I can’t say how often those encounters happened. Sometimes I would just hear the soft sound of footsteps in the house, and I’d fall asleep shortly after sensing them approaching—or simply feeling their presence next to me.
I think I was about 14 years old. There was a different kind of dream, a sad one. I woke up in the middle of the night, sitting on the bed, with my hand lifted as if I had just finished shaking someone’s hand (and I’ve never been a sleepwalker). It felt like a farewell gesture, accompanied by the echo of a whisper: “We will still be here, but in a different form.” I was sad. I wasn’t happy about it at all. And yet, the connection was still alive. A desire, or perhaps an invitation, was emerging: I was meant to talk about this connection to other people.
I thought they meant right away, by sharing my experiences with those I knew at the time. So much I still had to learn. Let’s just say the result wasn’t what I had imagined.
In the days following “that farewell,” I could still feel the connection running under my skin. And before anyone jumps to totally off-base conclusions: no, I’m not referring to technology implants under my skin. I’m talking about a deep inner sense of recognition. It wasn’t a disoriented or sticky “idea” that invades your mind and perception, creating a gloomy atmosphere or an invisible fence you can’t cross. It was a liberating awareness.
Before opening up to people, I tried some “sanity checks” at home. Like, “If we’re really connected, make the teacups on the TV vibrate,” and similar things.
Then I had the brilliant idea to share a bit of all this with a friend, thinking it might take our friendship to a new level of depth and authenticity. So, I thought I’d start from the end:
“You know, over the years I’ve realized I have a connection with these Beings. Strange things happen. I feel it’s important to talk to people about it, and to be sure I’m on the right path, I asked the Universe for some signs… and it looks like I got them.”
Meanwhile, I was all worried about how she’d react.
To use an understatement, the result of that step was not a great success, it went far worse than I had hoped.
I felt hurt and betrayed. Not by my friend, but by my trust in those Beings. My trust in the connection itself. I open up because I listen to myself, because I honour the value of what I experience… and people react like that? I open up and then get treated like this?!
So, I started to close another door. Offended. Angry.
Not as much as I would be a few years later, though. It was 1993 when I saw a movie that told the story of an alien abduction, a terrifying one, occurred in the U.S. years before. Let’s just say I was somewhere between furious and outraged—not to mention the fear chords it struck. “Is this supposed to represent our connection?!” Absolutely not. I’m not a pawn used by mean Beings taking advantage of my naivety!
None of these reactions were wrong. I’m well aware that some people have gone through terrifying experiences. I’m not here to invalidate anyone’s story, let that be clear, and I’m not even playing the think positive card.
Those Beings I interacted with were not ill-intentioned, as I believed back then. Today, luckily, there are more experts who can accompany people to integrate similar experiences and find greater tranquillity. For sure, there are different degrees of awareness, both among experiencers and those who help to unravel the experiences.
There are also people who just leave everything as it is, without digging deeper or letting the truth of the events emerge. The emotions involved in these situations are intense and directly affect our sense of safety.
To understand what happens when we avoid dealing with our unresolved issues, we only have to look at the distortions that social conditioning creates within our perception of reality. Emotional traumas do the same for years. Then there are those people who like to ride on unresolved emotions, their own and others’, to get a hold of people, feeding their frustration. Basically, they create a snowball effect, which does no good: all it does is magnify such vibration and that is what is spread.
Experiences with alien Beings throw you into a space beyond our control, where our mind suddenly loses all reference points that felt safe or at least familiar in the blink of an eye.
Personally, I would never choose to be helped by someone who might influence the process with their own interpretation, consciously or not, shaping the “solution of the problem.”
I wouldn’t choose someone I don’t feel comfortable with, or who can’t create a safe, interference-free space (personal and environmental) during those moments. They’re delicate times, extremely vulnerable and easily influenced.
But that, to be clear, is just my opinion.
Competence in this field is a prerequisite. Every one of these events together with the person experiencing them is a complex and multi-faceted sphere that challenges us to acknowledge that the extraordinary is already part of the ordinary. It demands a space of exploration that creates a safe, protected space that knows how to truly listen with compassion and humility but never exploit people.
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