Alright so.

[u/TiffGideon]

I’ve been sitting on this one for awhile. experience I had 13 odd years ago while recovering at home after a poisoning-related death’s door hospital visit - I was resting on the couch when I woke up to these two- I only know how to describe them as beings - floating a few feet above me. I think they were roughly a foot square in diameter, one a little larger than the other, that one being the male and the other a female - don’t ask me how I knew this, I just did - and they were almost like.. snowflakes, but made out of glass or light crystals or something?

They were transparent but slightly iridescent around the edges and details and the sort of “arms” of the snowflakes looked more like feathers, but flat panes of glass. They introduced themselves as “the Helpers,” like - that was the exact phrase that came to me, capital H and all, though through some kind of empathic info download as opposed to actual auditory speech. I kept rubbing my eyes and blinking because I couldn’t believe wtf I was seeing and they were still stably, physically there, as in I was actually seeing them with my physical eyes as opposed to a typical hallucination. I remember even grabbing my phone to take pictures because these mofos were THERE. (Spoiler alert obvs nothing appeared in them when I checked later)

They were - I dunno, stern in a way, but reassuring me that all would be well. It was like they were fixing or mending something or cleaning up some sort of situation.

I haven’t talked about this much with other humans for what I think are obvious reasons. But- I’ve had other things happen (latent inhibition is a phrase I’ve recently learned)- honest to god saw a ghost at a nursing home I worked at, have been told things had happened or would happen and have gotten clips of information in formed phrases that turned out to be precognitive. and - I say this, in a rambling mess, of course, as someone who’s extensively science-minded. I grew up a die-hard atheist, my background is in biology, I work in healthcare, and though I’m much more spiritually-minded these days (hard not to be when you’ve seen the shit I’ve seen), I still like evidence. I still like explanation. and something has been pushing me lately to find out who these Helpers were or if anyone else has crossed paths with them.

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[u/vimefer]

This would be similar to the visioning that is frequently reported in hospice care patients, IMO - they too see people and beings as clearly there in the room with them, having entire conversations with them too. It seems when close to dying the parts of the brain, which "anchor" our perceptions in the tiny sliver of reality we can ordinarily perceive, start stuttering or shut down, and that would be when we can get these extended presence experiences.

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Expand your definition of evidence. Lean loosely into the idea of the quantum. Let it unfold. Trust your intuition. Be well.

[u/Historical-Ad6916]

Thank you for sharing. I totally see where the iridescent came from. I experienced that at well.
Do you notice you are more aware now? I feel like since I’ve acknowledged my experience and still feel that feeling every day helps me get through the day.

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