From: Amara Graps (Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 07:16:04 MDT
From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com), Date: Mon Sep 18 2000
> don't think so. Hypnagogic trance is quite a bit different in the
>literature I've read. There are also many different facets to
>sleepwaling, OOB and alien abduction stuff. I don't think you can lump
>all three together fully and certainly not under "hypnagogic trance".
>Especially since hypnagogic effects are part of everyone's sleep cycle.
>The experience I and others have described is not at all like being in a
>trance condition. I have never experienced these other effects and as
>far as I know am not prone to any of them.
Can someone give me a good reference for hypnagogic trance, please?
I spent several years in my childhood (7-9) sleep-walking. I didn't
think that I was in any special trance state. For me, it was part of
my nightly sleep. Noone thought very much about it (although it
worried my parents a little during the year my family and I were
living on our sailboat).
I found the following reference to "hypnagogic trance", but I don't
know if it is a reputable reference. (I'm skeptical.)
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>From http://www.monroeinstitute.org/research/hemi-sync-atwater.html
We are in the midst of a revolution focusing on the study of
consciousness (Owens 1995). Penfield (1975), an eminent contemporary
neurophysiologist, found that the human mind continued to work in
spite of the brain's reduced activity under anesthesia. Brain waves
were nearly absent while the mind was just as active as in the waking
state. The only difference was in the content of the conscious
experience. Following Penfield's work, other researchers have reported
awareness in comatose patients (Hunt 1995) and there is a growing body
of evidence which suggests that reduced cortical arousal while
maintaining conscious awareness is possible (Fischer 1971; West 1980;
Delmonte 1984; Wallace 1986; Goleman 1988; Mavromatis 1991; Jevning,
Wallace, & Beidenbach 1992). These states are variously referred to as
meditative, trance, altered, hypnagogic, hypnotic, and
twilight-learning states (Budzynski 1986). These various forms of
consciousness rest on the maintenance of awareness in a
physiologically reduced state of arousal marked by parasympathetic
dominance (Mavromatis 1991). Highly hypnotizable subjects and adept
meditators have demonstrated that maintaining consciousness with
reduced cortical arousal is indeed possible in selected individuals,
either as a natural ability or as an acquired skill (Sabourin,
Cutcomb, Crawford, & Pribram 1993). More and more scientists are
expressing doubts about the neurologists' brain-mind model because it
fails to answer so many questions about our ordinary experiences and
evades our mystical and spiritual queries. Studies in distant mental
influence and mental healing also challenge the notion of a mind
localized within the brain (Dossey 1994; Dossey 1996). Nonlocal events
have been proven to occur at the subatomic level and some researchers
believe that the physics principles behind these events also underlie
nonlocal consciousness-mediated effects (Dossey 1996). The scientific
evidence supporting the phenomenon of remote viewing alone is
sufficient to show that mind-consciousness is not a local phenomenon
(McMoneagle 1993).
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