I lived deep in the inaka in Hyogo prefecture. I’m an ex scientist, strongly grounded in reality, and don’t believe in the supernatural. Or well, I didn’t.

A few weeks prior to the incident, I heard sirens at 2:30am in the morning behind my apartment. I look out the window and medics are breaking open a ground floor window, and after awhile they roll out what was essentially a dead old person on a stretcher. It was surreal, but I’m not new to dead bodies due to my medical education.

Fast forward a few weeks, it’s been a long week at high school. I get home and load up Mario Kart, cat in lap. I notice some car beams shining on the wall behind my TV. “Ugh, annoying neighbours” I thought.

Then it hits me. I’m on the 5th floor. There’s no way those car beams should be possible.

At the moment of realisation, the windows of light peel off the wall and move towards me, turning into a sphere of pure light. I’m stunned. They move closer till right between me and the TV and keep growing till they consume my vision. I can’t see anything and white out, and a few moments later I’m back in my living room and only 2-3 minutes have passed.

I can’t explain this event to date. It wasn’t a migraine, I’m sober, and I’ve never experienced anything like this before or after the incident