05-06-2021, 11:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-06-2021, 11:55 AM by LeafieGreens.
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Story time!
I was one of those kids who swore I saw Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve night.
This was more than a few years ago. I think I was around 5 or 6 years old -- so this is mid 1980's. I would guess Christmas Eve 1984.
I woke up in the middle of the night because I was sleeping so lightly, full of excitement about Christmas. I also had that thrilling terror of 100% belief in Santa. It's weird to imagine we just culturally accept that an old man with a bag sneaks around our homes on Christmas Eve night. And that he sees us when we're sleeping and knows when we're awake -- as the song goes.
Anyway, I shared a bedroom with my older brother at the time. I was just sitting up in bed, too excited to sleep, when I began to hear this faint pulsing tone. It slowly got louder. It sounded very clean and clear -- kind of like a digital tone. It wasn't that fast-paced, maybe one tone every 2-3 seconds.
Then I saw a red light in the sky. I couldn't make out any shape. It was just a big red light that was slowly pulsing in sync with the tones. It was also moving quite slowly. Just a bright red pulsing light. Our room was on the corner of the house so I watched it go by one set of windows and then the next.
At the time I was so terrified / excited that it was DEFINITELY SANTA that when I tried to wake my brother to tell him, all that came out was this hissed whisper. I was too afraid that Santa would see that I was still awake and that would mean no presents. So I just sat there and watched this light and heard the tones.
Eventually the light was out of sight but I remember I kept hearing the tones chiming away until they also faded. The whole thing lasted maybe 10 minutes. It was moving that slowly.
Now, I know that it definitely happened and it wasn't a dream. The excitement / thrill / terror of the whole event was too real. I was way too awake and full of adrenalin for it to have been a dream. It took me a good hour or two to calm down and get back to sleep. I was so thrilled I had "seen" Santa!
The other thing is that because it was December in Illinois, the windows were definitely closed. And yet I was able to "hear" this tone.
The other other weird thing is that the shades would have been pulled down at the time. And yet I remember this red light shining in the sky out the window. I remember watching it go by the north facing window and then the east facing window. This is a part of the memory that doesn't make sense to me. How did I see a red light?
The entire time I thought it was Santa for sure, zero doubt. I don't even know if I knew what UFO's were at that point. But now looking back, it surely seems more like a UFO than DEFINITELY SANTA.
It makes me wonder if it was all part of the plan to enable me to keep an open mind in life. A solid memory of something that was beyond rationality. Perhaps my Star Team wanted to give me a moment of magic and wonder by doing a little flyby on Christmas Eve, when I was so young and full of belief that magic is real.
Luckily, I still know that it is.
I was one of those kids who swore I saw Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve night.
This was more than a few years ago. I think I was around 5 or 6 years old -- so this is mid 1980's. I would guess Christmas Eve 1984.
I woke up in the middle of the night because I was sleeping so lightly, full of excitement about Christmas. I also had that thrilling terror of 100% belief in Santa. It's weird to imagine we just culturally accept that an old man with a bag sneaks around our homes on Christmas Eve night. And that he sees us when we're sleeping and knows when we're awake -- as the song goes.
Anyway, I shared a bedroom with my older brother at the time. I was just sitting up in bed, too excited to sleep, when I began to hear this faint pulsing tone. It slowly got louder. It sounded very clean and clear -- kind of like a digital tone. It wasn't that fast-paced, maybe one tone every 2-3 seconds.
Then I saw a red light in the sky. I couldn't make out any shape. It was just a big red light that was slowly pulsing in sync with the tones. It was also moving quite slowly. Just a bright red pulsing light. Our room was on the corner of the house so I watched it go by one set of windows and then the next.
At the time I was so terrified / excited that it was DEFINITELY SANTA that when I tried to wake my brother to tell him, all that came out was this hissed whisper. I was too afraid that Santa would see that I was still awake and that would mean no presents. So I just sat there and watched this light and heard the tones.
Eventually the light was out of sight but I remember I kept hearing the tones chiming away until they also faded. The whole thing lasted maybe 10 minutes. It was moving that slowly.
Now, I know that it definitely happened and it wasn't a dream. The excitement / thrill / terror of the whole event was too real. I was way too awake and full of adrenalin for it to have been a dream. It took me a good hour or two to calm down and get back to sleep. I was so thrilled I had "seen" Santa!
The other thing is that because it was December in Illinois, the windows were definitely closed. And yet I was able to "hear" this tone.
The other other weird thing is that the shades would have been pulled down at the time. And yet I remember this red light shining in the sky out the window. I remember watching it go by the north facing window and then the east facing window. This is a part of the memory that doesn't make sense to me. How did I see a red light?
The entire time I thought it was Santa for sure, zero doubt. I don't even know if I knew what UFO's were at that point. But now looking back, it surely seems more like a UFO than DEFINITELY SANTA.
It makes me wonder if it was all part of the plan to enable me to keep an open mind in life. A solid memory of something that was beyond rationality. Perhaps my Star Team wanted to give me a moment of magic and wonder by doing a little flyby on Christmas Eve, when I was so young and full of belief that magic is real.
Luckily, I still know that it is.
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