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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Experiencer Describes His Year-Long Ordeal of LOST TIME & UNEXPLAINED TERROR!

"At some point, I opened my eyes and I was sitting on top of a pile of clothes on the couch. I had lost 3 hours, and I have no explanation for what happened to me!" 

I received the following account:

"Hi. I had a year-long experience of strange events that I've never been able to explain or have a full memory of. It started in winter working up north on a project. Our crew was put up in a motel 10 minutes outside of Farmington, New Mexico. I somehow got upgraded to a king-size bed with couches. A very nice room. Our days were long so I used the couches to stack my clothes in piles.

I had brought my entire desktop computer with me and was in the middle of a massive argument with my ex over Facebook Messenger at 1 am during the 2nd week there. At some point, I opened my eyes and I was sitting on top of a pile of clothes on the couch. The time was now 4 am.

I rushed over to the computer. At some point after 1 am, I had stopped typing a sentence midway through. My ex had left a ton of messages throughout the night demanding I answer her back. She also left missed calls and texts on my phone which was still sitting beside the mouse. I figured I had somehow passed out but wasn't sure how I ended up on top of my hoodies on the couch and not just fall into bed. Went to sleep normally for the remaining couple hours before work.

A couple of days later an even stranger scenario happened. My routine was we'd finish work, I'd come back to the motel around 9 pm, shower, change, and drive into town for late-night dinner at a pizza place (only restaurant open late other than McDonald's). So this particular night I went through my routine, took a shower, changed, and headed for the door. I got to my car and when I turned it on something felt really wrong.

I looked at the time, it was now 2 am. I had no idea how I had lost around 4 hours between showering and getting into my car. It felt weird. My whole body felt weird. I felt violated, like a victim would describe waking up from being assaulted while passed out. You feel violated but you have no idea what happened. Not a single memory or explanation. I stayed up all night scared out of my mind trying to figure out what happened. Why was I missing 4 hours, if I had passed out why didn't I wake up on the floor, why did I feel violated, etc.

For the rest of the project, nothing else happened, but once I got back home things started happening that were just as weird. There's more to my experiences if you want to know (it only lasted for about a year), but those two events were the starting catalysts.

I've never actually figured out what happened but most people I've asked all seem to agree it had to be abduction events.

These events happened 2011-2012. My job at the time also included 4 trips of 3 weeks duration to both that town and another town 40 minutes away from the initial town where the first 2 missing times occurred. In my research, I found out the first town where this happened was and is a hot spot for UFO activity.

Pretty much a few weeks after I started avoiding sleep when I felt the events coming, and would make a point of staying in highly populated areas at night, these events stopped and have not returned since.

The residual left behind of me not wanting to sleep at night sometimes I chalk up to fear that comes from this event. Same with closing the blinds in all rooms at night. If I want to go to sleep I have no problem doing so since the event, and I haven't experienced any similar dreams since either." S

I contacted the experiencer and asked for more details. I received the following:

"Hi, again. For the first month or so nothing happened further. But then something weird started happening. I began waking up around 2 am and not being able to fall back asleep until the sun came up. I would wake up and have the urge to turn on every light in the apartment and stay up, find things to do, and wait until sun up before going back to bed.

I started to notice that in my dreams, random strangers would show up telling me to wake up. If I tried to ignore them in my dream they would find ways to harass me and tell me to wake up, telling me it's really important that I wake up.

Then there was a really vivid dream. I had gotten dressed up in my dream, and driven to an upscale hotel(no idea what the context of this dream was). When I got to my hotel room in the dream, someone started knocking on the door, shouting "Hello? Hello?" Over and over again. Just when I was about to open the door the phone rang. I answered and the voice on the phone told me not to open the door. I kept telling whoever was on the phone that I really should see why this person kept knocking, but the voice kept urging me not to answer the door. I finally hung up the phone, headed to the door, opened it, and woke up in bed in a cold sweat. 3 am. I couldn't go back to sleep.

These were the kinds of dreams. People trying to get me to wake up, and random flashes of bright white light would light up everything no matter where I was or what time of day in my dream. I remember one dream of being outside in the middle of a sunny day and a bright white flash that overpowered the sun. And usually, at this point, some random person in my dream would run up to me and urge me to wake up. Or tell me the flash wasn't part of my dream and I should wake up. Random people in your dream telling you you're in a dream and that you have to wake up is creepy. And they were always strangers, no one I knew in real life.

A precursor to these dreams was the urge to go to sleep early. I would have these urges to drop everything that I was doing and get in bed, sometimes leaving lights on, TV on, in the middle of games, middle of eating, etc. There was no fighting it, I would put down the controller or put my fork down and March right to my room and lie down. It was this weird zombie-like drowsiness. But I would always wake up after 2 am and not be able to go to sleep again until the sun came up.

During the summer I took a trip to upstate New York with a friend and we stayed at a motel overnight before heading further on our trip. That night I remember knocking on my door and someone who kept yelling "Hello? Hello?" Just like in that hotel dream. I remember my friend was fast asleep unfazed by the knock, but I ended up going to the door and unlocking it. I don't remember anything after that. I woke up sitting on the office chair by the desk, around 6 am. I checked but the door was locked and nothing had been taken. It didn't look like anyone had entered. I woke my friend up and asked if he'd heard knocking during the night. He said no. I told him what happened and he was pretty pissed that I would wake up in the middle of the night to open the door to a stranger. But there was no sign that I did or that someone had come in. Just that I somehow ended up on the chair and not the bed. I still feel like I was awake when I went to answer the door though.

The weird thing was these dreams and urges to go to sleep wouldn't always happen. Maybe 2-3 times a week. But I was starting to fear going to sleep without the lights on, and all blinds closed, or I'd fight to stay up all night and just go to sleep during the day.

After this, I was getting really fed up with how screwed up my sleeping schedule had become and I started to notice when I'd get the feeling that I should go to sleep. I would take that as a cue to get in my car and head for the busiest section of the city at night I could find, filled with people, and I'd notice that the urge to go to sleep would go away instantly. So every time I felt the urge to drop everything and go to sleep, I would fight the urge and drive downtown.

Anytime I felt like I was being watched too, I'd get in my car and go downtown. It must have worked because, after a few weeks of doing this, all these strange urges to go to sleep randomly, dreams with flashes of white light, and people telling me to wake up all went away.

I haven't had a single recurrence of these events since, however, I noticed I still have a fear of going to sleep until the sun comes up that I'm always fighting. I also recently noticed that pictures of the typical Grey aliens now scare the crap out of me and I hate looking at them. Even seeing the cartoon ones on South Park I get mini panic attacks. Those pictures had never bothered me before in my life but now they send me into waves of panic.

I still have no explanation for the missing, the weird dreams, or that one night at the motel in upstate New York (which I don't think was a dream. It felt very real and felt more like another missing time event). Most people I've told don't know what to make of it. My current girlfriend has noticed I obsess with making sure all blinds are closed with no open slivers no matter where I sleep.

I told this story to someone at a party once and the guy came out and told me his abduction story. He was positive I had been getting abducted during that year and that they'd either gotten bored of me or I had become a hassle with constantly trying to drive to places full of people to avoid the happenings. Other friends either offer no explanation or believe some sort of abduction scenario was taking place.

Who knows. I have no memory of physically being abducted, but those weird feelings of being watched, being urged to go to sleep, and feeling violated when waking up. That felt real and still bothers me.

BTW, last year I fell asleep on my girlfriend's bed while she stayed up watching Netflix in the living room. I left the lights on. At some point in the night, she came to turn the lights off and says I woke up screaming and yelling, "Leave me alone! Help! Don't touch me!" She said it was the scariest most blood-curdling thing she'd ever heard and that literally seconds later I had passed back out and was asleep again and she couldn't get me to wake up." S

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