Still perplexed by strange light in the entryway

[gsdx]

Boots woke me up at 5:15 this morning to let her outside. As I swung my legs out of bed and sat there for a moment to wake up enough to get to the back door safely, I saw some lights in the apartment entryway that I've never seen before.

From my bed, I can look through the door to the livingroom and beyond that to the entryway and the open kitchen doorway.

There are two doorways in the entryway: the left one is the front door of the apartment. The right one leads to the basement. There is a small window opposite the basement door which looks out to the parking lot beyond.

I've often seen lights from cars in the parking lot, but I've never seen lights like those I saw this morning. Car lights move and are much brighter. The lights I saw were much dimmer and didn't move.

My first thought was that my roommate was in the entryway turning a small flashlight on and off. My second thought was that he might be in the basement getting ready for work and cracking the basement door open and closed.

I soon discovered him sleeping soundly on the sofa in the livingroom.

Then I thought someone might be outside the window shining a flashlight in, but a quick peek revealed nothing. Besides, light from a flashlight would have been moving.

I have no idea what those lights were. Maybe it was Nearly Headless Nick popping in for a visit.

 

[rareboy]

Fairies....

 

[freefall]

You just woke up when you saw the light(s), you say?

Maybe you're having hypnopompic hallucination---a form of hallucination commonly encountered by those just awoken...it's actually quite normal.

 

[gsdx]

^ I don't think so. It went on too long. (I don't just wake up and get out of bed. With my back problems, it takes several minutes just to get into a sitting position.)

 

[Corny]

your chance for 5 minutes of fame! claim it were aliens, go on national television with it

 

[ChickenGuy]

For a moment, I thought it might have been that really bright fireball that streaked across the Midwest.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/15/midwest.fireball/index.html?hpt=P1

But the time, not to mention the day doesn't match up.

 

[Críostóir]

Was a woman named Melinda Gordon in the yard, talking to (apparently) no one?

 

[orton86]

That's pretty creepy..

 

[Joshua_me]

There are all sorts of dimensions that coexist with ours. Some believe they are basically atop one another in ways we cannot explain from our third dimensional level of consciousness.

Might have been a spirit, might have been a life form that got lost along the way...

Otherworldly energy is often referred to as light. "Step into the light" , "I am the light" and so on...

I'd pay it no mind, except perhaps to find a bit of comfort from the experience.

 

[Sunshine]

Thats some pretty nifty drafting. =)

As for the lights.... it was totally Lord Voldemort murderin' yer parents.

 

[mega]

 

[gsdx]

You left the fridge open?

The light source was in the entryway. The fridge is in the kitchen beside the back door. When the fridge door opens at night, it lights up the entire kitchen.

 

[freefall]

^ I don't think so. It went on too long. (I don't just wake up and get out of bed. With my back problems, it takes several minutes just to get into a sitting position.)

Actually, some hallucinations can take minutes before they disappear. Trust me.

 

[erobert]

Strange.

Did you go to the entryway and look at the light directly? How old is your house BTW? It could have been anything really. I don't know what kind of light source would make a glowing light in the entryway unless it was coming from inside the house.

It may have even been a glowing Mr. Burn's:

 

[gsdx]

Strange.

Did you go to the entryway and look at the light directly? How old is your house BTW?

The house is very old (19th century). It's 'Heritage' listed.

Yes, I did go to check. I had to go through the entryway to the kitchen to let Boots out the back door. In fact, Boots beat me there and I could see her clearly as she passed through the light into the kitchen. No hissing. No hackles. No nothing. Just a desire to go outside.

I checked the small window as I passed, but no cars, no strange people with flash lights, no visible light sources anywhere.

Whatever the source was, it must have come through the small window beside the kitchen doorway. It was rather dim, glowed steadily, and didn't flicker or move. And it faded in and out instead of instant on/instant off.

I've lived here for several years. I know what the lights from the neighbours look like, and I know what the car lights look like. Whatever it was, I've never seen it before.

And I wasn't hallucinating.

 

[jrocksnumberrr1]

why didnt you go see what it was?

 

[andysayshi]

Northern lights?

 

[gsdx]

why didnt you go see what it was?

Have you not been reading? I did go to see what it was, but it was gone before I got there.

 

[DualPurpose]

And I wasn't hallucinating.

But sure that is the point. A hallucination feels altogether real. In fact, straight from my medical textbook is the following:

"Seeing patterns, lights, beings, or objects that aren't there are common experiences of hallucinations in those not suffering from any major medical, neurological or psychological conditions. These hallucinations do not normally appear for more than a few minutes and often fade away slowly once the subconscious has begun to realise that what it is seeing is not actually real. This may not be consciously obvious to the person and many patients do not come to this conclusion."

It continues with perhaps irrelevant stuff until this point:

"Fatigue or tiredness are often causes of hallucination in the sane. Many experience such sensations as moving shadows, spiders crawling on their bed, fading lights in the corner of their room, or feelings of a presence in the room. These are normally experienced when awoken in the middle of the night, or after waking from sleep — typically before the patient has had enough sleep."

Anyone jumping to paranormal conclusions when their is proven, scientific and medical evidence is just quite funny.

But of course, you'll all argue with anything that makes sense just because ghosts are more exciting.

DP.

 

[erobert]

I still don't know what it was but it probably wasn't anything paranormal because animals will be the first one's to let you know about strange things going on.

If it happens again be sure to grab a camera and post some pics.