Marden summarizes Travis Walton’s report of approaching a glowing craft and being struck by a powerful beam of light. The force knocks him backward, and he loses consciousness instantly. The moment appears unreal, like entering a symbolic dream through shock.
He later awakens in a bright room with distorted sensory perception, unable to determine whether he is dreaming or awake. Time stretches and contracts around him.
Marden includes this to show how extreme luminosity functions as a trigger for dreamlike encounter states.
