My First Recollections of Contact: Part Three, The Black Cylinder

As previously mentioned, this experience was the most unnerving of them all. This third experience had me standing out on the landing with my mum. On this occasion my head felt a little numb and I could feel the dark presence again just like in the first experience. My mum looked a little concerned and dazed like she had just been woken. Almost instantly, our attention was drawn to my sister's room.

I felt rushed, like I had to leave the house immediately. I went into my sister’s room where I saw that my sister was already awake and was staring up at the ceiling. She looked scared and appeared to be in a state of shock.

I looked up towards where she was staring and, coming through the ceiling, was a black cylindrical object surrounded by a pinky violet glow, bright enough that it dimly lit up the bedroom. It was around 1.5-2 feet in diameter and was positioned vertically. It was coming through the ceiling very slowly and completely silently. I find this next part very hard to describe. The cylinder felt wrong in a sense, like it didn't belong in our own reality. It felt opposite or inverted in some way. Every cell in my body felt like it was physically rejecting the cylinder's presence. It terrified me.

Drawing of the experience

A few moments later I shouted out to my sister and she immediately scrambled off the bed and ran out of the room with me. We then all ran downstairs. This is where the experience ended.

Rough 3D render of the experience

Neither my mum or my sister mentioned the incident in the morning, in fact they looked blissfully unaware of what had just occurred. 

I felt that these experiences were Extraterrestrial in origin and so at this point I began to research the phenomenon. Though I could see some similarities between my own experiences and those I was reading about, there was not enough evidence to convince me that what I was experiencing wasn't just lucid dreams.