The Unveiling

By Lee Kendrick 

Many YouTube channels are talking about how we live in an illusion, part of a Matrix. I, personally, have witnessed such things; and In the last two years I have seen proof of this Matrix!

I first noticed this unreality when I went camping in the Cairngorms in Scotland with my three friends. We wanted to test our resilience to the harsh, freezing winter of the Cairngorms, where it snows more than anywhere else in the UK.

We set up two large tents in a wooded near a stream. My friend, Ben and I, George in one tent and Don and Mike in the other. We had state-of-the-art camping gear from a camping company that asked us to test their heaters, stoves, beds,etc. They asked us if we could review their equipment on YouTube; letting us keep their gear. The tents had special insulation that kept the heat in and circulated throughout the tent, which kept us comfortable. The tents had vents at the tops to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning when cooking and having the heaters on. There was a large plastic window at the top to see the night sky. We had warm sleeping bags heated up using a USB connection.  

Anyway, after having a nice, hot meal we decided to have an early night, feeling fatigued after travelling in our cars for hours from Manchester. Don and Mike then popped into their tent a few feet away from Ben and mine. 

As the night drew in Ben was sound asleep snoring, I lay in my bed and stared up through the window at the clear, night sky; I've never seen so many stars.

But I noticed something off… a glitch about the scene I was observing! The stars didn't seem real to me and looked much closer, as if in the Earth's atmosphere… Certainly not light-years away! As I continued to observe the stars, one of them started pulsating a blue light then another pulsated yellow, and the one nearest to it pulsated red. My heart began to race when I saw to the left of me a white fissure appearing, splitting in the sky; my heart raced as all the pulsating stars now gravitated to this crack and disappeared through it. The split then promptly zipped back up…As if by an invisible hand.

Never, had I felt so afraid as I did then!

It was like I'd discovered… I was an orphan, being told my Mother wasn't my real Mum! I soon became so tired after this that I drifted off to sleep.

When I awoke the next morning I decided not to tell my friends about the strange experience, fearing being ridiculed.

As I unzipped the tent door, I peered outside and saw the ground was covered deep in snow. I got dressed and rushed to check on Don and Mike in their tent… to my astonishment, their tent and van wasn't there.

I raced back into my tent to tell Ben they had gone, but now Ben with his sleeping bag was nowhere to be seen either … 

‘Where did everyone go?”

Thinking this was some kind of prank I packed everything away and drove back to Manchester. I was livid as I negotiated the roads covered in snow and ice… I was trying to make sense of all this.

Finally after getting back home seething inside, I phoned all my friends to find out …what the heck they were playing at.

Unbelievably, their phone numbers were ‘unrecognised.’ That was the last straw… I felt like I was going to explode! I decided to go to Ben's house first.. By this time, my heart was racing faster than a Formula 1 racing car…I was going to have it out with my so-called mates!

Ben lived with his parents. After knocking at their door, I waited impatiently, then…

“Hello, can I help you?” Asked Ben's Mum.

“Hi, Mrs Tegen is Ben in?" She put her hand over her mouth and began to cry. 

“Is this some kind of a joke, young man?” She stammered, wiping her eyes with a handkerchief. 

“What?” I only want to know where Ben is Mrs Tegen?”  

“ Right! Right! I'll get Ben for you. Wait! Wait! There. Moments later, expecting Ben to come to the door… 

“Here he is George, here's Ben; say hello to your friend.!” The blood drained from my face…She had produced an urn containing Ben's ashes!

“Satisfied now you cruel b*****d! She screamed.

“But! But! That's all I could say, being in shock.

“You went to Ben's, Don's and Mike's funerals! Two years ago. If you hadn't been thrown clear from the car you would've been killed in that car crash too!”She wept.

“Why couldn't it have been my Ben saved instead of you?” She cried, slamming the front door.

I was so shocked, I couldn't go out for months. I couldn't eat or drink anything. I was in a dream world and couldn't sleep; I began hallucinating and then, one day, something extraordinary happened…

 It happened while I was watching TV! The screen began to pixelate with a static sound spitting out; This pixel effect started to bleed over to the wall and behind the TV with a blue-white static charge creeping up and down the wall. The whole thing seemed to be alive.

Moments later, it spread out to every wall in the living room;then across the floor and crept onto the ceiling in the living room. It was so surreal I was wondering if it was me hallucinating again…A moment later, everything stopped. There was a quietness I'd never known before then…

I could see every brick slowly dismantle from the walls and become transparent; then the floor tiles became transparent as they dismantled themselves. The ceiling became transparent as I could see the wooden beams behind it…It was like I had X-ray vision!

As I sat in my armchair contemplating what had just happened, I was now aware of a stillness and nothingness. Suddenly, I heard a whoosh sound and everything in the living room blurred and vanished. I was still aware of sitting in my armchair but it wasn't visible. From this, I deduced that everything in the room, the TV, chairs, bricks, wooden beams, door, etc, was still present as atoms but invisible to the naked eye.

Moments after it was as if someone had turned off the light and now I sat in complete darkness…But strangely, I could still see in front of me. I hesitantly got off the chair to try and walk. It was the strangest feeling…not seeing the floor to walk on, yet I could still feel the sensation of stepping on the floor.

Again, I heard the sound of a light switch; this time, my heart thumped big time. Fear gripped me as all around me I now observed the Universe, the galaxies and millions of stars…I was like an astronaut floating in space!

It then dawned on me … We are living in a Matrix!’ our Earth is but a Construct! We are living in a facade entrapped as slaves…Until we can become consciously aware of this Illusion we will always be trapped and enslaved!

It was these two massive experiences in my life that freed me from this prison we call …planet Earth!

However, I haven't got All the answers, like..

How does this help me know what happened to my friends? How could I have not known they were killed in a car crash, and me not remembering going to their funeral? Was it because I have some sort of amnesia, due to the accident?

As I pondered these questions there was another switch sound, then… I observed 

 like a fast rewind of a film…I witnessed galaxies and stars then suddenly the light came back on in the living room,showing every pixel, morphing back into the TV, bricks in the walls, furniture, door, floor tiles and ceiling and me sitting back on the armchair…everything back together again.

I felt exhausted, but at the same time… I was elated. I had my Eureka moment! From this time on, I was now acutely aware that all things I observed were a …’ make belief Construct…I had this feeling of a new awareness, of all-knowing…I couldn't be fooled by this Illusion anymore! There was no going back… The old George had gone as I ascended! I was excited as to what I may see next…, but at the same time, I was also afraid… And the next few days would challenge my sanity.

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 I soon returned to work as a freelance photographer specializing in historic buildings and historic articles and landscape photography…Coincidentally, I had an assignment to photograph in the Cairngorms not far from the area where I went camping with my friends, two years ago… that was my intention anyway.

 For this Cairngorm project, which was for a UK landscape magazine, I brought along my trusty 5x4 camera, which uses plate film and my tripod. I find the quality much better than a digital camera; It gives nice, sharp depth of field landscape photographs. After I had set up my tent close to where I was last here two years ago; I trekked a few miles to my designated spot. The wind was now picking up, and the ice-cold air was burning my face; I cursed myself for not wearing my warm balaclava instead of the beanie hat I was wearing.

When I'd set up the camera on the tripode on a hill I took a light reading with my light meter. The sunlight was quite strong, so I'd set the aperture to an F22 for a longer exposure of a few seconds, then another exposure at F32 for doubling the exposure. As I prepared to press the shutter cords suddenly the whole sky darkened, I quickly took another light reading with the lumens showing the shutter should be adjusted to an F 3.5 for a much shorter exposure. To my utter bewilderment, the sky had changed again; with the dark clouds mysteriously vanishing and being replaced with the sun and its strong light beams…now in a blue clear sky…without a cloud in sight!

“What the f*ck?”

This was getting beyond a joke. I now realised it was the ‘Cosmic jokers playing with me! This apparently happens to people like me who have become enlightened…People who are on the cusp of becoming fully aware of living on an Unreal planet… that the Earth is basically made up of a…' Matrix System of Grids! The Cosmic Joker is on to me and is becoming frustrated… Like a child who cries because he keeps falling off his first bicycle!

However, I have tumbled his childish games and have learnt how to deal with them. There is a method to let him think he has you beaten by simply pretending you give up. Then, just by knowing that you are aware of this trickster, you have become stronger, and you win every time. Like just now with the camera, I faked being frustrated and was about to give up when I was able to finally get the exact photographs I wanted after the Cosmic joker had let his guard down!By the time the sun was sinking down the horizon, I had managed to take a score of good pictures for the magazine!

Moreover it isn't just the Cosmic Joker you have to contend with, there are other things such as coincidences; these happen regularly in life. I have become much more aware of these. Signs which are actually…Planned events from the Universe for each and every one of us on this Earth. They are known as…Synchronisation. These synchronicities have a deeper meaning that could be invaluable, acting to let us be aware something important is around the corner. It could be that you bump into someone you haven't seen for years. It could be ‘timing’ . Habitually you may walk the same route daily,but your intuition guides you to take another turn and … luckily you did because a wall of bricks just collapsed at a time you would've been there and it fell on some other poor soul;causing them to have a bad accident or killed.So when they occur one should analyse their underlying meaning.

Finally, I arrived back at the tent fatigued, but happy. With the temperatures now minus 10 I got the heater going and made some hot soup and tea on my stove. There was a blizzard howling outside now as I lay in my warm, sleeping bag. I expect deep snow in the morning. However, this was no ordinary blizzard; it was something I'd never encountered before. The wind was so powerful that it was threatening to unpeg my tent even though I'd hammered down the tent pegs as deep as six inches in the ground!

I could hear the tent ratling outside as the wind grew stronger; the roar of the blizzard was now as noisy as a pride of lions.

Looking through the tent window I could see large snowflakes bumping into the window. An hour had passed with no sign of the blizzard stopping. I decided all I could do was ride this out and get into my sleeping bag to try and sleep with the terrifying noise. 

After lying in bed for a few minutes, I looked up at the tent window… something was stirring in the sky. I noticed flashes of blue light zapping across the night sky. Suddenly, cracks started to appear, engulfing nearby stars; the yellow moon to the right started to pulsate and began to slowly shrink down to half its size.

By now the blizzard had quietened down to just a faint whistling sound,and rustling of the nearby trees' leaves.

Rubbing my eyes to clear my tired vision, I saw the moon grow back to its original size, and the cracks in the night sky had disappeared. Ready to just sleep now I observed a blue luminous aura pulsating energy,surrounding me, as I moved deeper into the sleeping bag. To my horror I slowly started to levitate, slipping out of the bag. I rose up steadily reaching the top of the tent. Unable to move…I must've drifted off to sleep because I don't remember coming back down.

When morning came I was aware of an electrical tingling sensation running throughout my body; It was as if I'd become a new person. I noticed a new sheen to my hands and they were glowing white… The mild arthritis I had In my right hand for years had gone!

Getting up from bed I started making some breakfast. Everything I touched…my kettle, cup of tea, picking up toast, the plate all felt different. My sensation of touch had become much more sensitive many times… in fact, all my senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing and seeing… became frighteningly supernormal!

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It was time for me to leave now, back to Manchester. Having packed everything, all I had to do was disassemble the tent.

A moment later…Outside I could hear the van start up 

“What's going on?” 

I raced out of the tent and saw my van moving away; I barely grabbed the passenger door and I was mortified… there was no one in the driver's seat! The invisible presence then pulled away, leaving me on the ground covered in snow.

Stunned and lost for words… How was I to get home now? I struggled in the deep snow back in the tent.

However, The van was the least of my worries now… I noticed my feet were like ice blocks…the temperatures had plummeted.I needed to heat the tent fast and have something to eat. I had to act fast and quickly unpacked my heater and stove and got them working; I then set up the sleeping bag.

 Soon after, I set up my dynamo lanterns before it got dark again. I had resigned myself to the fact that I may be here for some time. Luckily I had extra provisions for emergencies…even luckier, I hadn't loaded up the van with my camping gear before it drove off mysteriously.

Sitting eating my bacon sandwiches and drinking tea I pondered on the weird thing that had happened earlier with the van. This was unbelievable; I tried to analyse… Why did the Universe drive my van away? I had so many questions that needed answering… Was this the work of the Cosmic Joker?

Suddenly my phone rang, the ringtone sounded different! I hadn't used this one since, some two years ago, shortly after my last camping trip here in the Cairngorms, supposedly,with my three mates… I had changed the ringtone to a simple, traditional phone ring!

“Hello! Hello!”I said,

hearing a static sound in the background then…

 “George! Can you hear me?” a familiar voice asked..

“Yes, I can hear you, who's this?”

“It's your old mate… Don!”

At that moment, I swallowed hard, and my heart skipped a beat. There was a long pause when I mustered the courage to speak.

“But! But! It can't be Don! You were killed in a car crash with Mike and Ben two years ago!” 

“Well George, take a look outside the tent… I unzipped the tent door nervously and looked outside… Don, Mike and Ben were standing by a car. 

“We're sorry we couldn't get here yesterday. The car had broken down, and our phones were all dead, that's why we couldn't contact you,” apologized Don.

“ Anyway, what's this about we were all killed in a car crash, George?” Ben asked.

My heart melted as my eyes filled with tears; seeing my three best mates was like a miracle. Although I cannot explain it, I looked up to the now-darkening sky and thanked the Cosmic Joker or the Universe for making this miracle happen!

End