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Forget facts.

Forget logic.

Forget everything that seems real.

You just trust.

Believe. Believe. You can't. You know your life is just a dream, don't you?

Don't you? Wildest Experience in the Coromandel in New Zealand by Shaq de Shaker.

This happened nearly six years ago when my partner and I first got together.

We decided to go camping by the beach

in Koro. It's very remote, nothing for ages down the road. We were sitting on the rocky beach,

and he started telling me about a conversation he had with his mate. His mate was chatting about

seeing some weird lights in the sky and partway into the conversation

they both saw the lights in the sky above them not even five minutes later it started i know this

sounds far-fetched but we have spent almost six years trying to figure it out.

We are both in scientific careers. We are evidence-based people. If we had not experienced it

at the same time, we would not even have believed it. Two strikes of lightning, no thunder,

and then lights in the sky slowly aiming towards us.

What looked like a Coast Guard's searchlight started scanning across the forest around us,

then it stopped directly in front of us.

This is a small bay, and there were no nearby boats before this started. When the lights turned off,

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