Thoughts become things

[Candid]

It's my understanding that primitive peoples couldn't see the boats approaching the remote places where they lived.

Why? Because they had no reference for big things that floated. As far as they were concerned, that just wasn't possible, so they didn't see it or they convinced themselves they were imagining something and didn't talk about it for fear of being thought crazy.

Fast-forward a few hundred years...

This was me, not too long ago. I went into my back yard late at night to have a smoke, and I looked up at the sky and saw... I don't know what. Some small lights (plural), high in the sky, that moved, disappeared, moved, disappeared, moved, disappeared, moved, disappeared... several times, while I was watching.

That was no plane, no helicopter, no helium balloon. I still don't know what it was.

I watched it for a while, then it occurred to me that They might be looking back at Me, and I got scared and went back inside, because maybe whatever-it-was could see me and might come down and grab me.

That was probably daft. Anyway, it's in the diary.

[Fulgurator]

You might like to find the book on Betty and Barney Hill:

"But it was Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple living in New Hampshire, whose strange experience on the night of Sept. 19, 1961, would become the first truly credible story of an alien encounter. Driving south on Route 3 through the White Mountains, they saw a light in the sky sometime after 10 p.m. They followed it for a while, stopping to get a better look. They continued driving, getting home around 5 a.m. They shouldn’t—given the trip’s distance—have been home any later than 2:00, but neither could explain the lost time. Though at first reluctant to talk about what happened, Betty slowly began to tell people that they had seen an alien spaceship. Eventually, the Hills underwent hypnosis with the aid of psychiatrist Benjamin Simon, and would come to believe that at some point they had made contact, been taken aboard the alien ship, and had separately been probed and examined by their captors before being released."

[Fulgurator]

I did experience a supposed UFO incident some years ago, maybe 2007 or around. The next day the local paper headlined sightings.
When sightings first got reported (e.g. Alan Godfrey) it was quite credible but then, as ever, neurotic Americans got in on the act to the point sleep paralysis or old hag syndrome was being explained as "abductions". It went berserk when Bud Hopkins and Whitley Streiber started hynotising people who were led on to recount their " repressed" abduction memories.
I think the more dated Hills experience had more credibility as well as Alan Godfrey (who was a policeman). As I keep saying, though, the very annoying thing about Americans is how they turn unexplainable phenomena into a circus. Whitley Streiber who wrote "Communion" is a classic example. In the follow up books, he declares he had lived in another incarnation in the Roman period but not as a baker or soldier or builder. Rather he was apparently at the head of the seat of power. A dead give-away. It would have been more credible if he'd been an average person in his reincarnated form. At the time, I was very annoyed I'd swallowed the Communion book as "honest" like the rest of us mugs who even saw the film at the cinema.

[Candid]

"old hag syndrome"??
I checked in the mirror and that definitely fits.

I bought H a book called Aliens by Bryan Appleyard. As it happens, H's first name and middle initial spell "alien" backwards, and he certainly thinks and behaves like one.

We agree no one else could live with either of us. That's why we got married.

[Fulgurator]

There's a theory God was an astronaut. The book of Genesis connects to earlier Sumerian creation myths where "gods" created men. The flood and arc story goes back to Sumeria.
Did you notice that when Moses went up to the mountain, the tribes below had to wash themselves in water? You wash yourself to decontaminate from radiation. It says the mountain glowed and roared so was it God or a spaceship? You can see the flaws in the bible "let us make man in our image". That's because it comes from the Sumerian gods who supposedly created a servant race. Even Genesis says giants were born from women and angels. So, what if there was life on Mars and an advanced race made it here but needed to adapt. After all these events happened 4000 years B.C. and that's a long period of time.

[Fulgurator]

Be wary, Candid. You and husband could be abducted like Alan Godfrey. You could both be examined on board the spaceship.

[Candid]

Be wary, Candid. You and husband could be abducted like Alan Godfrey. You could both be examined on board the spaceship.

I think, in that case, neither of us would want to come back. I mean, how bad could it be?

Erich von Daniken made a killing writing and talking about his extraterrestrial exploits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_D%C3%A4niken

[Fulgurator]

The one that got up my nose was Whitley Streiber since I initially took his book seriously. It later became evident Whitley was clearly narrating sleep paralysis episodes and very neurotic psychologically. It's similar to those American preachers who claim Jesus manifested himself to say, "build my church". Streiber though believed in his own fantasies which are typical in sleep paralysis.