Communion

by Whitley Strieber

In April of 2022, a group of official documents were released under the Freedom of Information Act that discussed the physiological effects of close encounters with the objects. This was the first, very limited, official admission that such encounters take place.

One of the documents, generated by the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2009 and called “Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human and Biological Tissues,” discusses injuries to “human observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems” and says that they could represent a “threat to United States interests.”

I begged them not to. I cried out, “You’ll ruin a beautiful mind.”

Narcisstic much?

Stockholm Syndrome,

Has been highly criticized as it is believed it was created by a police psychiatrist to discredit a women who had criticized the actions of the police during a bank robbery

When I was writing Communion, I was living in a state of terror. I was writing during the day, then forcing myself to go out into the woods at night to signal my willingness to engage with them.

What!?

This is the story of one man’s attempt to deal with a shattering assault from the unknown. It is a true story, as true as I know how to describe it.

Why does it feel like he's mocking actual victims of assault?

a polygraph

There is no evidence of effectiveness of polygraph tests.

Scoffing at them is as ugly as laughing at rape victims.

This is insulting. Believing you were abducted by aliens is NOTHING like being SA'd

—DANTE, Inferno, Canto I

Pretentious to use Dante here

For no reason then apparent, I had developed an unusual habit the previous fall.

This was the 80's everyone was paranoid and upping "security" because of outlandish news reports.

The previous July we’d had an experience that should be reported here. I was reading at about half past eleven at night, when I distinctly heard footsteps—normal, humansounding footsteps—move stealthily down our front porch to the area where I had just had a motion-sensitive light installed.

His choice to ramble and give events out of order is confusing and makes his narrative even more suspect. Also, he is in a cabin in the woods. So many things, including humans, can make noise and trigger security lights.

apparent paralysis,

Sleep paralysis is a thing my dude.

I do not know why, but I had the distinct feeling that this was a woman, and so I shall refer to her in the feminine.

WTF? That is. . .

From the clarity of my memory of

He had to undergo hypnosis to "remember" his "abductions". It's the same form of hypnosis that was debunked in the aftermath of the Satanic Panic of the late 80s/ early 90s

but I can remember little about it.

He has "clarity of memory" yet, he remembers little

“You’ll ruin a beautiful mind.”

I hate this so much. He is somewhat of a narcissist.

but at the time I had the impression that I was being raped,

Insulting.

symptoms were not all mental.

It honestly sounds like he had gotten sick during his vacay, had a fever dream combined with sleep paralysis. Hallucinating with a high fever is not uncommon