Ufologist Ivan Castillo apparently reported that a woman had seen "an object land on a mountain."
One year later, on an unspecified date of 1977, in Lerida, Spain, late in the night, this woman was alone in her bedroom, when a humanoid character, almost 7 feet tall, suddenly appeared, walking towards her.
Terrified, she hid under the blankets, and felt a heavy weight fall on her. She started to scram and the humanoid apparently disappeared.
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Lerida, Spain, on 1977, late in the night, a year before, the witness had seen an object land on top of a mountain. On this night she was alone in her bedroom when an almost 7-foot tall humanoid figure suddenly appeared walking toward her. Terrified she hid under the blankets, and felt a heavy weight fall on her. She began to scream and the humanoid apparently disappeared.
Albert Rosales indicates that the source is Ivan Castillo, Aņo Cero.
He comments that the connection with the earlier UFO sighting is tentative, and that this type of bedroom encounter where a tall heavy set humanoid assaults a witness has been reported before and since. He suggests: could it be related to the sleep paralysis syndrome?
Points to consider:
As rightfully pointed by Albert Rosales, the UFO sighting a year before the bedroom visitor experience should not be viewed as related in the strict sense of the term. Besides, seeing "an object land on a mountain" hardly constitute a sighting of high strangeness, and no information exists about it to discard any type of possible confusion. A link however can be that the sighting impressed the witness enough to have an impact of her thoughts during sleep and become the imaginary material of the hypnagogic hallucination she probably experienced - not one item of the report gives the least reason to think that it was not an hypnagogic hallucination and sleep paralysis episode, quite the contrary.
I provide a few references among dozens about the topic of hypnagogic hallucination and sleep paralysis:
"The Old Hag phenomenon as sleep paralysis: a biocultural interpretation", paper by R.C. Ness, in Cultural and Medical Psychiatry, vol. 2 #1, pp 15-39, March 1978.
"Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep", book by Celia Green and Charles McCreery, Routledge publisher, U-K., 1994.
"Wrestling With Ghosts: A Personal And Scientific Account Of Sleep Paralysis", book by Jorge Conesa Sevilla, Xlibris Corporation publishers, U-K., 2004.
"Hallucinations and pathological visual perceptions in Maupassant's fantastical short stories - a neurological approach", by L.C. Alvaro, in Journal of the History of Neuroscience, vol 14, #2, pp 100-115, June 2005.
"Effects of hypnagogic imagery on the event-related potential to external tone stimuli", paper by N. Michida, M. Hayashi, T. Hori, in Sleep, Vol. 28 #7, pp 813-818, July 2005.
"Sleep and Society: Ventures into the (Un)Known", book by Simon A. Williams, Routledge publisher, 2005.
"Mental representation of space: Insights from an oblique distribution of hallucinations", paper by T.A Girard, D.L. Martius, J.A. Cheyne in Neuropsychologia, vol. 45 #6, pp 1257-1269, 2007.
"Parasomnias", paper by D.T. Plante, J.W. Winkelman, in The Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol. 29 #4, pp 969-987, December 2006.
"Paranoid delusions and threatening hallucinations: A prospective study of sleep paralysis experiences", paper preview by J.A. Cheyne, T.A. Girard, scheduled in Consciousness and Cognition for April 2007.
List of issues:
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Topic:
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1
Data
Severe
November 22, 2007
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Reference of primary source not sufficiently precise.
Help needed.
Opened.
2
Data
Severe
November 22, 2007
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Primary source not available.
Help needed.
Opened.
3
Ufology
Severe
November 22, 2007
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Bed experience, with no indication that an hypnagogic hallucination was considered or discarded.
Help needed.
Opened.
4
Ufology
Severe
November 22, 2007
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Insufficient data, no date, no time, no exact place, no clear description etc.
Help needed.
Opened.
5
Ufology
Severe
November 22, 2007
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
No trace of investigation, no information on nature of report (letter, newspaper...).
Help needed.
Opened.
6
Ufology
Severe
November 22, 2007
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Witness age, name, background not specified.
Help needed.
Opened.
Evaluation:
Probable hypnagogic hallucination.
Sources references:
* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
