My first semester of college I decided to go on a walk in a wooded area with some people I had just met. It was our first week in school and we were just getting to know each other...

It was nearly 10pm and very dark with little illumination from the moon. We were walking along a chain link fence looking for a good spot to hop over and head into the woods. A portion of the fence had been cut and it formed a perfect archway. We walked through it and trudged through some thick grass heading for the trees.

After walking around for 20 minutes or so and joking around everyone took a break in a small clearing to smoke cigarettes and talk. I listened in to several conversations and started to get extremely paranoid because they were talking about me.....but personal experiences that had happened in my life. There was no way they could have known those things about me because I didn't know any of them.

Something weird happened. I guess I blacked out or something. I remember being enveloped in white light... not physically but just that I experienced light in my mind or something.. I came back into consciousness kneeling beneath a large tree and I was alone freaked as hell and wondering what happened..

I found my way back but couldn't sleep that night. By my recollection I lost 5 minutes of my life, at least thats what it seemed like.. I didn't have a watch so it could have been longer.. I approached some of the people I had gone into the woods with the next day to find out what the hell happened, but no one remembered going in there with me, or at least denied it... I was so disturbed by this experience I packed my shit and got a job cleaning windows.... Very profound experience that potentially changed my course in life...