The Nursery / Incubation Chamber

✦What happens there

The traveler is tended, monitored, or simply kept — treated as a new arrival, an infant, or something being grown. Caretaker beings check on the visitor with offhand attentiveness. Some reports describe seeing other occupants gestating in adjacent pods, or receiving the impression that this is where beings (or souls, in reporters' framings) are prepared. The signature feeling reported is of being very small, very new, and safely — if impersonally — held.

✦Description

A soft-lit ward or crèche reported most famously by Strassman's volunteer Jeremiah, who 'landed in a nursery where alien caretakers looked after him, but only in a most casual manner.' Descriptions feature rows of cradles, pods, or incubator-like vessels; rounded, padded architecture; and gentle, diffuse light. The New Republic's summary of the Strassman corpus notes volunteers hurtled into 'high-tech nurseries.' The mood is peculiar: institutional care delivered with competence but strange nonchalance, as if newly arrived consciousnesses are routine cargo.

✦What the sources say

Jeremiah's nursery report: alien caretakers attending 'in a most casual manner'; 'high-tech nurseries' recur in summaries of the volunteer corpus.

Forum reports of crèche/incubation and caretaker-ward scenes among breakthrough accounts.

r/DMT accounts of nursery-like chambers and being handled as a newborn arrival.