Stephen said:

Since you mentioned that you have mental tests every eight years, could you provide a little more detail? What kind of tests are these, and who evaluates them? I have no reason to doubt your sanity, just curious since you brought it up.

If such a thing had happened to me, I think I might try asking my relatives for photographs of the house and its surroundings around the time of your visit, if they had any. Were there any trees at all near the house?

Hi Stephen –

When I was in college I actually submitted myself for psych testing because I honestly wanted to know if I was just out of my mind to have experienced some of this stuff. I went to a campus psychiatrist, told her a few of the things I had experienced, and she said it sounded strange to her. So she agreed to test. It was a long several hour list of questions, like "Do you hear voices in your head that tell you to harm others?" and such. I answered them all honestly… and turned out I was jsut a normal run-of-the-mill mind.  This was a standard test. Not sure if the University would still have it? Its been about 10 years.

Then the next test I had done was in Hollywood (yes, here comes another crazy story, my life is FULL of them). Some producers came across a photo of me on Yahoo along with my hobbies listed as astrology and palmistry so they contacted me to be on one of those millionaire dating shows. They had someone come and film me while I was on the phone with them (I guess to be sure the person they were talking to really was the person on the film). Then they flew me out there and had me go thru an entire day of psych tests and also a background check. The show ended up not being produced, but I was really relieved that once again I was found to be perfectly sane despite thier questioning my paranormal experiences and my "occult involvement" (astrology). This was about 4 years ago.

And then recently (last year), I went to a hypnotist (after getting certified myself in hypnosis). His name is Clinton Clay and like 95 years old. One of the best from what I understand. I told him all about these weird things I have seen. To my suprise, he believed me, and not only that, he talked about similar expereinces he had! I really need to go back to him again before he is gone. Anyhow, I consider that yet another test.

I can't stress enough how seeing this kind of thing on a nearly regular basis does make you feel a little crazy sometimes. Honestly, I think everyone sees these things, but we tend to talk/reason our way out of it, repress it, or just ignore it. But I won't do that, I want to know more. I want to understand where these strange events come from, what they are, why they happen. I am not convinced all ghosts are just dead people. I am not convinced all our dreams are meaningless. I am certain that psychology/symbolism plays a big part in things like Oiuja, Tarot, Palmistry and other divinatory methods.

Great idea about the photo of the house. I should get a photo, and I think I can easily. When I get it I will post a link to it. Its been years and years, so it won'thelp PROVE anything, but it would be neat for you guys to see that window I have been spouting off about. Funny, I am almost nervous about seeing it again. But I will. I just wrote my cousin in NM to get a photo. And I also just told her that Todd and I had a strange experience there. We have never told anyone in the family… I guess its time!

From what I remember, the only tree near the house was this huge old oak tree way out back at the top of a big hill. The landscape is flat there, and desert-like. There are far away mesas, but not many trees nearby, and absolutely none in the front lawn (which is very small before the wild horse field stars).  

The Doctor said:

Hmmm -

A  " tall gold robot looking thing " and " a short silver robot-looking being " ?

Just why do these images seem so very familiar ?

I know, I know.  Why, oh why did we see something that sounds like Star Wars? I know. By the way, I think those movies were produced about 9 years before the New Mexico vision, so its not like we had seen it recently or were thinking of Star Wars for some reason.

So the question is where did these images come from? If this was NOT some strange kind of group hallucination, then who would have used that image to "communicate" (?) with two 15 year olds? Are group hallucinations even possible? If they are, can they last for 2 hours or more if there are no hypnotists, drugs, music or other influences? If not, then who/what would have produced these images and why?  It is perplexing. A good friend of mine who studies apparitions and such and has written many books on such subjects, suggested to me that it could be that aliens just just like to f*ck with us (forgive my french). I guess its as good an explanation as any. Anyhow, you can see how this stuff can drive you mad sometimes if you think about it too hard.

Learjet said:

This is a long shot Kira but do you remember what else was in that room opposite the window? Paintings, photos or artwork of any kind? Any pot plants? Wallpaper?

You may be able to guess where I'm going with this. Glass is not 100% transparent. There is a significant amount of reflectivity that under the right lightning conditions can deceive the mind into thinking that something is on the other side of the glass when it's actually behind or to the side of you.

Oops, forgot to answer a couple things…

I don't remember if there were any plants in the room. The walls were wood paneling and adobe (brown & tan). The floor was leather (brown).  The couch was dark (green?) and was cloth. I don't remember what paintings were hanging if any. It is a simple house, nothing fancy, not alot of gizmos around. But I will ask, my cousins still live there.

Learjet said:

The spirit visits you get at night, are they are near sleep time or when you are tired? It is interesting that you have a theme (about  Russia). I have a couple of themes also, some of which I can understand the origin of, others I can't. 

With your spirit visits, do you have any unusual optical or audible artifacts such as visible sparkles, flashing lights, a buzzing sound or odd smells?

Do you mind me asking what you did at NASA?

Sorry for all the questions, but curious minds etc…

How do you experiment with these HHs?

The "spirit visits" happen near morning after a good night's sleep. They trigger some kind of lucid state where they either take my consciousness and put it in the mind of someone else on the globe to witness an event, or they show me a scene and some words (that I have to read in a dream state, kinda hard). They will give me names, timeframes, situations, but so far no exact dates. Usually I do not see the entitiy that is giving me the message, but in recent years I have tried to look for them when such a vision starts, and have seen what I think is a representation of the messenger of those types of visions. In the same nearly-wake state I will often get messages from dead relatives or friend's relatives. I tended to blow these things off until recently when one decided to "prove" to me that the message wasn't just some brain-wave vomit. So now I take them seriously.

No, I have never had any unusual optical or audible artifacts such as visible sparkles, flashing lights, a buzzing sound or odd smells.  I have also seen ghosts in the two aforementioned haunted houses, but no artifacts with those either. Other people also saw ghosts in those two locations.

I was the server administrator for the shuttle project at nasa for a while, and then I worked with scientists to get thier data into distributable formats so that other researchers could use that data. When the scientists would cooperate, that is. Many of them like to keep thier research to themselves.  Interestingly enough, the one other person in the world that I have met that seems to have similar visions as myself in that near awake dream state is also a nasa employee, but we met on that IANDS site many many years ago.

Nosfer said:

Kira, these visions, were these able to be corroborated with actual events that took place after the vision was had? Documentation? If these have been tied to events that had not happened at the time but subsequently DID occur, what is the frequency? How many hits vs misses? Is it above the level of statistical significance or at the level of chance?

Hey Nosfer –

Its these visions that I would document on the IANDS.org server. They kept them online and time-stamped for 6 years. Sadly, one day I logged in, and the "premonitions posted" thread that they were logged in was gone, as was the entire dream study section. Luckily, I had backed up the documentation to my own computer, which is now a second hard drive on my computer that at the moment I can't access — but I think with some effort I can get in there and extract those files.

There were several points of doumenting these visions:

1) to make sure I couldn't go back and change them to fit some current event (I trust me, but others have no reason to)

2) to correlate actual events to the visions later

3) to discover whether or not having these visions MATTERED… I am not completely convinced that it does matter, at least not in this point in history.

In six solid years of submitting visions, which probably occurred on the average of once a week, only 3 were as close to dead-on hits as can be possible for my visions, I think.  One was a personal (family friend) event, and two were national events. The family event was an exact hit, with matching names and exact situations, and the vision was documented three days before the event occured. Also, this family friend had not been heard of for 20 years, and lived 2000 miles away, so its not like I could have somehow picked up on the pending event subconciously.  The national events were the bombing if the USS Cole, and a subway bombing in Russia. I can go into detail about the visions if you want, but don't want to sit here typing all day if its not something you want to examine.

Many of the visions I had in those 6 years are of a more distant future, and some were not so distant but they were either unverifiable or not direct enough hits to worry about. Almost all of them were relevant… but it would seem hard to have an irrelevant vision, since my mind exists in the world that IS relevant. 

I believe that the fact that I did not have a TV or a radio for the entire time I had these visions is important. I have had visions of this type (and other waking types) all my life, but we lived most of my life in places were TV was either not available or not worth my time. I think not having constant image input allowed my mind the space to create its own visions for whatever reason. I say this because just this past year I finally did get a TV, and to my knowledge I have not had any premonitions since. Maybe one, but i can't really remember it.

Interestingly, I did not have any premonition of 9-11, and yet my room mate that year did have an unusual feeling of intense dread the night before 9-11 and could not sleep. He is not interested in these subjects, but was pretty freaked out when he heard that others around the nation also had feelings of dread the night  before 9-11.

I can't say there were many misses, because sometimes the visions were more like situations being presented that may or may not be true, or I can't know if they are true until a future date. For example, the situation I am thinking of was a vision I had of american tanks on american land destroying the landscape with fire (the tanks in the vision shot fire). The tanks were passing by a school that was completely obliterated in this fight, and americanized people from the Ukraine (there's usually some Russia connection in my visions) were watching the tanks in baffled confusion.  That was the whole of the vision. I don't think this is something that has occurred yet, but tells of an american civil war (?) or at least of a war we have to fight on our own soil with tanks. The clothes people wore in this vision were decidedly modern, so I figure we won't know if this vision has any merit for another 20 years.

Sometimes the visions would be "lessons", where someone would take me from my body and show me things about the world, the Universe, history, the future, or people.

There was one vision I had once, though, that was a definate miss. It was about a volcano that would erupt on a tropical Island (taiwan?) — 3 days after posting this vision to my site, I saw a Discover show on a friend's tv that had the exact images from my vision. My conclusion is that I had somehow seen that show recently while out somewhere and it was just replayed in my lucid dream state, and I took it for a vision.

My son will be out at his cousin's house tonite, so maybe I will find some time to type up another ghost encounter. There are kazillions.