Emotions: Awe

  • Dreamlike Emotional Confrontation With the Unknown

    Dreamlike Emotional Confrontation With the Unknown

    Mack explains that abductees often face powerful emotional waves as memories surface. These emotions appear before imagery or narrative details, creating a state like a vivid dream where feelings dominate the experience.

    The emotional surge may include terror, awe, or relief. Experiencers sense that these feelings originated during the encounter, even when imagery is unclear. The state blends dreamlike immediacy with traumatic charge.

    Mack sees this emotional-first pattern as evidence that abduction memories operate more like dream events—symbolic, nonlinear, and emotionally centered—than like historical recollections.

  • Transformational Awe After Encounter

    Transformational Awe After Encounter

    Mack notes that many experiencers return from encounters with a sense of profound awe that lingers like the emotional residue of a powerful dream. They report feeling connected to cosmic questions about identity, origin, and purpose.

    This aftereffect does not feel like ordinary memory integration but resembles the unfolding of meaning after a significant dream. The experiencer may interpret their life differently, sensing an expansion of consciousness.

    Mack interprets this awe-filled afterstate as a transformative component of the encounter, aligning it with mythic and dreamlike processes that influence spiritual development.

  • Emotional Flood During Visionary Recall

    Emotional Flood During Visionary Recall

    Mack describes how certain experiencers slip into emotional surges when recalling encounters. The emotional intensity surfaces before clear imagery, resembling the structure of vivid dreams where feeling forms the core of experience.

    These waves of emotion include awe, terror, tenderness, or grief, arriving with a sense of direct contact. The lack of visual coherence reinforces the dreamlike texture of the recall.

    Mack interprets these emotional floods as indicators of symbolic content emerging from altered consciousness, blending memory with dream processes.

  • Karin’s Higher-Self Creation Vision

    Karin’s Higher-Self Creation Vision

    Mack recounts Karin describing a visionary moment in which she senses her “higher self-consciousness” participating in a cosmic act of creation. This experience is expressed in language typical of spiritual dreams or shamanic visions.

    She feels both fear and profound agreement with the process unfolding around her. The vision blends biological creation with divine intent, producing a symbolic fusion between self, cosmos, and beings involved in the encounter.

    Mack notes that such visionary moments resemble dream imagery woven with emotional conviction, suggesting that the encounter operates at a mythic or transpersonal level.

  • Visualization of Planetary Destruction

    Visualization of Planetary Destruction

    Jacobs notes that experiencers sometimes witness powerful visualizations presented by the beings. One witness describes seeing imagery of planetary destruction, environmental collapse, and fire spreading across continents. The vision arrives fully formed, as if projected into her mind.

    She experiences the scene with the emotional weight of a nightmare, yet understands it symbolically. The beings appear to be conveying meaning through imagery rather than speech.

    Jacobs interprets these visions as secondary events within the abduction sequence, carrying dreamlike symbolic messages about global threat.

  • Sudden Realization Upon Awakening

    Sudden Realization Upon Awakening

    Ring describes witnesses who awaken with the intense feeling that something significant occurred during the night. They retain only dreamlike fragments: lights, voices, or presences. The emotional certainty exceeds the content.

    This awakening resembles returning from a powerful dream where the meaning is clear but imagery dissolves. The experiencer reports emotional residue such as awe or dread.

    Ring interprets these episodes as moments when anomalous experience merges with dream-memory processes.

  • Visual Imagery of Lights and Beings

    Visual Imagery of Lights and Beings

    Ring notes that experiencers often perceive glowing beings or amorphous lights that seem alive. These lights move with intention and evoke strong emotion. The imagery resembles symbolic dream figures rather than literal physical forms.

    Some interpret the lights as guides, others as watchers. The lights communicate through feeling rather than speech. This produces a sense of being cared for or evaluated.

    Ring includes these reports to illustrate the imaginal nature of many anomalous experiences.

  • Tunnel Vision During Near-Death Experience

    Tunnel Vision During Near-Death Experience

    Ring includes an engineer’s account of passing through a dark tunnel while near death. He perceives a distant light and feels pulled toward it. As he moves forward, the tunnel widens and takes on dreamlike, weightless qualities.

    He encounters a radiant presence that communicates without words. The presence offers a choice of continuing or returning to life. The emotional impact is overwhelming and peaceful.

    Ring notes that this NDE tunnel structure shares symbolic similarities with abduction corridor imagery, both operating like dream pathways.

  • Voice Telling Her to “Remember the Light”

    Voice Telling Her to “Remember the Light”

    Ring recounts a detailed encounter from an Alaskan witness who follows unusual lights and discovers a tall, silent figure near a craft. She sits on a moose’s carcass while observing colored lights emerging and retracting into the craft.

    A nonhuman figure stands near her without speaking. She then hears a clear internal voice telling her, “Remember the light.” The message feels dreamlike and symbolic, resonating deeply.

    Ring interprets this scene as a hybrid encounter with visionary and dreamlike elements that left a lasting psychological imprint.

  • Dream Encounter with the Tall Grey Instructor

    Dream Encounter with the Tall Grey Instructor

    In Rekshan’s Missing Time Found, the author describes recurring dreams in which a tall grey intelligence appears as a teacher. This being delivers lessons on geometry, intuition, and anomalous body marks. The dream environment feels both symbolic and real, merging personal imagination with a transpersonal presence.

    The tall grey demonstrates shapes, numbers, or diagrams that the dreamer understands only after waking. Its guidance includes reassurance that the experiences are real in a dreamlike sense. These dreams shape the author’s interpretation of missing time events.

    Rekshan presents the tall grey as a consistent dream instructor whose teachings connect body marks, geometry, and ET/NHI contact.