From: rodb@slugo.corp.sgi.com (Rod Beckwith)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: Is Bigfoot a Visitor?
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:40:25 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

>
>What happened next was one of a few strange things that has happened to
me
>in my 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 about 5-6' away......staring at me.I could not
>really see its eyes but it was apparently facing my direction. I then
>rubbed my eyes violently & took a second look.....HOLY SHIT this thing is
>still standing there motionless.Boy the butterflies in my stomach felt
like
>bats racing through my innards,man was I scared.I could see the outline
of
>hair all over its body,(like Chewbacca from Star Wars)except for its
legs.
>The legs were covered with 
>scales/plates or body armor type stuff,it was not light enough to get a
>real 
>good look at it..too strange. I then after about what seemed like forever
>(probably more like 30 seconds) I turned to my X and tried to wake her up
>to see this thing. She would not wake up & I shook her pretty good.
Finally
>she came around but she was really groggy. I then turned back around to
>show her this thing but it was G-O-N-E. No sound of footsteps or
>anything....just gone. My X was not to happy that I woke her up & went
back
>to sleep. I ,on the other had was pretty shook up. I didn't like the idea
>that a BIG critter could just materialize in our campsite & then just
>vanish. I never got the feeling it was trying to communicate with me or
>anything like that. I did not get up to go & check it out,,which was
>strange cause normally I am a curious person.I finally made it back to
>sleep.What a night!!

>>A classic description of a hypnogogic (or is is hypnopompic?) vision,
>>a hallucination that occurs at the boundary between sleep and
wakefulness.
>>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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