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April 2004
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Night Vision
by Nancy Ruhl
What started out as a typical night one evening became supernatural. My husband, my four-year old son and I settled down in bed to tell jokes and bedtime stories (our son was lying between us). Normally, once we started to get drowsy, one of us would get up and take our son to his own bedroom. However, because we were all unusually tired that night we must have fallen asleep at the same time because the next thing I knew I was suddenly awake from a deep sleep, sensing the presence of something fearful on the left side of the room; between my bed and the window.
It was totally dark in our room, without night lights. More out of curiosity than bravery, I began to turn my head to my left to look and see if my perception of fear was founded on anything. However, before I had a chance to see anything, I was suddenly distracted by an unusual sound of static electricity, coupled with the unruffling of feathers, over on my right side - where I recalled my son had been lying down. The distracting sounds were so unusual I couldn't help but turn my head instead to my right to see what in heaven's name was going on!
I was amazed to see a young teenage guy sitting up between my husband and I (right where our four-year old son had been sleeping)! He looked caucasian, between 18 to 22 yrs. old, with blonde hair down to his neck. He was wearing what looked like a white sheet as a robe-like garment with long sleeves, which I thought was unusual for a guy. Since I was in a lying down position, I was looking up at his back side. He sat there next to me in bed staring straight ahead - as though he had been awakened from a deep sleep also and was wondering what was going on; or was surveying our room; or both.
The whole scene struck me odd since I did not know who this person was in my bed! Strangely, though, I didn't yell out in fear, or jump out of my covers to get up which would have been my normal reaction. I wasn't even afraid of him! Instead, I marveled and wondered what was going on. Suddenly, he looked over to my left side. Just as suddenly this blonde-haired being was in a standing up position in the air above my bed facing the left side of the room where I had sensed fear. I noticed this being was scowling (frowning) at whatever he saw - as though some fearful entity was there on my left side that shouldn't be. If he could have said something at this point, from the look on his face it would have probably been something like this: "What are you doing here? Get out - NOW!"
Just as suddenly as before, this being was now standing at floor level just beyond the foot of my bed, between the bed and a dresser. He appeared to be jockeying for position, like a sword fighter - as though either he was about to take someone on, or was already engaged in battle with an evil entity I couldn't see with my eyes.
I could no longer make out the blonde-haired being's physical features as before. Instead, he appeared in the dark as a person would if someone were to take white chalk and draw the outline of a person - in a robe - on a blackboard, except that this being was entirely surrounded by a soft, glowing light - like a fluorescent or neon light, and it was animated, moving around a lot. (We've all seen pictures of angels with halos around their head. This soft light was around the being's entire body - like an aura.)
Then the mysterious being took off in the direction of my left where I had initially sensed fear, as though it were chasing the evil entity it had battled with away. As he did so, I got the "feeling" (though no words were spoken) that it was okay now to go back to sleep; I no longer needed to fear; everything would be all right. I smiled, felt at peace and went back to sleep.
You can be sure that when I woke up, I immediately knew something most unusual had occurred during the night and quickly remembered what had happened. Meanwhile, I noticed my four-year old son was still lying there sleeping between my husband and I.
As soon as my husband and son woke up, I told them that I had seen our son's angel during the night. (I figured it was our son's angel because the being was lying right where our son had been sleeping and looked perhaps like what our son might look like when he's around 18.) They stared at me - no doubt wondering if I was in my right mind. So I told them what had happened. The story of the night's unusual encounter left my young son happily smiling.
Interestingly enough, as though to assure me my experience was not a dream, I was left with a supernatural feeling of "joy" - like a bubbly sense of effervescence (far better than any champagne, I can assure you!) that was long-lasting. As a matter of fact, this supernatural joy stayed with me for about a month thereafter.
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