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The Dream Abductions?

Real abductions or just dreams?

Cory Bailey in Tales of Terror, Paranormal, and the Strange · 2026-02-23 21:01 · 100 claps · 10.6 min read
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The Dream Abductions?

Real abductions or just dreams?

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Hello everyone! I hope that all is well with everyone reading this.

After much deliberation and thought, I simply have to share some “dreams” that I have been having. The more of them that I have had, the more compelled I am to share them with people; especially given some of the weird parallels with how many people have described their night time abductions. It has absolutely made me think a bit.

It all started the beginning of 2025. I was in the initial growth phase in my journey learning about the UFO Phenomena. Many experiments, including pairing the Estes Method with the CE5 tones, produced strange communications with “something” … Something that we felt was different than what you might typically communicate with during Estes sessions.

Whether it was our intentions or the tones, we are unsure, but whatever we communicated with had very strange and interesting things to say. I remember clearly, after a very profound session, I had made up my mind that I was ready to have a UFO experience of my own. Or, even an abduction experience if they were so inclined. To me, it was important to have my own experience. What I had dealt with up until then was strange, but I wanted deeper confirmation. I guess that is just how I am wired.

Within a month I would potentially have both … I have covered my UFO experience in other articles, as well as in an episode of my Podcast (21 minutes in), but, I haven’t talked very much about the dream that I had before that experience. That dream occurred the same night of an experiment that turned out to be extremely profound for me. The communication that we received was eye opening, and consistently confirmed various important synchronicities that we have been having over the prior few months. For me, the dots had started to connect, and the next step was to have my own experience to solidify it all.

As I got home and settled into bed, it wasn’t long before I fell asleep. Typically, after these experiments I would feel quite mentally drained. As the dream began, I was riding in a car with someone that I don’t recognize from my real life. The feeling I got was that I knew this person, and was close with them in the dream. It was night time, and we were driving back from Atlantic City headed towards Somers Point, NJ. I was in the passenger’s side. We went over a particular bridge I recognize from real life, and as we crested the top and started coming down the back side, an object on the right side of the vehicle zoomed into focus about 100 feet in front of us. It came in so quick, but when it reached us, it was almost like time slowed down.

What I saw was a saucer type UFO. From this UFO, an absolutely blinding light started to emanate from it, and I started to feel like I was being pulled out of my seat. It almost felt as if I was being pulled from the inside of my body up toward the craft.

I looked over to my left and started yelling, “What is that?” over and over.

The person driving starts to scream as we both start to lift towards the UFO. I remember instinctively fighting being pulled away, and it seemed only to pull harder and harder. Then, all of a sudden, time went back to normal and the craft darted off to the left at an incredible speed. I felt if it wasn’t for the seat belt and my instinctual fighting, I would have been ripped out of the car through the windshield.

Once it flew off, I pulled myself out of the dream. As I woke up, I felt panic and a sense of being watched. My eyes darted around the room looking for something … or someone. Although in the moment it felt scary, as I unpacked it in my mind, it felt important. It didn’t “feel” like a dream, but almost like an implanted memory or an implanted experience. I still remember the feeling of that pull, and will probably never forget it. Or better yet, I will not be allowed to forget it.

The Tornadoes

Photo by Nikolas Noonan on Unsplash

Photo by Nikolas Noonan on Unsplash

Starting at the beginning of 2026, I had a series of dreams that were almost like an updated version of the dream mentioned above. Whereas that dream was strangely forward and pointed, the next series of dreams were not so direct. It happened during a time where I felt a sort of disconnect from the phenomena in general. A lot happened during the tail end of 2025 that took much of my ability to focus on the phenomena. This included a move further south to the Cape May area of New Jersey.

I distinctly remember one night, as the family was thinking of what to watch, that we should watch the movie NOPE. If you haven’t seen this movie, it’s not entirely a movie about UFOs, but it’s there. The movie’s underlying meaning is blindingly obvious, and the visuals are just there to aid in that meaning.

On the other hand, these visuals are odd, and I feel share a potential important synchronicity with how investigators of the past theorized on what the UFO Phenomena could have been. Maybe this is why my brain randomly brought it up? I actually disliked the movie, but something told me in that moment that there was an aspect that was important for me to pay attention to. But, like myself, the family disliked the movie too, and we didn’t watch it.

I am unsure as to the time frame that I started having these dreams after the fact, but I know it couldn’t have been but a few days. I remember in this dream that I was in an abandoned factory of some sort. It had mazes of various hallways and tunnels that seemed to all intersect. In this dream, I wasn’t alone. With me was someone that I regularly play video games with online. At one point I end up losing this person in this maze of hallways and tunnels. After a short time, I found my way back to the area where we started, which was this open room which appeared to be a very large square with stairs that led to various levels of whatever this facility was.

All of a sudden, I felt a rumble, and as I looked up to where it seemed to be coming from, the roof starts to rip off. I immediately wrapped my arms and legs around the metal stairs that I was on and held on for dear life. I did feel like I was being pulled, but not in the same manner as the dream from 2025. This felt more physical. I look up to find that what took the roof off was a MASSIVE tornado. In my mind I felt that it had to be an [F5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujita_scale#:~:text=The%20Fujita%20scale%20(F%2DScale,human%2Dbuilt%20structures%20and%20vegetation.). I didn’t get to see the tornado pass over as I promply forced myself to wake up. Again, as I awoke, I felt panic and a sense of fight or flight.

In the second tornado dream, my family and I were outside of an older house. It was cloudy outside, but there wasn’t a sense of any rain or storms coming. This house was semi-broken down and needed some work. I am unsure as to why we were there, but I remember there being a “ditch” in front of the house just big enough for a person to lie in. As we are standing in front of this old house, the sky starts to darken at a very alarming rate. I look up to see an extremely small funnel cloud starting to form. As it starts to touch the ground in front of the house, I dive into the ditch hoping that it would protect me. I look up over my shoulder to see a very long, jagged, and wispy tornado start to move over top of me. The point of this tornado starts to dig into my back. While it didn’t feel physically painful in the dream, the terrifying nature of it, combined with the actual physical sensation added to my dreadful screams of fear.

Typically, I do not feel physical sensations in my dreams. Mostly, I feel emotions, or the emotions that would come from whatever physical stimulation perceived in my dream. So, given that I actually felt something is quite terrifying and off putting; so much so that it actually woke me up from the dream. The same sensation of fight or flight and being watched was very strong.

After this dream, I kept getting this feeling that I should watch the movie NOPE. I had no clue why, but it became apparent about a third of the way through the movie when I saw what looked like when the UFO would abduct people/animals. What’s depicted in the movie is that the UFO would create a tornado to suck up whatever it was abducting. Given the dreams that I was having, and the strangeness of how they felt, this felt like a synchronicity of some importance.

Was what I was experiencing just a dream? Or my brain’s way of “forgetting” or “hiding” what was happening late at night? Now, that sounds crazy right? Even saying it out loud makes me feel a bit … crazy. But, after what I have experienced over the past year, my eyes have been opened to possibilities of things existing beyond what is culturally acceptable to most people. These dreams could be nothing, and I’ve experienced nothing beyond just a dream. But, never the less, they still have meaning. That is, at least, widely acceptable by most cultures. I did have a third tornado dream after watching NOPE, but I will leave that dream for another time. Maybe to be included in a book that I am thinking of writing. Hint hint …

The Creature in the Corner

Over the last few months, I have woken up in the middle of the night seeing strange dark shapes in one particular corner of my room. The paranormal experiences that I have had throughout my life have been less visual, and more experienced in other ways. I have previously talked about a visual experience that I had as a child, and I am positive that led me to shutting off much of what visual experiences I may have had throughout my life. These types of things run in my family, and we have all had experiences with the paranormal. Everyone, but me, has regular visual experiences.

If it isn’t obvious by now, I will plainly state, I believe that the UFO Phenomena is connected to the paranormal in a very direct way. In my eyes, it’s one in the same. My experiences show me this, other investigators with way more knowledge and time in the game than I, also believe this. Typically what I see, at most, are the occasional dark shapes moving in the corner of my eye. More recently, late at night as I wake from my sleep, I keep seeing strange misty dark blobs in a particular corner of my room. If you all are not familiar, there are two types of “hallucinations” that can occur in sleep states: Hypnagogic, which can occur right before you fall asleep, are usually visual in nature, and can include seeing lights, patterns, or vivid images. And, hypnopompic, which occurs in the waking state from sleeping, and are described as being a continuation of a dream or a feeling of a presence in the room. Please know that my explanations of these two phenomena are not from a strong knowledge base. They are basic explanations, and I encourage you to look into them yourself.

Why does this matter? I was told that while these types of occurrences are described as being “hallucinations,” some people have toyed with the idea that maybe both states of sleep allow access to parts of your brain that are not typically active when you are awake. And, furthermore, that these experiences are more akin to what psychics may experience. I am not sure of the link here, but I am not fully convinced that what you can see or experience while falling asleep and waking up are always “hallucinations”. So, in the context of what I am about to describe to you … read with an open mind.

It started off as a dream. In this dream, I was laying in my room about to go to sleep. As I dozed off to sleep in my dream, I begin to dream. Yes, a dream within a dream … In this second dream I, again, am laying down to sleep. I fall asleep but am immediately woken up to an immense feeling of being watched. I look over my shoulder towards the corner of the room that I often see many a dark shadow or blob at night. Instead of my usual blob or shadow, I am met with an orange point of light that grows to about the size of a penny. That is when I notice that I am actually looking into the eyes of a being that was short with a large head. To put this into perspective, this corner is roughly 8 feet from my bed. I can see the entire being, but it wasn’t until this orange light grew to the size of a penny, that I actually saw what it was. This light didn’t give off illumination at all. It looked like a sphere that pierced through the darkness, and then the being was simply just, there. When the light disappeared, I could still see the shape and some very dark features of the being. Like the fact that the eyes were so dark that they almost looked like I was staring into space. I remember comparing them in my mind to that of looking into deep space and seeing stars and colored galaxies, even though what I was actually seeing was black eyes.

But, in an instant I felt a familiar feeling. My body locked up, and I felt as if I was being pulled from the inside. It was like I was physically frozen. My body felt like it was being dragged from the middle of my back. All I could think about was yelling in fear, hoping that someone would hear me. The feeling was the same as when I had the UFO dream. This lasted what seemed to be only seconds, and when I woke up, it was with a feeling of sheer terror. Like someone was watching me. I realized I had awoken into another dream. It was then that I forced my physical body to wake up, and again, to the same feeling of terror.

It’s hard to comprehend myself. Was I abducted in a dream of a dream? Again, was this my mind’s way of protecting myself from the reality of the situation? Given what I do, maybe the “memory” of what I have is there for confirmation, but I am unable to access anything past that point. Either way, it didn’t feel normal, and the physical sensations that I typically don’t have, I had.

It felt real … more real than even when dreams feel “real”. I felt everything. The inability to move and at the same time, the feeling of floating away. Like the act of looking into its eyes sent me into a trance and allowed it to take over.

Am I afraid of being abducted? No.

Then why would I feel terror and scream as if I am being harmed? The conclusion that I have is this: We live in a firm sense of physical reality, and when this is seemingly broken, you are going to be afraid. Especially if you aren’t used to these experiences. In my opinion, it feels like preparation for something. If one day I stop writing these, then maybe you know what happened. HA!

Thank you for joining me on this journey of high strangeness.

And remember … keep asking questions!

Cory


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