Southern Africa Unexplained

Case · UFO Afrinews No 2, June 1989

Letter: Hélène on Jenny of Bulawayo and MB of Masvingo as structured dreams

Masvingo (MB) and Bulawayo (Jenny), Zimbabwe

What was reported

A reader signing herself Hélène, writing from England on 16 January 1989, revisits two Afrinews 1 accounts. She believes both Jenny of Bulawayo's experiences and MB of Masvingo's are elaborate dreams lying so close to waking that they feel like ordinary consciousness; she has such lucid dreams herself and credits the channelled entity Seth for the idea. Jenny, she suggests, has unusually vivid precognitive dreams. MB's first episode she traces to a conversation about Elizabeth Klarer; the second, in which he looks at a craft, is abruptly inside it, then outside, later walks through a door that turns into the craft and wakes in bed, she reads as dream imagery lacking solidity. She contrasts Megan Quezet, who had tangible evidence, and Janet in South Africa. Hind replies that she once agreed but no longer does.

What Hind made of it

Hind prints the letter because it mirrors her former view; after reading Missing Time and Intruders and hearing Budd Hopkins' abductees she now believes people know when they are dreaming and speak of strange experiences in a different tone of voice, and would like a psychologist's opinion.

Explanation offered
Highly structured lucid dreams near the surface of sleep (Hélène); MB's account sparked by a discussion of Elizabeth Klarer

In their words

  • these are dream sequences where things have no form (solidity) and can change at will.

    Hélène, spread 10

  • we KNOW when we are dreaming and when we are having a 'strange' experience.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 10

  • It would be interesting to have a psychologist's viewpoint.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 10

Cross references

  • Jenny of Bulawayo, UFO Afrinews 1 pp 13-16
  • MB of Masvingo, UFO Afrinews 1
  • Graham Conway's letter on a regressed abductee, p 13
  • Seth, channelled by Jane Roberts (footnote)
  • Megan Quezet case
  • Janet, South Africa
  • Missing Time and Intruders (Budd Hopkins)

Connected

  • 'Makiwa aircraft' landing and taking off in the Tribal Trust LandsCase fileHind follow-up

    The two cluster members that are not really Midlands cases at all. 02-10-1 is Helene's January 1989 letter revisiting two Afrinews 1 accounts (Jenny of Bulawayo, MB of Masvingo), with Hind replying that she once held the lucid-dream view and no longer does; its point sits 117 km from Masvingo and 117 km from Bulawayo, i.e. the midpoint of two places both outside the Midlands. 04-25-1 is undated third-hand hearsay. Both are printed by Hind with commentary rather than investigation.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 2 (June 1989), spread 10

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