468
Dark figures, seen clearly, with nothing to see.
a dark figure · glowing eyes · a hooded figure · no face
Kinds of experience
Nobody picks a category when they write to us. These are the shapes the accounts sorted themselves into, out of 43,684 of them.
378
Waking unable to move, with the certainty of company.
the feeling of being watched · waking to something in the room · being unable to move · sudden dread
92
Accounts where the world did not match itself.
the same thing happening again · intense familiarity · time behaving strangely · a place that was not as remembered
2,484
The moment the forest goes quiet.
screaming or howling · a very tall figure · the feeling of being watched · wood knocking
37
8,346
The oldest category, and the most often explained.
hovering · moving in formation · an orange orb · red lights
Not here yet
Dreams that repeat, dreams two people had on the same night, dreams of a place nobody has been. We have almost no accounts of those, because the archives this record started from never collected them. That is a gap waiting on the first few people to write theirs down.
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