RE: Alien Abductions & Encounters, and UFO Sightings
September 20, 2019 at 6:14 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2019 at 6:25 pm by possibletarian.)
A few years ago i was walking home on a really nice summers evening and i saw orange light appearing from the horizon, they seemed to move fairly quickly,
At first i thought they were helicopters but made no sound, then after a few minutes there were too many of them (unless someone had a lot of helicopters), the really weird thing i noticed was that as they got overhead they seemed to just fade away and disappear, I don't mind confessing it was a really odd and slightly frightening experience. I got home and looked at the local news.. nothing. Then the next morning on a local forum they were talking about it, it was in fact an event where they released lots of Chinese lanterns miles away.
That of course explained everything, the colour, that they were silent, and vanished more or less at the same spot overhead (as the flame burnt out).
I recalled the feeling I had experienced when faced with something unfamiliar and the internal battle I had that although I believed there was a good rational explanation even while it was happening, that our minds always struggle when we can't identify something we are witnessing. To me it's easy to see how people who don't have a grounding in being critical, or minds that immediately run to the 'supernatural' as an explanation can get fooled very quickly and easy when having experiences they cannot explain.
As a child i used to have spiritual experiences all the time ( I was raised a J.W.) , and later as a Christian i had what I thought were dreams and visions. Since being an atheist i still have dreams of course, but I can usually relate to them from bits of events thought the previous day or week, things I've seen on TV etc.
What i used to think were visions were in fact dreams and thoughts that I had in retrospect chained together manufactured in my own mind from what i knew or guessed to say what I wanted them to, or to make sense to me.
They are not god talking to me, they are me talking to me !!!
At first i thought they were helicopters but made no sound, then after a few minutes there were too many of them (unless someone had a lot of helicopters), the really weird thing i noticed was that as they got overhead they seemed to just fade away and disappear, I don't mind confessing it was a really odd and slightly frightening experience. I got home and looked at the local news.. nothing. Then the next morning on a local forum they were talking about it, it was in fact an event where they released lots of Chinese lanterns miles away.
That of course explained everything, the colour, that they were silent, and vanished more or less at the same spot overhead (as the flame burnt out).
I recalled the feeling I had experienced when faced with something unfamiliar and the internal battle I had that although I believed there was a good rational explanation even while it was happening, that our minds always struggle when we can't identify something we are witnessing. To me it's easy to see how people who don't have a grounding in being critical, or minds that immediately run to the 'supernatural' as an explanation can get fooled very quickly and easy when having experiences they cannot explain.
(September 20, 2019 at 12:47 pm)EgoDeath Wrote:(September 19, 2019 at 7:31 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: As far as I’m aware I have never encountered or abducted an alien.
I have seen flying objects in the distance that I could not identify.
Was it a bird?
Was it a plane?
Was it some clown in a cape?
I don’t know. Pretty sure it wasn’t aliens, though.
Lol!
I wonder if atheists are less likely to see ghosts or UFOs... Hmm.
As a child i used to have spiritual experiences all the time ( I was raised a J.W.) , and later as a Christian i had what I thought were dreams and visions. Since being an atheist i still have dreams of course, but I can usually relate to them from bits of events thought the previous day or week, things I've seen on TV etc.
What i used to think were visions were in fact dreams and thoughts that I had in retrospect chained together manufactured in my own mind from what i knew or guessed to say what I wanted them to, or to make sense to me.
They are not god talking to me, they are me talking to me !!!
'Those who ask a lot of questions may seem stupid, but those who don't ask questions stay stupid'
