Amara Graps wrote:
>
> From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com), Date: Mon Sep 18 2000
>
> > don't think so. Hypnagogic trance is quite a bit different in the
> >literature I've read. There are also many different facets to
> >sleepwaling, OOB and alien abduction stuff. I don't think you can lump
> >all three together fully and certainly not under "hypnagogic trance".
> >Especially since hypnagogic effects are part of everyone's sleep cycle.
> >The experience I and others have described is not at all like being in a
> >trance condition. I have never experienced these other effects and as
> >far as I know am not prone to any of them.
>
> Can someone give me a good reference for hypnagogic trance, please?
>
> I spent several years in my childhood (7-9) sleep-walking. I didn't
> think that I was in any special trance state. For me, it was part of
> my nightly sleep. Noone thought very much about it (although it
> worried my parents a little during the year my family and I were
> living on our sailboat).
>
> I found the following reference to "hypnagogic trance", but I don't
> know if it is a reputable reference. (I'm skeptical.)
>
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> >From http://www.monroeinstitute.org/research/hemi-sync-atwater.html
Persinger is a very reputable researcher. He is currently working with using
electromagnetic harmonics to trigger both abduction 'experiences' AND the sort
of experiences others here have described. Most UFO nuts hate him, which is
obviously points in his favor to me.
While I've never sleep walked, all three of my siblings have had such
experiences, and we all talk in our sleep on occasion. Sleep walking and
narcolepsy involve abnormal chemistry between the brain and the spinal cord,
where normally in sleep neurochemicals inhibit signals from traveling down the
spine, directing muscular activity, in sleepwalking and sleep talking this
chemical activity is hindered and signals get through. With narcolepsy, this
chemical activity occurs during conciousness, causing a narcoleptic seizure that
appears to observers to be merely sleep.
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