• AM I AN ABDUCTEE?

    From Eddie Wilson@RICKSBBS to All on Tuesday, August 18, 2026 05:43:00

    Three weeks ago I went camping with my best friend, the special type
    of friend to whom you can tell anything, no matter how incredible it
    may sound. I had planned the weekend carefully; we spent two nights
    nestled in the heart of an old-growth redwood forest at an
    environmental campsite, far removed from the distractions of our
    ordinary lives and of other noisy campers. Within the secluded comfort
    of our wilderness setting, I proceeded to tell her exactly what was on
    my mind: "I think that I may have been abducted by extraterrestrials!"
    After regaining her composure over the initial shock, she listened as I
    recounted, in depth, the numerous events which led me to consider such
    a preposterous idea. I tried to illuminate my experiences by drawing
    parallels to recent books which had been written on the subject, since
    my friend was totally ignorant in the matter. The campfire near its
    end, my body growing tired after hours of discussion, she left me with
    one basic thought when I had finished my tale: "Books by people like
    Whitley Streiber and Bud Hopkins sell so well because people empathize
    with the main character. They are people who desperately want to
    believe that they too have been a part of the experience, and have
    touched the unknowable." My friend obviously felt that I was deluding
    myself. It is true that I have had a life-long interest in the subject
    of UFOs. I have read a vast number of books written on the subject over
    the past ten years. The first UFO book I'd ever read was in the eighth
    grade, one about George Adamski. Even earlier, in 1969, I was
    preoccupied with drawing pictures of "aliens" during the art period in
    first grade. Stretching back to the earliest limits of my memory, I can
    recall when, in 1964 or '65 at the age of 3, I ran screaming from the
    room in terror as I watched an "alien" on an episode of The Munsters.
    Of interest is that I had never been the least bit scared of any of the
    regular Munster characters, but the sight of an extraterrestrial
    absolutely horrified me. My life has been dotted with minor strange
    anomalies, all of which I have filed away as "unsolved mysteries", and
    forgotten. I usually deal with problems that way. When any conflict
    occurs in my life, I tend to ignore it first, hoping that whatever it
    is will blow over, so I can forget it. If the first step fails, I
    usually try to find a book or two on the subject which might help me.
    When a book doesn't provide me with the necessary tools, I usually
    discuss that problem with a friend. It would seem like I have such a
    problem now, and I am discussing it with you. Something has been eating
    away at me for the past six months or so, and I'm not sure exactly what
    it is. In one semester, my grade point average has dropped from an
    outstanding 3.56 over the past 76.5 semester units in college, to a
    rock bottom 0.00 for the 1990 Spring semester; I failed every class!
    Also, I have taken to drinking far more often than I should. I have
    this fantasy that if I've had a few glasses of wine before I go to bed,
    then I'll be useless to the nocturnal visitors, and they will not
    bother me. That might seem to be the case, because I have never had an
    unusual nocturnal experience after drinking. (Of course I realize that
    there are probably people in New York who are convinced that crossing
    their fingers will keep wild lions away! In other words, my statement
    is an illogical syllogism, in which the premises do not warrant the
    conclusion.) Additionally, my sleeping pattern has changed drastically.
    Over the past six months or so, I have avoided sleeping each night
    until I was utterly exhausted. Currently, I am staying up until abo ut
    5:00 am, and sleeping until 1 pm. Although I desperately need the extra
    income from a Summer job, I have avoided getting one because I knew it
    would mean going back to a normal sleeping schedule. I put to you the
    following dilemma: Has my life-long interest in UFOs finally caused me
    to go off the deep end, whereby I have deluded myself into believing
    that I may have had numerous abduction experiences? Or, have I truly
    been subject to numerous abductions throughout my life, and my way of
    dealing with it has been to investigate the phenomena? At this point in
    time, I would consider either hypothesis equally, but I desperately
    want to know which is the cause, and which is the effect! In the
    following paragraphs I will relate my experiences as accurately and as
    unbiased as I am able. It is my hope that someone reading this will
    provide me with further insights, or that this document will spark
    further investigation, so that I can finally know the ultimate truth
    behind it all, not only for my own peace-of-mind, but for others who
    may be in a similar situation.

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    On April 3, 1990 I decided to call on an old friend who I hadn't heard
    from in over two years. My friend, Carolina, is a gifted psychic, and a
    well-kept secret. Santa Rosa has its share of palm-readers and fortune
    tellers, but Carolina is in an entirely different league. A deeply
    spiritual person, Carolina has never sought recognition, publicity, or
    a rep utation for her abilities, nor has she ever taken any money from
    me for her services. I'm not exactly sure why I felt compelled to see
    her that day; I had nothing in particular on my mind. It was a pleasant
    reunion. We chatted for some time, and then Carolina decided to see if
    there was anything "out there" that she could "pick up" for me. She
    proceeded to give me a reading lasting nearly an hour. It must have
    been an exceptionally good day for her, because there was a lot "out
    there" and it was amazingly accurate. Among other things, she told me
    that I had a blood disorder, and that she kept seeing "too much red";
    she sensed that I would be quitting smoking soon, and informed me that
    I would be successful; she told me that my mother was about to fall
    ill; she told me my father might loose a toe due to gangrene; and most
    amazingly, with a surprized and quizzical look on her face, she asked
    me "Have you recently had contact with extraterrestrials?" Up to that
    point, everything she told me had been phrased as a statement, but this
    was apparently so preposterous that even she doubted it, and phrased it
    as a question instead. I was completely taken aback by her query- I
    hadn't thought about aliens or UFOs in years. Caroli na had absolutely
    no idea that it had been a former interest of mine. For a moment time
    seemed to stand still- on the inside, I thought that she was entirely
    off-base, and I was ready to tell her so, but my body seemed to have a
    mind of its own as I watched myself mumble, "I don't know." I still
    wonder why I said that, because it truly betrayed what I was feeling at
    the moment. She immediately answered back by saying, "I think you do
    know, because I'm seeing this very clearly now."

    At that statement, I felt the flush of anger course through my body.
    I felt like a man who had just been told he was about to die, and given
    the exact date. I blurted out, "I don't think you're supposed to be
    telling me this! If you saw that I was going to be killed next week,
    would you tell me that too?" Carolina smiled and said, "They only show
    me what I can tell a person. If you're not meant to know, my guides
    don't show me." My stomach tight and my heart racing, I replied, "But
    don't you think this is a little too scary?" Again smiling, she said,
    "Oh, it's only scary in a fun kind of way." For a moment I thought she
    was being sarcastic. "How could she be so insensitive to my anxiety?",
    I thought. I felt the anger well up from within me again. "Fun!, What
    the hell is so fun about being poked and prodded and violated by
    hideously ugly creatures in the middle of the night!", I thought to
    myself. And then something snapped. I thought to myself, "What in God's
    name am I thinking about? Why has such an innocent statement from
    Carolina caused such fear and anger within me? What is this about being
    poked, prodded, and violated? Where did I get that from? Carolina never
    said anything about that!" And then I realized that my outward
    appearance was betraying my inner anxiety. True to my English blood, I
    appeared quite calm and collected to Carolina, even though my mind and
    heart were racing. She apparently didn't realize the implications and
    consequences of her revelation to me. "This is a first for me," she
    said, "In all my years, I have never picked up anything about
    extraterrestrials from a person." "Surely you have at least read a book
    or two on the subject", I replied. "No, I never have," she said, "It's
    never interested me in the least. There are too many problems down here
    to be worried about what might or might not be going on up there." I
    was amazed. Like a curtain being lifted in my memory, I suddenly
    remembered a night about two weeks prior during which an unusual
    occurrence had happened. It surprized me that I hadn't made the
    connection sooner. I was sure this was what she was referring to! (to
    be discussed in full later) Carolina continued her reading, and didn't
    dwell on the subject of aliens, as if they were relatively unimportant.
    Twice more during that hour, she made reference to them, although she
    had no idea she was doing so. She said she had the image of an insect
    with large eyes, but that it was symbolic, and I would know what it
    meant. (I am sure this is symbolic for an alien.) Later, she made
    reference to "burrowing", but couldn't get anything further. (My gut
    feeling was that this is connected to them also, but I'm not sure why
    or how.) The following week I thought a lot about my visit with
    Carolina as I watched her short term predictions come true one by one.
    Although she had no way of knowing that I was planning on quitting
    smoking, almost a month prior I had consented to participate in a
    clinical study at Stanford Medical Center for the approval of a new
    drug by the FDA. It was a double-blind, placebo vs. real study to test
    the efficacy of the transdermal nicotine patch as a therapy for smoking
    cessation. Requisite to participating in the study, I had a complete
    physical during my first visit on March 28. On April 5, I returned to
    pick up my supply of nicotine patches, but I was shocked to learn that
    I had failed the blood test! Although I was not disqualified from the
    study, Dr. Sachs informed me that I had a condition known as
    "polycythemia", and advised me to see a hematologist. Polycythemia, the
    exact opposite of anaemia, is the condition of having too many red
    blood cells. Although smokers almost always have slightly elevated
    hemoglobin and red cell counts, mine was far too high to be explained
    by such. The doctor explained that it can be caused by spleen
    dysfunction, but, that didn't appear to be my case, as indicated from
    the other test results of my physical. He told me that having too many
    oxygen-carrying red blood cells is usually the result of prolonged
    exposure to thin atmosphere, and that athletes sometimes take illegal
    drugs to achieve such an effect in order to increase their endurance in
    high altitudes (such as in the marathon up Pike's Peak every year.)
    Further, he informed me that my ruddy complexion was most likely due to
    the blood disease. I was shocked! Not only was Carolina correct, but I
    seriously began to wonder if this had anything to do with possible
    alien contact, and "thin atmosphere." For almost a year, friends had
    asking me if I had a sunburn, but I always dismissed it. On Friday,
    April 6, I quit smoking. Later that day my father called me from
    Indiana to inform me that my mother had taken ill, and was in the
    hospital. She had a flare-up of her mitral valve heart condition, a
    bladder infection, and an extreme case of shingles. During our
    conversation, my father told me that he wasn't doing so well himself;
    he has diabetes, and his big toe had turned completely black!
    "OhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGod...", my mind was reeling, "how could Carolina be
    so correct about everything!", I thought to myself, "If she has been
    right about everything so far, what am I to think about her claim that
    I have been in contact with extraterrestrials?" As I have mentioned
    earlier in this paper, during my visit with Carolina I suddenly
    remembered a night, sometime in March, where there had been an unusual
    occurrence. I can't recall exactly what day it was, but Jim, my lover
    and companion of ten years, confronted me as soon as he had awoken,
    "You haven't gone out this morning for anything, have you?" "No,
    honey," Ireplied, still dressed in my nightshirt and sitting at the
    computer, "does it look like it?" "Well the door is unlocked," he
    informed me. I got up immediately, and Jim demonstrated that both the
    dead bolt and the doorknob latch were undone. I thought about the
    matter for a few moments and said "Are you sure you didn't open it when
    you got up? I remember double checking it before I went to bed, and it
    was already locked." Jim replied, "I remember checking it before I went
    to bed also, and it was locked then too." After a few moments he added,
    "It's possible that I may have unlocked the dead bolt without thinking,
    but that wouldn't explain why the doorknob latch is undone." (The door
    handle has to be turned to open the door from the inside before the
    doorknob latch is undone, and we never open the front door in the
    morning until we're ready to go out, since we do not subscribe to any
    newspapers. If for some reason we want to check on the weather, we
    always open the sliding balcony door. Neither Jim or I would think of
    opening the front door while still in our nightclothes.) The matter was
    out of my mind within a few minutes, but Jim was not about to let the
    subject drop. He made me call the manager that afternoon to ask if they
    or any maintenance people had been in our apartment without our
    consent. The manager assured me that they had not, and said that they
    would always consult us before such an intrusion. Jim became obsessed
    with the matter, and forced me to recreate every step I had taken the
    night before. After all the thinking he made me do, I just became more
    sure that I had checked the lock at night, and certainly had not opened
    it in the morning. Before going to bed the next night, Jim stacked two
    spare stereo speakers up against the front door, so that if someone
    were to open it, they would come tumbling down and alert him. Jim is a
    very light sleeper; he had served in the armed forces during the
    Vietnam War, and his father was a policeman, which may help to explain
    why the thought of someone breaking into our apartment bothered him so
    much. I also noticed that he made sure the baseball bat was within
    reach of the bed that night. The following morning, I awoke first. I
    stumbled out of bed and headed for the computer, my morning ritual.
    Along the way to the den, I noticed that the stereo speakers Jim had so
    carefully set out the night before were strewn across the floor. I
    guess the seriousness of the situation didn't hit me at first. It took
    me a few minutes before I decided to go back into the front room and
    check the lock. One would think that I should have been alarmed at the
    prospect of someone breaking in, but honestly, my thoughts were only
    about how alarmed Jim was going to be when he discovered the situation.
    I checked the door, and it was locked. I told myself that the speakers
    had somehow accidentally fallen over in the night, and I stacked them
    back up again, hoping that I could conceal it from Jim.

    I returned to the computer, but couldn't concentrate on what I was
    doing; my conscience was bothering me. Jim and I have an extremely open
    and honest relationship, much more so than any married couple I've ever
    met. I went back out and put the speakers as I had found them, deciding
    to let him know the truth. I'm not sure what Jim really thought. He
    found it hard to accept that the speakers had fallen over without his
    hearing them. Further, he questioned why the door was locked from the
    inside, and yet the speakers had been knocked over. He thought my
    behavior was particularly odd, in that I had initially tried to conceal
    the fallen speakers, but then put them back as I had found them. At any
    rate, we never discussed the subject again, and I was glad! I just
    wanted to forget about the whole thing. Every night for several weeks,
    Jim jammed the plastic runner up against the front door, but nothing
    else unusual happened. Sometime later that week, I developed a somewhat
    painful subcutaneous pimple in my pubic hair region. I didn't think
    much about it at the time, except that I had never had a pimple in that
    area before, nor one as deep below the skin and as painful. I forgot
    all about this until just recently, on July 19, when I developed
    another pimple in the same area, just after another unusual nocturnal
    experience. It took me some time before I could accurately place a
    time-frame on the occurrence of my first pimple. April 11, I flew out
    to Chicago to visit my mother in the hospital, and forced my father to
    have his bad toe looked at. Sometime while I was away, Jim stopped
    protecting the door every night and eventually forgot about it. I
    returned home April 18, just in time to greet our house-guest from Los
    Angeles, our good friend, Dave. During his visit with us, I took Dave
    aside and told him of the strange events in March, and of what Carolina
    had said. I convinced him to try and hypnotize me, so that I might be
    able to recall the event s more clearly. It took a great deal of
    persuasion to talk him into it, since he said that he had no experience
    at hypnosis, and was not eager to try. Nevertheless, he eventually gave
    in, but we had mixed results at the effort. Nothing of interest really
    occurred, except that the following morning I felt really negative
    about the whole thing and destroyed the tape-recorded transcript of my
    hypnosis session. I didn't remember what I had said, and at that point,
    I didn't want to either. I never admitted to Dave what had happened to
    the tape. Before he left for Los Angeles, Dave warned me that anything
    I might try to find out about my possible abduction experience would
    most likely be contaminated by all the books I've read. Life went on
    more-or-less as usual for the next several months. I resumed smoking
    again, my performance at school dropped sharply, and I started drinking
    before going to bed. When Summer came, I avoided getting a job, and
    stayed up later and later every night. I tried to put the subject of
    UFOs out of my mind, but only with marginal success. My attitude on the
    subject fluctuated from wishing that I could forget it all, to openly
    inviting another experience. Twice I purposefully went camping in
    extremely remote areas, hoping that I could induce an abduction.
    Needless to say, my effort was futile (at least as far as I can
    remember.) If aliens were abducting me, then they had their own
    schedule, and my invitation didn't matter one bit. Then on July 17, it
    happened again. I had been plagued by an uneasy feeling all evening. I
    thought about having a glass of wine, but Jim coaxed me into bed early
    that night (around 2 am), telling me we needed to get up by a decent
    hour the next day. I am normally a very heavy sleeper, and I fall
    asleep quickly, but that night was to be an exception. I laid in bed,
    tossing and turning for what seemed like hours, never truly falling
    asleep. I can recall listening to the slow, deep rhythm of Jim's
    breathing pattern, and being surprised that my restlessness wasn't
    disturbing him. The last thing I remember is the sensation of my heart
    pounding rapidly as I was overcome with extreme fear. And then
    suddenly, it was light out! A thought entered my head, but before I
    could think further, "Rap Rap Rap", three loud bangs resounded
    throughout the apartment, causing me to fear that we were in the midst
    of another earthquake. I looked at the clock, and was shocked to
    discover that it was already after 6 am. Whatever that first thought
    was, it was completely lost in the immediate confusion. I became aware
    that my bladder was painfully full, and gently got up so as to not
    awaken Jim, who was still sleeping soundly beside me. When I returned
    to bed, Jim asked me what I was doing up already. Apparently, as silent
    as I had been, my movement had awoken him, even though the three loud
    bangs had not. Further, I questioned why my earlier restlessness had
    not disturbed his sleep, but this had. I haven't had to get up to empty
    my bladder in the middle of the night since childhood, and I began to
    wonder why it was so extremely full, especially considering that I
    hadn't had anything to drink the night before. I was sure that I had
    never actually fallen asleep, but yet I seemed to "wake up", with the
    sun already shining. I put on my night-mask to block out the daylight,
    and returned to bed. And then I remembered something... With the
    clarity equal to any image seen through my own eyes, I beheld the
    likeness of an alien. In my mind's eye, I held that vision and examined
    it. As I inspected the roundness of his hairless cranium, I became
    amazed at how real and three-dimensional the image looked, much more
    than any photograph could ever approach. I observed the color of his
    skin, and was quite surprized to learn that my previous conceptions
    were all wrong. My earlier ideas of what an alien should look like were
    based upon the dust jacket of Whitley Strieber's book, Communion, and
    on the TV movie about The Interrupted Journey. His skin was a creamy
    grey, much less grey than I had previously imagined. There was a tinge
    of green, but as subtle as the green in a black person's complexion. I
    thought to myself that an unsophisticated eye might not even pick up on
    the green. Overall, I would describe his complexion as simply pale.
    Only if I wished to emphasize its unusual nature, would I use the word
    "grey." Then I focussed upon his eyes. In the past, we had two pet
    cockatoos, a Moluccan and a Sulpher-crested, both of which had eyes as
    black as coal. It is said that the birds can be sexed by examining
    their eyes for the subtle hint of brown, and I thought of the many
    times I had stared intently into the birds' eyes. It was like a feeling
    of deja' vu, for I was sure that within the alien's eyes, I could pick
    up some extremely subtle gradations of color. Furthermore, these ever-
    so-sublte variations in the color seemed to indicate not just one
    circular iris within each eye, but perhaps two or more, although I
    somehow "knew" that their eyes were more than just visual organs, and
    the non-primary circular markings were not really a visual iris.
    (...that they had only one real visual iris within each eye)
    Additionally, it struck me at how the eyes were far less almond- shaped
    and less wrap-around than I had thought before. It made me think that
    the illustration of an alien on Communion was analogous to the Kroft
    puppeteer's version of Ronald Reagan: a highly stylized caricature.
    Then the image came to life! The thought was somehow conveyed to me
    that he was acknowledging the presence of orthodontic braces on my
    teeth. In a manner analogous to "I've seen yours, so now I'll show you
    mine," he proceeded to open up his little round mouth and let me look
    in. When his nearly lip-less mouth was shut, it seemed to call no
    attention to itself, but when opened, I noticed that he, like us, had
    muscles beneath the skin. The effect of seeing the tightened muscles
    beneath his skin made me think that he was capable of expression, in an
    otherwise expressionless face. Within the mouth, I observed a
    semicircular ridge of hardened tissue, which he called his "primary
    mastication NOUN."

    It seemed like he was using telepathy to communicate, and my mind was
    responsible for translations into the English language. The "NOUN"
    carried a meaning like "organ", "appendage", or "device," but the exact
    word to convey the true meaning is not within my vocabulary, and it's
    making me very frustrated as I write this. I somehow seemed to "know"
    that they eat very soft foods, like being a vegetarian in England. The
    hardened ridge of tissue was unsegmented, unlike ordinary human teeth.
    With that, the image faded from my mind. What has taken me two long
    paragraphs to write happened in only a few seconds of time. The image
    was definitely a memory, and not something that was happening at that
    moment. Whether the memory is of a dream or reality, I will probably
    never know. After recalling the unusual experience above, the feeling
    of contentedness overwhelmed me. My bladder now empty and Jim's warm
    body next to mine, I immediately fell soundly asleep. I didn't wake up
    until after 11 am the following morning, and was relieved that I had
    finally (post 6 am) been able to get a normal night's sleep. Fully
    cognizant of the aforementioned experience, I immediately proceeded to
    the computer and wrote everything down. While sit ting at the keyboard
    and unconsciously scratching at my dandruff patch, I became aware that
    my dandruff was severely aggravated, and I had a painful welt next to
    it! For about a year, more-or-less coinciding with people telling me
    that I had a sunburn (polycythemia), I have had a localized patch of
    dandruff at the base of my skull. More specifically, if you run your
    finger up along the cervical vertebrae, you will reach a slight
    concavity between two muscles at the point where the neck meets the
    head, in the occipital region of the cranium. It is in that spot that I
    have my dandruff patch. I use the word "dandruff", for lack of
    something better, because it is most likely some other skin disorder,
    since I have an otherwise oily scalp . I have tried every name-brand
    dandruff shampoo, and nothing seems to help, but fortunately, it hasn't
    spread beyond that highly localized area. On this day, July 18, and for
    several days afterward, the patch seemed to be draining some sort of
    fluid from the painful welt which was just above and to the left of my
    patch. As of this writing, (August 7), that welt has not entirely
    subsided. On July 19, the following day, I developed another painful
    welt on the right side of the dandruff patch, almost a mirror image.
    Coinciding again with the development of my dandruff patch and my
    polycythemia, for about a year I have been plagued by excessive
    perspiration. For no apparent reason, I would sweat from my armpits in
    phenomenal amounts.

    Neither nervousness, heat, nor physical exertion seemed to be
    responsible. All of my good shirts are permanently stained. When my
    armpits were on a roll, the sweat would pour forth at a rate roughly
    equal to that achieved by crying; perhaps between 4 to 8 ounces in a
    half hour. This had been an embarrassing situation for me for quite
    some time, and when I mentioned it to Carolina during my visit with
    her, she told me that I should drink the juice of a whole lemon in warm
    water every day. I tried that a few times without noticeable success,
    so I gave up. I had also invested a small fortune in a vast array of
    brand-name antiperspirants, but to no avail. Now suddenly, on July 18,
    the perspiration stopped, however I didn't realize as such until July
    19. Whether this is psychosomatic or real, I will be eternally grateful
    that my sweating ordeal is finally over! Thank you!!! On July 19, I
    developed a rather painful pimple, deep below the skin in my pubic hair
    region. It struck me as really strange that I should develop another
    one in that same general area, so shortly after my first. Prior to the
    first, which I placed at a few months earlier, I had never had anything
    like that. My skin in that area is nothing like the skin on my forehead
    or upper back, which tends to be more oily. Furthermore, this was not
    an ordinary pimple; it was very deep and painful. For most of the rest
    of the day, I tried to place a time-frame on the occurrence of the
    first pimple. Eventually, I came to the conclusion that it had happened
    sometime in mid to late March, using my journal and computer calendar
    as a reference. I found this as somewhat noteworthy, since that
    coincided with my first unusual nocturnal experience. Sometime during
    the next few days, the Goodyear Blimp flew over. I was sitting at the
    computer when Jim called me into the front room, bringing it to my
    attention. I would say that the event was slightly unusual, because
    I've never seen the blimp this far removed from a major metropolitan
    area; we're about 50 miles north of San Francisco. It was travelling
    from the Southeast to the Northwest, heading directly toward us at a
    leisurely pace. I ran and grabbed the camcorder and recorded it as the
    blimp proceeded to fly directly over us. We could clearly hear the
    whirring of its engines as it passed our exact zenith. I am not
    exaggerating when I say directly over us! We both wondered where it
    might be going to, for at its present course, it w ould be over the
    ocean in a matter of minutes, and the nearest major city north of us is
    Portland OR, nearly 600 miles away. I'm sure this event can be
    explained rationally, but I decided to mention it because of its
    unusual nature, and the proximity in time to my strange nocturnal
    event.

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    During the course of writing this document, I have had several
    flashbacks to strange memories. In one memory, I seem to be quite
    frustrated that I can't see as clearly as I'd like, because I'm not
    wearing my eyeglasses. I thought this was taking place in an alien
    craft. In another memory, I seemed to be getting a lecture about the
    anatomical differences between the alien's brain and ours. He was very
    interested in a small part of my brain, lying at its center, which he
    described as "primitive." I think it may have had something to do with
    emotion, and they didn't have that part of the brain. In contrast, he
    showed me an image of a part of their brain which we do not have; it
    was an extra small lobe in the occipital region, overlying both right
    and left hemispheres equally. I have the feeling that it was used for
    communication. I don't know how old these memories are, and I don't kno
    w if they're memories of dreams or of reality. I am beginning to
    seriously doubt my sanity. As I had written earlier, my life has been
    dotted with minor strange anomalies, most of which I have filed away as
    "unsolved mysteries", and forgotten.

    I have several early memories, centering around the age of three,
    which might be suggestive of an early abduction experience. Then around
    the time I reached puberty, a lot of strange things started happening.
    There have also been a few occurrences during my high school years and
    continuing into adulthood. A summary of these anomalous experiences
    will be the subject of a future essay. I want to stress my honesty
    about everything contained within this narrative. I have neither
    fabricated or exaggerated a single word of the experience. I consider
    myself to be a happy, well adjusted individual. I have a small circle
    of close friends, and a healthy family life. I am normally a high
    achiever both at work, and in school. I try to balance my intellectual
    lifestyle with a healthy proportion of outdoor physical activities. I
    have never needed the services of a psychologist, and there is no
    history of mental illness in my family. It has only been within the
    past few months that my life seems to be slipping downhill. I would
    like to resolve this situation by reaching some conclusion as to the
    reality of my experiences, so I can get on with my life. I would like
    to know if I am going crazy, perhaps due to some undiscovered br ain
    tumor, or if this could possibly be real. This essay is a desperate
    plea for help. If there are any qualified UFO researchers,
    psychologists, or otherwise interested parties who feel like my case
    warrants further investigation, and would like to help me come to terms
    with my experiences, I can be reached at:Chris Sargent(707) 585-
    8076WWIV Net: 82@7706I reserve all rights to this essay. No part of it
    may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written
    permission of the author. I hereby grant permission for the electronic
    transfer of this file to other Electronic Bulletin Board Systems,
    provided that this file remains unaltered and intact.


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