‘I was with a couple of friends on a country road in my home town, in ***, Costa Rica, circa 1993. My friends were having a fight, they were a couple, and I went and sat on a rock nearby but long enough to give them space. I was staring into a coffee plantation which was completely dark due to the time (around nine PM). Suddenly I started seeing small lights between the coffee bushes, at about seven feet from where I was sitting. I initially thought the lights were fireflies, but then they started moving as if they were dancing, and every once in a while, one or several would playfully ‘jump’ up and down in mid-air. I could only think they were putting up a show just for me and I was delighted and receiving a joyful and positive vibe from them. I’m not sure how long I spent enjoying the light show, but I started hearing my friends calling at me and then I got out of a trance-like state, and they were yelling at me and saying they had been doing so for a couple of minutes and I wasn’t responding. Overall, I deeply cherish that experience and remember it dearly.’ ‘I was just sitting on a rock staring at the dark coffee plantation bushes across the country road.’ ‘Small lights dancing in mid-air about seven to eight feet from me.’ ‘I believe it was a fairy experience’. Fairies are ‘elemental spirits of nature.’
§959
Costa Rica
1990s
Male: Age 11-20
occasional supernatural experiences
on a country road
9 pm-12 am
ten minutes to an hour
on my own [two friends ‘had to pull me out of a trance-like state, the experience’]
no special state reported
friendly, joyful
loss of sense of time, profound silence before the experience, 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