OLM Angel

 

Several times in my life I have had hypnagogic or hypnapompic experiences, see the background links below. These are occurrences when I am half asleep, either waking up or falling asleep; usually when I'm taking a light nap or have dropped off when I'm in a normally awake situation in daytime. Occasionally these feelings are connected to sleep paralysis, which I've had all my life and still get about once a fortnight. Last month I attended the Outer Limits Magazine conference in Hull. While one of the speakers was on stage I started to feel drowsy. This was not because the speaker was boring, it was just because I had not slept well the previous night and the room was very warm and cosy. I was also feeling unwell because I was wearing very uncomfortable clothes; see here for details: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-person-goes-to-olm.html. I slipped into a hypnagogic state as I was sitting in the audience watching the speaker. As with the incident on the train which I describe in the background links, I suddenly saw a strange manifestation. A cloud of mist quickly formed on my left, where there was an empty seat. Out of that miasma a humanoid figure emerged. It became recognizable as a young woman with blonde hair. She was wearing what looked like a white dress. She smiled sweetly at me and raised her hand to touch me briefly on my left shoulder, as if in a supportive or comforting way. She had very pallid skin. I distinctly felt her touch me. Then I snapped out of the hypnagogia and awoke fully. The apparition immediately vanished.

 
In my HPANWO TV reportage of my mission to Hull, I suggested that this might be an angel. Angels are usually associated with the church because they are described several times in the bible and are depicted a lot in religious art; however the term could be applied to any benevolent supernatural being. "Angel" has Greek roots and comes from a word that simply means "messenger". Jews and Muslims also accept the concept, as do some other unrelated religions like Sikhism and Baha'i. They also have become a popular concept in New Age circles. My books Roswell Rising- a Novel of Disclosure and its two sequels features a character who is described by another character as an angel, see: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2016/08/roswell-rising-is-here.html. If the being I saw was an angel, or whatever other word you want to use, why did she come and interact with me at that moment? Was it because I was afraid and uncomfortable? As you'll see in the video above, my trip to the OLM conference was under rather unusual circumstances. I put myself in an awkward and risky position. It's possible she was there all the time and only got the chance to communicate with me when I was in my altered state of consciousness. Maybe they surround as all continuously, invisible to us most of the time, like in the film City of Angels, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCrcDidiGJs. There are many reported encounters with angelic beings, for example see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ9Nm4_b-zU. A friend of mine who I've known for a long time in the Truth movement wondered if the being I saw was Ayem, our mutual friend who passed away a couple of years ago, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/12/ayem-dies.html. She didn't look like Ayem, but sometimes spirits take on different forms in our perception. Another good friend of mine had a far more prosaic explanation that surprised me when I heard it because she's definitely not a skeptic: the Covid mask I was wearing had reduced the efficiency of my lungs and as a result I suffered a hypoxic hallucination. Even if that were true, the effect may have merely been the mechanism for my altered state of consciousness, an alternative to hypnagogia. Either way, I can't prove or disprove what happened to me. However, if it was real, all I can say to my heavenly interloper is... thank you!
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2008/10/real-ghost-train.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/06/sleep-paralysis-again.html.
And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2015/08/fallen-angel-found-in-london.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2011/04/bedroom-ghost.html.