Greetings,
Last night on TV and in several recent conversations, comic books have been a topic. Perhaps that influenced my Interpretor----
I woke about 2:30 a m and noticed I hadn't fixed the night light; the room was totally black. I was unable to get back to sleep and was irked at myself for possibly being afraid of the dark. Then I heard a "Wooo! Wooo! Wooo! Wooo!" sound and thought, 'well no wonder I can't sleep; what's that noise? It sounds like it needs help.'
It was not the owls from around here but reminded me of a young sleepwalker I once knew. Then I realized well maybe it's a retrieval starting up. I tried to concentrate on seeing something but the light was so dim, not forming anything and all I could eventually see was a bunch of small angular shapes like fractals or cartooned thunderbolts, very irritating. The chaos of it would have thrown me into panic a few years ago, but I thought, 'wait a minute, I'm in charge here. Let me see more clearly.' And it did! Dimly in greyed colors  a row of three rectangles emerged with a picture in each one.
In the first was a woman in the passenger seat of a car sittting with her hands clenched in her lap. The wooo-wooo-wooing ceased.
(I'd not heard sounds that i can recall during a retrieval before.)
She stared straight ahead and would not acknowledge me, more stressed out than any retrievee I'd met before. I looked around for a helper but could not see beyond the rectangle. Then the second rectangle showed her closer from over her shoulder and my arm was around her other shoulder as I attempted to comfort her (also new for me.) But she started making that sound again. I noticed the car windows were squared like a PT Cruiser or a 1940's sedan and wondered how long she'd been here. "Wait, dear, please tell me what happened,' I suggested, but before I could even finish saying that the fractal shapes returned and I was looking out the front window of the car between the driver, a man in a hat(?) and her. The fractal shapes were clumping up around a car ahead of us, another PTCruiser type, and it seemed to flip over into them and the whole clump rolled to the side. "Wait, you better show me that again,' I thought, not knowing how that would be possible, but it did! The image of the grey car ahead of us fractalled into a large ball, flipping and rolling to the side.
A new row of rectangles appeared. In the first I saw the woman now unconscious, up close, like a high contrast photo. "Aren't there any helpers around here?" I called out. The next rectangle appeared to get brighter light but no images appeared so I continued to the next rectangle. "We're going to get some help for you,' i promised her as I tried to get her out of a pile of fractals/shards/broken shapes. Then suddenly she lifted, I had a sense that all was ok as she moved above the upper frame of the rectangle.
I waited awhile for some indication that it was done but nothing happened so finally I thought, 'well maybe if i move my toes, that'll show if I'm home and back together.' So I did and  everything was OK.
Weird, eh?  Weird dream or Interpretor using the comicbook form I'd been thinking of during a retrieval? Any opinions appreciated.
bets

Uh-oh, no one's commenting. 
Perhaps it was a lucid dream, since somone has said Interpretors don't get involved so much with retrievals. ?
Thoughts not contained within the comic frames description:
--the comic book format (with streaming videos in some squares) was chosen because it was about the terror of the woman, and since I am still somewhat terrified of terror, Interpreter wanted to remind me it was something I had control over;
--The car in front had a blow-out and the 2nd car was then involved when the first car perhaps bounced back on the higway. The driver of the 2nd car with the woman dissappeared because he died or was taken in an ambulance while she was unconscious/dying;
--The fractals/ angular shards helped express the woman's terror just like my previous terrifying nightmares showed angular fractals;
--It could have been a self-retrieval since i did deal with the terror, or else that woman had been terrified since the 1940's!
Well, anyway, I feel better 
bets

I love the way each retrieval is so different. I love this cartoon way Bets. And don't forget that this is the weekend. I've noticed that people post more during the week (probably from work  ) LOL and that the weekends are quieter 'cause people get out and do stuff.  I would if I had a car but instead I sit here on the computer. I'm surprised it's still working for a cheap rebuilt one. 

Love You, Mairlyn

Hi Bets! Impressing! I cannot for sure say what it was, a retrieval or not, anyway the lifting of the woman says that she had moved away from this terror, which apparently seems to be a car accident. It is in every case a "you were there" experience, you had a connection to a locale somewhere. This presentation in frames doesn't sound odd to me at all, it is as you said, to make keep you aware that you're safe, to hold a distance, to keep control, but it is indicating also "here is a window of information, you can watch if you want" as we all are familiar with comic frames and video screens, you just look at it, while knowing you're not in it.
I had a retrieval that started with a moving cartoon (well in English you call it "animation" I think), it even had two parts; my first reaction was rejection, because cartoons usually are valued as only pure entertainment, but then I decided to let it flow. It had some complex meaning which I as well related to me as to the retrieval that came after it. So this has, as I see it, not something to do with that it's not real or "only symbolic"; there are many ways and reasons of having experiences and perceiving information.
The way your retrievals/experiences are starting shows you are a kind of "sensitive", you receive calls, even with sounds (well yes, I know you are from earlier posts). I have this not- it's possibly because I have the strong guess I have a strong fear of ghosts and such (yeah, I have the wrong nickname...), which could confuse the pretty stable and foreseeable physical reality (at least that's I wish the physical reality to be), I never had ghost experiences or calls in waking state.

Spooky