Did you know…? The story of Mister Sandman or the sandman spans centuries. In fact, its origins may stretch back even further than our literary history can tell us. Which means it is possible that anyone who has encountered the elusive being may have mistaken it as one of hundreds of mythological creatures throughout time.
From the early aboriginal cave drawings of ‘star-people’, to the baroque illustrations of the incubus, there are countless similarities between these mythological creatures across all cultures. The fairy-tale version of an entity created by Hans Christian Andersen in the 1800’s describes a being who weaves our dreams and crafts our nightmares, while Morpheus from Greek mythology sends human-like shapes to unsuspecting sleepers.
Extraordinary similarities also exist between the familiar folktale figure of Mister Sandman and present-day alien abductions. Pat Ballard’s original lyrics for the famous song Mr. Sandman read: “Please turn on your magic beam… Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream”, which uncannily evokes similar imagery to the thousands of victims who experience beams of light during their abduction experiences – and the use of a needle-like wand to put them to sleep.
So what if it were possible? What if we are all seeing only what we have been conditioned to see by our belief systems and culture? What if no single story of a dark, twilight traveller is true, but in fact ALL of them are true — and they are all one in the same?
