This evening I decided to try it as actual divination, with a query. Having just received an email wondering about Debbie's "part in things" -- meaning the question of why the sync fairies brought us together and what role she is meant to play -- I concentrated on that question and clicked for a random thread. I got this one from October 3, 2013. The OP just says "Lets go. Creepy gif/images thread. gimme your best" and opens with this image:
It appears to show a woman levitating, which fits. Debbie frequently mentions levitation, and one of the first things she told me when first began communicating in 2021 was that she had started having levitation dreams in 1965 and that a past-life reader had told her in 1974 that she had "had the power of levitation" in a past incarnation. A reply in the /x/ thread identified the photo:
This is by Colette Saint Yves, a French photographer. I think it's called Levitation.
The attribution appears to be correct. See for example "Ten pictures by… Colette Saint Yves."
Then I noticed the date of the post: October 3. Wait, wasn't that the date that Debbie first contacted me? I searched my email and found that first message. It's timestamped October 4, 2021, at 10:00 a.m., which would still have been October 3 in Debbie's time zone. She begins with "My name is Debbie and today I found your blog while researching a dream that I had today" -- and follow-up messages make it clear that the date of the dream was October 3, 2021.
Revisiting that old email exchange just now, I found that Debbie's second email to me, sent the next day, mentions both levitation and "a 1960's TV show called The Ed Sullivan Show." In my last post, "Four-legged insects, six-legged spiders, and eight-legged crabs," I quoted a passage from Remarkably Bright Creatures in which a Sullivan family takes in an eight-legged crab which they name Eddie.
I'm not sure my question has really been answered, but it's definitely been acknowledged.
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The OP on the /x/ thread had two direct replies, one of which I have already quoted. The other just says "is this one legit?" When I clicked to see that one, I noticed another message a little further down on the screen:
I hadn't scrolled through the thread at all at this point. I had only clicked for the two direct replies. When I saw the post circled above, though -- "oh fuck, that freaked me the fuck out as a kid" -- I immediately knew what it was referring to: the scene in the 1989 film Communion in which a Gray peeks out from behind a door. Kids get freaked the fuck out by any number of things, of course, but somehow I knew with complete certainty that the post was referring to that particular scene in that particular movie. I clicked to see what it was replying to, and confirmed what I already knew:
I had been primed to think of that because last night I was thinking about Alfred Molina -- the actor who plays both Otto "Doctor Octopus" Octavius and Marcellus the octopus -- and had the thought that the Communion movie (starring Christopher Walken, with a soundtrack by Eric Clapton) was directed by someone named Molina. I had misremembered; the director's name is Philippe Mora, not Molina. But in looking that information up, I had somehow ended up not on Wikipedia or IMDb but on a 2008 blog post called "Communion | kindertrauma," which focuses on that very scene. Here's the opening paragraph:
What is up with COMMUNION, the 1989 CHRISTOPHER WALKEN movie based on WHITLEY STRIEBER's best seller about alien abduction? A thread on IMDb's discussion board for the film entitled "Worth seeing for one scene" currently has 91 responses. Somebody hit a nerve. The scene in question takes place early in the film where WALKEN, as STRIEBER, wakes up in the middle of the night and wonders aloud if there is another presence in the room. His suspicion is validated in the form of a half obscured, dark-eyed alien face staring back at him. Many who had watched the film as children claim that this scene still remains the scariest that they have ever witnessed, some revealing that it still haunts them even to this very day. It is undeniably eerie, but its real strength lies in the fact that it strikes a familiar, recognizable cord. Who amongst us, especially as children, has not awoken in the dark with just such a feeling? Squinting our eyes, trying to make out shapes, perhaps not being too comforted by what we imagine we see lurking in the shadows.
I never watched that movie until I was in college, but I got my own Communion-induced "kindertrauma" in book form. Far and away the scariest thing I've ever read. Whit originally wanted to call the book Body Terror, which would have been truth in advertising.
Whit has also experienced levitation, by the way, and wrote about it in Transformation.
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