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‘I was between seven to nine years old, and I was lying in bed. I had trouble sleeping as a child so while I was fully awake, I was tired. There was a streetlight right outside my bedroom window and the drawn curtains were very thin and unlined. I had a very deep windowsill, basically a filled-in bay window. I was lying in bed with the lights out but, due to the streetlight outside, the room was not dark but filled with the sickly orange glow typical of a residential light back then. I was trying to go to sleep, but my eyes were open, and I was looking towards the window. I clearly saw two shadows cast on the curtains of a pair of pixies and they were dancing across my windowsill from right to left. I think they were holding hands and they were sort of skipping and twirling their way across. As they got to the far end of the windowsill, they disappeared. I was certain they were pixies because they looked exactly like that – not sure of the exact defining features just that they looked like a ‘typical’ pixie from books etc. I can’t remember if I got up to look behind the curtain, but I wasn’t scared. I remember feeling very lucky and happy that I’d got to experience something so amazing. I also felt a sense of relief that life was just as magical as I hoped it to be, and that the boring monotony of daily life was not as all-encompassing as it felt.’ ‘Typical pixies.’ ‘What I saw was clearly two pixies. I’ve seen ghosts and have always felt fear in those situations. There was no fear at all in this experience. It was magical!’ ‘I loved the Flower Fairies as a child, but don’t really think about fairies at all as an adult. I’m open-minded and have had two experiences of fairies but I’m not sure what they are and if they truly exist.’