Have you ever laid in a dark room and gradually

seen random images like people or portals into

other places? Not everyone has this experience
and it may be linked to forms of autism where the
dream world leaks into waking vision. It happens to
me, and I'll admit that in the past it used to be a bit
scary at times. I can well understand why this
would have been even scarier in the dark ages,
and why they may have been interpreted as
spiritual visions or prophecies when a child
innocently told it's parents about the images it was
seeing.