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‘One spring/early summer evening, about two to three weeks after my dog died, I was sleeping in my bedroom. My cat often shares the bed, but he did not this evening. I was sleeping on my side and became aware that there was a light on in my ordinarily pitch-black room. Opening my eyes, about two feet from my face, squatting on my bedside table, which is the same level as my bed, was a figure which appeared female, staring intently at my phone, and the screen was on, illuminating a dark body. I couldn’t tell if this figure was naked, or wearing a form fitting dark, neoprene-like suit, but in the phone light the parts closest to the phone were a blue-purple, reflective or iridescent color, while her sides were dark colored. Her face was dark, and she had hair, and a slightly large head, and a somewhat cute face with a nose which ranged from almost flat just below her eyes, to a wide, slightly upturned tip at the end. A rather pretty face, at least in profile. Her eyes were large. Her eyes seemed like a light brown but could have been green or dark blue. I had a vague impression of a tail, but since that was behind her, where it was shadowed, I couldn’t be sure. She seemed very real, very solid, and she never looked toward me. I am afraid of being afraid, and assumed this was a hallucination or dream. So, I blinked hard, and opened my eyes again, and she was still there. As crazy as this sounds, to avoid being afraid I just turned the other direction and said ‘Nope. Huh-uh’ and laid back down. Then it occurred to me after I closed my eyes, that she seemed very real, so I opened my eyes again expecting pitch dark. There was light, so I sat up slowly, and turned back toward my bedstand, and she was gone, but my phone was back on the charging pad and the screen was on. Squatting down, she was probably only ten to twelve inches, so I would estimate had she been standing that she would have been close to two feet tall. This was just under one year ago. I wonder why I saw her, and if she was as real as she seemed. I had the crazy thought that maybe having my dog around kept things like this at bay. I have not seen anything like this since that time.’ ‘Perhaps just under twenty-four inches tall, upturned nose which was somewhat flat above the tip of her nose. Large eyes, pretty face/hair, dark colored: seemed almost like she was wearing a neoprene suit and in the light of my screen, purple/bluish iridescent at the front, but with no light or unlit parts, dark/black. Her face was somewhat lighter but still dark. I have an impression of hair. There may have been a tail, but behind her was dark. I wasn’t afraid, but wondered if I should be (hence I looked back).’ ‘Lost time, abduction, etc, have a long history in folklore, and perhaps there is something to it. I suspect that the entities most people think of as the fey are interdimensional beings, or the remnants of a type of civilization that has existed longer than us, or ‘spirits’, or even aliens and angels, and maybe all of these are related and/or overlap. There is a chance they are not material but only real in some sense as some type of consciousness, or are simply hallucinations, though I have come to doubt the last possibility accounts for all of the sightings. The fairy books I had read were the Artemis Fowl series. As a small child, I did experience a hand and arm made of shadow come out from under my bed in broad daylight, which terrified me, but as an adult, I categorized that as some type of hypnopompic or hypnagogic hallucination. My sister saw ‘little people’ shortly after this that made someone crash their bike (she said they stuck a stick in the spokes). I was around four and she was around six. Now, I wonder if there might be more to it than a child’s fanciful imagination.’ ‘It seemed small and innocuous, so not a ghost