Originally posted by theRiverGoddess
I am sceptical about the BRUISE YOURELF scenario.....for the simple reasom that you COULD bruise yourself anywhere anytime...like getting up in the
night and going into the bathroom and banging your arm on a door...
I dont see HOW purposly getting a bruise will PROVE a darn thing.
HOW could this plan PROVE your being abducted by aliens I dunno...
Yeah, I've thought about it some more and it's not the greatest plan in the world. I still think it would work, but it's probably more trouble than
its worth; let me explain why it might work and let's see if anyone can improve on it.
Let's say you're being abducted fairly regularly -- let's also assume for now that this is for real and not just some kind of dream / hallucination
-- and you wanted to get physical evidence that this was happening. You've got two basic ways of getting this evidence:
A) you find a way to document yourself getting taken or whatever
B) you find a way to bring something back from where you were taken to
A) seems to be hard -- a lot of people have tried to do this and nothing conclusive's ever shown up so far as i'm aware. maybe if we keep
brainstorming plans one of them might work, which is why i'm trying to come up with some of the stuff above and why i hope other people keep making
suggestions also, but for now nothing from A) has worked also.
B) seems to be harder than A), because most people are totally knocked out or paralyzed or whatever. Apparently popeye here sometimes is able to get
up and move around a bit while this is happening, which is kind of unusual for these abduction scenarios. If all this is true so far he might be able
to do something about B) -- maybe steal some artifact or whatever -- but given how paranoid his abductors are about these sorts of things i kinda
doubt they wouldn't just take it back, you know. it's definitely worth trying, but seems a long shot: the only thing they let him bring back is
himself, it seems like. Thus the only opportunity for B) is to do something to yourself -- if there was a tattoo machine i'd suggest making a quick
tattoo, for example, or if there was a pen a drawing on yourself, or whatever -- and then have documentation that there was no way you could have done
it to yourself. since i doubt they would let him get access to any kind of tools or whatever his only real option is to do something to himself using
only himself and whatever he's laying on, and the only thing i could think of is bruising or maybe cutting -- if you can think of a better idea on
that front it'd definitely be an improvement. in any case, since a lot of people who claim to be abducted claim to have markes or scars left over --
remember, we're assuming here that the abductions are actually taking place, etc. -- then it would appear that the abductors' medical technology
isn't good enough to leave no traces, and so there's a good chance you'd be able to "bring home with you" something from your abduction this
way.
it's the documentation that's the problem: it's a lot of hassle to document your body every night, and to set up a camera every night to film your
sleeping, and then to film your body again right when you get up to show that something unexplainable appeared in your sleep. on top of that, you'd
have to remember to take the camera with you if you had to get up to go to the bathroom or whatever during the night, and you'd have to hope that
your camera worked all night long, and that you didn't thrash around during your sleep so much to make your story less credible; basically, you'd
have to hope that you'd go to bed and sleep pretty much motionless, as otherwise what other people are saying's basically right: without a lot of
luck you'd wind up not having any real evidence that can't be explained away as just moving around a lot in your sleep.
and that's all assuming that the camera works; if the camera got knocked out or whatever, then you're kinda out of luck entirely -- you might have
gotten some evidence that'll convince you it's real, but it's not going to be convincing anybody else anytime soon.
what i guess i'm saying is that the setup for this strategy is a lot of work and hassle, and would only work if you got lucky on a lot of things;
it's probably more trouble than it's worth unless someone can improve on it substantially.
one side benefit though: if you're abducted and you can move around a bit, if you try pinching yourself / banging your arm against the wall /
whatever, if you're only dreaming you might wake up -- and then it'd be just a dream, which is a lot better than getting abducted, i'm guessing. so
maybe it's worth trying just that sometime and seeing if it does anything.
anyways, that's the thought process on the "bruise yourself" strategy -- it might work, but it'd be a huge hassle even if it didn't, and the
evidence won't be all that conclusive even in the best case.