One night I looked up into the night sky and asked the question aloud "what is this all for anyway?" The next day I discovered that I could "see" things in nature that I had never noticed before. I could see patterns in the bark of trees that revealed they were faces of various humanoid characters. Similarly, I could see images on rocks that were obscure, complex, and overlapping. I would take hundreds of pictures hoping to capture one of the images perfectly so I could convince others of my discovery but to no avail. Those images often indicated some sort of travelling done by random and recurring humanoid characters (as if they were aboard a flying vessel looking downward). The humanoid characters were always male and sometimes wore sunglasses or a hat, a ballcap, and other times I saw dog headed creatures. I hoped to piece together something from my rock photos that might answer the question I had that night. So far, I have not gotten anywhere. In fact, it was about five years ago I stopped trying to make sense out of this unique experience. In my research, I stumbled across the "rock books" of Richard Shaver. He passed just before I was born but reading about his life, I surmised that my "moving on" from this journey of sorts was a good idea. Reason being, he was unable to accomplish anything himself in regards to convincing others of his "finds" and was considered mentally ill. I still believe what I see is "there." I feel that attributing it to pareidolia alone does not adequately explain what I'm seeing. Since the point of convincing others of what I'm seeing is futile, I never talk about it anymore. Strangely, I was compelled to share it here unexpectedly. Otherwise, when I see the images when i'm out and about somewhere, Its like seeing an old friend you drifted away from because of lack of shared interests. You acknowledge them briefly and move along.
I've also seen five white lights in the sky as a teen doing crazy maneuvers no man made planes could accomplish. It lasted about a minute before they disappeared up, up, and away. I've also had something like sleep paralysis three times which I believe is inspired by dark entities. I don't rattle easy and can stay calm when most people are freaking out but those intances were truly terrifying because I was completely helpless and I was awake when they happened. They occurred while I was dating an evil woman and in the middle of discovering her "ways." They began and ended with that relationship. There are other experiences but these are the ones that stand out the most.
I just recalled another strange experience. I was fishing on a lake in Arkansas with a friend when I saw what appeared to be a creature like "Nessie" in the distance. I told my friend to take a look but he was too slow to look, thinking he had a bite on his line. By the time he looked it was gone. Fast forward about 30 years and I saw an old schoolmate's post on facebook where she had visited the same lake and described seeing a creature exactly as the one I had seen many years before. I contacted her through private message as the responses to her post were not supportive, to let her know she was not the only one who'd seen such a thing. I did not blame her for taking it down since everyone was making jokes about it.