I don't know if I should call this a supernatural experience, but it sure was weird.

2 nights ago I had a horrific nightmare. I immediately recognized certain things to be a reflection of recent thoughts, experiences and fears. I've always had this instinct when I'm dreaming that it's just a dream, not this time though. It felt shockingly real.

I was someplace alone. Nothing specific, just an apartment or something. The look was reminiscent of some ideas in my head of what a living room looks like. I was going to smoke some pot, but felt a slight sensation of pain in my left eye. As I had finished my reefer I started getting paranoid, thinking I was gonna go blind. Not too surprising considering that I at that point had lost all the muscles in my eyelid. The eyeball had swollen to the size of a tennisball. It was on the edge of bursting out of my head. This went on for awhile until a friend of mine appeared which eventually led to us seeking medical help.

The 'hospital' we went to was just another apartment where apparently 2 doctors lived I have no memory of them being gay, the whole situation just felt natural. Anyway, they refused to treat for whatever reason, and it came to some discussion. When it finally seemed to go somewhere I woke up, and that's when the freaky part happened.

I was in that strange phase where you know you've had a nightmare and is waking up to the real world, but still not quite conscious. Suddenly I saw this sharp red painting reminiscent of these ancient battles on the wall right in front of me. It was little detail, just clear cut red shapes of warriors and symbols facing each other in a symmetric fashion. Hard to explain, so I found these pictures:

Imagine those 2 merging with red characters on a black background.

Naturally I was shocked to see this when I thought I was just gonna see my room. I then blinked my eyes and in the next instant the image faded to the degree of only being like a whisper on the edge sight. Shortly after that I saw the wall and was back in my room. In my position the left eye was the farthest from the bed, still I felt that same sensation of pain I had in the beginning of the dream. An hour or so afterwards I was back to normal, at least physically.

I too have always wondered how these signals are decoded. I know Nicolai Tesla also claimed to have received signals from space. Strange part of course is that SETI has never reported such things. Then again, space is kinda big

Edit: SETI has in fact received signals too. I remember seeing a documentary about the search for extraterrestrial life where some SETI guy mentioned a couple of events.

True, but we're talking 15 tons here. The first Sputnik and Apollo projects were a mere 100 kilos. Why would anyone launch a secret satellite in a race that was all about PR anyway?

Sure, he could have merged them, but those 3 events are not mutually exclusive.

I found some additional information too:

Three years later, Gordon Cooper was launched into space for a 22 orbit mission. On his final orbit, he reported seeing a glowing green shape ahead of his capsule, and heading in his direction. It's said that the Muchea tracking station, in Australia, which Cooper reported this too was also able to pick it up on radar traveling in an east-to-west orbit. This event was reported by NBC, but reporters were forbidden to ask Cooper about the event on his landing. The official explanation is that an electrical malfunction in the capsule had caused high levels of carbon dioxide, which induced hallucinations.

I'd say that pretty much verifies it.

Nothing new? Songs like Civil War, Breakdown, Estranged, Coma, Locomotive and DTJ were all written during the UYI sessions. In fact, with a few exceptions, the best songs on UYI came from the post-AFD period.

We all know that for the most part the band did little else than drink, do drugs and play gigs after AFD. But as Slash said in his book, and we know this to be true when taking the above songs into account, when the band actually got together and wrote music they produced some really cool stuff.

Nothing new as in loss of focus, sure. Nothing new as in burnt out creatively, ie. The Stones, no way in hell.

The first Snakepit and the CD demos should prove beyond a doubt that there were plenty of fuel left in the band post-AFD/UYI.

Sorry Jess, I don't think you'll find many bloodlines in the gn'r world

Are these all French?