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Simon Fuller, Sydney, Australia
A couple of nights ago (15-8) I was in bed when I noticed my baby son (who often sleeps between us) sitting up and doing something odd. I looked at him, and as I did so I noticed a very strange thing floating away from him.
The thing looked like a collection of spikes, the same kind of shape as knitting needles, but thinner. There were six spikes about 6-8 cm long, all joined at one end at a central point, so that they were radiating out at right angles to each other.Then there were smaller, thinner spikes also radiating out between the larger ones. Imagine a three-dimensional asterisk, that's about the best description I can come up with. The spikes were coloured in thick bands of black and a dark creamy white.
This thing floated in a fairly straight line, though it was bobbing slightly as if it was being lifted on a fishing wire or floating like a soap bubble caught by a breeze. I sat up, announcing quite loudly, "What the hell is that?" I watched it as I reached for the light switch; it was travelling at a steady pace toward the corner of the ceiling and the roof above the bedroom door. As the light came on, it vanished. I spent a while looking for it, but there was no sign. It took a while to get back to sleep, I was a bit unnerved but not really scared.
I realised later that I'd been sleeping, though I didn't know it at the time. I can't remember exactly what the strange thing was that my son was doing. He was actually asleep, so I definitely dreamed that part, unless you consider astral travel or something. It would be easy to dismiss this as a dream that overlapped into my waking, but why on earth would I dream of a small, spiny, floating thing? It was completely unlike anything I know, as you can tell by my attempts at explaining it. As far as I can remember, I don’t normally dream of flying, abstract shapes. That it persisted until the moment I turned on the light was also a bit strange.
There is a ceiling fan above the bed, which is cross-shaped, but it is completely the wrong shape, size, and colour, and was in the wrong spot even before it floated away. I’m about 90% sure it wasn’t that, and there’s nothing else I could have seen and misinterpreted.
One last note, we’ve recently moved house and my wife says she keeps seeing small, dark shapes scurrying like mice, out of the corner of her eye (I mentioned this in another thread).
A couple of nights ago (15-8) I was in bed when I noticed my baby son (who often sleeps between us) sitting up and doing something odd. I looked at him, and as I did so I noticed a very strange thing floating away from him.
The thing looked like a collection of spikes, the same kind of shape as knitting needles, but thinner. There were six spikes about 6-8 cm long, all joined at one end at a central point, so that they were radiating out at right angles to each other.Then there were smaller, thinner spikes also radiating out between the larger ones. Imagine a three-dimensional asterisk, that's about the best description I can come up with. The spikes were coloured in thick bands of black and a dark creamy white.
This thing floated in a fairly straight line, though it was bobbing slightly as if it was being lifted on a fishing wire or floating like a soap bubble caught by a breeze. I sat up, announcing quite loudly, "What the hell is that?" I watched it as I reached for the light switch; it was travelling at a steady pace toward the corner of the ceiling and the roof above the bedroom door. As the light came on, it vanished. I spent a while looking for it, but there was no sign. It took a while to get back to sleep, I was a bit unnerved but not really scared.
I realised later that I'd been sleeping, though I didn't know it at the time. I can't remember exactly what the strange thing was that my son was doing. He was actually asleep, so I definitely dreamed that part, unless you consider astral travel or something. It would be easy to dismiss this as a dream that overlapped into my waking, but why on earth would I dream of a small, spiny, floating thing? It was completely unlike anything I know, as you can tell by my attempts at explaining it. As far as I can remember, I don’t normally dream of flying, abstract shapes. That it persisted until the moment I turned on the light was also a bit strange.
There is a ceiling fan above the bed, which is cross-shaped, but it is completely the wrong shape, size, and colour, and was in the wrong spot even before it floated away. I’m about 90% sure it wasn’t that, and there’s nothing else I could have seen and misinterpreted.
One last note, we’ve recently moved house and my wife says she keeps seeing small, dark shapes scurrying like mice, out of the corner of her eye (I mentioned this in another thread).
) I looked up and saw something very similar to the shape above, with the shimmering petals and lovely colours, the rings of petals spinning in different directions. Absolutely beautiful. 
