"NIGHTMARE" by Patrick Briggs 1982. 
     
    One time three years ago when I was five years old, I  had a very scary 
    nightmare.  I  went right out of my bed and started to scream. I  cried 
    too. Then my dad came into the bedroom. He turned on the light and that 
    crazy thing was gone.  But then I laughed because I was lying on my bed 
    backwards.   Then my dad went back to bed.  I  started to dream but  it 
    popped away.  Then I went back to sleep. I saw a shadow on the wall,  I 
    heard  a snap like a bee bee gun,  then I felt a pinch on my back  that 
    really scared me. But the next morning I had fun. The only thing is,  I 
    sleep with a light on in my bedroom. The End. 
     
    I slept with the all the lights on in my room for years afterwards.   I 
    must have been 12 by the time I decided to sleep without the light. 
     
    I  just remembered something else come to think of it.  There  was  one 
    night  when  I  wandered  through the dark house into  the  kitchen  to 
    witness a strange red glow all over the middle of the kitchen floor. My 
    mother  would  go  on to find me asleep in the middle of  the  bathroom 
    floors and all over the house. I guess I wandered around a lot and fell 
    asleep wherever I was at the time.  I still can't indentify what in the 
    world  was  going on but I do know that in 1975  or there abouts was  a 
    period  in time when UFO's were happening with the greatest  intensity. 
    But I don't see why a UFO would come around this house because I  don't 
    live  out in the middle of nowhere.  I'm in a medium sized town in  the 
    center of Washington State (Wenatchee). I live out of the way a bit but 
    someone should have seen something.. right? 
     
    Just for fun.. here are a few more stories out of the book with "Space" 
    as  the theme.  I  think you'll realize how much my peers and I  really 
    knew hehe. 
     
    THE MAGIC CARPET by Bryan Worley 
     
    This  story is about a boy who lives in San Diego who finds a piece  of 
    paper  that  says,  "Go to the stadium and you will find  the  carpet." 
    Sandy,   the boy,  runs to where the paper said and he finds the carpet 
    and  he also finds a piece of paper and it said the magic carpet  words 
    are  "dark  clouds  and a flashing of lights."  So the boy  said  "Dark 
    clouds and a flashing of lights. I want to be at my house"  and zoom he 
    was flying over to his house but he had one problem. He didn't know how 
    to  land and it said on the paper "land you nut"  and so he said  "land 
    you nut"  and down he went right into the driveway. Sandy picked up the 
    carpet and ran.  His dad got out and said "Sandy,  what is that thing?" 
    Sandy said "Dad...  sit down on the carpet"  and so his dad sat on  the 
    carpet.   "Now  where do you want to go?"  "Do you think I'm  going  to 
    believe in that junk."  said Dad. "Oh yes I do dad, now where would you 
    like to go.  "Ok.. I would like to be standing on Mt. Rainer"  "Dad you 
    have  to  say  'Dark clouds and a flashing of lights'."   "Well  if  it 
    satisfies you..  'Dark clouds and a flashing of lights'.  Zoom were off 
    and flying.."Dad look.. there Jim's house. There's mom coming home from 
    work.  There is your work..  Ok dad now were here."  "What is the magic 
    word to land Sandy?" "It is 'Land you nut'" Dad sais "Land you nut" and 
    it lands on the snow top of Mt. Rainer. Sandy said, "Dad..  this is the 
    place  where a spaceship landed and left."  Dad,  lets go home and tell 
    mom, sister and brother about the ride and how I got the carpet.  "Mom! 
    I found a carpet and took daddy for a ride to Mt.  Rainer"  "Mom do you 
    want to?"  "No thanks" Do you sis? "No" Do you brother "No"  Dad do you 
    want to?  "No" I  guess I'll take a ride to the moon "Dark clouds and a 
    flashing of lights.  Take me to the moon and fast." zoom I'm already at 
    the moon its strange but its so pretty.  I'll just jump off..  "Oh  no! 
    let me get my carpet oh no!  I'm on this planet but the carpet isn't Oh 
    well, this is the way all stories end. 
     
     
    Here is a curious poem a classmate of mine also wrote. 
     
    The Alien by Bryan Richards 
     
    There was an alien, 
    and he was green, 
    I like his space ship, 
    And it could shoot beams. 
     
    Most  interesting to find this and read through it again after  several 
    years..  quite enlightening. Who knows..  maybe the author of that poem 
    was  watching a UFO show on T.V.  but then maybe not?  Kids  don't  lie 
    about what they see..  Our parents seem to make it so that we loose our 
    asertiveness with all their "programming." 
     
    It  is  interesting to find in some abduction cases where  people  were 
    regressed and found that they got abducted at age 5 or there abouts and 
    never  really  remembered  except  for all the  recurring  dreams  they 
    usually get. I've never gone through a regression session before but it 
    might be revealing.  Quite a bit of emotional backlog to go through  in 
    my case though.  My childhood was not a good experience for me. I  must 
    be going throught some "tests" of life I guess. 
    
    Patrick Briggs