A ufology magazine has reported that in Brentwood, California, on January 1988, late in the night, a woman was reading in bed with her boyfriend sleeping next to her when she noticed the figure of a small "man" standing on the right side of the bed, by her boyfriend.
The being was 4 foot tall with a very rough textured grayish tan skin, a large head with a pointed chin and large dark slanted eyes.
The witness attempted to scream but found herself totally paralyzed. She also felt a tingling sensation through her body.
The being reached across the bed over her boyfriend and attempted to touch her. His hand had four fingers with webbing in between them and long fingernails.
In her mind, she heard the words "Do not worry I won't hurt you, I just want to examine you." Just before the being touched her, the boyfriend jostled and tossed in bed, and the little being then jumped back and disappeared in a white flash of light.
Basic information table:
Case number:
URECAT-000153
Date of event:
January 1988
Earliest report of event:
Circa 1998?
Delay of report:
10 years?
Witness reported via:
Not known.
First alleged record by:
Ufology magazine.
First certain record by:
Ufology catalogue Rosales.
First alleged record type:
Ufology magazine.
First certain record type:
Ufology catalogue.
This file created on:
April 16, 2007
This file last updated on:
May 28, 2012
Country of event:
USA
State/Department:
California
Type of location:
In bed.
Lighting conditions:
Night
UFO observed:
No
UFO arrival observed:
N/A
UFO departure observed:
N/A
UFO/Entity Relation:
None
Witnesses numbers:
1
Witnesses ages:
Not reported.
Witnesses types:
Not reported.
Photograph(s):
No.
Witnesses drawing:
No.
Witnesses-approved drawing:
No.
Number of entities:
1
Type of entities:
Humanoid
Entities height:
Small
Entities outfit type:
One piece tight fitting.
Entities outfit color:
Not reported.
Entities skin color:
Not reported.
Entities body:
Normal.
Entities head:
Large.
Entities eyes:
Two, large, black.
Entities mouth:
Not known.
Entities nose:
Not known.
Entities feet:
Boots.
Entities arms:
Normal.
Entities fingers:
Not known.
Entities fingers number:
Not known.
Entities hair:
None.
Entities voice:
Telepathy.
Entities actions:
Was near bed, communicated by telepathy.
Entities/witness interactions:
Entity reassured witness and said it wanted to examine her.
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Brentwood California, on January 1988, late in the night, the witness was reading in bed with her boyfriend sleeping next to her when she noticed the figure of a small "man" standing on the right side of the bed, by her boyfriend. The being was 4-foot tall with grayish tan skin that was very rough textured.
He had a large head with a pointed chin and large dark slanted eyes. The witness attempted to scream but found herself totally paralyzed.
She also felt a tingling sensation through her body. The being reached across the bed over her boyfriend and attempted to touch her. His hand had four fingers with webbing in between them and long fingernails.
In her mind she heard the words "Do not worry I won't hurt you, I just want to examine you." Just before the being touched her, the boyfriend jostled and tossed in bed, this apparently startled the little being that then jumped back and disappeared in a white flash of light.
Rosales indicates that the source is Barry Taff, UFO Magazine Vol. 4 # 1.
Points to consider:
Here we have the usual essential marks of an episode of hypnagogic hallucination also known as "sleep paralysis" interpreted as a report of a close encounter of the third kind.
Although hypnagogic experiences are now quite understood in the medical literature on non-pathological sleep disorders and sleep phenomena, although there are knowledgeable ufologists who understand this phenomenon, many other ufologists are still unable to identify such causes when they apply and still believe such experiences are alien encounters or alien abductions.
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:
Severity:
Date noted:
Raised by:
Noted by:
Description:
Proposal:
Status:
None.
Evaluation:
Hypnagogic hallucination with sleep paralysis.
Sources references:
* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
[---] ? Article by Barry Taff, in the ufology magazine UFO Magazine, Volume 4 #1.
[ar1] * "1988 Humanoid Sightings", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2001, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1988.shtml
