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Kinds of experience
Nobody picks a category when they write to us. These are the shapes the accounts sorted themselves into, out of 53,038 of them.
The umbrella word for all of it is high strangeness: whatever is left in an account once every ordinary explanation has had its turn. This site is deliberately not built around one kind. The most interesting thing in the record is how often a detail from one of these lists turns up in an account filed under another. How that gets measured
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A tall figure in a wide-brimmed hat, standing where you sleep.
15 of 52,774 accounts touch it
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Waking unable to move, with the certainty of company.
18 of 52,774 accounts touch it
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The moments where the world did not match itself.
14 of 52,774 accounts touch it
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When a great many people remember the same thing wrongly.
0 of 52,774 accounts touch it
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An animal that moves like it should not, in the American Southwest and beyond.
99 of 52,774 accounts touch it
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The same dream, the same place, or the thing before it happened.
the same dream as someone else · a recurring dream · dreaming it before it happened
1,010
What the record actually holds from the dead of night.
a triangle shape · hovering · an orange orb · red lights
2,683
The moment the forest goes quiet.
screaming or howling · a very tall figure · the feeling of being watched · wood knocking
44
9,409
The oldest phenomenon in the record, and the most often explained.
hovering · an orange orb · moving in formation · red lights
Why some of those say none
The hat man, the old hag, glitches in the matrix and the Mandela effect are among the most described experiences in the world and the least collected anywhere, and they are not alone on this page. This record holds almost nothing on any of them, because the archives it started from were asking about the sky and the woods rather than about bedrooms and memory. Each page puts down what is actually known and waits on the first person to write theirs down.
The glitch page is a correction as much as a gap. It used to claim ninety-two accounts. Those came from a characteristic meaning an object was seen again on a later night, which is a different thing entirely, and counting them here was padding. The honest number is ten. Dreams belong on this list too, for the same reason.
None of these quite it?
Then describe it in your own words. The categories on this page came out of what people wrote, not the other way round, so yours may make a new one.
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