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WINTER 1978, SEVILLA, ANDALUCIA, SPAIN, ANTONIA ARANDA:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

A report says that Antonia Aranda, 56-year-old, administrative auxiliary and native of Sevilla, had in the winter of 1978 an experience "in this zone gray between the dream and the awakening, known as a twilight state".

She told without hiding her anguish that she was sleeping and was awaked by a strong noise of breathing:

"When I opened my eyes I saw a two-meter-tall being, in black clothes and who had on the head [something] slightly similar to a diving-suit (...) Still half alseep, I noticed a very cold and unpleasant breath which arrived on my face. Opening the eyes again I see a metal, luminous ball, floating on me, which threw this breath at me... A second being approached my bed then and he said to me: 'I regenerate you...!' Then I remained again deeply asleep..."

During all this time, she had her members paralysed, her attempts to move were unfruitful.

Following "this quasi-oniric experience", she reportedly had other abnormal episodes, from premonitory dreams to - undesribed - UFOs observations and even two new encounters with the same "being" in diving-suit. But what perhaps most affected was her negative reactions to the electric appliances; which prevented her from carrying out a normal life. Passing in front of a television set, a washing machine or a photocopier, or close to a mobile phone, causes giddinesses, pain in the throat, thoracic pressure to her.

She saw a good number of doctors, she was subjected to neurological examinations and personality tests, but until now, unless she suffers from a certain psychopathology, there no was explanatory response and even less a solution to this annoying problem.

Basic information table:

Narratives:

[Ref. ui1:] "EL UMBRAL INEXPLORADO" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that Mrs. Antonia Aranda, 56-year-old, is an administrative auxiliary and native of Sevilla. In the winter of 1978 she had an experience "in this zone gray between the dream and the awakening, known as a twilight state".

She told without hiding her anguish that she was sleeping and was awaked by a strong noise of breathing. She told:

"When I opened my eyes I saw a two-meter-tall being, in black clothes and who had on the head [something] slightly similar to a diving-suit (...) Still half alseep, I noticed a very cold and unpleasant breath which arrived on my face. Opening the eyes again I see a metal, luminous ball, floating on me, which threw this breath at me... A second being approached my bed then and he said to me: 'I regenerate you...!' Then I remained again deeply asleep..."

During all this time, she had her members paralysed, her attempts to move were unfruitful.

Following "this quasi-oniric experience", the protagonist had other abnormal episodes, from premonitory dreams to UFOs observations. She even had two new encounters with the same "being" in diving-suit. But what perhaps most affected was her negative reactions to the electric apparatuses which prevented her from carrying out a normal life. Passing in front of a television set, a washing machine or a photocopier, or close to a mobile phone, causes awkward psychophysiologic upheavals to her, giddinesses, pain in the throat, thoracic perssure. She saw a good number of doctors, she was subjected to neurological examinations and personality tests, but until now, unless she suffers from a certain psychopathology, there no was explanatory response and even less a solution to this annoying problem.

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Sevilla, Spain, on Winter 1978, at night, Antonia Aranda was suddenly awakened taking deep breaths of air. Opening her eyes she saw a 2-meter tall humanoid figure, wearing black and a helmet that covered its head standing before her. She felt a very cold and uncomfortable air that hit her face. She went back to sleep briefly and then opened her eyes again to see a metallic luminous sphere floating on top of her, the cold air apparently originated from the sphere. Seconds later the tall humanoid approached her and told her that he was "regenerating" her. Soon she fell sleep again. Soon after the incident the witness had additional anomalous experiences, including UFO sightings and more encounters with the black clad being. Electrical appliances did malfunctioned when she was around.

Albert Rosales indicates that the source is "Moises Garrido Vazquez."

Points to consider:

The story shows the features of a typical hypnagogic hallucination. The starting event for the episode is probably the noise and the cold air on her face - something not that unusual in winter.

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.

About the problems with the electric apparatuses, I first note that whereas the most original source says that it is the person who feels bad in the presence of electric appliances, this was distorted in [ar1] into apparatuses failures in the presence of the person, something which would be obviously less explanable.

The electrosensitivity of some people is something known since it is reported by many people without UFOs or aliens involved. Some are simply very strongly inconvenienced by electromagnetic fields, and medicine indeed does not have a solution to date. There is however nothing particularly mysterious in one electro-sensitive person also exepriencing one or more hypnagogic hallucinations or - undescribed - "UFO sightings".

List of issues:

Evaluation:

Probable hypnagogic hallucination.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

• [---] ? Moises Garrido Vazquez.
• [ui1] * "Anomalias Post-Contacto", by the website El Umbral Inexplorado, Spain, circa 2007, at elumbralinexplorado.iespana.es/articulos/ufologia/ovnisysivienendeotradimension.htm
• [ar1] * "1978 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2007, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1978.shtml

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