Dec 23, 2025 05:27 AM
From Greek mythology, the tribe of Dreams or the Oneiroi were creatures neither human nor divine--a different race from men altogether who were born from the darkest subterranean regions of the earth called "Chthon". Hence their dark and fearsome and tricksterish nature, perhaps shedding light on later reputed paranormal encounters with black-eyed children, sleep paralysis hags, incubi, shadow figures, and maybe even the bug-eyed Greys of modern abductee lore.
"In Hesiod's Theogony, the "tribe of Dreams" was descended from Nyx and were, among others, brothers of Hypnos (sleep) and Thanatos (death),[5] also residents of the underworld.[6] The Oneiroi, who dwelt on the dark shores of the western ocean,[7] were described by Euripides as more frightening chthonic deities. In his Hecuba, the protagonist prays to "lady Earth (Chthon)" calling her "mother of the black-winged dreams".[8] Euripides' Oneiroi differ from the nearly playful Homeric Dreams that are seen bending over the dreamer's head and engaging in conversations. They are described as being born out of the Earth's dark womb; they descend not from the nourishing agricultural mother Earth, but from a darker, more primordial version, known as Chthon.[9] In Homeric texts, the Dreams are not represented as an experience, a product of an individual's subconscious, but rather as visual images, human-like figures that present themselves to the dreamer. As such, the Homeric characters speak of 'seeing' a dream, rather than 'having' one."---------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_dr...mythology)
“Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on very deep levels, playing in the bandwidth of dream, weaving imagination & reality together until they begin to seem what they probably are - different aspects of a single continuum. To really begin to perceive the visitors adequately it is going to be necessary to invent a new discipline of vision, one that combines the mystic's freedom of imagination with the substantial intellectual rigor of the scientist.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story
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"In Hesiod's Theogony, the "tribe of Dreams" was descended from Nyx and were, among others, brothers of Hypnos (sleep) and Thanatos (death),[5] also residents of the underworld.[6] The Oneiroi, who dwelt on the dark shores of the western ocean,[7] were described by Euripides as more frightening chthonic deities. In his Hecuba, the protagonist prays to "lady Earth (Chthon)" calling her "mother of the black-winged dreams".[8] Euripides' Oneiroi differ from the nearly playful Homeric Dreams that are seen bending over the dreamer's head and engaging in conversations. They are described as being born out of the Earth's dark womb; they descend not from the nourishing agricultural mother Earth, but from a darker, more primordial version, known as Chthon.[9] In Homeric texts, the Dreams are not represented as an experience, a product of an individual's subconscious, but rather as visual images, human-like figures that present themselves to the dreamer. As such, the Homeric characters speak of 'seeing' a dream, rather than 'having' one."---------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_dr...mythology)
“Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on very deep levels, playing in the bandwidth of dream, weaving imagination & reality together until they begin to seem what they probably are - different aspects of a single continuum. To really begin to perceive the visitors adequately it is going to be necessary to invent a new discipline of vision, one that combines the mystic's freedom of imagination with the substantial intellectual rigor of the scientist.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story