‘It was in December or January that the incident happened. I believe it was either late afternoon or early evening. It was very cloudy and I believe there had been a thunderstorm or was about to be a thunderstorm. The sky was very dark. I looked out my bedroom window and saw a being made of light. I recall the being as female and as hovering. I climbed out the window and I remember I could smell rain and could feel it spitting. I went towards the being and reached out to hold her hand. I recall it felt like I was next to a fire. The parts of my body that were close to her were very warm while the other side of me was chilly. Just before my hand touched her, my memory of the event ends quite abruptly.’ ‘Humanoid. Made of light. She faced me, so I couldn’t see if there were wings or not.’ ‘I named the experience ‘fairy’ at the time that it occurred.’ ‘Fairies probably do not exist.’ ‘I suffered a head injury earlier in the same year, and have since had experiences of lost time, visual, auditory, tactile and smell/taste hallucinations. EEG tests that show that I have anomalies in my right temporal lobe that mirror to the left temporal lobe.’
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Queensland, Australia
1980s
Female: Age 11-20
never or almost never has supernatural experiences
‘in my backyard (not a garden)’
can’t remember the time
two to ten minutes
on my own
No special state reported
no fairy mood reported
loss of sense of time, profound silence before the experience, unusually vivid memories of the experience