A survey of modern fairy experiences by Dr Simon Young

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Yorkshire, England 2020s
Female: Age 21-30 regular supernatural experiences
inside a private house 12 am-3 am no duration given on my own
you were tired and hadn’t slept for a long time, you had just had a burst of adrenalin (e.g. running upstairs); you were very sad, ‘I was extremely stressed due to being insulted a lot’
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, a sense that the experience marked a turning point in your life, a sudden chill before the experience

‘The night I experienced purified amazement. Date: sometime in July 2020. Time: after midnight. Place: ***, Yorkshire, England. After a day that seemed to run on the theme of detachment in respect of my mental awareness, I was running a bath whilst playing meditation music to try and de-stress. It had been an incredibly stressful day; and it could have been said that awareness of true ‘reality’ (on Earth, at least) had left me some hours previous, my general living situation being the contributing factor. During states in the past when likened to the one I have just mentioned, the more frequently they happened enabled me to build some awareness of what energy I was starting to, for want of a better phrase ‘tune in to’, at these particularly stressful moments. Many times, in my life I have questioned the possibility of other beings, likening them to ghosts or souls from another realm. This happened since I was a small child and having apparent imaginary friends (which I do not remember). What I do remember is seeing. There seemed to be an energy in the house that seemed ambiguous, and the bathroom in particular was where I felt it the strongest. I have always seen lights to some extent, floating around the room, being aware somehow that it wasn’t something common within the general human population. Slight movements of light in the bathroom at night were the first things that got my attention, almost floating in a cluster sometimes around the room, or human figure like, only appearing as a small child-like outline for the body. They could also appear as overly tall compared to the general adult, with their head reaching the ceiling, or growing as I scanned up the silhouette from the floor. Another thing I noticed were certain products on the shelves being moved, only slightly. The light switch I have is one that hangs down on a chord, and you have to pull it to turn the light on. This seemed to defy the laws of gravity on several occasions, with the string being turned into an almost ‘u’-shaped; with nothing physical doing this that I could see. I was always in a state of dissociation to some extent when this was happening. It made me question the truth I had placed on what I saw, in regards to needing glasses or just simply, pure delusion. All of this seemed to be leading to what I am about to describe, and I hope when reading this, you will take it with the same amount of sincerity as you would if you were to be told this by your oldest and most trusted friend. I speak from my heart. I was laid in the bath with my partner shouting in the background from the bedroom. I had locked the door [and] so tried to drown out the sound. I went into some sort of dissociation and was beginning to get subtle images appearing in my vision once I had started to divert my attention to the imagination so to speak, which generally signified more lights appearing around the room, either in quantity or them becoming brighter. My attention was drawn to the corner of the room near the door frame. There was a crack in the plaster; around one inch in diameter at the bottom on the skirting board, but it got missed by the paintbrush due to the frame covering it. From what I can describe it seemed to be a cluster of light coming from that area, small in measure but quick in growth. What I mean by quick is that the image was formed quicker than I could distinguish, like blinking your eye and the world shows something different than before in just one second. There seemed to be what appeared as several individuals dancing around each other, intermingling as if air was flowing through them, making the bodies connect slightly. I noticed one individual who stood out to me, with long blond hair and an almost cartoon face. I assumed female when considering the gender, but I am not quite sure. It seems to change in opinion every time I question this. I got the impression they were dancing through an air I was not in tune with. However, there was a clear strength to this and I felt drawn to the gold and red within the detail of their fluidity. After a while, a different type of image formed at the front of the dance. This being was clearly of a different physical form to what seemed to be humans behind him but smaller. I felt like it was male, and his eyes looked directly at me. They looked like they were surrounded by black makeup in a smiling flick design; almost gothic in style with being so black in this area of the face. However, the Tudor period springs to mind for some reason when I gave this more thought. The clothes were ballooned almost at the sleeves and at the knees of the trousers. He had black boots on and was dancing in an Irish ‘River dance’ fashion, only moving his legs and having his arms behind his back so I couldn’t see his hands. He was different to the human-type image I saw before he appeared; they were half his size and he stood at around two feet in height from the estimation of the three-foot bath height. I feel he was aware of their presence, and they could have been surrounding him in a cloud like way, floating. I did not feel like I was being invited to dance, but he had a smile on his face all the way through, never taking his eyes off of me. I must add that the smile was of a mischievous one and I felt like he had an arrogance about him that was quite alluring. I complemented the dance and his smile got wider. I liked that. I felt drawn to an energy I was aware of I couldn’t touch physically. I feel I should state I do not know why I cannot explain my knowledge of this, but I know I am certain of knowing it. This carried on for a while, but I do not know the exact time and I loved the entire experience. I aim to continue my search for the mysterious ones. They went away when there was a knock on the bathroom door, and I haven’t seen them since. There have been lights in the night, however.’ ‘I had been reading about them for several weeks due to feeling aware of their presence in nature. I think they were The Fae because of their size and the first beings dancing in a circle. I was wondering whether the elementals in the woodland areas I regularly visited were the only type of being that could represent The Fae as I had only become aware of these at the time and I felt certain in their existence. I hoped eventually a more human-like physical form existed, but I was unsure if I would ever see anything.’ What are fairies? ‘Several possibilities. I contemplated this as my interest grew and couldn’t seem to work out if there was a difference in Elves and Fae. But I think the term could be a general reference for many types of energies and forms.’ ‘I continue to work on searching for these enigmas and believe they live in my home and in the walls outside where the brickwork is changing. Bricks that are smooth and have no indentations in are appearing with carvings in them almost. They look like windows, numbers and what look like Fae to me. Their eyes move at times, I think. I also believe this has heightened since I welcomed them into my garden and speak to them through rhyme. I see lights in response sometimes, but I am yet to hear any words. I have heard the piano play when I asked them if they knew my heart song. I am so grateful for being able to share this.’ ‘I believe to have had another experience with the fae. My first time was in the bathroom and this recent event was also there, too. This time, I was laid in the bath and noticed two small figures around half the size of my hand (could have been smaller, now I think) and they seemed to be dancing on the toilet seat, in some sort of ice-skating movement and ballet type style, yet both at the same time. The clothes were not something I could identify as anything but white, yet there seemed to be a difference in gender presentation. The woman had a dress on that I could see when the other individual lifted her up into the air. More figures appeared from nowhere on the side of the bath I was laid in, whilst watching the dancing. They were two tiny men on horses, but one horse seemed to be alone, and one jumped off the side of the bath. I found this amusing and then the next man jumped off with the horse too and appeared to enjoy this. The last horse jumped onto the floor then got onto the toilet seat with the dancers. I then got disturbed by someone trying to get into the bathroom.’