Beautiful Mystery in the Heavens

What I’m about to write might sound crazy and absurd, but it was something so remarkable I have to mention it.

Last night I had a BBQ with the folks and after cleaning up I decided to make a few phone calls and enjoy the outdoors in the almost perfect weather. While I was on the phone with April, the stars started to come out and I did some star gazing. Now, I know the heavens pretty well thanks to Astrology and my Astronomy classes, and I saw a bright star that I’ve never seen before. At first I thought it could be Venus, since that planet does move around a lot. But then this object darted quickly from one point to another and then suddenly stop. It did this two more times before I ran into the house to get the binoculars. Once I got the object in focus, I wasn’t sure what I was seeing. It looked like two circles filled outlined with lights (a smaller ring inside a larger ring). Then something wild happened. A bunch of streaming glittery lights came swirling off of one side. Not straight like a ray of light but zigzag swirly blue and white illuminations. The only thing I can compare the color to is like a comets tail, but again they were not straight.

Thinking I might be seeing things I went and got my father to check it out and he saw the same things. An object that had corkscrew lights beaming from it. After a few minutes that object was still there but the shimmering tails were gone.

I sat there for the next hour watching this thing move back and forth. Then just to make sure I wasn’t looney I decided to go get the biggest skeptic of all…my mom. I had her look at this thing. She didn’t want to see it, she was thinking I was looking at the Space Station, but once she looked in the binoculars I knew she saw something unexplainable.

I asked her to explain what she saw.
She said “Well, it looked like this” and then she started to cup her hands in a shape.
I asked “So explain that shape”.
She said “I don’t want to say it, but…(she hesitated big time) it looks like a saucer but on its side”.

For another hour I was outside watching this thing. I honestly do not know what it was. I’m not saying that it was a U.F.O., but I’m also not saying that it wasn't either. All I know is that it couldn’t be a satellite because satellites don’t zigzag like that and it couldn’t be a helicopter or plane because it was way too high in the sky. Maybe I’ve been watching too many Sci-Fi flicks and this was my active imagination, but how do you explain two others witnessing what I saw? All I know is that this mysterious object gave me two hours of cheap entertainment and a new way of thinking if we are alone in our small solar system.

Sleep Paralysis ~ A Nightly Fight with Terror

A lot of you have told me that you were excited to see what I have to say about my crazy life, well here’s a bit about me to start off with. After reading this, you’ll probably wonder what the in world you’re doing knowing someone like me. Well here is it…

I’ve debated for awhile to let people know that I suffer from this, because of how extreme this phenomenon is. I’ve only told a handful of people about this and most of them are not close family or friends.

Most of you know that I do not sleep well, waking up several times in the night. This is due to a couple of reasons, first it’s because I’m afraid of not waking up to my alarms (I set two). The next reason is because of this strange thing called sleep paralysis. When I have the chance to sleep in and I’m not worrying about being somewhere in the morning is usually when this happens. This first time I remember this happening, I was around 9 or 10 years old. When someone is in a deep sleep and the R.E.M. cycle is occurring, most people have dreams, about wonderful places, flying and great adventures. Well, most of the time, if I ever get to the dreaming stage of sleep, I have violent nightmares. Waking up during these nightmares brings on sleep paralysis. What happens is the body is in its ultimate form of relaxation, so to wake up suddenly, you body cannot move…basically, you’re paralyzed for a minute or two while your body catches up with your brain. If it was just that, I could handle it, but the worst part comes next. I’m somewhat awake and somewhat still in the dream mode, so the mind is still processing the dream while I lay paralyzed looking around the room. This phenomenon causes the dream (or nightmare in my case) to come to life for the few moments, which seems like hours when you see dark images or creatures hovering around you. Most of the time the image I see is a large dark figure, kind of like a grim reaper appearance or similar to the dark shadows from the movie Ghost.

I know this sounds crazy, but it does affect my sleep. I have trained myself to wake up several times in the night before I can get to the dream stage, so I don’t have to deal with this. I’ve been informed that a lot of my health problems are due to the fact I don’t sleep, so last night I took ½ of a sleeping pill allowing me to get through the night. Because I was relaxed and not controlling my timely wake ups, this madness happened. The only reason why I know I’m not crazy is that I had a therapist tell me about this bizarre sleep experience, but if any of you reading this know of a way to control dreams and/or sleep patterns (without the use of drugs), any advice is welcomed.

Now y’all know one side of where my craziness comes from and hopefully it didn’t scare you off.