"Myths are public dreams,
dreams are private myths" -
Joseph Campbell
Vladimir Propp, literary
theorist, thought that Russian
folktales could be seen as variations of a few underlying
plot elements. Generally, a
preliminary situation is
followed by "misfortune or
lack" and then by a sequence
of events that repairs what misfortune or lack disturbed.
The trickster figure mischief-
maker and thief is one of the
prime movers of the narrative.
He gets the story moving and
it comes to an end when he and his mischief have been
dealt with.
There are only a few ways to
deal with the trickster. A
limited number of plots. From
the threshold there are only a few ways the trickster can
move. He can come inside, he
can leave entirely, or he can
stay exactly where he started,
resisting all attempts to
civilize or exile. From the tricksters point of view,
staying on the threshold is the
ideal. It gives us the plot that
never resolves, the endlessly
strung-together Coyote tales
each linked to each with the phrase "Coyote was going
along..."
Awakened consciousness is
the potential end of the
narrative, without it the tale
can go on and on, another night, another season...
another unconscious
projection of the trickster
archetype that we can't
withdraw and can't exile.
"The so-called civilized man has forgotten the trickster. He
remembers him only
figuratively and
metaphorically, when, irritated
by his own ineptitude, he
speaks of fate playing tricks on him or of things being
bewitched. He never suspects
that his own hidden and
apparently harmless shadow
has qualities whose
dangerousness exceeds his wildest dreams." -Carl Jung
The trickster figure is more
than a mere story, more than a
mere metaphor. It's an
archetype of the collective
unconscious. It's part of us, and our minds project it "out
there" in symbolic, poetic,
cryptic, semi-autonomous
thought-forms that change
from culture to culture, age to
age, person to person, religion to religion.
In our modern space-age
culture, it has taken the form
of UFOs for many people. The
archetype is projected "out
there" in UFO form where it is seen by many people. A public
dream that is solid enough for
radar to bounce off of.
But how can that be, you ask?
If UFOs are mere projections,
then there shouldn't be any physical evidence, right? Radar
can't bounce off a dream... you
can't take a photograph of a
psychic object, can you?
"Oh yes, this is an important
point to make, which the flying saucer people are
forever misunderstanding, and
that is that saying the flying
saucer is a psychic object does
not mean it is not a physical
object. Jung in Mysterium Coniunctionis is at great pains
to say that the realm of the
psychic and the realm of the
physical meet in a strange kind
of never-never land that we
have yet to create the intellectual tools to explore.
This is where the mystery of
synchronicity is going to come
to rest, the mystery of all kinds
of paranormal activity on the
part of human beings, and the mystery of the flying saucer." -
Terence McKenna
Enter the paranormal powers
of the human mind. Enter
psychic ability. Enter our
unconscious and collective mind-over-matter ability.
We are all psychic, and we are
mostly ignorant of that fact.
But our ignorance of that fact
doesn't mean that our minds
don't utilize that ability unconsciously. People who
don't believe in psychic ability
are still using it, unconsciously,
even to protect their disbelief.
It's called the sheep-goat
effect. It was discovered by Gertrude Schmeidler.
"The data convinced me.
Repeatedly, average ESP scores
of subjects who rejected any
possibility of ESP success
(whom I called goats) were lower than average ESP scores
of all other subjects (whom I
called sheep). This was
inexplicable by the physical
laws we knew; it implied
unexplored processes in the universe, an exciting new field
for research. From then on,
naturally, my primary research
interest was parapsychology."
-Gertrude Schmeidler
"Goats", or test subjects who don't believe in psychic ability,
unconsciously use their hidden
psychic ability to suppress
evidence that contradicts their
conscious belief-system
resulting in low scores. "Sheep" are test subjects who
believe in psychic ability and
so they have nothing to fear
from high scores. So their
psychic ability comes forth to
conscious awareness much easier.
"The sheep thought they could
do it, they got "good" scores,
they were happy. The goats
knew there was no ESP,
nothing to get, they got poor scores, they were happy, that
"proved" their belief. These
were not people who were
sophisticated enough about
statistics to know that scoring
below chance could be significant…
Many other experimenters
replicated this effect over the
years.
The only way I've ever been
able to understand it is to think that the goats
occasionally used ESP, but on
an unconscious level, to know
what the next card was and
then their unconscious, acting
in the service of their conscious belief system,
influenced them to call
anything but the correct one." -
Charles Tart
The same sort of thing is going
on all the time, but on a much wider scale. We are
sleepwalking through life, our
minds are not really awake,
and so we are unconsciously
using our hidden (and
sometimes not so hidden) psychic ability (including mind-
over-matter) to project
archetypes of the collective
unconscious such as the
trickster "out there" in psycho-
physical form, where they can support and perhaps even
guide our belief-systems...
...but they will never land on
the White House lawn. They
can't. The jig would be up.
They are us.

my summary of it in relation to boarding school paranorma phenomena accross nigeria is that there is/there are thoughts that every boarding school student harbours in his/her subconcious that when projected out at the sametime intersects to collectively form a sort of day dreaming in form of footsteps sounds(miss koi koi) or baby cries or even night dreams in cases where boarders wake up to narrate the same dreams(ussually horrific).

An hypothesis is that the miss koi koi and bush baby stories where first told by a house master/mistress to persuade the boarders to go bed early these stories probably sank to the subconscious mind of every boarder as it spread nationwide thereby facilitating a mass conciousness grid through which these subconscious thoughts reveberate and intersect with oneanother at different syncs to form the public dreams reported as "miss koi koi" and the rest of them.