One day I was walking by myself in a very peaceful local bushland park and a funnel shaped vortex began to form at above Australian gumtree height and to then descend from above me. I watched it without fear, but amazed. Then a second one began to form alongside it and to also descend. As I watched them a woman appeared to my left and I turned away from the cloud funnels and said to her “can you see those cloud tunnels ?” and she replied totally unruffled “sometimes that happens”. I turned to look at her and when I looked back at the funnels they had disappeared. I recall, feeling as though the first funnel had tried to communicate with me and I felt that I was asked if I wanted to go into the tunnel. At the time I did not remember that communication and I felt that the women was a somehow present so that I would forget the experience. I also felt that because I had turned away from the funnels, somehow I had offended whatever was trying to communicate with me when I broke communication. I have never seen her or the cloud tunnels again. I want to emphasise that they were enormous and several meters long. The interesting thing is at the time I had just had a recent heart attack (followed by three more) and am the parent of four children. When I tried to focus on the experience it was very difficult to concentrate on it as though some way the woman’s presence was meant to block the memory. I do recall communicating to the cloud funnel that I couldn’t go “because of the children”. As a result of my first very bad heart attack I had and recalled a near death experience, that I only remembered many months later. During the heart attack experience I remembered being healed by some type of light beings and therefore avoiding death. I remembered that event only because the memory was triggered by something someone said. I feel very strongly that the two events are very strongly linked. I have tried to find if anyone else has had this type of experience as it has been very baffling to me. I hope someone else can help shed light on this for me. Thanking you kindly. Debbie