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But it was Travis, who failed the lie detector test, who claimed that he was abducted by aliens.
I am basing this on my memory that his friends never claimed to have seen any "aliens".
1. that is a tough question. if, for example, you tend to watch shows on this nature, well, it might very well be your subconscious; the mind is a tricky thing
Yeah but how often do people dream of being returned from a spaceship?
originally posted by: Emma3
Wow... I wasn't expecting this topic to get so many answers!
Thank you for the replies, everyone.
a reply to: julia53
Yeah, I think just a dream probably means nothing, but I had a very superficial wound on my hand that same morning (maybe I had it already the day before and I didn't notice? I don't think I did, but it's a possibility).
I usually don't remember my dreams, that was the only one specifically about aliens that I had that I can remember. When I do remember my dreams, I think it's weird that I didn't remember them before because most of the time they are about the same house, a house that has many rooms, and I enter there through a secret part in the wall; those dreams do seem very real. I also have many dreams that I'm being chased, usually by demons or some sort of evil witch, but I think everyone has those.
As for paranormal activity in my life in general, I won't specify, but the answer is YES.
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I just remembered: I also had a dream that my soul was floating above my body and I didn't want to leave my bedroom, but I was being taken. Maybe I was astral traveling or something...
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: julia53
1. that is a tough question. if, for example, you tend to watch shows on this nature, well, it might very well be your subconscious; the mind is a tricky thing
Just a thought. People recount missing time and struggle with dreams that indicate there might have been some memory manipulation to blank or bury the events.
Like you said the mind (subconscious) is a tricky thing. If these measures to make people forget events are valid I would suppose they could also insert false memories that would confuse the persons attempts to remember the actual events and discredit their recounting them in others minds. Certain elements are too fantastical or so obviously delusional so as to make everyone dismiss it as "dreams" or "flights of fancy".
Then again, any real events along those lines would be so extraordinary as to be dismissed by all but the most curious and inquisitive.
What does a fish tell his brother fish after being caught, brought aboard a ship and released back into the ocean?
but--and i am guessing you are an experiencer also neither you, not emma, nor i, nor many others are alone..through connections and friendships and interactions we can and do get more knowledge of what is really happening
it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: DJW001
It's an hypothesis that fits the facts and is more commonsensical than thinking it is evidence of extraterrestrial visitation.
Well of course its out of the realm of experience. They aren't from here. How can anyone really relate?
Cargo Cults
originally posted by: crayzeed
I can't understand the double dealing with memories when it comes to alien abductions. When people want to debunk the alien angle they hit at false or implanted memories as if just the alien abduction memories are false. Let me tell all of you who do or do not believe in them. No matter what any leading brain mechanics say about recovered memories, ALL memories are recovered that's what memories are. Now memories (whoops, when in a court of law) can get you put in jail for long periods of time and can even get you executed, but when it comes to alien abductions they can't be relied on, they're false. Come on people you can't have it both ways.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: Tangerine
This doesn't mean that some of the people who report having been "abducted" are lying. It means that there could be other explanations, some very mundane and some even stranger than alien abductions.
Roger that.
I've had encounters of the spirit kind. The one "craft" I saw was not a dream or a spirit. Two totally different things.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: Tangerine
But it was Travis, who failed the lie detector test, who claimed that he was abducted by aliens.
On that game show, moment of truth, the contestant is given questions on stage before a live audience while hooked to a lie detector being monitored off stage. He failed that question decades after the event.
Not what I would call a valid test result.
I am basing this on my memory that his friends never claimed to have seen any "aliens".
They reportedly fled the scene right when Travis got "zapped" so I think thats correct.
Certain elements to the weirdness and technical aspects of the craft were part of what make the case more compelling when added up. One of those elements was what Travis recounted as the sounds the craft was making. There was a low vibration humm coupled with the high pitch whine of machinery (like turbines?). The craft wasn't still but wobbled slightly (like a top). As he close approached it raised slightly and the sound level increased slightly as it did so.
Something like that. People with better tech savvy than me have surmised that is what sets engineers to getting out slide rules and stuff to figure out the machine quality of these "craft".
But hey, I wasn't there either.
originally posted by: Emma3
I would like to hear your opinions on the following (you can answer just 1 or 2, if you want to):
1 - If someone has a dream about being put back home from a (triangular) spaceship, do you think that means something or was it just a random dream?
2 - How often do abductees remember their abductions and how much of it do they remember?
3 - Do the memories feel like real memories or more like a dream type of thing?
Thank you in advance
I don't see how the "technical aspects" of the case make it more compelling. Anyone who has watched TV, gone to the movies, or been exposed to technology could have come up with that stuff.
How could you possibly know the range of "spirit" appearances and what do you mean by "spirit kind"?