Close Non-Local Encounters: Abductions and Dreams

"Doubtless, despite his suffering, he had fallen asleep while walking, for now he sees another scene -- perhaps he has merely recovered from a delirium. He stands at the gate of his own home. All is as he left it, and all bright and beautiful in the morning sunshine. He must have traveled the entire night. As he pushes open the gate and passes up the wide white walk, he sees a flutter of female garments; his wife, looking fresh and cool and sweet, steps down from the veranda to meet him. At the bottom of the steps she stands waiting, with a smile of ineffable joy, an attitude of matchless grace and dignity. Ah, how beautiful she is! He springs forwards with extended arms. As he is about to clasp her he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck; a blinding white light blazes all about him with a sound like the shock of a cannon -- then all is darkness and silence!

Peyton Fahrquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge."

-Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge. Ambrose Bierce.



Dreams are akin to a neuro- surgeon operating on his own cerebral cortex. Which is the object and which is the subject? If, in the circumstance of a dream, there is neither in this quantum operating model of conciousness, I have to ask myself, with a healthy dose of skeptical distance from my own experience, could a predispositioned scenario be inserted into an unrecognised form of dream state, in order to conduct psychological probing, on a variety subjects, leading them to conclude that they were abducted?

There is a recognised variability in a dream state wherein the working definition includes dreams based on associative processes which on the surface appear to be nonsensical, random and are subject to an apparently chaotic entanglement of, for lack of a better description, much like our waking state without the division of attention being enmeshed in tasking, measurement, choice etc.

Another dream state is, again, for lack of a better term, is known as a "vivid dream." Having had over a decade of these rare but compelling experiences, the best description I can provide is that the experiential difference of vividness between the two is akin to being inserted in the one dimensional line drawings of a cartoon in the sunday paper, and navigating a point of observation within high definition television. A very key characteristic is the highly refined sense of experiential self that is highly organised beyond that of a dispassionate observer or a set of reactions. A sense of self referential measurement which creates choice, probability, and discernment is so attenuated as to manifest itself as an interactive state between a "simulated" external and external spacial relationship. Another discernible difference is the often transpersonal nature of the content, which are outside of ones own conceptual underpinnings. Perhaps these are what were once called visions. These may be due to an expansion of a state of possibility or potential that is proverbially cubed to the extent that the strength of this sleep state disassociates itself from it's base tasking nature and enters a predominately transceiving modality open to the equivalent or literal quantum state. This is one possibility among many.

Another form of dream state is known as sleep paralysis, is largely thought to be a semi hypnotic intermediate state which reconciles itself between waking and dreaming states, where the biological sensate inputs are creating false images, etc that are self referential which creates hallucinations, false targets by inference of entangled sensory data. Intruders, etc are sensed by false input and reconciled by the quanitive measurement of this semi dream state, to be material. Much has been made of this state as a possible cause of the alien abduction phenomenon, which seems reasonable within a set of limitations which confines this theory to providing a conceptual model as long as there are no corresponding external evidential events or material which tilts this model elsewhere, or completely contradicts this biochemical theory of origin.

I recently experienced the second of two sleep events which does not fall into any of the above listed working models and it has led me to share my experience with you, not to prove or disprove any theory, but to consider whether, as I have, whether this sheds any further light into the abduction phenomenon. Also, there is a personal reason as well, I would welcome and appreciate hearing from anyone who has had a similar experience.

Both of these experiences had the following three characteristics in common as to "content":

1. There was a paralysis, which resulted in the opportunity for being physically manipulated due to, in effect, being "stunned".."overwhelmed" by the strangeness of circumstance, which led, in turn, to a disassociated state. There was no hypnotic technique employed.
2. Experimentation which was both posed and presented as being either altruistic or exploitative. One was empathetic, the other was its opposite.
3. The communicated experimentation which led to terror either through the process itself or the anticipation of the process. ( one was the medical equivalent of an injection,and vague memories of being restrained, and the second was the same only this time for the purposes of harvesting of my organs)

There were six common characteristics upon waking;

1. I awoke in an immediate state of stress and panic.
2. There was difficulty in the recognition and acceptance that I was back in bed and "not still there"
3. There was a state where I had a very visceral sense of having literally occupying two locations at the same time.
4. A strong ambivalence between denial and acceptance of what had occurred leading to a milder form of disoriented stress..ie: what did this mean?
5. A fear of recurrence, a strong sense of having been abducted that transcended whether the event was a material event or internal, there was no discernible difference between the two, the effect was exactly the same.
6. In both events, afterward, it took roughly an hour or so to "digest" and place into perspective, what had occurred.

Leading up to both of these events, were three biochemical changes over roughly a two week period prior to each event.

1. Increasing difficulty, stiffness, inflexibility of muscles both during and after a sleeping state. No paralysis.
2. Decreased REM, deeper sleep states of shorter duration. Eight hours of sleep condensed to two.
3. An increased sense of physical fatigue during waking hours. Not tiredness but a lack of energy.

I sense that I was the subject of some simulated experiential psychological testing during exceptionally strange and deep dream states. It was experienced as far beyond a vivid dream. There was an increase in the stress producing scenarios in the psychological equivalent of turning up a treadmill by the increase in the nature of the stress provoking and producing scenarios. Perhaps it was both biochemically induced by random enviromental and\or internal causes and this was exploited by either an extremely unconscious and self destructive and masochistic self image to the extent I could "scare myself to death", or there was some unknown agency of interference, which in the face of lacking any evidentiary, material proof whatsoever..frankly seems in all sincerity seems counterintuitive and absurd. If I were less self skeptical, I could tell you otherwise. I have no idea of either the causation or meaning, if any, of what occurred. All I can do is share this experience. Did I attract these paranormal events by disposition or otherwise? I think not. Am I alone in this? I hope not. Am I fearful of sleep or life in general? No. Are some of us in the population experiencing a unrecognised and unclassified form of dreaming? More than likely. Is this form of dream being exploited? I don't know, but it makes one wonder.
All of this made me think back to long ago and recalling Phillip K Dick's theory of VALIS...or the open ended question concerning the death of a certain remote viewer in the employ of intelligence services some years ago, as I recall reading in one of Nick Redfern's books...more possibilities, than answers...