In Hopkins’s Missing Time, McMahon recalls a nighttime encounter in which a brilliant overhead light immobilized him. The scene felt unreal and heavy, as if he were suspended in a lucid nightmare. He senses an overwhelming presence but cannot locate a source.
As the light intensifies, he loses awareness of his surroundings. The moment has the quality of being pulled out of time—an abrupt shift from familiarity into dreamlike suspension. When awareness returns, he finds himself displaced and disoriented.
Hopkins interprets the episode as a classic missing-time event, marked by paralysis, altered perception, and symbolic luminosity characteristic of dreamlike abduction states.
