ALSACAT-2014-06-07-STRASBOURG-1
Someone reported anonymously to a UFO website the following experience, indicating Strasbourg as place, June 7, 2014 as date, and 11:30 p.m. as time, and that it was a "possible abduction" abd tat he would like to understand what happened:
"I was in bed trying to fall asleep. That's when I heard a noise. A thud. It is from then on that I no longer distinguish dreams from reality. Yet the transition from wakefulness to REM sleep is longer. In short, I feel myself transported and find myself in a small wood. I think I recognize the woods near my home. This is where I see a being of small size, about 1 m 40, deep black almond-shaped eyes, a large head, holding my hand. The detail here is confused, either it holds my hand or touches my wrist with a finger. It speaks but does not move the lips. His words are "come with us, do not worry, we will not do you any harm." I resist, the words become more pressing, "come on move on". I distinguish two smaller ones on my right, at a meter. I seriously began to discuss it, I think very strongly, but my strength is diminishing. So they drag me away on a distance that I could not estimate, walking, it was like I could not not do it. This is where a white light dazzles me, it is very strong. A taller being, about my size, stands before. Another small being stands on his right. He looks unhappy, but I feel this thing is female. I cannot really describe it but it's like I felt myself drawn to 'her'."
"And finally, I come to them. This is where my memory stops."
"At first, I thought of a dream, but this memory is so persistent. I looked at some stuff about the abductions, it is close enough. I would just like to understand what it is."
| Date: | June 7, 2014 |
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| Time: | 11:30 p.m. |
| Duration: | ? |
| First known report date: | August 2014 |
| Reporting delay: | Hours, 3 months? |
| Department: | Bas-Rhin |
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| City: | Strasbourg |
| Place: | In bed. |
| Latitude: | 48.581 |
| Longitude: | 7.747 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 7 km |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | 1 |
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| Number of known witnesses: | 1 |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
| Witness(es) ages: | ? |
| Witness(es) types: | ? |
| Reporting channel: | Witness web report to UFO website "OVNI-France.fr". |
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| Type of location: | In bed. |
| Visibility conditions: | Night |
| UFO observed: | No |
| UFO arrival observed: | N/A |
| UFO departure observed: | N/A |
| Entities: | No |
| Photographs: | No. |
| Sketch(s) by witness(es): | No. |
| Sketch(es) approved by witness(es): | No. |
| Witness(es) feelings: | Puzzled. |
| Witnesses interpretation: | Possible alien abduction. |
| Hynek: | CE3 |
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| ALSACAT: | Probable hypnagogic hallucination. |
[Ref. ofe1:] TESTIMONY ON THE "OVNI-FRANCE" WEBSITE:
07-06-2014 - (Dép.67) - Possible abduction
Date: 07-06-2014
Department: 67 (Bas-Rhin)
Localization: Strasbourg
Hour: 23h30
Numbers [sic] of witnesses: 1 persons
Type of observation: CE4c1: Close Encounter of the 4the kind, class 1
Approximate duration of the observation: 0 minutes
What was seen: Possible abduction
Description of the facts:
I was in bed trying to fall asleep. That's when I heard a noise. A thud. It is from then on that I no longer distinguish dreams from reality. Yet the transition from wakefulness to REM sleep is longer. In short, I feel myself transported and find myself in a small wood. I think I recognize the woods near my home. This is where I see a being of small size, about 1 m 40, deep black almond-shaped eyes, a large head, holding my hand. The detail here is confused, either it holds my hand or touches my wrist with a finger. It speaks but does not move the lips. His words are "come with us, do not worry, we will not do you any harm." I resist, the words become more pressing, "come on move on". I distinguish two smaller ones on my right, at a meter. I seriously began to discuss it, I think very strongly, but my strength is diminishing. So they drag me away on a distance that I could not estimate, walking, it was like I could not not do it. This is where a white light dazzles me, it is very strong. A taller being, about my size, stands before. Another small being stands on his right. He looks unhappy, but I feel this thing is female. I cannot really describe it but it's like I felt myself drawn to "her."
And finally, I come to them. This is where my memory stops.
At first, I thought of a dream, but this memory is so persistent. I looked at some stuff about the abductions, it is close enough. I would just like to understand what it is.
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Everything points to the explanation: a hypnagogic hallucination episode.
There, the triggering stimulus is the noise, probably a real noise, in the home or outside, causing the partial exit of the dream state to a half-awoken dream.
A state the experiencer is somehow aware: he was falling asleep, and "At first I thought of a dream." The persistence of memory does not mean that it was not a dream. What motivates the person making such an experience to report is a very odd is that he was half-awake during the experience; so there is the feeling that it is abnormally vivid for a dream, although less real than if it had happened in the normal awaken state. I am particularly aware of this, as it happened to me once; the irony of the situation was that as a ufologist, I was fully realizing it was a hypnagogic hallucination during the experience...
I provide a few references among dozens about the topic of hypnagogic hallucination and sleep paralysis:
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Probable hypnagogic hallucination.
* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.
| Main author: | Patrick Gross |
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| Contributors: | None |
| Reviewers: | None |
| Editor: | Patrick Gross |
| Version: | Create/changed by: | Date: | Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | August 22, 2014 | Creation, [ofe1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | August 22, 2014 | First published. |
