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‘I’m not sure this was a fairy but after reading your article in Fortean Times, I noticed similarities. Can I stress that I have good dream memory/recall and do not actively or intentionally astral travel. My experience was vivid and frightening, a complete one-off experience of this kind. My husband and I started to watch a film, but I wasn’t interested and went up to bed where I nodded off. I slept on the side furthest from the door. I became aware of looking down at myself from the ceiling over the door, standing at my side of the bed was a tall male figure (in form, no details). He glowed with a white/silvery light which only illuminated himself not the room. I then found myself sitting bolt upright in bed absolutely terrified. I scrambled over the bed and was halfway downstairs before I stopped. It was a threatening experience. No way was I going back so I went downstairs to talk to my husband on the pretence of not being able to sleep. Eventually I gathered myself together and did go back to bed and slept perfectly well. My husband said to me the following morning that he could tell I was upset but assumed the reason was a nightmare that I didn’t wish to share. I still believe there was someone or a being in the room and its intentions were not good.’ ‘Tall adult male, illuminated with a white/silvery glow. No characteristics or clothing.’ ‘I have had several ghostly encounters, and this did not feel like those. My initial thoughts were an alien but after having read other people’s experiences a fairy visit seems a possibility.’ What are fairies? ‘Unsure.’ ‘Man as a species has lost or forgotten abilities and knowledge that our forefathers took for granted. Science will, I believe, explain certain anomalies but we have much to learn and (re)discover.’