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34 She saw a dim figure in the doorway step out of sight and then, as unlikely as such a response always seems in these situations, she went back to sleep. The action, however, was not yet over. At 3:25 she woke up again, flinging her arms about and trying to rouse Neal, who was completely unresponsive. She saw a lighted object outside the bedroom window, and she could feel an energy controlling her body. "They had some force on me,” she said, “stopping me from getting up. When the craft [outside] started to lift up, it broke the force. | ran outside, but | really can’t say for sure if | saw something.” On another occasion, while lying down during the day, Lisa dreamed about a number of sexual situations. Something like a small horse was involved, as well as a “dolphin,” some Grays, and “a dark, leathery, scaly creature” whose features she couldn't clearly recall. After waking from this dream, Lisa experienced the “humming and Morse code” noise that occasionally plagued her internal hearing. After a similar ‘dream’ in which Lisa was placed with several animals in sexual situations while being observed, she awoke the next morning with a bruise on her lower ankle and a tender area on the back of her head, in spite of no consciously recalled injuries to these areas. And immediately following another dream-like sexual episode with what appeared to be a well-known public figure, Lisa awoke in her bed and saw a nebulous form move quickly across the room and disappear. Startled and frightened, it took her a long time to fall back asleep, and in the morning she felt nauseated. Such things made it hard for her to dismiss all these dream memories as mere figments, yet they were such scant evidence as to give no certainty of the events’ reality. Whether they were real or dreams, there is the question of motivation. “| believe sometimes I’m made to dream odd things,” Lisa said, “to see my reaction to them.” A poignant journal entry reveals how confusing this activity can be, how vulnerable it leaves the abductee. “Dreamed Neal and | made love,” she noted. “I hope it was him.” The second controversial area reported by Lisa involves, as with the case of Pat in the previous chapter, the viewing of “new bodies.” She told me that her memory of seeing a new body occurred sometime in late 1992. Although she was keeping a journal by that time, which recorded UFO sightings, conscious events, and dreams, both alien-instigated and the normal, self-generated variety, she refused for some reason to include this event in the record. Lisa recalled lying on a table aboard a craft, with her “new body” beside her. “| got out of my old body,” she said, “and stood next to it. | was looking it over, and | even looked at my teeth. The body was perfect, but it had my long hair that | used to have. Somebody said they could make people believe that was me,” she continued, “even though it was perfect and with long hair. | wanted so badly to get in it, but | did not. | don’t remember who the beings were in the room with me, just being overwhelmed seeing the body. | don’t remember how | got back in my old body.” Later, in 1993, Lisa had experienced another dream-event about this situation. “Dreamed of showing my new body to some friends,” her journal records, “and reading to them from a special book about humankind. | was reading with some clear instrument like a triangle. Don’t remember what | was reading.” This scenario of reading a book during an encounter, by the way, is a little-known detail reported in a number of separate cases. Similar dreams recurred in which she found herself displaying the new body. In one briefly recalled episode she was showing it to her doctor, and in a much more involved dream, Lisa felt as if she had actually died in order to get into the new body, which she then showed to her husband and some other people. There were other details of this dream that suggest it may at the very least have been a screen memory of an actual event. She insisted on keeping her son with her, for example, explaining to her husband that the son “is one of us, like me.” Lisa had been told in a past encounter that the aliens were interested only in her and her son, not the entire family.