Survey Time

[Ian Young]

Greg replies to my inquiry regarding The Flying Women...

> ...Flight is a theme.
> 
> I wonder if the perception of flying through space (without actually
> flying) has anything to do with the phenomenon of perceptual projection.

This is essentially how I've always interpreted both my mother's and my
sister's stories -- as an internal, perceptual "re-editing" of events
confused during a brief fugue state.  Neither of them have ever tried to
play their stories off as proof of the supernatural -- they're both pretty
down-to-earth people (pun actually not intended).  The only reason they'll
ever re-tell the stories is because they found it very strange that they
both had essentially identical experiences.

Now, this is the actual reason I brought this story up.  The truly weird
part of the story is that both my mother and sister seemed to have tapped
into an archetypal vision.  I don't think it's weird because it's
impossible, but weird because I haven't heard it reported elsewhere.  Sure,
lots of people have the archetypal "flying dream" while asleep, but these
two women (then girls) had it while awake.

Yep.  It's a strange old brain we live in...

Gone,
Ian