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times have. 216 * THE SESSIONS My own notes add this little exchange toward the end of her session: I saw some equipment or something, sticks with teardrops coming out of them. It looked like machinery. "It may have been machinery." Sara's notes describe her state of mind after these sessions: "It's difficult to sort through all this. Was it real? It certainly seemed real, but so do dreams when they are happening. But there was something about this that was different from a dream, even the lucid dreams I some- "Were there really other life-forms out there? Did I really send them the power of Love and spirituality? Even more disturbing, did they somehow mark me? Are they watching me somehow? It makes me feel a little crazy and very confused. Even worse, I feel very isolated in my experience. How can anyone except someone who has been there understand? Maybe this stuff did make me go nuts. I know it sure changed my life. Now, what am I going to do with it? How do I keep something this big inside?" I was not at all familiar with the alien abduction literature before begin- ning the DMT study. Neither were many of our volunteers. I knew almost nothing about it, and had little desire to learn more. It seemed much more "fringe" than even the study of psychedelic drugs! However, once we be- gan hearing so many tales of entity encounters, I knew I could no longer plead ignorance of the larger phenomenon. Despite my better judgment, I now feel compelled to weigh in with my opinion regarding the experience of contact with "alien life-forms." Let's review the popularly reported "alien abduction" experience. We will see the striking resemblance between these naturally occurring con- tacts and those reported in our DMT study. This remarkable overlap may ease our acceptance of my proposition that the alien abduction experi- ence is made possible by excessive brain levels of DMT. This may occur spontaneously through any of the previously described conditions that activate pineal DMT formation. It also might take place when DMT levels rise from taking in the drug from the outside, as in our studies.