My friend and I decided to get a bit of marijuana for New Year's Eve 1999/2000 to welcome the new millennium.  We hadn't used any in a long time, so we decided to 'test it out' a couple of weeks before New Year's Eve. 

My friend hosted a small gathering at his house, and a group of us were enjoying hanging out.  When high, I used to like to close my eyes and watch what I thought of as 'movies' on the back of my eyelids -they would be cartoon-like images that rapidly changed, and morphed, like a kaleidoscope.  I had never ever experienced a persistent image or form.  I also liked to stare into a dark room for the same reason, because the same images that appeared in the back of my eyelids could also seem to appear in a dark room. 

I went to the doorway of my friend's bedroom and looked into the darkness, eyes fully open.  Rather than seeing the typical images, I noticed a column of white light on the other side of the room.  I thought it may have been something coming in from the hallway, or through the bedroom window, but it was completely dark in there except for the light.  I stared at it some more, and then it turned into a woman.  She was completely made out of white light but had detailed features like a sculpture.  She hovered in the air several feet in front of me, and seemed to be about 1-2 feet high.  She started dancing around in what looked like a dress or gown.  For some reason, I decided that I should listen to messages from her, and the second I did, I instantly heard something that sounded like 'Emelle, Emelle' over and over in my head in a very clear voice.  I guess since I was high, I didn't really question what was going on, but it seemed peaceful, natural, and beautiful, even loving.  I had no fear of it.  I think then I had the inclination to go tell my friend about it, so  I left the room and went to the living room where my friend was hanging out.  I told him there was a lady in his room that gave me the message 'Emelle' - I said maybe it's initials, like 'M.L.' He told me that actually, his cousin 'Emily' was in town, and he was supposed to call her.  It was on his mind that day.  I decided to go back and get more messages for him. 

So I went back to his room, saw the column of light again, and when I did, the same woman appeared and this time she was swinging a golf club, and said 'Golf, golf, golf' over and over - this message was very unambiguous, to say the least.  When I went back to my friend I said, 'here's your next message, 'Golf'', and he told me that he had gone out that very day with a real estate agent that day to look at a building (he was trying to find a new space to move his business), and the building happened to be next to a golf course, so the realtor made some jokes and conversation with him about golf.  Neither of us are golfers, and never typically discussed golf, but that day the word 'golf' was relevant to him.  This same process continued.  The next word I got from the dancing lady was 'Dan' - My friend told me that he had been going over a long list of names of people to whom he would send holiday gifts as part of his business. He had all the addresses he needed, except for one person named 'Dan' whose address he had to explicitly look up.  I stayed in the living room and was sitting next to my friend's piano which he had just received a week ago.  The name 'Irma' came into my head with the same voice as the dancing lady. 

I asked my friend what 'Irma' meant to him, and he told me it was the name of the piano at a club in Los Angeles called 'The Magic Castle' which plays any song you ask it to play - it's secretly connected to another piano in another room, but it looks like it's playing itself.  When his piano arrived the previous week, he ended up discussing 'Irma' with family members who were over at the time.  Then I heard the name 'Harry' and I asked who that was, and he told me 'Harry' was the name of the uncle in Texas who had sent him the piano because he was no longer using it. I also saw a date in my head, and told my friend, and he had just bought plane tickets to go on a business trip on that date. 

None of these facts were known to me, and yet they were all highly relevant to my friend.  When we discussed this in the days afterward, he reminded me that he was living in his grandparents' old house and that he had moved in when his grandmother was still alive, and he cared for her up until she died.  She actually passed away in the very bedroom where I saw the 'dancing lady'.  He asked me about her dancing, and when I described it, he told me that his Grandmother had been an avid dancer, and used to dance around the living room to get her exercise - He remembered sitting on the couch and watching her as a little boy.  He then found a memory book she had made for him before she died, and inside was a picture of her as a 3-year-old girl in a white ballerina outfit.   We went to his bedroom, and with the light on in there, I realized there was no way for any column of light to have come into that room and reflected on the opposite wall.  We played with the door, the lights in the hallway, and everything else we could think of and couldn't  get the light to appear.  I have never had an experience like that again, sober or high.  Clearly, my friend's grandmother was trying to communicate with him, to remind him of her presence.  She had told him something right before he died, and he didn't listen to her advice, but at this time in his life, the advice was very relevant to him, and her reappearance reminded him of it.

Did you feel a touch or experience any physical contact from the deceased?         No

Did you see the deceased?       Yes

She appeared as a very detailed presence made of white light, several feet off the ground but maybe 1-2 feet high?

            How clearly did the deceased appear?            Sold, made of white light, but with details, like a sculpture.

            How much of the deceased did you see?       All

            Did the deceased appear or not appear to be the age at which they died?           Age was not relevant to the appearance of the white light rendering of her.

            How healthy did the deceased appear to be?            Seemed radiant.

            Is there any possibility what you saw was from any other source present in the surroundings at the time of your experience?   No, I ruled everything out as best I could.

Did you smell a distinct smell, scent, fragrance or odor associated with the deceased? No

How long did the experience last?      Hard to say, maybe 1 hour at most?

Was the beginning and end of the experience gradual or more sudden?       I had the experience multiple times, every time I went back to the room she reappeared.

Could you sense the emotions or mood of the deceased?          Uncertain

She seemed happy and radiant, I would guess.

Did the deceased give you information you did not previously know?  Yes, it's all outlined in the story - she gave information that I was able to verify, and none of it was known to me beforehand.

How do you currently view the reality of your experience?          Experience was definitely real

          Please explain why you view the reality of your experience as real or not real:   I know what I saw and experienced

          Was the experience dream like in any way?  No

Describe in detail your feelings/emotions during the experience:  Curious, engaged, delighted

What was the best and worst part of your experience?          Not sure how to answer     

Did you have any changes of attitudes or beliefs following the experience?      Yes    Was more convinced of the reality of a non-material existence

Did the experience give you any spiritual understandings such as life, death, afterlife, God, etc.?         Yes    It certainly showed me that we did not live solely in a material existence

Death Compacts are when two or more living people promise among themselves that whoever dies first will try to contact the other(s).  Have you ever made such a compact?    No

Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?          Yes All in the story I gave, several names, and a few facts were given.

What emotions did you feel during the experience?          Not sure, I think I was amazed and excited to have communicated with the 'dancing lady'

Was the experience witnessed or experienced by others?          No

Did you have any sense of altered space or time?  No

Did you have a sense of knowing, special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?         No

Did you become aware of future events?      Uncertain

I had a certain sense of some things about the course of my life soon after the experience, and it has worked out that way.

Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience that you did not have prior to the experience?      Yes

I was able to develop psychic skills, but then stopped pursuing them.

Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?   No

Did you meet or see any other beings other than the deceased?   No

Did any part of your experience seem to occur in a place other than the location described above?     No

Have you shared this experience with others?       Yes    I told a few people close to me.  Not sure how they interpreted it.  My friend understood the truth of the experience.

Have you shared this experience formally or informally with any other researcher or web site?         No

 Is there anything else you would like to add regarding your experience?   no

Were there any associated medications or substances with the potential to affect the experience?          Yes  I had smoked some marijuana, but I have never before or since had an experience like this one, and was very unlike a typical high.

Following the experience, have you had any other events in your life, medications or substances which reproduced any part of the experience?       No 

Did you ever in your life have a near-death experience, out of body experience or other spiritual event? No 

Did the questions asked and information you provided accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?           Yes

Please offer any suggestions you may have to improve this questionnaire.       No