A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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Shropshire, England 2010s
Male: Age 61-70 occasional supernatural experiences
in woodland 12 pm-3 pm one to two minutes on my own
you were extremely happy [‘very content being in dense woodland again, I felt a connection with Oberon’]
curious, friendly
profound silence before the experience, a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, unusually vivid memories of the experience, a sudden warmth before the experience

‘I’d been walking in *** for the third time in three days and was using the name ‘Oberon’ as a mantra similar to a Buddhist monk might do. I then felt quite tired and propped myself up against an oak tree, an old one. I nodded off very quickly and for a matter of less than a minute, at the moment my eyes opened a roe deer appeared in front of me and looked then ran off into the wood, my eyes followed it. When they settled back on the view immediately in front of me there were three little beings there staring at me and looking at my bag with my flask in, they seemed very curious about me. One on the left was seemingly painting the face of the one on the right. Her face was in profile and she then turned round and faced me, she had big green leaves where her forehead was and a small pointed face with a small nose. Her face was white and she had what looked like eye liner around her eyes, they were small and dark. She stared at me and put her face close to mine and the suggestion was, ‘would you like yours done’? A telepathic thing I suppose. They then burrowed under leaves and logs and had gone. This was Sunday 15 May 2017.’ ‘Ok. I came home an hour or two later and I’d been racking my brain as to the form and colour of them. I thought I’d seen something similar decades ago in literature. I found the image online and it was a Brian Froud image. Similar to his work.’ ‘I think they [ghosts aliens etc] are all the same experience but the labeling is what defines them, check out Greg Bishop/Jeff Kripal/Jacques Vallee/Jeff Ritzmann/Alan Greenfield et al.’ ‘There was a wonderful clarity to the experience but it wasn’t unusual in my life. I was involved in Psychic Questing for many years and have experienced apports in stone circles and at home. What has interested me is that often when one person sees something and one or two people stand right next to them then they see it too. Same for UFOs, orbs etc etc.’