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59 pattern, and it’s the reason that I even remember this scene at all. This always felt more like a memory to me rather than a dream, due to the realistic feeling it had and the unusual subject. It doesn’t seem normal for a kid to dream about something like this. When I ran this by my brother Joe in Portland in 2001, he said it was indeed a base/facility that I was in, and that the black squares were made of mica, designed to filter ultraviolet radiation. Since people living in these bases have no exposure to the sun they have to give them artificial doses of it to prevent sickness, and it was passed through these mica block/filter things. My first response was a big scrunched face, very doubtful since the mica I’d seen growing up was pretty transparent. Not black. In fact I was so doubtful about what he reported that I didn’t even include Joe’s explanation of this in the original versions of this book. But when I later researched mica I later found pictures of it that showed thick sheets of mica....that were a 1 .oatod 1 mod a 1 cs ee smoky gray to black color. The thicker the sheets, the blacker it gets. But most importantly, years after being told this dubious piece of information, it was confirmed to me by somebody else that the idea of mica filtering UV rays is actually valid...you can do a search on Google and turn up research papers on it. Apparently mica filters out the harmful spectrum of UV rays, and allows the beneficial ones to pass through. So, yet one more thing that Joe told me way back when, which was put on the backburner, until surprising confirmation eventually did come in. And as mentioned in other places throughout this book, Joe wasn’t somebody who was educated or who spent time reading the sorts of material that would have taught him this stuff, or used the internet to gain insight. He had no interest in the internet, and spent a lot of his free time engaged in criminal pursuits, not being academic. Frequent heavy nosebleeds as a kid in Massachusetts. Frequent nighttime nosebleeds as a child have been mentioned in abduction research as a possible indicator of “stuff.” They’d always only happen for me in the middle of the night, spontaneously erupting out of nowhere. Never once did I have one during the day that I can nowhere. remember. Part II - My Own Experiences —_—_—_—_—— ee *e