Greg wrote, “Sitting in the front room of Adano’s Houston apartment with the always-present group of random characters, I asked Adano for further explanation about something he called the ‘drift pattern.’ in his theory of time.

“He fixed me with a peering gaze. Seconds later, all the conversation in the room and the street noise faded as the peripheral edges of my vision blurred.

“All the others in the room were absorbed in their own chattering conversation, and none noticed what I was noticing. Then they all faded out.

“Just me and Adano in each end of a distortion tunnel of some kind.

“He sat in his chair and waved at me, but as he did his body moved in intervals, freeze frames, like he was under a strobe, very distinct jumps, disappearing in one frame and reappearing in the next, in sequence, but not visible between frames.

“It was in slow motion and seemed to last about fifteen seconds. I had time to observe it and observe myself observing it, and to ‘pinch myself’ to make sure I was awake.

“Then, at the end of his movement, he smiled at me, winked, and said, ‘THAT is a drift pattern.’

“Instantly, all the noise in the room returned, and Adano continued on in a conversation he was having with someone else.

“I later inquired of a few people in the room, and none of them had noticed anything unusual.”