A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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Somerset, England 2010s
Female: Age 41-50 regular supernatural experiences
on or near water, inside a private house 3 am-6 am less than a minute on my own
you had just woken up or were just about to go to sleep, you were tired and hadn’t slept for a long time, you were very sad
no fairy mood reported
loss of sense of time, a sense that the experience was a display put on specially for you, unusually vivid memories of the experience

‘I was severely distressed, suffering from anxiety and nightmares. I could not sleep. I had fallen asleep and woke up. I was half awake. I heard music coming from a hill and there was the sound of water. The music got louder and louder. It was medieval type music. A huge thin man appeared, and he wanted to take me into the hill so I could get away from my suffering. He said come with me now and take your leave of this suffering place. I didn’t go with him as I was afraid. Then he left. Then all the fairies came out of the flowers and fairies came out of the birds and they flew around for a while and then they vanished. The fairies told me as they left that the black birds the crows were the guardians of the fairies.’ ‘Children’s playground, noise high pitched with a fairy medieval style drums.’ ‘They had wings and crowns’.