About two hours after he fell
asleep he was awakened by a very bright light. Looking up
through the windshield he was amazed to see a large
glowing ball of light about 250 feet away hovering
motionless and totally silent. It appeared to be located
about 20 feet higher than the trees. He estimated it to be
about 150 feet around. The object produced enough light
that you could see the forest floor from the trunk to the
top of the trees. The entire forest floor was visible. At
first Darren was not sure what to think. Getting out of
the car he just stood there and looked at it, never once
looking away, as it had his full attention. Even outside
the car no noise was detectable from it. Completely round,
like an orb. No other lights of any colour were to be
seen.
At this point Darren
proceeded to ask himself some skill-testing questions to
establish if he was really awake and standing 5 feet in
front of his car. Counting from 1-10, running through the
alphabet, recalling his name. As the answers all came out
right, he very reasonably assumed he WAS wide-awake! He
stood watching the object for a good ten minutes,
speculating on what it was, how it got there, and how it
was going to leave. Some time later he really felt that
his mind was being probed, a forced review of his life’s
experiences, good and bad. At the end of that he felt
really tired with a need to go back to sleep. Although he
had all the time in the world to observe this glowing
ball, his curiousity now thoroughly aroused, he wanted to
see it do something, anything that had movement in it, but
the need to sleep overcame him and he returned to his car
where he continued to observe the ball of light until his
eyes closed for the remainder of the night. When the sun
came up in the morning he once again recalled the silent
ball of light above the trees, for which he had no
explanation. He knew it wasn't a plane or helicopter.
Putting this strange
experience aside for the moment he went ahead and took his
pictures of the waterfall and then continued to travel for
the next few weeks. Returning to Victoria he rented a new
place but was awoken one night with this experience. In
his sleep he was dreaming about standing on a small hill,
(like the one at the campsite where he saw the ball of
light!). In his "dream" he saw two lights coming towards
him very quickly then turn to the left. They were moving
much too fast to be a car, cars just don't make turns like
that. As soon as they were out of sight he felt on his
chest what seemed to be invisible needles, two of them
making contact about eight inches apart, one below the
other. They seemed to move in opposite directions to each
other until they had completed an oblong shape. Once this
had been completed the area inside this design felt numb,
similar to when your foot goes to sleep. Once this area
was numb the same feeling spread all over his body, until
he was completely paralysed and helpless to do anything.
He couldn’t even open his eyes. However, he felt he was in
an upright position and was moved forward about one
hundred feet, then turned to a horizontal position, before
feeling himself make contact with a hard surface.
At this point he was feeling
pretty scared and helpless, not being able to move a
muscle. Trying hard to get just one eye open, he finally
succeeded, only to observe a bright light coming from
above, surrounding him, seemingly from a source suspended
above him. He was unable to focus any better than that. At
that moment he awoke from his "dream", physically
frightened and shaking, he had his back to the wall and
slid along the floor to the light switch then turned it
on. He discovered his arms and legs were shaking and his
heart was beating madly, the clock said 03:30. Sitting up
in an attempt to calm down it took at least half an hour
before he could write clearly. All of this information he
wrote down and also made a note on his calendar. He later
discovered a strange mark on his upper right arm, a bunch
of little red dots that formed a perfect diamond pattern.
This measured about 1¼ inches along the sides with all the
dots evenly spaced apart inside the formation. This mark
(pattern) remained visible for three days very clearly,
then faded away. Regrettably, no photos were taken of the
mark on his arm. Having documented all this he went back
to bed for the rest of the night.
Approximately six weeks later
whilst staying at a friend’s place he was sleeping on the
sofa when he felt that numbing feeling again all over his
body and was paralysed. He felt his body lift off the sofa
and begin to float forward. He didn't like this and tried
to resist, somehow breaking free, and as a result, fell to
the floor about six feet from the sofa. He was puzzled as
to how he could get so far. Getting back on the sofa he
tried rolling off to see where he would land, discovering
that he always landed up right alongside his temporary
bed. Once again the clock read 03:30! Sitting up he said,
"OK, if someone is here give me a sign". With that the TV
turned itself on! THAT really freaked him out, staying
awake the rest of the night with all the lights on.
Shortly after that he began
to collect books on UFO topics and abduction cases. More
recently he has accumulated such as "Chariots of the
Gods", "Mysteries of the Gods", "The Meir Chronicles",
"The Secret KGB-UFO Files", plus countless other
documentaries on similar subjects.
A short time later Darren
visited an artist friend and, picking up a brush, he
discovered a latent (?) ability to paint in a very
competent and professional manner. He never looked back.
His work strikingly displays an alien/space theme. Other
areas of interest to him are astronomy, archeology,
Egyptology, religion and anthropology. All sciences that
"experiencers" tend to focus on, as we have long since
been aware.
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