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my experiences down to partially remembered dreams. No longer would I become preoccupied with “fantasy’. Whatever the Programmers were trying to achieve was in some ways working out as I was quickly losing interest in the encounters. In fact, I was embarrassed to admit having them. As always, there were conflicts going on in my mind. The believer would challenge the cynic. During this period, the cynic nearly always outweighed the believer. Only supportive evidence could arm the believer, but that was never easy to come by. However, I later experienced something that was near to physical evidence. I was suffering a burning sensation in my eyes ever since that night in the park. Quite often they would stream and sting slightly during the day where I found myself rapidly blinking for relief. I could only put this down to the time I watched the sun go down in the park and couldn’t honestly think of anything any other cause. I went to see a doctor regarding my eyes. He shattered any hopes I had of recovering strange memories. “What do you expect if you gaze at the sun with a naked eye?” he said, harrumphing. Not that I would have dreamed of mentioning UFOs, but he had done the Programmers a huge favour by making that diagnosis. It reassured me that nothing happened. I certainly wasn’t going to mention the strange dreams either, the ones that I was convinced related to my affected eyes. All I could do was grudgingly agree how silly it was to look at the sun, even when setting. To my knowledge, this is the only physical complaint ever experienced from encounters. Although I do recall episodes in my life when dreams would leave odd physical traces. I remember certain dreams of walking barefoot through rocky, volcanic terrains and only upon recall of the dreams did my feet actually start to hurt. I would astonishingly find blisters on my soles the following morning. This is not an unusual phenomena and not necessarily paranormal. There has been much research into the “mind over matter” theory where people suffering from psychosomatic tendencies report physical changes influenced by thought. Thinking of aches and pains can sometimes make them manifest and even imagining illness has been known to cause them. This same trigger of thought proved to be trick with my sore eyes. I went away convinced that it was the sun, but strangely my eyes only started to hurt when I recalled a particular dream. A dream I had about a UFO that same night in the park. The one I remember that made my eyes 49