From: rodb@slugo.corp.sgi.com (Rod Beckwith)
Subject: Re: Is Bigfoot a Visitor?
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:06:26 GMT

(Rod Beckwith) writes:
|> >
|> >What happened next was one of a few strange things that has happened
|> to
|> me
|> >inmy life.I'm not sure exactly what time it was but it was
|> pre-sunrise(you
| >know when the sun has not come up over the horizen but the light begins
|> to
|> >dominate over  the darkness.Well like I said , I never wake up but
|> that
|> >morning I woke out of a dead sleep & sat strait UP! Looked out of the
|> >screen door to see to my amazement
|> >7-10' creature standing
       .......................

|> 
|> >>A classic description of a hypnogogic (or is is hypnopompic?) vision,
|> >>a hallucination that occurs at the boundary between sleep and
|> wakeflness
|> >>Sometimes the visions of the dream state and the background of the
|> >>wakeful state become superimposed, for just a few seconds. Relax,
|> >>you're perfectly normal - plenty of people have had experiences like
|> this.
|> 
|> >>I think that a lot of the "night abductors" are visions of this same
|> >>sort. The mind provides the scary image, prompting the viewer to
|> contact
|> >>Budd Hopkins, and he "leads" them to fill in the rest.
|> 
|> -- 
|>   
|>         >>Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
|> 
|> 
|> Dear Mr. Closemindicus cause it has never happened to Himicus,
|> 
|> You always seem to have a pat explanation for everything.You were not
|> there,so I can't see how you can postulate such an irresponsible &
|> ignorant
|> speculation. I was fully awake genius. I can tell the difference
|> between
|> reality & a dream,although I don't think you will wake up from your
|> personal nightmare!
|> 
|> From the evidence I have seen sir,you are not a skeptic.......but a
|> person
|> who will deny anything that does not fit into the glass house you call
|> reality.The day might come where a rock might be thrown in your general
|> direction.....are you ready? As the glass shatters & crumbles around
|> you,
|> will you hold together or put a gun to your head? Only time will
|> tell...........
|> 
|> Like I have said to you before Robert.......
|> 
|> "Feel not the comfort of your slumber,for when you awaken ,it may be
|> too
|> late"
|> 
|> R.I.P.
|> 
|> Rod
|> 
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|> 
|> 			

>>> Robert Sheaffer's response was a calmly rational alternative
explanation
>>>for that night's events.  It's important that we keep open minds and
remain
>>>receptive to all arguments, whether they agree with our stand or not.

>>>Rod Beckwith's attack on Robert, however, was as incoherent as it was
>>>hysterical.

>>>Rod, I suggest that you read the quote in your sig.  Pay particular
attention
>>>to the word "illusion."

>>>Mike Lynch

Mr. Lynch,

I did not tell my story to have some 2bit SKEPTIC tell me that I was
hallucinating or having an illusion.Assuring me that that I was normal,HA!
Gee thanks!Remeber he drew first blood by chastizing the account of my
experience.

I truly hope that someday that something quite odd happens to one of
you,then after you clean your shorts & had time to think about it you might
just realize that not everything is explainable by science &
rationality.But then who do you tell? They (meaning people like Scepticus)
will ridicule ya & write you off like it never happened. What then? Go see
a shrink cause it's all in your
head. After the shrink has convinced you that you hated you mothers cats'
fleas feces you can go on in life & live happily ever after, knowing that
it was just a hallucination.What a relief,phew! It never happened......

 The only "illusion" I see here DENIAL,DENIAL,DENIAL.

It reminds me of a scene from the movie ALIENS when Newt asks Riply why
parents
tell their kids there are no monsters & she (Riply) says,"cause most of the
time
it's true." The key here is MOST of the time,not ALL of the time. Life is
stranger than fiction fellows......get a clue!

BTW ,Mike since when are you the founding member of the Scepticus Maximus
fan club?

Rod



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