Emma Woods: My Sleep Disorder - Video Clip 1

My Sleep Disorder - Video Clip 1

January 6, 2004

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I have presented here a video clip of myself writing a note with my left hand while asleep, on January 6, 2004.

The video clip has been cropped to remove potentially identifying details, and my face has been masked. I was a research subject of "alien abduction" researcher, Dr. David Jacobs, of Temple University, for a number of years, and in March 2004 I sent him a copy of the original video recording which was not cropped or masked, and a photocopy of the note.

While asleep, on January 6, 2004, I reached behind me for a
piece of paper and a pen that were on my bed, wrote a note
with my left hand, and then put the paper and pen back on
the bed behind me.

A note that I wrote with my left hand while
asleep on January 6, 2004.

My Sleep Disorder

I engage in a range of complex behaviors while asleep, and I appear to meet The American Sleep Disorders Association's minimum criteria for a diagnosis of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder.

For further information about my sleep disorder see:

• My Sleep Disorder

Writing the Note in My Sleep on January 6, 2004

On January 6, 2004, I went to bed at 1:25 a.m.. I recorded this on a piece of paper that I had on my bed writing:

"1.25 AM light out"

Underneath that I wrote:

"Slept"

(I was recording the times that I slept so that I could correlate that data with my anomalous experiences later. I also recorded the fact that I had turned the light off, as I sometimes woke in the morning with the light turned on but with no memory of how it had happened.)

I then went to sleep.

At 1:50 a.m., I am seen on the video recording writing a note with my left hand, although I am predominantly right handed.

On the top line I wrote:

"[illegible] to show something"

This was partly written over the top of the note recording the time that I went to bed.

I wrote the word "something" partly over the top of itself, so that the letters appear jumbled.

Underneath that I wrote:

"doesn't concern us"

Below that I wrote:

"[illegible] - ouo [illegible] up"

Altogether, the note says:

"[illegible] to show something doesn't concern us [illegible] - ouo [illegible] up"