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123 “How did you feel, while it was happening?” “| didn’t feel sexual. It was more a very deep sorrow because that woman was in such terrible panic and fear and pain. It was so thick | could almost grab it in the air, all that emotion. All | wanted to do was make her feel better, give her some comfort, and that’s what | remember doing. Just holding her and talking.” “Have you seen her, | mean in person, since the dream?” | asked. “Yeah,” he said. “So how did she seem? Did she say anything?” “No, she didn’t say a word. | passed her on a stairway, and she looked at me very intently. | think her face even turned red, and then she looked down at the stairs and went on by.” “Does she usually say hello when you see each other?” “Yes, she’s always been friendly in the past,” Casey said. “I don’t know why she acted like that, unless that whole thing wasn’t really a dream. But there’s no way | can ask her about it, we don’t know each other that well at all.” “And we don’t have a clue as to finding the woman in the mall,” | remarked, wishing we could ask her if she really remembered the incident in Casey’s dream. “No, | never saw her before,” he said. “But we had a connection, when we were looking at each other, a very strong connection. | looked at her, and then it was like | was inside her head, her eyes, looking back out at myself. And | could feel her, in a way, that she really is good, a good person. She’s not responsible for whatever might have happened. If anything really did.” That was the question we were always left to face, the nature of an event's reality. In some reports, two people have separately recalled being in an identical dream or situation, and in those cases the people involved can feel more certain of the dream or event’s objective reality. But it doesn’t always happen that way. Sometimes one person will have a traumatic experience involving another person, and the reality of the event is so convincing that the experiencer believes the other person was truly involved, no matter how impossible time and location considerations may seem. Granted, there is plenty of evidence for the aliens’ ability to manipulate time and space, so the objective reality of such events cannot automatically be dismissed. But there is also hard evidence that the aliens are masters of illusion, total-sensory, gut-and-heart- wrenching illusion, generated by an external mechanism. And when an abductee is in an altered state, the illusion is very convincing to his controlled perceptions. This lesson had been brought home by the extraordinary VRS involving Amelia that Ted and Marie witnessed in 1991, and now | was seeing, possibly, with my husband’s bewildered emotions, just how masterful the aliens’ deceptive mechanisms can be. For Amelia, the event had been a virtual-reality solo flight, the external product or result of the blue sphere technology and its creators. Knowing this, | wondered if Casey’s dreams were objective or virtual experiences, the product of some similar technology, and so did he. The only thing he knew to be “real” was the nameless woman he came face to face with in the mall.