In response to my post on creepy hooded entities appearing in the night, a reader wrote me of their own experiences of such:

My “hooded figures” in the night are wimpy compared to the other experiences reported. Occasionally when I fall asleep with the light on, I wake up to a state of being under observation from outside the bedroom window. It’s as if the bedroom was actually in a lab or under surveillance, with a number of technicians or scientists outside discussing the power or illumination grid, disrupted by the anomalous bedroom light. (The room seems to have a number as if it is part of large array.) This fades quickly as I fully wake up, but it feels much more real than a dream, and really creepy as well.

Come to think of it, that sounds a whole lot like the plot of the movie Monsters, Inc… hm.

Anyway, he offered some theories to explain this phenomenon as well. The most interesting was that maybe these and other entities are “nothing more” than subconscious processes which are accidentally made visible during hypnagogic states. Seems sort of cool and reminds me of something I heard (not sure where) about how according to certain systems of traditional medicine, there are gods or other entities which are associated with various organs. Dreams or encounters with these beings may indicate problems with them. I’ll have to look around for where I found that…