[UA] nighty night

[James M. Scott McDaniel]

The whole night hag thing -
I had a profoundly disturbing one in college, while I was part of a 
travelling revival team for the Southern Baptist Convention.
Given much of the fundamentalist Christian mindset that I had, it 
shouldn't be too hard to figure out how I interpreted it at the time.
(Story to be provided if anyone's interested)

Stuff I've read indicates that people report inexplicably strange things 
that would seem disconnected from simple "sleep paralysis" - the 
strange, malign presences, footsteps coming up to their bed, other 
details which seem to require an actual event versus semi-consciousness 
and a body not quite awake yet.

Most of the articles seem to leave off with a sudden "Ain't the Human 
Mind Weird? Nyuk Nyuk" feel without explaining this stuff.

I'm not about to propose that there's actually something doing this, but 
it does sound a helluvalot like a UA-ready conspiracy.

IT WAS ALL A DREAM.  IGNORE THE RED MARKS ON YOUR BACK!  YOU DID THEM 
YOURSELF!

Somewhere in the aether, the night hags cackle.

Sweet dreams,
Scott

Eric Eves wrote:
>>Could someone please post or forward that 'night hag' story from the
>>list from, I believe, April 2001?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Joe.
> 
> 
> cpl1 at midway.uchicago.edu cpl1 at midway.uchicago.edu
> Fri, 13 Apr 2001 00:18:42 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> 
>>From: Greg Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com>
>>
>>>Which makes me realize the whole deal was probably just an example of
>>>Sleep >Paralysis, aka Old Hag Syndrome. (I'm not certain where, but I
>>>remember reading >about the hallucinations associated with said event
>>>mainly being of women, >which is what reminded me, but now I can't find a
>>>source to back that up.)
>>
>>Yeah, I remember hearing/reading somewhere that some substantial percentage
>>of the population has hallucinated waking up with someone sitting on their
>>chest -- the full bore thing, visual and somatic sensations.  Any of y'all
>>had this?
> 



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James M. Scott McDaniel
scott at scottopic.com
"De gustibus non disputandum est"