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The Adventures of a Solitary Soul - H. J. Sharp

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Dream 4 - The light in the garden

The next special experience happened in the same house in Southampton around 1929 when I would have been about seven. This house also had a large back garden surrounded by a high wooden fence, There was also a family next door, the Pembertons, who had two teenage children and two born later around my own age. These two, Lexcy and Betty, became very friendly with me. We both had some old wooden steps which we could move around so as to be able to climb them and look over the fence at the surrounding gardens. We spent many hours talking together over the fence on the top of our steps.

Lexcy and I began to play school boy cricket in my garden. On this particular day our two mothers were together in my house, talking and watching us out of the morning room window which overlooked the garden. It was a bright sunny day and us two boys played together for a while. Then it seemed as if everything stopped and for some reason we both went into my house to our mothers. The two women were terribly agitated. They asked why we did not hear them banging on the window and calling to us to come in. They said they had both seen what they took to be a fire ball. It came out of the sky, descended into the garden, filling it with light and enveloped us both on the lawn. They thought that we must have been killed. They had been calling frantically for us to come into the house as it came nearer. Lexcy and I had experienced nothing, but I can still remember the scene in the morning room and the two agitated women. I also clearly remember my reaction which was merely to observe. It was the Angel observing. From that time on it is clear that at special moments the Angel observes and so I can clearly remember the event. I don't know what happened to Lexcy in later life. I lost touch with him and his family.

I have never been able to satisfactorily explain this strange event. Was it a trick of the light, a joint hallucination by the two women, or some other phenomenon. Lexcy and I saw nothing of any light.