Did the guy look like he was scared, or was he dead, or what?  Maybe if you had used your sense of humor on him it would have awakened him to what was going on.  Maybe try it next time!

Even without details or verification it’s good practice.  Sometimes I think when we have experiences where it feels like too much imagination and not much feels real it could be that your Interpreter was getting in the way and maybe causing interpreter overlay.  But even so, if you follow through with the retrieval process like you did then everything still works out.  Helpers are always there even when we aren’t aware of them, and they take care of the rest.  You did good in just following through with it. 

Here’s something from Bruce’s Afterlife Knowledge Guidebook that talks about Interpreter Overlay:  “In our afterlife explorations we are always getting the translation (the Interpreter Overlay), never the actual experience (the Perceiver’s observations). It is this nearest similar thing that comes into our conscious awareness.”

In the book, Bruce’s advice to one of his workshop participants was: 

“As Tagashi described his experience after the first retrieval exercise of the workshop, it was apparent to me that he was having difficulty with Interpreter Overlay. I explained that sometimes the first nearest similar thing the Interpreter brings to conscious awareness isn’t close enough to what the Perceiver is actually observing, and in such cases the information gathered could appear to be garbage. I suggested that, if what he perceived didn’t make sense, or seemed too much like fantasy, he actively let go of whatever it was, and then place his intent to be open to reconnecting with the experience with more clarity, and begin again. If what he perceived next also didn’t make sense or seemed too much like fantasy, he should repeat the process. If he let go of the image or experience and the same one came back, I suggested he should assume that was as close as his Interpreter’s translation was going to get and to just continue the exercise from there.