SUBJECT: ENCOUNTER JOURNAL "EXCERPTS"                        FILE: UFO2690





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   Taken from consecutive messages in Sandy Barbre's "Contact"  Echo from
   Dan Brown concerning personal experiences               - July 31, 1991
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   Encounter Journal "Excerpts"                                  Dan Brown


     To  follow are multiple messages which are excerpts from my  personal
   journal. They do not represent the entirity of my experiences, and many
   things have been left out for varoious reasons.  Those reasons include,
   but  are  not  limited to;  privacy,  and not being  of  importance  at
   present.

     Why am I doing this?

     Glad you asked! <Grin>...

     A  good  friend  of mine,  John Powell,  offered me some  good advice
   pertaining  to  keeping my experiences to myself until I was  ready  to
   freely discuss them, and felt comfortable with my experiences...  After
   all,   they  are my experiences and I'm the one that has to  live  with
   them.

     Now,  the following lengthy dissertation, as I've mentioned, is not a
   complete journal of what I've experienced,  and at this point in  time,
   it's  not  completely acurate.  I  have learned a few things  about  my
   experiences,   and have added new ones,  clarified old ones,  and  been
   overly  astonished with certain abilities and disabilities  in  dealing
   with the things that have happened in my personal life.

     I'm  putting  out these journal excerpts mainly as a way  of  dealing
   with  my  life and to reach a further understanding of my  experiences.
   The  things  in my excerpts are not in anyway astonishing,   so  please
   don't  expect to read about space ships in the night,  or exchanges  of
   information  with other worldly beings...  It's just your typical wierd
   stuff, and I need to let it go so that I can move onward!

     I do have a tendency to ramble on,  so please bare with me. I've left
   some  of  the more obscure ramblings in tact,  so if I get too off  the
   wall, and leave you confused... Sorry... It's my nature... <Grin>...

     Any comments or suggestions are happily welcome... flames > nul

    Get  a bag of Doritos out (preferably cool ranch)  and a tall glass of
   Pepsi I'm about to get longwinded again!

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   Encounter Journal                                             Dan Brown
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     I  have  been sitting here trying to ascertain how it is that I  find
   myself  actually making entries into a journal of this nature The  idea
   of possible personal experience involving alien contact or abduction or
   whatever this may be, is far beyond my capability to reason. I  have no
   full  conscious  memory of having encountered anything that  represents
   something  other than Human kind as I know it,  but my mind  continues,
   with  great persistence,  to tell me that something has happened to  me
   along the way.

     Previous to a few weeks before starting this journal, I  had not been
   overly interested in the "UFO/Other/Visitor"  phenomenon,  or for  that
   matter,   in  abduction  cases.   Although I am  not  ignorant  of  the
   phenomenon,  I did not actively follow it.  UFO stories had their place
   in  my life in much the same way as the telling of ghost stories did on
   those  starry nights while camping far from the safety of  civilization
   and home.

     So  again  I ask myself how was it that I came to this point  that  I
   have even considered it a viable necessity to keep a journal? I did not
   amass  information  from  research and literature  to  deduce  a  sound
   logical  hypothesis  on this phenomenon.  What brought this  about  was
   something simple.  On my computer,  I  run an electronic bulletin board
   system.   Another  systems operator in my area announced  that  he  was
   starting  up a local conference via our network.  The topic was  to  be
   alien encounters and sighting and he was asking other operators if they
   would consider carrying this conference on their systems.  I  agreed to
   carry  it.   It  seemed interesting,  but I wasn't  actually  going  to
   participate in the conference.

     As messages start being written in this conference, I glanced through
   some  of them,  and the moderator of the conference mentioned something
   about  a  period in his life where he had missing time.  I   had  never
   actually thought about anything of this nature,  so I read the message.
   I couldn't actually relate to the situation he had described. Later, he
   had  posted  a  few more messages and wanted the  participants  in  the
   conference to keep an open mind about the topic, and to try to remember
   if any strange events had taken place during their lives.  If  anything
   came to mind that was of any relation to the conference,  he would like
   to  hear  about it.  I  didn't think too much about his request,  so  I
   didn't  bother  to join in.  Later that week,  I  unexpectedly  started
   remembering  things from my past that literally scared me.  I  had  not
   thought  about  my experiences in quite a long time.  Some of them  had
   terrified  me  to  no end,  and I wasn't in any hurry  to  bring  those
   memories into my conscious thoughts.

     After having those memories become present in my mind, I went back to
   look  more closely at the conference messages,  and found one that  was
   written  by  the  conference moderator noting techniques  to  help  get
   information  from the subconscious to the conscious as directed by  one
   Dr. Edith Fiore.  This technique involved the use of a simple pendulum,
   that  with  practice,  would allow your subconscious mind  to  let  the
   answer to simple yes and no questions to come through.

     I knew, or at least assumed, that this could not really be considered
   a  clinical technique,  but I felt compelled to try.  After  practicing
   with the pendulum for a few days,  I was able to get it to respond,  in
   the prescribed manner, to yes and no questions with ease.

     I began to formulate a set of questions that I would ask myself about
   my  memories,  and their relationship with possible "Other than  human"
   encounters I may or may not have had. Being a skeptic by nature, I felt
   extremely ridiculous in doing this, but I proceeded with the experiment
   nonetheless.   If I had the foresight through all this,  I  would  have
   recorded my list of questions,  and their responses, but alas, I didn't
   seriously think that this would progress as far as it did.  I  can only
   recount  what  I can remember,  and what has made profound  impressions
   upon my way of thinking, my life, and its possible implications.

     At first,  using the pendulum, I  asked myself general questions such
   as is my "Name",  "Do I live in California,"  etc...  I  moved  through
   questions that I knew to be true,  and those that I knew were false. In
   each case,  I  received the appropriate response.  I  practiced in this
   manner  for  another two days,  then decided that I was at least  semi-
   proficient with the pendulum, and moved on to harder questions.

     o Note:   I   must clearly acknowledge that I am not  in  any  way  a
       clinical  professional,  nor am I a professional observer.  I   do,
       however, suffer from agoraphobia which does tend to force me into a
       position of being very observant of my surroundings and mental  and
       emotional states.

     I  made  sure  to incorporate questions that would offer  a  specific
   response around questions that might be sensitive or peculiar. This was
   done  for the sake of having something to ground my responses  with  as
   one might do with polygraph examinations.  For example,  when I planned
   on  asking a question such as "Did I sense there was someone present in
   the room"  and I received "Yes"  as an answer,  I  would ask a question
   that  would gain a negative response such as,  "Do I live in Nebraska,"
   then  I  would repeat the first question and note the response.   Also,
   this  technique  would  help  give  something  to  gauge  my  emotional
   responses against,  and offer some report of how I was mentally dealing
   with  the line of responses received.  All questions were prefaced with
   the  understanding that all answers were "To the best of my  knowledge"
   including the questions themselves.

     Proceeding with my venture into the past,  I  singled out a  specific
   experience  that occurred at around the age of six years old.   Keeping
   simple  and concise I moved into an arena that was extremely  difficult
   for me. This particular episode is detailed later in this journal.

     I asked myself, using the pendulum, if I remembered the experience in
   question.   The let the questions move in their own direction,   basing
   each  question on those previously asked,  but keeping as close  to  my
   line of questions as possible.

     Do I remember the experience?             Yes
     Was I dreaming?                           No
     Was I awake and aware?                    Yes
     Did I feel a presence in the room?        Yes
     More than one presence?                   Yes
     Did I feel it was my parents?             No
     Did I feel it was one of my parents?      No
     Do I remember something placed on the
     right side of my mouth?                   Yes
     Was this a dream?                         No
     And so on . . .

     I tried to be as objective  as  possible, but it was not easy, as I'm
   sure this journal will prove.

     In my memories of the event, I remembered something being place in my
   mouth. I had always remembered it being something like a probe, but I'm
   still  not  sure if this was the case.  I  asked  questions  about  the
   episode. I did not get the answer I expected.

     Was something placed into my mouth?       Yes
     Was this something like a probe?          ?
     Do I remember something like a
     culture being taken?                      ?

     I stopped  when  I got to this area of questioning.  I repeated these
   last few questions several times.

     o The  technique with the pendulum had been fairly dependable  up  to
       this  point,  but when asking the questions about the "probe"   and
       "culture,"  I  got no response.  My mind was rather hesitant  about
       asking these questions.  Such questions would clearly open into  an
       area that my conscious mind did not want to deal with. Consciously,
       I would consider this a violation of my person.  As a child, I  may
       not  have understood this reasoning,  but as an adult can see  it's
       possibilities  and ramifications as something that is not  pleasant
       and not something that I want to experience in my life.

     At  first  I thought that I was being silly sitting  here  with  this
   homemade pendulum asking silly questions,  and getting non-answers.   I
   must simply be in the throngs of lunacy to be doing such things.   This
   was, to me, proof that I had no real experience, and that I should just
   ignore what must just be a confused response to new stimuli,  and chalk
   it up to a bad case of "Ghost story"  jitters. After all, this was just
   a dream I had been concerning myself with,  nothing real to be bothered
   about, and certainly not congruent with reality as I knew it.

     The  next day it occurred to me that I had either asked the  question
   incorrectly,   or  I  had another question that I hadn't asked  at  all
   pertaining  to the probe experience.  "If something wasn't being  taken
   out of my mouth, was something being put in?" This had never crossed my
   mind.

     Whenever  I had though about my "Dream"  at age six,  it  was  always
   accompanied with memories of something like a culture being taken  from
   my mouth.  Never before had I considered to ask myself such an  obvious
   question. Why should I have? It was apparently just a bad "dream."

     On  the rare occasion when I have told others about this "dream,"   I
   was  always told that it sounded more logical that something was  being
   put in my mouth rather than what I suspected. On these occasions, I did
   not hear what was said. Not that I just misunderstood,  but their words
   were replaced,  in my mind,  with other words so that I effectively did
   not  hear their words.  I  can only assume that my mind did not want to
   hear this and chose, rather, to block out such explanations.  After the
   thought finally occurred to me,  I mentioned my "brain storm"  to these
   people  and was abruptly told that this was something they had  already
   told me.

     o I must note that,  other than my wife, I  have only told two people
       about this experience.  I  did not randomly choose these two people
       to  relate my tale to,  but waited and watched to feel sure I would
       not  be  ridiculed  when I brought this  up  in  the  conversation.
       Incidentally,  after discussing this, one of the two people related
       some interesting experiences of their own, which came very close to
       some things that I had not mentioned previously.

     o I have told little to my wife about my situation. I have let her in
       on  the  basics,  but have resigned myself to keeping the  emotions
       away  from  our discussions.  I  do not want her to become  fearful
       about  my sanity,  or my situation.  Her response to this has  been
       that this "all sounds about right . . ."  I  was not actually ready
       for such a reply.  She has supported me during all this,  and seems
       to accept the inevitability that this sort of thing is normal,  and
       that it happens every day.  I  have yet to ask if she feels she has
       been involved in some sort of similar experience.

     I  waited  until the following day before proceeding with my line  of
   questioning.   I   had  to deal with my fear of finding  out  what  had
   happened to me. Whether or not using the pendulum was a valid technique
   no longer made a difference.  It was an anchor to reality.  I  was not,
   nor am I now, sure I like this possible new reality but it is mine, and
   as such, I must live accordingly.

     Proceeding onward, I  asked if something was being administered to me
   orally  rather  than a culture being taken,  and the answer was in  the
   affirmative. I  have no idea of how I would know if something was being
   put into my mouth if a probe was being used.  It would seem to me  that
   both  techniques using a similar instrument would be almost  impossible
   to deliberate.

     After thinking on this for sometime,  I came up with the thought that
   it  is  possible  for  the  human brain to  keep  track  of  biological
   integrity  whether  it  be a natural occurrence of enzyme  action,   or
   external induction.  To be honest,  this happened so long ago that even
   thought I remember the incident clearly, some aspects are a bit hazy. I
   would not testify,  based on what I remember,  that a "probe"  was used
   during this episode.  Sometimes it seems as though something was poured
   or dropped into my mouth,  and then other times I think it was a probe.
   I can't be certain which.  I do know,  however,  that I do believe that
   something  has  happened  to me,  and that it does not  fall  into  the
   category of normally accepted reality.

     This  is  what  brought me to the point where I  became  involved  in
   seeking  answers to questions that I sincerely wished would have  never
   surfaced.

     I realize that I'm being long winded,  but long windedness is one  of
   my  ways  of  getting these things out where they can  be  dealt  with.
   Unfortunately, being given to long windedness, I  tend to sacrifice the
   even flow, and contextual continuity when writing. . .

     Let me move onward. . .

     Here are some accounts of episodes that, to the best of my ability, I
   have  remember which have occurred since the age of two.  Some  may  be
   related,  and some may be just strange events.  I'll include what I can
   recall. . .


   THE INCIDENT WITH THE EASTER BUNNY:

     At around the age of two or three,  my parents and I were living in a
   house on South Powell street in Columbus Ohio.  On the occasion of this
   event, I was sitting up in the lower bunk of my bunk bed.  It was early
   morning,   and my bedroom door was open.  My mother was in the habit of
   opening my door each night before she retired for the evening. I do not
   remember  waking up that morning,  I  just remember being in the  lower
   bunk,   and  looking  out  into the  hallway  (Assumed  time  would  be
   approximately  between 6:00  to 7:00  am.  since the light of dawn  was
   making it easy to see,  and my parents were not up yet.) I  am not sure
   what it was that I saw, my mind could not really understand it.  It was
   something  living and moving.  In my mind,  I  assumed it must  be  the
   Easter Bunny since Easter was not far away.  (I would presume that this
   would  make around mid to late March to early April.)  I  watched  this
   thing move down the hall away from my bedroom.  It turned and looked at
   me briefly,  gave sort of a wave,  and then disappeared. I  remember it
   walking down the hallway,  and then it wasn't there any longer.  It was
   not  easy to look at it.  It didn't seem to be solid,   and  fluctuated
   between  what  I suppose I superimposed in my mind of a picture of  the
   Easter Bunny, and something that was kind of a white and illuminated. I
   remember the picture of the bunny more clearly than the other.  (I must
   point out that I do not actually clearly remember seeing the part  that
   was illuminated. It is simply an impression.)

     After  it left,  I  only remember laying back down on my bed thinking
   that  I must have been being a good boy or else the Easter Bunny  would
   not  have let me see him.  I  wanted to get out of bed,  but I was  not
   allowed to get up until my parents woke.

     One thing that puzzles me now that I think back on this incident,  is
   that  I  was not at all frightened.  All I can remember of my  thoughts
   from that experience is that I saw something I did not understand,  and
   in trying to make sense of it,  I  gave it identification as the Easter
   bunny.

     o Awhile  after the incident with the Easter Bunny,  my parents  were
       separated.  I  was not really aware of this,  since my mother  just
       told me that we were going to go "visit" some friends for awhile. I
       have  considered that proceeding episodes might be related in  some
       way  to this separation with manifested feelings of anxiety,  fear,
       and guilt, but I really believe that I dealt with those feelings in
       ways  not related,  or entering into the territorial boundaries  of
       what I recount concerning the topic at hand.


   THE WITCH IN BLACK:

      At the middle of September, we were living with a lady and her three
   daughters  in an area of Columbus I was not familiar with.   We  stayed
   there until, I believe, the first part January.

     In the early part of October,  shortly after my third birthday, I was
   sleeping in a room which I shared with my mother.  It was very early in
   the morning when I realized that I was wide awake. (I was almost always
   the  first one to wake up.)  I  noticed the presence of someone else in
   the  room besides me and my mother.  Whatever it was,  it was  standing
   near the head of the cot I slept in,  and as I became aware of where it
   was, I turned my head to see what was there. Being a chicken by nature,
   I  shut my eyes and turned away at the first glimpse.  What I do recall
   seeing was something dressed in black, not like a shadow,  but in black
   clothing, and my impression was that whoever I saw did not look normal.
   I hid my self under my covers,  and remained there until I felt whoever
   it was leave. I listened for any sound or evidence of movement, but did
   not hear anything.  No door opened or closed,  no window was opened.  I
   could  feel it near me for a short time,  then it left.  I  ventured  a
   look, and it was no longer in the room.

     Being close to Halloween, I assumed it must be a witch,  and I didn't
   want to tangle with any witches. . .


   NIGHT PICNIC AT THE BEACH:

     o Since  I'm  not sure  of the date  sequence of this episode, I will
       interject it here for the sake of convenience.

     In  1959,  my mother and I moved to Jacksonville Florida to stay with
   my uncle Ron.  He lived in a new housing area which was,  at that time,
   named  "Sandalwood".  About nine months to a year later,  my mother was
   introduced to a fellow serviceman of my uncle stationed at the May Port
   Naval  station.  They were soon married and bought a house in the  same
   housing area,  but on the far side,  where recent construction was just
   being completed.

     When my step-father was in port, we would frequently go out for night
   time picnics at the beach.  On one particular occasion,  we set out for
   the  evening.  Driving out to a secluded stretch of road running  along
   the coast,  we could not find any spot that pleased my step-father,  so
   he decided that since we had driven quite a way already, the best thing
   to  do was to turn around,  and just find any decent place to pull off,
   and have our picnic there.

     We  drove  back  the way we had come,  and I  entertained  myself  by
   watching the stars in the evening sky as we went along. After awhile, I
   noticed that neither my mother or step-father were speaking,  which  to
   me,  was not the ordinary course of events that usually took place when
   we were out for the evening. I popped up from the back seat,  and asked
   when  we were going to stop and have our picnic,  to which I was  given
   the answer that we had already stopped,  had our picnic,  and were  now
   returning home.  I had no recollection of stopping anywhere,  nor had I
   remembered  eating anything.  I  only remembered driving down the road,
   and watching the stars.

     When  we  arrived home,  my mother took our picnic things out of  the
   trunk and took them into the house.  As I watched, she proceeded to put
   the entire, un-eaten, contents of the our picnic supplies back into the
   refrigerator.   After  doing this,  my parents retired for the  evening
   without giving any explanation, or thinking that one was necessary.

    During all of this, I just watched without questioning their actions.


   THE NIGHT VISITS:

     During the early part of 1961, I  began having events take place on a
   nightly  basis which spanned,  as best as my memory can  ascertain,   a
   period of one month.

     At some point during each night,  I would wake up to the feeling that
   something  was being placed on the right side of my mouth.  The  object
   was cold, and had a texture similar to glass, or metal.  Directly after
   this, I would feel a probe being placed into my mouth, and moved around
   as though a culture was being taken.  I  do not remember the texture of
   the probe itself, other than the impression that it was thin. I  do not
   remember any sensation of temperature connected with the probe.

     From my point of awareness,  and wakefulness,  these episodes seem to
   have only taken about ten to fifteen minutes.  If more was involved,  I
   have no current knowledge of it.

     During each visit,  I would wake up terrified,  afraid to move out of
   fear that I would be hurt. My heart was racing excitedly out of fear. I
   surmised  that  since I was being still,  and nothing had hurt me  thus
   far,   more of the same immobility was in order.  On later "visits",  I
   tried to move, but was unable to control any motor functions other than
   those involuntary functions such as heart reat,  breathing,  etc.  with
   the exception of one time. At one point during the probing, I  was able
   to open my eyes slightly. When I did this, I saw something like a white
   sleeve, and part of what looked like a hand close to my face.  The hand
   moved toward my face, and I quickly shut my eyes.

     On  multiple occasions,  after having one of these nightly visits,  I
   managed  to  get out of bed,  and would check to see if my  mother  was
   doing  these things to me.  On each occasion,  I  would find her in her
   room, sound asleep, with no signs of stirring.

     At one point,  as one of these visits ended,  and I felt the presence
   leaving, I struggled to get my eyes open, and as I did, I looked toward
   my  bedroom  door.   It was moving from and open position to  a  closed
   position as though someone had pulled on the handle,  then let the door
   close on its own.  I got up as quickly as my body would allow, and went
   to see if my mother had been in my room. Again, she was sound asleep. I
   then cautiously looked around the house,  checking outside through  the
   windows.  I saw no signs of any movement, no cars, no lights other than
   porch lights from neighbors a block down.

     In the following weeks after the nightly visits ended, I began having
   a  strange sensation come over me for short periods of time,   becoming
   more increasingly in frequency and duration until July 4th,  1963. This
   sensation is that of feeling extremely "spacy", or as though I'm seeing
   life  through someone elses eyes,  or though I'm watching everything as
   if  it  were all on television.  (My apologies for my  lack  of  proper
   descriptive examples.)  I  have heard that this sensation is much  like
   the  effect of hallucinagenic drugs on the human nervous system.   This
   sensation has been with me since 1964 without any sign of lessening.

     Shortly after the sensation became permanent, I began having problems
   with my left ear. I  acquired a nasty ear infection which resulted in a
   rupture that left a good portion of my bed covered in blood, and placed
   me in a coma  for  three days.   I   don't remember anything that would
   connect  this  with my previous experiences other than that I  seem  to
   feel that it is somehow related.

     Another situation that began directly after the night visits ended is
   the recurring akinesiatic experience.  I have no other term to which to
   refer,   so please pardon my usage if it proves to  be  incorrect.   My
   definition in this context pertains to the inability of movement,   and
   lack  of all motor function control with exception of minor eye control
   in some instances. Generally, as the akinesia overtakes me, I  can move
   somewhat for a few seconds, then I become completely immobile.

     In almost all instances when I am overcome with akinesia, I am alone.
   On the few occasions when I've been in bed and my wife is there asleep,
   I have been unable to wake her.  With the exception of my wife, I  have
   never experienced akinesia when anyone else was present.

    MISSING TIME ON THE FREEWAY:

     I am unable to recall the date,  or even the year when this situation
   took  place.  I  believe to the best of my assumptive ability that  the
   episode took place in 1984 or 1985.

     I  was returning late one night from visiting friends that lived in a
   nearby town. I was driving home alone,  and the traffic was very sparse
   to non existent.  I  remember being at about half way home (at about 25
   miles) and the next moment, I was about 100 yards from my turn off from
   the freeway. I was completely confused when I realized where I was, and
   thought I had managed to get myself to Los Angeles. There were still no
   cars on the freeway with me,  and I was still in the same lane I was in
   25 miles back.  I have no idea what happened during that 25 mile drive.
   I got home as quickly as I could, and went directly to bed.


    UFO SIGHTING:

     In 1984,  while walking back from the local mini-mart with my  friend
   Gene,   I   happened  to  look up into the night sky and  I  say  three
   triangular  shaped  objects  at just above  the  cloud  ceiling.   They
   appeared  to  have  a luminescence that looked to me to be  much like a
   flourescent coloring.  The objects were in a delta formation,  directly
   above  my,   and  slightly  to  the right moving in a  south  to  north
   direction.  They appeared to move at the same pace as I was walking.  I
   watched  them  for about 30 seconds and though that I should get Gene's
   attention and have him take a look. As I did this, they took off to the
   north at a great speed. With the darkness, and the cloud ceiling, I was
   unable to calculate the distance, or size of the objects. There were no
   running lights of any kind,  and no sound that I could perceive.   That
   was the extent of my personal UFO related sightings.


    A LATER REFLECTION:

     After  talking a closer look and examiming my memories of this event,
   I do feel that perhaps that what I was seeing was not three crafts, but
   rather,   a   single craft.   My first inclination of three  ships  was
   primarily  due  to the three distinctive light sources.  At  first,   I
   assumed that three  light "sources" automatically  meant three "Craft".
   After thinking long and  hard about  this,  and considering the way the
   three light sources never deviated  in their distance and position from
   each other, I must say that I feel this was one rather large triangular
   craft. I may very well be wrong, but this is the only way that I can is
   correlate the information I have.


    AUTOHYPNOSIS:

     At one point, I decided to try autohypnosis to see if I could uncover
   some possible information to determine  if I had actually experienced a
   UFO related encounter.  Since my experience of the night visits at  age
   six seem to be most predominant, I chose to start there.

     Proceeding through the induction, and preliminary steps, I found that
   I had successfully brought myself to an acceptable state of suggestion.
   My  primary desire was to take myself back to the night where my  first
   memory of the episodes took place. Through suggestion, I  tried to have
   myself start at the point where I was just falling asleep, but couldn't
   do so.  Instead, I  found myself standing outside the house we lived in
   at  the time,  looking up at my bedroom window.  Rather than  it  being
   evening,  it was mid afternoon.  I  tried once again to place myself at
   the point where I was just falling asleep,  and again,  I  found myself
   outside  the house looking at my bedroom window.  I  tried a third time
   with  the  same  results.  Seeing that I was not going to  be  able  to
   proceed  in the manner I had desired,  I  let myself start outside  the
   house,  looking at the window.  After starring at the window and seeing
   the vividness of my memories, I moved to make my way into the house.

     o In real time,  I'd often stood outside my bedroom window looking up
       to see if anyone could see in.

     I  recalled  memories of things I hadn't thought of for  years,   and
   others  that  I hadn't remembered until then.  I  made my way into  the
   house, and down the hall to my old bedroom. There were many things that
   caught  my  eye  of rememberance,  but I will leave those out  of  this
   dialog for the sake of getting more to the point.  I  stood in my  room
   seeing it just as it was.  I  enjoyed myself to no end,  but knew I had
   gone to the trouble of doing this to see what was possibly hidden in my
   subconscious.

     I  managed to bring myself to the time I had fallen asleep.  At  this
   point I decided to begin maintaining myself in the role of an observer.
   I  watched as I fell asleep,  and allowed time t o progress toward  the
   incident in question. At this point, I  was unable to see myself laying
   in my bed,  or to see the room anymore. I was no longer in the position
   of  the observer,  but actually beginning to relive the experience  all
   over.  I became a bit frightful about this,  but I was determined to go
   through with this, and bring back all of the information I could.

     Toward the end of the autohypnosis,  I  began to move directly to the
   point where I first became aware that something was happening to me.  I
   tried to move further into the memory,  but I was abruptly stopped by a
   pair of ugly, large black eyes, and the word "NO!". . .

     This scared the pants off me,  but I would persist in my endeavor.  I
   tried the same thing twice more, and ran up against those eyes, and the
   word  "NO!".   I   decided that I had pushed my luck far  enough,   and
   brought myself out of the hypnotic state.


    PERSONAL BIO:

     Do to the "spacy"  feeling I have had for nearly thirty years, I  did
   seek out medical,  and psychological help. In all cases, I was found to
   be in good health, and suffering from no mental illnesses. I  underwent
   various  medical and psychological testing.  These tests  included  CAT
   scans,   EEGs,  testing for temporal lobe epilepsy.  The only  negative
   findings  that  were  brought  out  were  that  I  was  suffering  from
   Polycythemia  Vera  (a blood disorder,)  and that I had  carpel  tunnel
   syndrome.

     Since the age of six,  I have been agorophobic,  and pretty much stay
   to myself.  I am very hesitant to open up to people unless I feel I can
   trust them.  I  wouldn't say I'm paranoid,  but I do tend to  extremely
   cautious of my surroundings,  and who is near me. I have very few close
   friends, but those friends are ones that I can trust.

     The most overwhelming hurdles for me to overcome are, and have always
   been, my sense of non-identity and anxiety. Constantly, I live with the
   feeling  of violation,  and at the same time,  longing for a return  of
   those that have caused me to feel this way. Part of my life is lived in
   secret,   and that in itself causes me more stress than  most  anything
   else.

     Fortunately, with the help of two friends, L. Morgan, and J.  Powell,
   I  have managed to learn to deal with this unusual state of strangeness
   in  my life.  Although I have come to grips with what may be  happening
   to me,  I  cannot say that I have sorted through and understood all  of
   the  realities  and implications involved.  I  am still  searching  for
   those  illusive answers.  In time I may come to know for sure what  has
   been happening to me, but till then, I must endure and persevere.

     I  had  wanted to find some quote from literature to use as a way  to
   communicate my emotional response to what I have been going through.  I
   wanted to use the quote as an epilogue to this communication.  Alas,  I
   could  find  nothing in the bounds of my meager library that  bear  the
   import of my feelings.  Of the few quotes I found, I  was not satisfied
   with  their  congruency.  I  did find something that I  had  personally
   written  a  few  years back that came as close as anything else  I  had
   come across. I would like to close with that quote here. . .



        The coldness of the evening air moves swiftly across your face
                           Like the unwanted touch
                                of loneliness.

     The skies of winter approach, bring the heartless cries of farewell
                    To the passing of autumn, now ringing,
                        And left echoing in your ears.

                               Alone you stand.

               All that have gone before speak in hollow tones
                          As if to guide your path.
                                 Their words,
               Still sharp in your mind, cannot bring comfort.

                             Alone you stand, and
                       Alone you must bear your quest.

                                     ---

     I hope that I have found, in this echo, the strength to stand alone,
   and to stand with friends...

     Take care,

     Dan

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   Dan can be contacted at the below address:

   D.E.Brown
   1710 1/2 "X" Street (Lower)
   Sacramento, CA 95818



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