Writing Psi Subconscious

Subconscious Trickster? [PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 31 (JULY, 2004) OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH'S `PARANORMAL REVIEW' ]

One Saturday in February 1999 I woke from an afternoon nap in my bedroom and noticed a wet patch in the middle of the room. The carpet was soaked in an almost perfect circle. I couldn't understand how the liquid, which was odourless and slightly sticky, could have got there, as there were no pipes under the floorboards, no leak in the ceiling and I kept no liquids in the room. The pool was definitely not there before I fell asleep and I was the only person in the house that day. However, on the previous day I had read about a poltergeist case featuring a similar pool of liquid appearing from nowhere, and assumed that, influenced by this, I must have sleepwalked and spilt the liquid myself - although I have never to my knowledge been prone to somnabulism. About a year later, in my office in central London around mid-morning, I felt a `stone' in my shoe. But it turned out to be a small flat key inside my sock, measuring just over 2 x 1 cm. Interestingly, on the train journey into work that morning I had been reading a section of Colin Wilson's Alien Dawn relating to apports! It is probable that the key, presumably lying around the house, had somehow dropped into my sock without me noticing; but while my son said it `looked familiar', no-one in the household positively identified it. Also, it is extraordinary how I walked two miles to the station that morning without noticing any discomfort, which didn't arise until after reading that section of Wilson's book.