleeping well, I have been frightened and confused. The author also quotes a line from the movie close encounters of the third kind in reference to feeling as if he where being watched by an invisible force …. This could be due to lack of sleep, exhaustion, paranoia, or the in depth immersion of research into the subject of ufology, but could it be something else?
On August 8th 1983, notable skeptic Michal Shermer participated in a 3,000 mile bicycle race “Race Across America” stating “It is a rolling experiment on stress, sleep deprivation, and mental breakdown.” Also stating “I vowed to ride sleepless in 1983 until I got the lead or collapsed.” True to his word Mr. Shermer did just that outside of Haigler Nebraska and riding for 83 hours with no sleep as well as riding nearly 1800 miles nonstop. He was quoted as saying ““I was falling asleep on the bike so my support crew (every rider has one) put me down for a forty-five-minute nap. When I awoke I got back on my bike, but I was still so sleepy that my crew tried to get me back into the motor home. It was then that I slipped into some sort of altered state of consciousness and became convinced that my entire support crew were aliens from another planet and that they were going to kill me. This is an example of a hallucination induced by exhaustion, if Michal Shermer can tell the difference between being exhausted after the incident, then I believe most others would be able to distinguish this as well. I myself have accomplished this.
A person who studies the subject of UFOs may dream of UFOs and even encounters in some cases, this does not imply that the researcher has an overactive imagination. The subject of UFOs can be quite fascinating and in some case lead to obsession, this can be said about many different subjects that fascinates the mind. I personally study the many aspects of ufology, abductions, psychology, astrobiology, pop culture and encounters of the phenomena. I myself have had Ufological dreams, I remember one dream from my childhood in which I was in a dimly lit room, it was a white room but very dim.
I remember seeing a needle and grabbing it between my thumb and pointer finger. I can still feel the needle between my fingers today, and throughout my life have never forgotten the feeling of pressing and holding that needle between my fingers, I remembering it coming towards me slowly in between my fingers. I also remember hearing a voice but not very clearly. Over time one’s dreams become distorted as we age and grow and confabulate imagery, but this was a sensation between my fingers, there was no room for confabulation. In my opinion this was a dream. Another dream I had was in the 2006 and was 16 years of age. I awoke to a blue light engulfing my room through my window, I was unable to move and felt as if someone was in the room, but I couldn’t see anyone. This is when my body began to vibrate, the entire thing as if I was having a seizure and I was unable to control it, I felt the very nerves within my teeth vibrate. I cried out for help to no avail, only to just seem as if I had fallen back asleep, it had abruptly ended. This was a case of a hypnogogic / hypnopompic dream or hallucination and it was terrifying. But it would not be the last dream of the sort that fits with Ufology or abductions.
The next dream happened in between the years of either 2009 or 2010, this dream was a bit more startling in nature. I awoke from my bed and immediately ran to the front window of my home, as if knowing something or someone was there. After peeking though one of the front blinds I noticed something in front of my house next to the street. It was a small triangular craft with rotating bright lights strobeing around it. I peered slightly left and noticed that someone was walking to my door, I through the door open and caught a glimpse of what it was. What I saw was the classic alien archetype but extremely pale white, I noticed no mouth or nose and would say the entity was around the same height as myself and very skinny. The entity slightly tilted its head and looked directly at me as I attempted to tackle the entity in a fight or flight response only to have the sensation of being knocked out, everything abruptly turned to black as I lunged forward.
A few years later I believe in 2012 or 2013, I awoke one night to find a glowing ball of light floating in my closet, as I stared for around 5 seconds or, so the ball of light changed into the head of the commonly referred to as grey alien and flew directly towards my face, and then disappearing.
My latest dream occurred in the end months of 2017, I remember falling asleep and then “Awakening” to see a cylindrical or commonly called cigar shaped UFO flying past my bedroom window at a faraway distance. The UFO was flashing a large blue light in the front of the object and yellow in the back of the object. The UFO then turned slightly and began to fly towards my apartment, at this point I heard something akin to radio chatter. At this point I noticed that the window became distorted and growing outward. And the ceiling began to disappear only to watch the flashing object fly past my apartment. The whole time this dream was taking place I picked apart the details to debunk this situation through observation.
I watched the object in the beginning and thought” how strange we always keep the blinds down especially at night time”. Upon awakening later, they indeed where down. I then heard the chatter and realized that this was in my heard and was a dream, this was before the distortion of the window or the ceiling disappearing. If I can recognize these dreams as dreams, then why would people who are abductees not be able to tell the difference? The answer is they can. If I can in a half sleep like daze, then so can others.
I believe that these dreams are possibility due to my familiarity with the subject of ufology, but I have not always been interested by UFOs. I have conducted research for many years, as have many others and while having these dreams my skeptical mind believes they were dreams and nothing more. I also believe that people can easily distinguish the difference between a dream, a hypnogogic or hypnopompic hallucination. I do not believe that abductees are just foolish have an overactive imagination or have had a bad dream or hallucination. All of this being noted there is a stark difference between what people report in abductions in comparison to that of dreams, the length of time of the abductions compared to that of a hypnogogic or hypnopompic state alone is distinguishable enough, the clarity of an incident is very vivid, as well as the inability to wake in from a hypnogogic or hypnopompic state, while during abductions people wake up and do are able to note this in some cases.
Could Abductions Just Be Dreams?
The idea of one dreaming about UFOs and extraterrestrials may not be farfetched for most people to have such dreams occasionally, with abductees and in some cases researchers of ufology this seems to be far more frequent. In the case of the researcher’s studying the subject of ufology and abductions, writing a book can be quite stressful, this was the case of author Jordan Hofer, writing his books “Evolutionary Ufology” as well as his book “Little Grey Bastards” claims to have suffered from possible hallucinations and bad dreams. The author states; “Many strange, perhaps paranoid, coincidences occur when I write a UFO book. Jordan Hofer also states; “I suffered nightmares and “hallucinations” while writing Evolutionary Ufology. Further stating ; “ Now its happening again, and this time its not just me in gray cross hairs but David as well (referring to his co author David Barker suffering from the same bad dreams and hallucinations).
Further more the author is quoted as stating; “The Grays are in full control, I have not been sleeping well, I have been frightened and confused. The author also quotes a line from the movie close encounters of the third kind in reference to feeling as if he where being watched by an invisible force …. This could be due to lack of sleep, exhaustion, paranoia, or the in depth immersion of research into the subject of ufology, but could it be something else?
On August 8th 1983, notable skeptic Michal Shermer participated in a 3,000 mile bicycle race “Race Across America” stating “It is a rolling experiment on stress, sleep deprivation, and mental breakdown.” Also stating “I vowed to ride sleepless in 1983 until I got the lead or collapsed.” True to his word Mr. Shermer did just that outside of Haigler Nebraska and riding for 83 hours with no sleep as well as riding nearly 1800 miles nonstop. He was quoted as saying ““I was falling asleep on the bike so my support crew (every rider has one) put me down for a forty-five-minute nap. When I awoke I got back on my bike, but I was still so sleepy that my crew tried to get me back into the motor home. It was then that I slipped into some sort of altered state of consciousness and became convinced that my entire support crew were aliens from another planet and that they were going to kill me. This is an example of a hallucination induced by exhaustion, if Michal Shermer can tell the difference between being exhausted after the incident, then I believe most others would be able to distinguish this as well. I myself have accomplished this.
A person who studies the subject of UFOs may dream of UFOs and even encounters in some cases, this does not imply that the researcher has an overactive imagination. The subject of UFOs can be quite fascinating and in some case lead to obsession, this can be said about many different subjects that fascinates the mind. I personally study the many aspects of ufology, abductions, psychology, astrobiology, pop culture and encounters of the phenomena. I myself have had Ufological dreams, I remember one dream from my childhood in which I was in a dimly lit room, it was a white room but very dim.
I remember seeing a needle and grabbing it between my thumb and pointer finger. I can still feel the needle between my fingers today, and throughout my life have never forgotten the feeling of pressing and holding that needle between my fingers, I remembering it coming towards me slowly in between my fingers. I also remember hearing a voice but not very clearly. Over time one’s dreams become distorted as we age and grow and confabulate imagery, but this was a sensation between my fingers, there was no room for confabulation. In my opinion this was a dream. Another dream I had was in the 2006 and was 16 years of age. I awoke to a blue light engulfing my room through my window, I was unable to move and felt as if someone was in the room, but I couldn’t see anyone. This is when my body began to vibrate, the entire thing as if I was having a seizure and I was unable to control it, I felt the very nerves within my teeth vibrate. I cried out for help to no avail, only to just seem as if I had fallen back asleep, it had abruptly ended. This was a case of a hypnogogic / hypnopompic dream or hallucination and it was terrifying. But it would not be the last dream of the sort that fits with Ufology or abductions.
The next dream happened in between the years of either 2009 or 2010, this dream was a bit more startling in nature. I awoke from my bed and immediately ran to the front window of my home, as if knowing something or someone was there. After peeking though one of the front blinds I noticed something in front of my house next to the street. It was a small triangular craft with rotating bright lights strobeing around it. I peered slightly left and noticed that someone was walking to my door, I through the door open and caught a glimpse of what it was. What I saw was the classic alien archetype but extremely pale white, I noticed no mouth or nose and would say the entity was around the same height as myself and very skinny. The entity slightly tilted its head and looked directly at me as I attempted to tackle the entity in a fight or flight response only to have the sensation of being knocked out, everything abruptly turned to black as I lunged forward.
A few years later I believe in 2012 or 2013, I awoke one night to find a glowing ball of light floating in my closet, as I stared for around 5 seconds or, so the ball of light changed into the head of the commonly referred to as grey alien and flew directly towards my face, and then disappearing.
My latest dream occurred in the end months of 2017, I remember falling asleep and then “Awakening” to see a cylindrical or commonly called cigar shaped UFO flying past my bedroom window at a faraway distance. The UFO was flashing a large blue light in the front of the object and yellow in the back of the object. The UFO then turned slightly and began to fly towards my apartment, at this point I heard something akin to radio chatter. At this point I noticed that the window became distorted and growing outward. And the ceiling began to disappear only to watch the flashing object fly past my apartment. The whole time this dream was taking place I picked apart the details to debunk this situation through observation.
I watched the object in the beginning and thought” how strange we always keep the blinds down especially at night time”. Upon awakening later, they indeed where down. I then heard the chatter and realized that this was in my heard and was a dream, this was before the distortion of the window or the ceiling disappearing. If I can recognize these dreams as dreams, then why would people who are abductees not be able to tell the difference? The answer is they can. If I can in a half sleep like daze, then so can others.
I believe that these dreams are possibility due to my familiarity with the subject of ufology, but I have not always been interested by UFOs. I have conducted research for many years, as have many others and while having these dreams my skeptical mind believes they were dreams and nothing more. I also believe that people can easily distinguish the difference between a dream, a hypnogogic or hypnopompic hallucination. I do not believe that abductees are just foolish have an overactive imagination or have had a bad dream or hallucination. All of this being noted there is a stark difference between what people report in abductions in comparison to that of dreams, the length of time of the abductions compared to that of a hypnogogic or hypnopompic state alone is distinguishable enough, the clarity of an incident is very vivid, as well as the inability to wake in from a hypnogogic or hypnopompic state, while during abductions people wake up and do are able to note this in some cases.