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paranormal studies would see my work and reply with something to the effect of “ah yes, the beings you describe were in fact...” Maybe I could contact those with similar experiences to glean information. I would acquire some answers without revealing who I actually was. Being relatively new to the Internet, there was always that disturbing notion in the back of my mind that a whiz hacker somewhere could break through my email anonymity and know who I was. Not that my story would have had any importance to anyone at this stage, it was more a case of the same old embarrassment. The first mistake someone makes when launching their own web material for the first time is thinking that their site will be seen by the world. Potentially that’s true, but people forget there are already a zillion or so similar sites for viewing that make a “web page” appear like a page from one book of thousands in a central library! The paranormal was a hot topic on the Internet and there was untold material along with mine. Nevertheless I was eager to see that if thousands could read it, one of them just one might be the person who could shed light on my mystery. l allowed the page to be up there for a few months while I went about my daily activities still feeling the tail end of being trance-like. In this time the response I received from my disclosed email proved to be very poor. Perhaps I should have used a visitor’s facility to register how much traffic actually came to the page but I had no knowledge of those tools then. The ones that bothered to respond by email were not the sort of people I had hoped to connect with anyway. The replies were few and far between asking the occasional banality like what planet the aliens came from and how I should first get in touch with my “inner” self. Following that there were the volley of infuriating sales adverts asking to place their banners on my site, the kind which cause delete keys to lodge. Unless I advertised my site right under someone’s nose, there world almost be no replies of a non-commercial Rabies nature. This was no terrible disappointment because I at least embarked on my first attempt to write about these experiences and given that they were not unpleasant, it wasn’t a difficult task. The benefit of this was that I was now able to see the pattern of where my life had gone with interaction and the ludicrousness wasn’t as ludicrous once I saw it in writing. I realised it simply told the story of a person experiencing something outside their normal sphere of activity and daring to define it. I kept the written work I had made but finally withdrew the web page after having it on-line for the few non-productive months. 111