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102 should share the dream with me, although it felt “ridiculous” to write to someone about a “dream.” She made no claims for the dream, nor for having any actual alien experiences, and she did not ask for any advice, help, or response. Clearly, Amy had written the letter only to make the compulsion “stop bugging” her. | didn’t need an invitation to respond, however, as her information was too compelling to ignore. Amy had commented that “certain elements of my dream resembled parts of your book,” but when | read back through the dream | could see very little actual similarity other than the facts that my husband had seen military people in an abduction and that | had recalled an ear implant. | suspected there were other details she hadn't shared, however, because people very often hold back from the entire truth when first “testing the waters” with someone they don’t know. And not only was | intrigued by the content of the dream, | was also curious to know more about Amy’s potential situation because she lived in the very same city where my family and | lived during the experiences | wrote about in FRINGE. Finally there was the fact of her compulsion to contact me rather than some other researcher, and the possibility that our contact was being directed. The slaved human gure Amy met with masked alien. | got her number from information and phoned as soon as possible. | learned that she was a divorced mother of two young daughters who had just finished her master’s degree in counseling. She was born in Dallas in 1953, of Scotch, Irish, English, and French (“Cajun”) ancestry and had lived most of her life in the Metroplex area. Amy was truly surprised by my interest. In fact, as she later confessed humorously, she wondered if | were “one taco short of a full combo plate” for being “interested in a dream.” Amy did agree, however, to share more information about many of her experiences, which she confessed were rather “fringe-like” even though they didn’t in conscious reality involve aliens or UFOs. | asked her to describe any past unusual events, of any sort, and a few weeks later she complied, with a list of psychic, dream, telepathic, and miscellaneous experiences. “It was a lot harder [to make the list] than | expected,” she said. “It was like trying to see through a dense fog. I’ve always kept these things at a distance from my awareness.” That distance was rapidly diminishing, and in the course of the next several months, we explored together her memories and the accounts found in the journals she had kept for