The word “alternate” at the surface seems basic, however I know that my question is very broad and complex, which makes crucial words in my question important to explore. Online dictionaries define alternate as something that “occurs in turn repeatedly.” In her book, Dreams, Hauntings, Nightmares, and Alternate Realities, Mensah Watts describes experiences of contact with seemingly alternate planes of existence besides the reality we recognize. She defines “alternate” as being able to exist at the same point in relative time. In her experiences, entities and beings from alternate realities can and do enter our reality, meaning that the realties are different but occurring side by side until interaction occurs in various forms. I will take this definition as my own for the purposes of this semester, that the word “alternate” in this case refers to the parallel existence of another reality to our own. It seems very supernatural, I will admit, but what evidence suggests that a parallel reality doesn’t exist? I was convinced of her definition because of the first hand accounts of bizarre encounters with beings from an alternate dimension. She may be crazy, but her stories of actually encountering otherworldly beings suggest that there may other forms of existence in a reality within our same time frame.