great hope that I would wake up, I rushed to open them. To
my horror, I instead found a table with medical instruments
on my bed. Waves of fear swept over my body with renewed
intensity. I gulped that I would not make it through if they
put me under the knife. I closed my eyes once again, and
started to pray. The fear gradually receded, I calmed
down..... and finally woke up. The first thing that I did was to
make sure that the table with the medical instruments was
not there. I jumped up and started knocking on the dresser,
the wall, and on the window in order to make sure that it
really was all over.
Andre Sanchez
theandresanchez@gmail.com
I was in my bed and I noticed two plastic objects in my
right hand. I thought it was weird for them to be there so I
got up and threw them on the floor. The first one did not
make any kind of sound. The second did, likely because I
started expecting it after noticing that the first one didn’t. I
thought it was odd so I went to the light switch near the door
and tried turning the light on. It didn’t work. I had two
thoughts: “very strange… could I be in 'the phase'?”; and,
“did the power go out?”
I left the room and went into the hallway, walking
towards the living room, but it was very dark (which would be
normal if the power had gone out during the night). I was
thinking about how this was all somewhat odd, but felt too
“real”. I started to worry and tried calming myself down by
thinking that if something really strange and/or scary
happened, I could be sure I was in the phase, and shouldn’t
worry. I vaguely remember a weak yellow-greenish light
starting to appear from the living room, but I did not see
anything.
Dmitry Markov
Moscow, Russia
My first time was the most terrible event in my life. I had
never experienced such terror. It happened in December,
1990. I was falling asleep in my bed at home. Suddenly, I
heard someone enter my room, but I did not pay attention to