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Re: Please focus on Narcolepsy


Posted by John D. Lyle on April 28, 2000 at 04:24:11:

In Reply to: Please focus on Narcolepsy posted by Sandman on April 27, 2000 at 13:06:33:

Dear Sandman,
The problem is that what we experience as Narcoleptics, if experienced by non-narcoleptics, would be called a spiritual experience.
Take for example "sleep-paralysis" & "Hypnagogia", which if experienced together, by certain people become "Alien Abduction". "Hypnagogia" is likely in itself to make the person believe they have been visited by spirits/entities.
Remember, what we experience as narcoleptics, the 'normal' population also occasionally experience, we just have MORE of it. A 'normal' person may have Sleep-Paralysis a few times in there life-time, & to them, because it happens so seldom, it is likely to be interpreted as a religious experience.
Mediums talk of "trance", we call it "auto-pilot". People talk of apparitions, we call it "Hypnagogia". Etc, etc., etc..
Perhaps these starnge experiences by other people are nothing more than errors accuring in the brain. Who Knows?
Just think, if someone SUDDENLY become Narcoleptic, they would probably believe they were either being abducted by aliens, seeing spirits, had become a medium, had clairvoyant ability, had telepathy, had become enlightened.

Are all these experiences, as above, nothing more than the brain mis-firing?
Who knows?
Are we deluded? We cannot answer because if you are, your sure your not (a logic-loop as I call it).
Who Knows? Perhaps we are chosen, or perhaps it is nothing more than an error in the brain.

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