1/n Today marks 1 year and 4 days since having my entire world view flipped upside down.Felt nostaligc and decided to go back to a conversation I had with my best friend within 20 minutes of my experience ending.I messaged her immediately and am attaching screenshots of the convo
2/n It's worth noting that she has a masters in psychology with several years of clinical experience. And even though this happened in the day time while wide awake, you'll note I was SO skeptical that I deemed it a 90% chance of being sleep paralysis. So the skeptics who say I 
3/n never considered sleep paralysis as an explanation...eat it. Lol. I also put it at 90% because I was afraid of being judged by her and deemed crazy/psychotic or something. As the days and weeks went on, I noticed so many physiological and mental changes that it only made the
4/n experience more real and hard to write off as a purely psychological event. Not to mention the UFO sightings that would occur (again, I had never seen a UFO in my life before this).With the most prominent sighting occuring at the SCU conference while with 2 other people there
5/n more screenshots (note the time. We are conversing less than 20 minutes after the expeirence so everything is fresh in my mind when I sent this). Note that even then I didn't quite believe they were ET. Reading this brought some memories back as well. Particularly of the
6/n realization they were doing something to my head. Whether that was for show or not, Idk. It's eerie to think about if it was for real. I can feel the tingling feeling in the middle of my scalp that only lasted seconds but I couldnt see what was going on. I can't prove this
7/n was a real physical event because if I could we wouldnt be on twitter. We would be celebrating a new world where the reality of ET/intelligent nonhuman entities has already been accepted 😋 but what I can prove is the long lasting psycholgical impact it had on me. Here are
8/n notes I took in the following days (one on the day of. Which simply states "fuck violence", lol) and weeks after this experience. I've left some parts out from the notes that are too personal. Attached are a few of them here:
9/n This is all one big note so broke it up into multiple screenshots. Notice point #6, I ended up being stupid enough to post this which I hoped I would never do. Ha! 😊
10/n last ones. As you can see, I couldn't stop thinking about the experience and writing about it. I was busy competing against several PhDs in a year-long startup competition during all of this,leading a double life. To say it was hard is an understatement.But it was worth it.
11/11 Thanks to the hundreds and thousands of people I've interacted with on Twitter since then, Ive managed to make more sense of the experience and reconcile with it/feel a lot(!) Less crazy than I did when I kept this to myself. I'm thankful for the safe space. Love you all.🙏
