Communion (1989)

In case you’ve never seen it, here’s the whole film:

Along with this, I want to quote Strieber’s 7-year-old boy, Andrew, after his own ‘encounter’ with the ‘visitors’.

My boy made a sound like a train whistle, a long, high tone that seemed to reach right to the center of my heart.

He grew tired of his game and came to me. “Whatcha reading?”

“A book about America in the nineteenth century called Dream West.”

“Dream West?”

“Yes.”

“Y’know, I’ve been thinking. Reality is God’s dream.”

I looked at him. I was a little surprised, not so much at the statement but at the quiet force in his voice. Reality is God’s dream?

“What happens if God wakes up?”

He stared at me for a moment with an almost quizzical expression on his face—then burst out laughing.

The afternoon passed uneventfully. We drove into town for some groceries.

Strieber, Whitley. Transformation 2026 (pp. 27-28). Walker & Collier, Inc. Kindle Edition.

Here’s a second quote:

For years, I thought that the only record of our son’s experience that remained was what I reported in this book in 1989. I was aware that he had written something else down, but I thought it had been lost. Then, incredibly, I was going through some old photo albums and I found pasted into one of them a short essay he had written and given to his mother. Understand, I do think that these strange experiences occur, and that he had some of them. But I also understand two things very clearly: the first is why he forgot them; the second is why he wants to be left out of this discussion as much as possible. But I also feel strongly that this remarkable document, written by a seven year old boy the morning after his own father saw him in contact with “the visitors,” needs to be part of the body of knowledge that is being built about the human relationship with them.

This is what he wrote: “O thy colossus, thy stand before me with a twinkling of a beam against the thin pane to see the world along the edge of the earth, to see the golden beam in their eyes.”

This, from a child of seven. It does not reflect fear or suggest an abusive situation. On the contrary, it suggests a young mind stretching itself to its limits to express the awe generated by an absolutely magnificent experience.

Strieber, Whitley. Transformation 2026 (pp. 30-32). Walker & Collier, Inc. Kindle Edition.

Hmm.