Experience description  UFO 2/18/16:   

My friend and I had left another friend's apartment, and we were heading back to his place. When we arrived to his home, we parked slightly on the street and slightly in his yard. The passenger side was closest to the house. We were talking, sharing laughs, and getting out of the car. By the time my friend had made it around from the driver's side, he was standing by the passenger side headlight. All of a sudden, we both stopped moving and looked up at the sky. There was this opaque looking object seeming to hover and float through the sky. It appeared round in shape, circular, but I could tell that it was definitely an object, and definitely moving. I remember observing this for several seconds. Without a word being said, my friend and I both looked at each other as if to say, "Are you seeing what I am seeing?" With that mutual acknowledgement that the object was visible to us both, we turned around and looked back at the object. There, we were able to watch the object fly along until it floated too far to see. It never changed direction or glowed, and there were not lights visible. We both know that we had witnessed the same event. After we could no longer see it, we compared stories, and they have always remained the same telling.

Any associated medications or substances with the potential to affect the experience?     No           

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words? No      

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          No      

What was your level of consciousness and alertness during the experience?           High, alert

            Was the experience dream like in any way?   Not really, it was very real

Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?     No      

What emotions did you feel during the experience?            Shock, excitement, fear, anxiety, questions, confirmation, elation

Did you hear any unusual sounds or noises?           We just heard the regular nighttime city sounds. There were no additional unusual sounds or noises which stood out because the object was huge and seemed to float silently.

LOCATION DESCRIPTION:  Did you recognize any familiar locations or any locations from familiar religious teachings or encounter any locations inhabited by incredible or amazing creatures?    No      

Did you see a light?           No      

Did you meet or see any other beings?           No      

Did you experiment while out of the body or in another, altered state? No      

Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?     No      

Did you notice how your 5 senses were working, and if so, how were they different?          Yes            They were not different. I could see clearly, hear clearly, think clearly. We were sort of immobilized by the experience.

Did you have any sense of altered space or time?   No      

Did you have a sense of knowing, special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?    No           

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure?             No      

Did you become aware of future events?       No      

Were you involved in or aware of a decision regarding your return to the body?       No Response     Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience that you did not have prior to the experience?            No Response         

Did you have any changes of attitudes or beliefs following the experience?   Yes     Confirmed by belief in UFOs. Until then, I believed and researched, but had never seen anything. My friend, with whom I shared the experienced, had seen multiple UFOs, and continues to see them more often than most people.

How has the experience affected your relationships? Daily life? Religious practices? Career choices?       I am the same, just with irrefutable experience that confirms my personal beliefs.

Has your life changed specifically as a result of your experience?         No      

Have you shared this experience with others?         Yes     Same reaction as I had. The experience has not all that different. We described it exactly the same.

What emotions did you experience following your experience?  confusion, joy, sadness, shock, fear

What was the best and worst part of your experience?      Best part of the feeling that I knew what it was, without knowing exactly what I was seeing. The worst part was seeing something I had no clue what it was, and at night. I often wonder what the object would have looked like in the daytime. My friend and I both agree what while we could make out the shape of the object, it seemed to be cloaked or camouflaged.

Following the experience, have you had any other events in your life, medications or substances which reproduced any part of the experience?         No      

Did the questions asked and information you provided accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?                     No      

Please offer any suggestions you may have to improve this questionnaire.    I think the questionnaire could be tailored to the types of experiences listed on your home page. Maybe that should be the first question: which category the experiencer thinks the experience belongs.

Experience description  Meditation 2746:   

Around the age of 13 or 14, I began to get really interested in the practice of daily reflection and meditation.  I was always sort of an introverted child, with very leadership-like and extroverted qualities.  Even now, I am one who says that I am always caught between diametrically opposing forces.  Socially, though I was introverted at school.  Around the adolescence age, I began to open up into a more socially extroverted person and was able to balance my introverted needs through the time I spent alone.  This all began around the summer of 2001.  Ever since the, I have spent at least 3-4 hours each night alone with my thoughts.  I would do things such as train my eyesight are night vision, noticing fluctuating in lighting and shadowing and also how to differentiate between styles of walking, shoes, surfaces etc.  By the time of this experience, I had been doing this practice for approximately 4 years.  I had always been gay (or bisexual) my entire life.  I remember having a kindergarten girlfriend.  I remember having my kindergarten boyfriend as well. MY first experiences sexually, were with men.  Yet, I lived in a the South and was raised in a Moderately Conservative Christian lifestyle.  I had been dealing with a lot of personal issues with this as a child and even now.  The school year before this experience, I had been outed by one of my best friends, to the group of closest and best friends from our choir. This was especially painful because it forced an entire group of teenagers to deal with a subject that was still largely taboo and uneasy.  This spawned my first major bought of depression.  I stopped eating in Oct. 2004 and would not eat a single bite to eat until New Year's Day 2005.  It is important for that background.  This caused major ripples in my religious and spiritual beliefs, one that would culminate in the coming experience. I spent the Spring of 2005 healing and building my life as an out person. 

I have always done this meditation at night. I was born at 1029 PM.  Nighttime is where I chose to do my meditation.  I have always been attracted to wind; it has all of my life been my favorite condition of the weather.  I am an Air Spirit. I draw identity and power from the Air element. 

My Experience takes place on a particularly windy night.  I had been standing on the front porch of my house meditating for several hours.  I remember being very calm and relaxed. I was especially aware of the wind and how has I was standing still, it was enveloping my in its movement.  I remember becoming more and more aware of the wind.  There was the initial acknowledgement of the wind passing over my body, touching my hairs, over my skin.  I then began to think of the wind as a physical affect of the exchange of energies and forces.  In reality, the find was never touching my skin, but I instead began to envision it as the sensation of our (the wind and myself) individual energies colliding.  I began to not only feel, but I could sense and see the point of collision.  The sort of meeting that formed an encapsulating aura around me.  This was white, milky white.  I remember sensing it around my arms and body.  The deeper I drifted into this experience, the more I felt it, the stronger it became.  I remember thinking how calming and secure it felt to interact with the freedom of the wind.  Just as I began to slip into a completely unconscious state, is when this experience happened.  I cannot say that I did not completely go unconscious.