January 12, 2013 – While I was
being awakened several times per hour in anticipation of the New Year holiday,
I had time to think about the content of the December 30, 2012 blog post. The
thoughts that came up included further elaboration on the dreams I would rebel
against. The reason I would become so upset with what was occurring in my dream
is because it violated my values and mores. I don’t remember having experienced
this phenomenon before starting to live at the homeless shelter in Phoenix, AZ.
They say that a person cannot be made to do something that violates their core
values, even when hypnotized. Maybe this is what has been occurring in my
dreams.
Last night, for the first time in
about a month, I did not remember waking repeatedly during the night. However,
I did not feel well when I awoke, but I could not put my finger on why. I forgot
to save a data file that contained the DC voltages that my body produced during
the night. I also forgot to upload the data file for the overnight pulse
oximeter recording into my laptop. These habit/memory lapses raised some red
flags in my mind and I began to wonder whether I had suffered some mild brain
damage during the night.
I had trouble organizing my morning
so that I could go for a run around Tempe Lake. I also noticed I was unusually,
but mildly irritable and impatient with myself. It took me longer than expected
to get ready for my exercise run. When I was returning to my apartment, I
noticed that I had trouble reasoning or remembering the ethical consequences of
obeying traffic laws, or why I shouldn’t take a bag of grocery items someone
left outside a neighbor’s door. I had no use for these items, but I was alarmed
by the fact that the thought even went through my head. After returning to my
apartment I began to lift weights, using a routine that I had been using since
last summer. During the second set, I forgot the order of the exercises, which
is a first for me.
When I look back on the events of
this morning I see a pattern where my memory is not functioning properly,
including my moral and ethical memory. This is not the first time I’ve
experienced this phenomenon. As far as I can remember, this happened once before
during the summer of 2012. What made me remember this event is that I was
listening to a radio program about some catastrophe someplace in the world and
could not remember why I should feel bad for the suffering people. During the
previous night I had experienced vivid dreams.
The sudden loss of my moral and
ethical memory has occurred twice over the past year and always upon waking. This
morning I had a dream about a situation of danger. The first part of the dream
involved a nameless and largely faceless character who was protecting me and
another child from grave danger. This created a right and wrong scenario, where
personal protection trumped social norms of right, wrong, and the rule of law.
The feeling the dream created was one of moral ambiguity, in addition to the
driving need to protect myself and the child from grave danger. I was reminded
of how spy movies sometimes create a morally and ethically ambiguous
atmosphere, where the concept of right and wrong becomes a casualty of state agendas.
It was within this morally
ambiguous dream when a person suddenly shows up. This thrusts me immediately
into being the adult protecting myself and loved ones from danger. I
immediately put a bullet in the man’s head with a silenced pistol, which is consistent
with the ‘spy movie’ theme. I don’t remember ever having killed someone before
in my dreams, so when I woke from this dream at about 6 am exactly, I felt
disturbed by the content of the dream and by the realization that I killed
someone in my dreams. I do remember that the actual act of killing was very
rushed, as if it took less than five seconds, and that my eyes were the only
part of me that I recognized as the real me in this part of the dream. It was
as if I experienced a sudden rush of adrenaline and rage that blocked out all
other thoughts, which again is not something I’ve experienced in a dream
before. Please don’t be too concerned, I don’t own any guns and have no desire
to own any, and these strange “dreams-not-my-own” only happen when I’m asleep
(or unconscious).
As I mentioned in a previous post
(12/30/12), these vivid dreams do not feel like they are a product of my mind.
After nearly 56 years of sleep, I should know. I started to take notes on my
dream experiences since moving to Tempe, Arizona in early 2011 and quickly
noticed that the dream content often lack fine detail, a rich texture, or a
rich emotional content, and since July, 2011, seem to lack warmth and even feel
indifferent or hostile. Another troubling transition since moving to Tempe,
Arizona is that I began to experience vivid dreams during the first hours of my
sleep period, which is something I suspect cannot occur naturally. On October
29, 2011, I noted in my journal that after waking from a vivid dream, I began
to replay the dream consciously with my eyes closed. As I was going through
this process the visual information suddenly became scrambled for one to two
seconds. The top half of my visual field in both eyes suddenly blurred and
began to scroll from left to right rapidly. The bottom half of my visual field
did the same thing, only in the opposite direction. I do not have a
neurological explanation for this experience and I suspect there is none that
could be natural in nature.
Occasionally my forehead and temple
regions would ache dully after waking from these dreams. Sometimes I would
check the temperature and invariably the temple temperatures are above 100º F (CVS Temple
Thermometer, $30). This temple thermometer adds a correction factor so that the
measured temperature will be an estimate of the person’s core temperature. My
oral thermometer on the other hand, does not correct the measured temperature. At
the same time that my head temperatures indicate a fever, my digital oral
thermometer typically ranges between 96.6 and 97.0º F.
This temperature differential,
which is not due to poorly performing thermometers (I’ve checked their
performance using a tub of warm water and get the same oral reading using a
mercury thermometer), is one of the reasons I have begun using the term
“Outside-In Syndrome.” Forehead and temple temperatures are almost always
warmer than the estimated core temperature, which is biologically impossible at
ambient room temperatures for a normal healthy person. Consistent with my
outside-in syndrome theory, my scalp has been frequently painful to the touch
in the morning and CAT and MRI imaging scans have revealed the top of my skull
is losing bone mass and my cortex is shrinking. For the past year I have
frequently woken during the night with my left eyelid glued to my eyeball and
the skin above my left eyebrow is often irritated and occasionally flaky. The
temperature of the left temple is almost invariably warmer than the right in
the mornings and this phenomenon has been documented most mornings for over a
year. An EEG performed in November 2011 found mild structural problems with the
left temple/frontal lobe. When combining these different measures, it is hard
not to conclude that the left temple/prefrontal lobe/Sylvan fissure area is
being targeted every night while asleep.
The superior temporal gyrus has
important connections to the limbic system, which is important for language
production, interpretation, and self-monitoring of language use (
sunburst.usd.edu/~cliff/Courses/Advanced%20Seminars%20in%20Neuroendocrinology/Affect/Sun09.pdf).
In patients with schizophrenia, dysfunction of this brain region is believed to
be causally related to the production of auditory hallucinations and
disorganized thinking. In other words, structural deficiencies in the superior
temporal gyrus region, primarily on the left side in adults who are right
handed, can create symptoms of language-related psychosis.
Maybe this suggests that I am a guinea
pig for testing the effects of radio frequency-mediated damage to this area and
whether such damage can elicit psychosis? Or, they have already established
that this is possible and I am being socially and politically marginalized by
damaging this area of my brain. It should be noted that not all brain imaging
studies that have looked for structural deficiencies in the superior temporal
gyrus found evidence to support this theory, but many have.
In support of my allegations, I
present a graphical representation below of the voltage that my body produces
while sleeping. The metal portion of a ground wrist strap is held against the
skin of my left forehead, just above my lateral left eye orbit, by a knit ski
cap while sleeping. The other end of the ground strap lead is connected to the
positive input to a digital multimeter (DMM, TekPower TP4000ZC, only $30 on
Amazon) with data-logging capabilities. The DMM is set to measure DC voltage. The
negative lead of the DMM is connected to electrical ground for my apartment.
It should be noted that when I
short myself across the DMM to ground, the voltage is lost, and when I release
the ground wire the voltage continues its original trajectory as if no charge
had been lost. In other words, if the voltage had been gradually increasing
when I short myself to ground, when I release the ground wire the voltage
measured by the DMM is the same voltage as if I had never touched the ground
wire. I interpret this experiment to indicate that the electrical charge my
body is holding is being continually replenished by an external energy source,
which means this is not merely a static electrical charge. In addition, when I
measured current across an appropriate impedance load I was able to get
measurable readings at regular intervals resembling the pattern of spikes
presented in the figure below. In this figure, the X-axis is seconds and the
Y-axis is millivolts. The clock time represented in the figure is from 10:01:00
pm to 07:06:00 am the next morning, from the evening of February 21, 2013 to the morning of February 22.
What this figure shows, I believe,
is the timing of radio frequency pulses to my body while sleeping. These pulses
are represented by the large magnitude voltage spikes in the data and the more
minor deviations from the steady state voltage. I do not know if these spikes
represent hits to my forehead or elsewhere on my body, because I get the same
pattern when the ground strap is connected to my wrist. I do not know what the
steady state background voltage represents, but my current working hypothesis
is that it may represent the energy absorbed by radar surveillance equipment.
This theory is based on my observation that the DMM lead wires can also pick up
measurable electrical energy on their own, which suggests to me that my bedroom
is being saturated by some sort of a radio frequency beam, like that produced
by radar surveillance equipment.
