I haven't followed the thread because I simply could not relate to it. and from a more serious perspective the subject worries me. There have been special times in my life (particularly when I was in the monastery) when there I had private moments of 'revelation' but to speak of them seems somehow almost a betrayal. I have also had two unsettling but very important 'conversion' experiences which involved 'visions' (I really dislike using that word though - inner seeing perhaps)of the cross. All these experiences still 'colour' my faith in a way difficult to describe. I always find it slightly ironic that it is my reading of St John of the Cross - himself such a visionary - that has made me so wary of talk of such phenomena. It is such a private matter somehow.
Having said all that I know that this thread is not about any of that and is really charmingly innocent.