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Many newborn animals are equipped with inborn visual recognition templates. It has been well over a half century since ethololgist Niko Tinbergen found that newly hatched chicks would automatically cower from shadow patterns that resembled predators (such as hawks). These same chicks ignored shadow patterns that matched nonpredators
Originally posted by HomeBrew
Now, I know some think that a newborn is incapable of retaining memories for later recall, but this does not rule out the possibility that images could not be stored away somewhere deep in the subconscious, and perhaps due to a somewhat uncommon mental experience later in life it could be tapped and surface with the definition and detail that our human minds create.
Originally posted by Druscilla
reply to post by HomeBrew
You may also be interested in reading this article describing the female proto-face recognition built into infants:
Close encounters of the facial kind
Many newborn animals are equipped with inborn visual recognition templates. It has been well over a half century since ethololgist Niko Tinbergen found that newly hatched chicks would automatically cower from shadow patterns that resembled predators (such as hawks). These same chicks ignored shadow patterns that matched nonpredators
It's a good read and quite interesting to consider.
Originally posted by Bigfoot12714
Originally posted by HomeBrew
Now, I know some think that a newborn is incapable of retaining memories for later recall, but this does not rule out the possibility that images could not be stored away somewhere deep in the subconscious, and perhaps due to a somewhat uncommon mental experience later in life it could be tapped and surface with the definition and detail that our human minds create.
What do you think would be this mental experience? I would think that in order for this to happen it would have to be somewhat similar conditions to when the memory was made.
Originally posted by txMEGAlithic
reply to post by HomeBrew
Very clever idea. I've never heard it put quite like that. The pictures sure help to, I mean, babies as far as we know have real blurry vision so that first image we see as we are being born might stick subconsciously.
Did you make those pictures progressively blurry like that? If so, you should do one of a doctor with some dark framed glasses on. Might add even more to the eye deal.
Good idea either way. I see what you mean and it makes sense, IMO of course.
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Originally posted by deloprator20000
How much investigation has anyone in this thread done on some of the best potential ET-UFO cases? It seems as if people are drawing conclusions without looking at some of the best data. It could be that many UFO reports are misidentified craft and natural phenomena, but we cannot conclude that ALL reports are such.
The best scientific studies of the phenomena, released to the public do indicate that there are such things as UFOs and some of them have performance characteristics far beyond any publicly human built craft.
It is easy to misidentify human built objects or natural phenomena, but they are quite easy to rule out in some cases.
For example it is easy to rule out flares because of the intensity of light they emit versus time, the spectral shape of the light, the temperature at which they burn and finally if you analyze the light using a spectrometer you can determine the elements that made up the light.
Most human built craft, including RC craft do not have anywhere near the performance characteristics exhibited by potential ET-Craft in the best cases, not to mention that the light could once be analyzed to determine if they are halogen.
Furthermore, it is one thing to posit a theory that ALL grey alien experiences are simply a waking dream, you would then have to show that in a significant portion of those who truly claim grey alien experiences that they were having waking dreams at the time they saw them. Many of those who claim to have been abducted appear normal in every sense of the word, with no history of mental illness.
I have an entire thread dedicated to testing the phenomena:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Originally posted by coyotepoet
While the OP presents an interesting perceptual theory, there are at least 2 things
The ancient Bradshaw cave paintings in Australia
www.bradshawfoundation.com...
and a sculpture from Mesopotamia
I'm pretty sure they had vastly different birthing experiences than we do, but interestingly both of these ancient things from different times and places still fit the profile of the Gray. Therefore, either they are an archetype buried deep within the human psyche (and if so why), or they are real (or both.)
I'm pretty sure they had vastly different birthing experiences than we do
Originally posted by kipfilet
This theory has been put forward here: www.skeptic.com...
I find this explanation for the ubiquity of grey aliens to be quite convincing.
Could there be something else going on that does not mean everyone is nuts AND there are no ‘Grays’?