Last year, my mother, who was 76 at the time and a life-long confirmed atheist, was in the hospital for a heart operation. Plain as day, she saw two of her husband's recently passed-on relatives smiling down at her from a corner of the room. She insists she wasn't especially worried, wasn't asleep, and wasn't hallucinating. This was life changing for her. She started going to church and doing charity work. She doesn't necessarily buy into church doctrine as such, having her own opinion on things (which she hasn't elaborated on), but she has a much different outlook now. I knew for a while that she had made this change, but only just recently (after my own awakening) has she become comfortable enough to tell me what had happened.
My own awakening was too weird for words. I spent most of a day laughing uncontrollably at my own ignorance
. Handbook for the New Paradigm was involved.