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Paranormal and Sci-Fi author Marie D. Jones talks about her latest book ‘The New Witch’, with a focus on how we can better listen to our intuition and connect with nature. We also talk about déjà vu, dreams, 11:11, haunted places, celebrity ghosts, life as a writer, and more! For more info on Marie visit: https://www.mariedjones.com/
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In this episode you will hear dreams from real people who had after death communication dreams from celebrities, including Michael Jackson, David Bowie, and Freddie Mercury! Mimi highlights some of the traits that set these types of dreams apart from others, and continues to explore how we can receive communication and guidance through the signs and symbols in the world around us.
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This episode explores two dreams about spooky old houses, one about a magical trip to New Orleans, and Mimi shares a dream of her own about dancing glow-in-the-dark skeletons. We delve into the paranormal, intuition, the creative process, and the experience of sheer delight! Each dream is set to music and explored on its own, and some common threads are revealed as well.
For a full directory of The Dream Detective Podcast episodes, click here.
Music & Voice Credits: 1) “The Old Woman in the House” dreamed and voiced by Lea Sevey, you can find her book ‘Just in Case’ on Amazon. Music: ‘A Severed Head, Speaking’ by Haunted Corpse and ‘Hardwood Lullaby’ by Blue Dot 2) “Victorian Bedroom” dream from Jeanette, voiced by Amber Wolfe with guest DJ Leslie of Seattle Parties Music: ‘Creepy Hallow’ by Alexander Nakarada, ‘Magical Transitions’ and ‘Horrorific’ by Kevin Macleod. 3) “The New Orleans of My Dreams” from Jim Barker of The Divine Hand Palmistry. Music ‘Magical Night’ by Ourmusicbox; ‘Bassline’ and ‘Flight Through Time’ by Devon Trube; ‘Monolithes’ by Lobo Loco. 4) Mimi’s dream, music ‘The Hunger Artist’ by Circus Homunculus recording from 1915-1931.
Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon that happens during the transition between sleep and waking. During R.E.M. (dreaming) sleep the body becomes paralyzed, in order to keep us from physically acting out our dreams. Normally, the paralysis stops before we wake up. However occasionally there is a ‘glitch in the system’, and our mind wakes up before our body is released from the state of paralysis. While many people may experience an upsetting (though soon to pass) case of sleep paralysis, others report an even more terrifying occurrence that happens while in the paralyzed state: the sensation of being visited by some kind of entity. Coined ‘Paralysis Attacks’ by David Hufford, Professor of Behavioral Science at Penn State University, these experiences are described by those who experience it as a visitation by an negative presence. Hufford has done extensive research, and has been able to identify over 30 common elements to these attacks.
The prevailing common denominators are:
• Waking up in bed and realizing one can’t move
• The person can move their eyes, but the body is paralyzed
• Hearing footsteps
• A figure enters the room (often described as dark, not human, intent to harm, some sort of presence but not sure what)
• Incredible sense of fear
• A feeling of weight or pressure upon the chest (sometimes other areas of the body, most commonly the chest)
• A sense that if the person just laid there, they would die.
• The experience feels very real, different than a normal dream or nightmare.
The frequently reported sensation of pressure on the chest, combined with the sensing of some sort of negative presence, cause us to believe that Fuseli’s painting ‘The Nightmare’ (above) is a depiction of a sleep paralysis attack. Accounts of this phenomenon are documented in art and literature as far back as we have historical records, and in fact, Hufford doesn’t know of any culture, anywhere, that doesn’t have a tradition describing it. Known by different names around the world: ‘The Old Hag’, ‘Popabawa’, ‘Demon’, ‘Witch’, or just a dark figure or shadow, the description of the experience is the same.
People in this state are able to accurately describe their environment, indicating a state of being awake, yet brain wave recordings taken during attacks show elements of both wakefulness and REM sleep. Victims are usually convinced they are awake and that this was not a dream. They are actually in a mixed state of consciousness between wakefulness and dreaming, also known as a hypnopompic state (when a person is falling asleep, as opposed to waking up, the same mixed state is known as the hypnogogic state).
It would be easy enough to attribute the whole description to a bad dream or nightmare; but that doesn’t explain why so many people – including many who have never heard of this phenomenon – report such similarities in their accounts. While there are variations in individual reports, the similarities cannot be ignored. In fact, the descriptions bear uncanny similarity to alien visitation reports, and Hufford believes these are actually cases of sleep paralysis attacks.
Science as of yet does not have a sufficient explanation for this baffling phenomenon, which does not reduce the suffering of those who experience this terrifying occurance. For more information, check out Hufford’s book: The Terror That Comes In The Night
Also check out Ryan Hurd’s book: Sleep Paralysis: A Guide to Hypnagogic Visions and Visitors of the Night
And I wish you all SWEET DREAMS tonight!
DREAMS & the PARANORMAL
Date: Wednessday, Oct. 15th
Time: 7-8:30pm Cost: $12
Location: East West Bookshop, 6500 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115
Register Here: http://www.eastwestbookshop.com/events/6986
Many extraordinary and paranormal phenomena take place during the sleep and dream states. Night time and the twilight state are also especially conducive to these experiences. While some dreams may be more about psychological processing, others undoubtedly include experiences beyond this, into the realm of the spiritual and metaphysical.
This workshop will explore some of these phenomena, including: visitations from departed loved ones, telepathic, precognitive, clairvoyant and shared dreams, sleep paralysis, and empathic telepathy dreams. This talk will be presented by Seattle dream expert Mimi Pettibone. She offers workshops, groups and private consultations related to dreams, intuition, and conscious and subconscious communication.
Register Here: http://www.eastwestbookshop.com/events/6986
Friday December 28th at 10am I will be a guest on the Mantz and Mitchell show on KKNW 1150 AM discussing this fascinating topic.
Have you ever dreamed of a departed loved one, and the experience felt so real that it seemed like they were actually with you, more so than ‘just a dream’? You may have smelled their perfume, had a conversation with them, or received a message of comfort. Or perhaps it was a beloved pet that came to visit you.
Researchers are finding common threads that these dreams share, making them stand out as different from other dreams. Even when a person has never heard the experiences of others, there are many similarities. I believe these visitations are very real indeed, and how comforting to think that life does not end with the physical body.
You can listen to the archive online at http://1150kknw.com/mantzandmitchell/archives click on the thumbnail for 12-28-12.
Paranormal and Extraordinary Phenomena in Sleep and Dreams
Have you ever dreamed of a departed loved one, and wondered if their spirit had really come to visit you? Or dreamed of an encounter or event that later actually happened? This workshop will explore some of the unusual and mysterious aspects of sleep and dreams, including:
Precognitive Dreams
After Death Contact Dreams
Night Terrors vs. Nightmares
Clairvoyance
Sleep Paralysis
Lucid Dreaming
Shared Dreams
and Empathic Telepathy
Many people have experienced one or more of these, yet often we keep the experience to ourselves and do not realize how many others are also having them. This workshop is a chance to get these topics out in the open. Whether you are a skeptic, a believer, or a seeker, your curious mind is encouraged to attend.
*This workshop is a private event for members of The Bellevue Club, Oct. 18, 6:30-8:30pm.
If you are interested in hosting a similar workshop, please contact Mimi at 206-328-6464.
Hypnogogic State – The transitional, twilight state between being awake and falling asleep. In this state it is common for paranormal phenomena to occur, including auditory and/or visual hallucinations, out of body experiences, sleep paralysis and sleep paralysis attacks.
Hypnopompic State – Same as the hypnogogic state, except this term refers to the transition from sleep to waking.
Out of Body Experience (O.B.E.) – When a person’s consciousness leaves the body and is able to observe the physical surroundings such as the bedroom they are in. This may also involve travelling around, yet still viewing the physical surroundings as we know them in waking reality.
Near Death Experience (N.D.E.) – (a form of O.B.E.) A person may be pronounced clinically dead, only to later come back to life later. Many will report conversations they overheard (for example between surgeons at the operating table if they died in a hospital) that are later confirmed, and the person would have had no way of knowing this information otherwise. This brings up the interesting and fascinating distinction between mind and brain, as consciousness (mind) is surviving without and beyond the death of the physical matter (brain).
Astral Projection – When consciousness leaves the physical body and travels, similar to an Out of Body Experience, but the travel is through a more dream like, other worldly realm.
Lucid Dreaming – Becoming aware of the fact that one is dreaming during the experience of having a dream. For more information read Robert Waggoner’s fascinating book “Lucid Dreaming”. For more info, go here: https://www.thedreamdetective.com/faq.html#lucid
After Death Contact (A.D.C.) – When a deceased loved one comes to visit us in our dreams. While some dreams of loved ones who have crossed over are ways of processing our loss, other are reported as feeling very ‘different’ than regular dreams. Some of the hallmarks of A.D.C. dreams are that they feel very real, as if the loved one were actually with the dreamer. The dreamer may report smelling grandma’s perfume or grandpa’s cigar, and often the dream takes place in the dreamer’s bedroom, which is not the case for most dreams. Sometimes a dream ‘already in progress’ may be interrupted by the appearance the deceased loved one, who almost always brings messages of comfort and love in any of these scenarios. Many people also have these dreams of former pets who have crossed over as well.
Shared Dreams or Mutual Dreaming – The experience of having the same dream at the same time as another person. Usually this occurs between people who are emotionally close such as siblings, close friends, family members or romantic partners. The degree of the ‘shared’ experience may vary from part of each person’s dream being the same (overlapping), to the entire dream being identical for both dreamers. People sometimes intend for a shared dream experience, visualizing it and agreeing on a meeting spot before going to sleep.
Sleep Paralysis – In R.E.M. sleep our body becomes paralyzed so that we don’t physically act out what we are dreaming about, as this could be very harmful to our self and others. When we wake up the paralysis releases, however sometimes there is a ‘glitch in the system’ where the paralysis takes a little longer to release. Becoming conscious and finding that the body is paralyzed can be a terrifying experience that about 20-30% of the population will experience at some time. However, it usually resolves itself and is nothing to be afraid of.
Sleep Paralysis Attacks – A phenomenon that sometimes occurs during the state of sleep paralysis, where the dreamer reports a visitation. The visitor is most often described as either a dark, shadowy figure, or something know as ‘the old hag’, who is reported to look something like a Halloween witch. This phenomenon has been reported all over the world through out history. Researcher David Hufford wrote a book about this called ‘The Terror that Comes in the Night’.
Nightmares – Scary dreams that often will wake us up with a pounding heart and covered in sweat. These are R.E.M. dreams and are important to pay attention to when working through life’s difficulties. If a nightmare relives a trauma and repeats with no progression or resolution over time, this would indicate a P.T.S.D. nightmare and professional guidance with an experienced professional is recommended.
Night Terrors – Different than a nightmare, these do not occur in R.E.M. sleep, but rather in stage 4, or the deepest, non-dream sleep. Often night terrors cause the sufferer to scream out loud, but upon waking they will have no recollection of any kind of dream or what happened.
Daydreams – A relaxed state (similar to a hypnotic trance) where creativity, imagination, problem solving and learning consolidation occur. As part of our circadian rhythm (similar to the 90 minute cycles between R.E.M. dreams when asleep), we have a natural tendency to daydream about every 70-120 minutes through out the day.
Precognitive Dreams – Dreams that pick up on potentials for the future that may or may not play out. There have been reports of people who have had a precognitive dream and later recognized a dangerous situation in waking life because of the dream. They were then able to make a course correction to prevent the potential negative outcome because the dream provided them with the warning and awareness to do this.
Clairvoyant Dreams – A dream during which the dreamer is able to witnesses an outside event (happening in waking reality) at the same time it is actually occurring.
Empathic telepathy – Similar to a clairvoyant dream, except that instead of witnessing an event as an outside observer during the dream, the dreamer experiences the event as if it were happening to them – in a sense assuming the identity of someone that the waking life event is actually happening to.
An artist’s impression of a shadow person.
Shadow people are supernatural shadow-like humanoid figures that, according to believers, are seen flickering on walls and ceilings in the viewer’s peripheral vision.[1] They are often reported moving with quick, jerky movements, and quickly disintegrate into walls or mirrors. They are believed to be evil and aggressive in nature, although a few people consider them to be a form of guardian angel.[2]
In 2010, the apparitions were described as one of the most regularly reported paranormal phenomena in the United States. This is attributed to occasional reports on the Coast to Coast AM show, where paranormal researcher Heidi Hollis has been interviewed several times on the subject of shadow people. Hollis believes that shadow people have always existed, that they feed upon emotions of fear, and that they can be repelled by thinking positively.[2] Others believe that shadow people may be the extra-dimensional inhabitants of another universe.[citation needed]
The stories of shadow people have been compared to those of the Raven Mocker, a witch from Cherokee mythology who sometimes appears as a shadowy phantom, and the Islamic Jinn.[2]
Several scientific principles can be used to explain reports of apparitional experiences such as shadow people. These include optical illusions or hallucinations brought on by physiological or psychological circumstances, drug use or side effects of medication, and the interaction of external agents on the human body. Another reason that could be behind the illusion is sleep deprivation, which may lead to hallucinations.[original research?]