This marks the first illustration in a series of anonymously submitted stories as part of a visual storytelling experiment.

The experiment: “Tell me a story from your life you’ve never told anyone about. Make it funny, make it sad, make it scandalous or scary, but I don’t want to know who you are. Unless it’s part of the story, I wouldn’t even like to know your age, what you look like, or even if you’re male or female. It is from your stories that I will develop a series of illustrations.”

Story 1

Submitted by: Anonymous

To this day I have no idea if this was imagined or true.  I awoke one morning as usual, did the morning routine and left my apartment.  As I was in the vestibule about to leave the building, I felt a sensation of weightlessness.   I suddenly felt my hand slowly brush against the wall in an upward motion.  “what is happening to me?” I thought in astonishment and terror.  Before I knew it I was holding my hands over my head to prevent from hitting my head on the ceiling.  I then felt the front door open and said to myself that I can control it and see if I can go outside.  As I passed the doorway, I felt a sudden rush of energy pulling me out.  Suddenly I was floating higher and higher almost uncontrollably but I felt like as long as I could keep my mind on where I was going I would travel in that direction.

Unfortunately that is all I remember about that event, but I somehow know that it was only possible because no one was around.  I found it incredibly strange.