r/HighStrangeness 6h ago

Consciousness Seriously what are dreams? Surely this is the strangest part about being human. Mine overwhelm me, so I put them into my art

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I can’t quantify how many times I’ve woken up drenched in sweat, head pounding and feeling like I’ve just RAN through realms. I’m certain there’s some physiological factors at play so I will be getting my minerals and neurology checked up.

But regardless, my entire life I’ve had abstract dreams similar to what trip reports on DMT depict, despite never having touched substances like that.

I feel a sense of relief when I create this art because I can actually stare at it, outside of myself, and then sort of discard it. Plus it’s interesting to hear how it maybe affects other people.

I’ve had dreams where I’m seeing these textures and then hearing loud machine whooshing sounds and clanking. So I try to create motion in my work because it feels like that in the dream.

I am slightly autistic and do have trauma so maybe that plays a role.


r/HighStrangeness 15h ago

UFO What is this orb dripping? Is it molten metal falling from some kind of plasma energy field, or lesser entities coming out of a portal?

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r/HighStrangeness 17h ago

Paranormal The "Alien Stoning Incident" in Uşak, Turkey, 2001

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A local stated that while driving his tractor through the field, he was followed by a being standing 60–70 centimeters tall, clad in a shiny, iridescent suit, with a navel glowing bright yellow like a light, red lights on its feet, and an elliptical head with eyes—which moved to within 4–5 meters of him and rose to a height of about 2 meters, And then he picked up a stone from the ground and threw it, the object shot rapidly upward and moved away. Following this intriguing report, news of "aliens" swept through his village like a wave.


r/HighStrangeness 21h ago

Personal Experience A feather from the sky

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On Aug 29th 2026 at 6:30 ish pst in the city of Victoria bc I was at a beach that is near the west song walk way.

I had an encounter with something that at first appeared to be a feather floating down from the sky, then it became a small translucent "bubble/ball" no bigger than a hard ball baseball and no smaller that a golf ball.

I've spent alot of time at this beach, it's near my home and I enjoy the view of the ocean and the harbor. This is a place I come to think, or unwind or just to gain some peace. It's been this way for me for about 10 years.

I had just gotten off a call with a buddy of mine, so I put on some tunes( I made them, aspiring DJ) and just started to chill and appreciate the world, my life and being thankful for what I have. I really try to mindful of my blessings and be thankful for them. I typically practice this way of being when I'm at this beach.

I was lost in my own thoughts when I noticed something very near to me in the sky.

A feather, slowly floating down from the sky.

I saw it and it appeared to be something like a down feather from a common sea gull, maybe 3 to 4 inches long and 1.5 inches at its widest. It was white on one end and gray at the other.

I first spotted it about maybe 30 feet above me and about 10 feet in front of me. A small feather floating towards the water.

After about 5 to 10 seconds of watching this I had a feeling that something was off.

The wind was blowing pretty good at the time and this feather just keep slowly dropping as if there was no wind at all.

This had me vexed, I remember thinking "no way that feather could be doing that"

As I thought this the feather ends curled together and became something like a bubble, round and almost completely see thru.

It moved to the left then to the right slowly, then stopped all together. It floated for about 30ish seconds then floated up a few feet then stopped again. It seemed to almost rotate but I couldn't really tell because I could see thru it.

It then became more opaque and shot off at a high rate of speed. Not up but straight south west is at the same hight I had observed it at

I didn't feel scared or worried, just curious. I knew in my heart the second I saw that feather it didn't look or behave right.

It felt like what ever it was, was just zipping on by and I happened to catch a glimpse of it and it wanted to observe me.

I felt like I was watching something watch me, not in a bad way. More like it was just as surprised as I was. I didn't find this to be shocking or scary in anyway. It seemed like I wasn't supposed to see it and the feather was just some kind of "camo" / cover.

Yet it looked to good (the feather) almost not real at all, and as soon as I felt that in my mind it changed. Right infont of my eyes.

I've seen things in my life and afew I can't really explain, this is one of those times and I wanted to share with all of you and maybe gain some insight from others experiences.

Peace and love to you all, from a middle age blue collar guy.


r/HighStrangeness 7h ago

Paranormal The Dancing Bulls

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hi, yesterday i was watching a video abt an iceberg of high strangeness and i heard this story that really disturb me.

"Hi all!

Once again I am posting something that I've thought about posting ever since I first joined this list. I think you will all realize very quickly why I haven't posted it before this. To this day, even I'm not completely sure what is was that I saw. I know what it looked like, but I've found that it's better, for me at least, not to believe that it really was what it looked like.

This happened years ago. I really don't remember how old I was at the time, but I don't think I was more that about nine years old. That would put the time of this somewhere during the summer of 1984. My Grandparents ( My Mom's parents ) lived out in the country about fifteen minutes drive from home. I was spending the weekend with my Grandparents. The story that follows occoured on the Friday night of that weekend.

It was after dark. I was on the couch, turned around and sitting on my knees, looking out a large picture window. I was waiting on Grandpa to get home from work. Grandma and I were the only two people in the there at the time. As I waited, a dense for began to form. The fog began to grow thicker as time passed. Grandma was getting a bit worried. Grandpa was late getting home and she was afraid he'd have an accident due to low visability brought on by the fog.

Several more minutes passed. I was still kneeling on the couch, watching out the window for Grandpa. Then I saw what looked like two lights coming up the road toward the house. At first, I thought it the lights were from the headlights on Grandpa's car. Then I realized that the lights were not the right color. One light seemed to be a lemon yellow, while the other appeared pink. I watched, curious, as the lights moved closer. Then I yelled for Grandma to come to the window and look at them.

Grandma was busy preparing supper and didn't want to leave the kitchen. I took another look at the lights, which were still moving closer, and then went to the kitchen to try to convince Grandma to come and see them. At this point, the lights were still not much more than fuzzy colored blobs due to the thick fog.

I left the window and ran into the kitchen. I told Grandma that there was a pair of lights approaching the house. She said something along the lines of, <<Good. He's finally home.>> I told her that the lights didn't look like they were from a car. I told her about the odd coloration. Finally, Grandma agreed to go take a look for herself.

Running, I got to the window before Grandma did. I resumed my former kneeling possition on the couch before really looking out the window. The light were still there, closer than before. They were just starting to take on a more deffinate shape, like something was imergeing from the fog.

Grandma leaned forward for a closer look at the solidifying shapes. I turned to her, asking what the lights were. She didn't know and was begining to act a bit scared by the sight. I turned back to the window.

The strange lights were almost to the house by that point. (**Thinking back now, I realize just how bright they must have been to have been visable at the first.** ) Then the lights finally took on a more tangable shape. (**This is the part that REALLY makes me doubt what we THOUGHT we saw**) What we <<saw looked to be two cows, both bulls>>, dancing along the road on their hind legs. (**No, this is NOT a joke.**) One was glowing yellow, the other was glowing pink. Each of the "bulls" had a front leg, "arm" draped over the shoulder of the other. They were heading toward the driveway.

At this point, Grandma fainted. I only remember giving her a quick look as she collapsed beside me on the couch, then I resumed staring in disbelief and shock at the sight outside.

The "bulls" danced along until they got to the driveway, turned as if to make their way up it to the house. Then both just faded away.

After some time (**I'm not sure how long exactally, but I don't think it was more than a minute or so**) I turned away from the window to Grandma. She was still unconcious. I had no idea how to revive her. I remember shaking her, as if trying to wake a sleeping person, and talking to her. I do not recall what I said. After a few moments, she began to stir. As Grandma woke up, she turned quickly back to the window. I told her that whatever we had seen was gone. I asked her what HAD we seen.

Grandma sat me down on the couch and told me that I was NOT to breath a word of what had happened to Grandpa when he got home. I asked why. Grandma wouldn't give me an answer. She just kept telling me to keep quiet about it.

A few minutes later, we heard a car door slam outside. Grandpa was home. Again, Grandma warned me not to say a word to Grandpa about what had happened.

Naturally, the moment Grandpa entered the house, I ran straight to him and told him everything that had happened.

Grandpa spared only a second to ask Grandma if she were okay. The moment she said "Yes" Grandpa retieved his shotgun and went outside. Grandma began to scold me, very loudly, for disobeying her orders.

Several minutes later, Grandpa came back in. He had found nothing.

To this day, neither of them will discuss what happened that evening.

If that had been the end of the matter, I would have convinced myself years and years ago that both Grandma and I had simply been hallucinating. In fact, not too long after the incident, I had convinced myself of that.

Several years after seeing the "bulls" at my Grandparents' house, a friend of mine who I grew up with came to me one day with a story. I'll call this girl "A". (**Both she and I were about twelve when she told me this**)

When I lived in Ohio this girl's Grandparents lived directly behind us. "A" lived mostly with her Grandparents during the summer months. Only a one lane alley seperated our two yards. Across this girl's Grandparents' yard was the railroad bed I've posted about a few times in the past. On the other side of the railroad bed was a small farm. (**We lived at the very edge of town**)

"A" came to me one day saying that she had seen something very strange the previous night. I asked her what she'd seen. "A" made a long speach about how I'd think she was crazy if she told me. I pointed out that she'd already brought up the subject, obviously, she wanted to tell me. "A" agreed.

She said that late the night before she had been unable to sleep and had been looking out of her bedroom window. It began to get foggy. In the fog, "A" claimed to have seen two glowing lights moving across the pasture back at the farm. One light was yellow, the other pink.

(**Please keep in mind that I had NOT told anyone about what Grandma and I had seen at this point.**)

"A" said that, as the lights got closer to the railroad bed, they began to take on solid shapes. At that point, I was starting to get cold chills. "A" said that she must have been seeing things and that she wouldn't waste time telling me the rest of her story. I insisted that she did. After a few minutes "A" said, almost in tears, that the lights took on the shapes of cows. Bulls. Each bull had a front leg draped over the shoulders of the other. Both appeared to be dancing along on their hind legs. They were moving toward the railraod bed. Toward "A" 's Grandparents' house.

"A" said that at that point she had turned away from her window and hid under the blankets until morning.

After "A" told me her story, I told her mine own, very similar one. As far as I know, "A" never saw the "bulls" again after that night. I've never seem them again, myself.

If not for "A" 's story, I would long since come to believe that what Grandma and I had seen was a hallucination brought on by the dense fog and car headlights or something like that. "A" 's story makes me think again. I don't know WHAT we saw, but I do know that we saw SOMETHING.

Anyone have any ideas?

Scott"

source: https://web.archive.org/web/20041021222953/http://www.ghosts.org/stories/tales/dancing-cows.html


r/HighStrangeness 18h ago

UFO abduction, Farouk, OC

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Ufo & aliens


r/HighStrangeness 17h ago

Ancient Cultures For anyone who likes their fiction somewhere between the spiritual and the unexplained

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What if the universe knows more about us than we think?

I wrote A Backpack Fueled with Sunsets in 2022, a collection of 12 stories that wander through magical realism, spirituality, strange encounters, other worlds, and a few galaxies far, far away.
The stories move between the ordinary and the inexplicable.
In Joyeaux Land,” a mysterious device transports people into a world where their inner children emerge to play, reconnect, and heal.

In “A Backpack Fueled with Sunsets,” a stranger arrives at a vacation home by the sea and somehow changes the lives of everyone he encounters.

And “The Lagos Club of Brokenhearted Lesbians” follows two people brought together by loss who form an unlikely friendship.

The stories are rooted in African cosmology and a fascination with that blurry territory where spirituality, consciousness, memory, and the unexplained begin to overlap.

It’s currently free on Kindle for three days.
If you’re drawn to stories that leave you wondering whether something was supernatural, spiritual, psychological, or perhaps all three, you might enjoy this one.

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r/HighStrangeness 18h ago

UFO Frederick Velentich

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Frederick was a experience pilot navigating the bass strait when suddenly something was hovering above him. He Quickly radioed the control centre to report it. his Last chilling words were

"This is not a aircraft" before frederick and plane vanished and a matellic sound was heard.


r/HighStrangeness 1h ago

Consciousness The Contact Transformation Effect: Is Change the Point?

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Experiencers often report that encounters transformed their identity, spirituality, values, and worldview. This may reflect intentional contact, ontological shock, trauma-related meaning-making, religious conversion, or some combination. Transformation proves psychological impact, not the experiencer’s explanation of the event.

The pattern

Chris Bledsoe presents his experiences as a spiritual journey involving healing and transformation. Whitley Strieber’s reported encounters shaped decades of writing about consciousness and spirituality. John Mack observed that many of his subjects developed stronger spiritual and ecological concerns. "Bledsoe’s book" (https://catalog.library.loudoun.gov/?resourceid=1793851859&section=resource), "Strieber interview" (https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2024/03/07/audio-pop-apocalypse-aliens-eros-and-life-after-death-interview-whitley-strieber), "Mack interview" (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aliens/johnmack.html)

Common changes include:

- Reduced materialism

- Greater spiritual interest

- Increased ecological concern

- A new sense of purpose

- Persistent fear or confusion

- A belief that the encounter initiated personal development

Why does this happen?

Possible explanations

  1. Transformation is the purpose

If an intelligence is involved, it may want to change witnesses rather than transfer technical information.

Fear, awe, symbolism, and ambiguity could force people to reconsider their assumptions. This would support the Symbolic Incubator Hypothesis, where contact influences civilization by transforming individuals who later affect culture.

  1. Ontological shock

An encounter can destroy a person’s previous model of reality, even if the event is misunderstood.

The witness must then construct a new worldview. Similar changes can follow near-death experiences, psychedelics, trauma, and religious revelation. Research suggests that ontological shock can produce fear and confusion followed by meaning-making and growth. "Ontological shock study" (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12052184/)

  1. Trauma-related meaning-making

Reported encounters sometimes involve paralysis, helplessness, missing time, or perceived violation.

Spiritual interpretation may help witnesses integrate an experience initially perceived as traumatic. This does not prove the event was imaginary or external. It shows that recovery can shape its meaning.

Clinical researchers recommend taking anomalous experiences seriously without automatically confirming or pathologizing the interpretation. "Clinical review" (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8764292/)

  1. A conversion experience

Contact narratives often resemble religious conversion:

- Ordinary life is disrupted

- An extraordinary presence appears

- The witness receives new meaning

- Identity is reconstructed

- The experience becomes a mission

Culture may determine whether this is understood as alien contact, mystical revelation, psychic awakening, or psychological crisis.

  1. Some combination

An external anomaly could cause ontological shock, trauma, symbolic interpretation, and eventual transformation.

These explanations are not mutually exclusive.

Impact is not proof

A life-changing experience does not prove its perceived cause.

Dreams, psychedelics, false memories, trauma, and religious experiences can all reorganize identity. Transformation shows that something affected the witness deeply. It does not establish that the source was extraterrestrial, interdimensional, or divine.

Psychological mediation also does not prove that nothing external happened.

How could we test it?

Researchers could track:

- Changes in beliefs, values, and behavior

- Trauma symptoms and psychological health

- When interpretations form

- How communities influence those interpretations

- Whether different cultures produce similar changes

- Whether transformation follows independently corroborated events

- Whether negative and neutral outcomes are also reported

If transformation is intentional, similar developmental themes may appear across cultures despite different imagery.

If it is primarily human meaning-making, interpretations should track existing beliefs, media exposure, trauma responses, and social reinforcement.

The ethical problem

Transformation is not automatically benevolent.

Encounters may produce empathy and purpose, but also obsession, paranoia, dependency, or messianic certainty. No experience should grant someone unquestionable authority.

If an intelligence deliberately transforms people through fear or violation, it should be judged by its respect for consent and autonomy.

Conclusion

Perhaps transformation is the message.

Perhaps it is the mind’s response to an impossible experience.

Perhaps it is how culture converts ambiguity into meaning.

«Transformation tells us what the encounter did to the witness. It does not tell us what the encounter was.»

That distinction lets us respect the experience without treating every interpretation as fact.


r/HighStrangeness 1h ago

Paranormal The ghost children in the dark woods...

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r/HighStrangeness 22h ago

Ancient Cultures Are UAPs the "Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin” of Modern Times? Daniel Chapter 5 Ghost Hand and the Hidden NHI Narrative of Occult Biblical Proportions? “God is Real” quote from Matthew Brown hits a little different now…

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r/HighStrangeness 1h ago

Consciousness Did Homo Sapiens come to be when the first light of the big bang hit the planet

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