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‘I was napping on a bed in my grandparents’ finished basement after school. The basement had small windows but was mainly underground and thus lit with artificial light, which was on. I was looking directly at the ceiling, focusing on a place where the drop ceiling tiles had been taped up in a design that looked like an owl. As I was looking at the owl I began to gradually have the impression of dust motes glowing from being caught in direct light coalescing above my head. They were golden, but began to shimmer through the rainbow spectrum at the edge of my field of vision. As they coalesced they became clearly a dragonfly wrought in golden filigree, although any given piece of filigree would temporarily fade if I focused on it. The dragonfly was three to four feet above me on the bed and about two to three feet long. It hovered above my head for about five minutes, then gradually more of the filigree dust motes would fade out than were replaced elsewhere in the body of the dragonfly until it was totally gone. I was awake the entire time.’ ‘A fairy implies a semi-supernatural being that is still of our environment but without some directing purpose to its actions.’ ‘I am certain that at least some people who experience fairies/aliens are having real encounters that are not currently explained.’