So do you still get some symptoms like that if at all rarely? I had a lot of those other experiences but never accounted something like aliens lol.
Unfortunately I don't experience these gnome hallucinations anymore, because I would love to analyze them as rational adult, rather than as a frightened child, as I was during the period that I used to regularly see them. I used to see them almost every night while I was in bed, just before going to sleep.
The most frightening thing about these gnomes was their deep black eyes that stared at you with a piercing intensity, giving a feeling that these gnomes were highly conscious entities, and their intense conscious awareness could be seen in their eyes. It was not as if these gnomes were just there doing their own thing in my bedroom; no, their entire interest and attention was focused on me. Very scary for a child. I used to half hide under the blankets of my bed at night in fear, looking at these gnomes, who were looking directly back at me.
There was a variable number of gnomes: at first, one would just appear on his own, standing on top of the wardrobe; but soon after another would appear standing right next to the first, and then a third would appear. But there were never ever more than three gnomes, for some reason. But all three would be focusing intense attention on me.
I think these gnomes or elves are probably a variation on the aliens seen during alien abduction experiences. I never had any such abduction experience, or anything like it, just gnomes. And these gnomes never did anything else but stand still on top of the wardrobe, staring intently at me with piercing black eyes.
Gnome hallucinations have a long history. Gnomes are part of the Irish folklore, and the folklore of Nordic countries.
In Iceland, belief in the existence of elves is so significant that recently
a highway project was canceled because it was thought that the new road might disturb the elf environment!
And these gnomes can't just be regular hallucinations, because only gnome figures are seen. If you research into the gnome hallucinations seen in Iceland for example, it seems their visual form is consistent from person to person. If they were just regular hallucinations, you would expect each person to see entirely different visual forms and figures, concocted by their own particular imagination.
Likewise with alien abductions: from what I have read, the entities have the same visual form, consisting of large eyes and smooth faces. Kind of the diametric opposite of the gnomes, which have deeply furrowed faces like that of a very, very old man. It seems to me that these entities might be sort of facial archetypes or templates in the mind. That might explain the consistency of hallucination from person to person.
The most amazing thing was that much later on, I discovered in conversation that my father also saw exactly the same brown gnome when he was a child. We both discussed the visual details of these gnomes we saw, and both our experiences seemed to be identical. My father also saw the gnomes appear in exactly the same place as I did: they would appear standing in the shadowy area on top of a tall wardrobe in his childhood bedroom at night. And in his case, he saw these not in the UK like me, but in another country, where he was brought up. So I am presuming that the temporal lobe epilepsy or temporal lobe instability that likely underpins these gnome hallucinations is in part genetic, passed down to me from my father.
There is some interesting info about temporal lobe epilepsy symptoms here:
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy | Doctor | Patient.co.uk
In the above link it states that one possible symptom of a TLE seizure is
seeing your own body from outside. That must be quite an amazing phenomenon to experience.
This
seeing your own body from outside is very interesting in that such experiences are sometimes reported in near-death experiences, where a patient may have had a heart attack on the operating table, and during the 10 minutes or so that the medics are trying to get the patient's heart re-started, when the patient is technically dead, this patient may experience seeing his own body, and all the doctors frantically working around his body, from a perspective outside his body, typically from a top corner of the operating theatre room.
One study discovered that individuals who have had a near-death experience (NDE) were found to have temporal lobe epilepsy or altered temporal lobe functioning in their left cerebral hemisphere. Individuals who have had such NDEs thus appear to have a different brain physiology from the general population, due to their altered temporal lobe activity. So it may be that these near-death experience are in fact a symptom and manifestation of temporal lobe epilepsy.