# Have you or anyone you know been "Abducted" by other life forms? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222 "2007-12-16T19:05:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/41 "2007-12-20T23:19:56Z")
My Sims do, all the time (of course, it doesn’t help matters any that I use a cheatcode to force alien abduction), in fact, I’m trying to populate Strangetown with nothing but Aliens and Robots (I have the Robo-Maid custom skin so I can create “robotic” Sims without the need for Open For Business one of my favorite Sims is a female Asian Alien-Robot-Vampire, (Asian facial structure, with the Elf brow and ears, Alien and Robot genetics) her “primary function” is to “Assimilate” (vampirize) every Sim in Strangetown, and spread the Alien/Robot genome as far as possible… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/42 "2007-12-21T01:11:19Z")
[QUOTE=MacTech] one of my favorite Sims is a female Asian Alien-Robot-Vampire, [/QUOTE] Man, get Windows. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/43 "2007-12-21T02:38:22Z")
A friend of mine went to visit his girlfriend but showed up two hours late. When she demanded to know where he’d been he told her a story about being kidnapped by aliens. I don’t think she believed him. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/44 "2007-12-21T03:07:52Z")
[QUOTE=KRC] I don’t think she believed him. [/QUOTE] Well, you’ve got to _try._ ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/45 "2007-12-21T03:32:46Z")
[QUOTE=diggleblop] Probably the single, strongest piece of evidence you can point to that supports a belief you have that can’t be touched or seen or proven right away. Maybe you believe in black holes, are they there? The scientists say yes, but they’ve never seen one. [/QUOTE] Sounds like you had a religious experience. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/46 "2007-12-21T16:52:12Z")
[QUOTE=CaerieD] Now, the experience, which is way cool when viewed from the detached point of view of neurons misfiring, though it would probably be absolutely terrifying if I believed it was real: I was living alone at the time, going to college and thousands of miles away from my family. It was a house in the suburbs and I had a cat, but otherwise I was completely alone. I woke up in bed with the feeling of a presence, but I was unable to move anything beyond my eyes. I could barely even breathe, in fact, as it felt like a pressure was on my chest. Moving my eyes to my right, I saw a greenish-blue light streaming through the window next to my bed. It was incredibly bright and made stark shadows on the floor through the blinds. There was movement outside of the window. I could see the shadows of two hands press against the glass for a moment. They were very slender with long, knobby fingers, and only four to each hand. The thumbs were nearly as long as the fingers, but still opposable, giving a very odd look to the hands. The movements continued outside the window, during all of this, but at this point I heard movements inside the house. Rustling and shuffling, as if many people were moving around quickly and quietly. Then through my open bedroom door I saw the silhouette of a being. Large headed, bald, with the same long, bulbous-jointed fingers. It began to come towards my bed and raised a hand out towards me. I tried to scream or move, but I couldn’t. And then… …well, I suppose I went back to sleep, my imagination spent. When I woke up in the morning, I remembered it quite clearly and it _seemed_ completely real, so I can see how someone who wasn’t inclined to accept a simple organic explanation could believe it to be something else. I imagine if I hadn’t watched the X-Files so avidly my visitors would’ve been fairies or demons, though. [/QUOTE] It seems like you are describing an unsettling experience, but not claiming that you were an abduction victim. It also seems like you may have considered that of the two possibilities (1: abduction, 2: dream), the most likely one is a dream or some kind of mental disturbance, not a physical action. And that’s entirely logical. If you assign a probability to each possibility, you can pick the one with the highest probability. Am I right? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/47 "2007-12-21T22:46:24Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat] It seems like you are describing an unsettling experience, but not claiming that you were an abduction victim. It also seems like you may have considered that of the two possibilities (1: abduction, 2: dream), the most likely one is a dream or some kind of mental disturbance, not a physical action. And that’s entirely logical. If you assign a probability to each possibility, you can pick the one with the highest probability. Am I right? [/QUOTE] **CaerieD** ’s experience sounds like a classic example of a sleep paralysis episode, a subject upon which…[the Master speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_408.html)! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/48 "2007-12-22T00:44:55Z")
The idea that intelligent life may exist on some other planet does not seem unreasonable to me. The idea that intelligent aliens are visiting this planet to stick video cameras up people’s bottoms, oddly enough, _does_ seem unreasonable to me. ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/49 "2007-12-22T01:00:39Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat] It seems like you are describing an unsettling experience, but not claiming that you were an abduction victim. It also seems like you may have considered that of the two possibilities (1: abduction, 2: dream), the most likely one is a dream or some kind of mental disturbance, not a physical action. And that’s entirely logical. If you assign a probability to each possibility, you can pick the one with the highest probability. Am I right? [/QUOTE] It’s pretty much a textbook case of sleep paralysis. I’ve had it before where, rather than seeing alien visitors, I thought a specific person or people were in the room. This is the only episode of sleep paralysis that I recall where what I saw in the midst of the episode was something unnatural. If I hadn’t experienced sleep paralysis before and been familiar with the concept (and if I wasn’t such a very skeptical person), I may have thought it was something else because it _did_ seem completely real. It was a fairly cool experience to look back on, to have this completely fantastic and bizarre thing happen and for it to seem 100% real and believable while it was happening. ---
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/50 "2007-12-22T04:49:08Z")
Sorry I haven’t written sooner. I was abducted by aliens and dropped off in the middle of nowhere shortly after - I’ve been trying to deal with the rejection since then. They’re much more snooty then humans. Damn them. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/51 "2007-12-22T04:53:02Z")
[QUOTE=Pixilated] They’re much more snooty then humans. Damn them. [/QUOTE] Aliens are fickle. Did you have your mad money? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/52 "2007-12-22T14:53:29Z")
> [@](#): > > A gentleman living in my apartment complex once explained to me that he existed in a continuous state of permanent abduction, in that tiny UFOs were actually living inside his bloodstream. Apparently these microscopic UFOs are directed personally by Satan, whose true form is that of a giant three-headed crab monster. When the concentration of UFOs in my neighbor’s blood gets too high, he starts having impure thoughts; fortunately he has developed various mental exercises to drive the UFOs away. > > Many of his family and personal acquaintances have also been replaced by android duplicates, although he was unclear whether this was the responsibility of the Satanic UFOs, the government, or the Communist empire which contacts him telepathically from within the Hollow Earth. It all fits together somehow though, I can assure you. He gave me some literature. This is awesome on so many levels I cannot begin to tell you. I’d like to invite this guy for family dinners just to liven things up. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/53 "2007-12-22T15:21:47Z")
[QUOTE=Pixilated] Sorry I haven’t written sooner. I was abducted by aliens and dropped off in the middle of nowhere shortly after - I’ve been trying to deal with the rejection since then. [/quote] Wow. Sorry to hear that. Did you get probed and…_pixilated?_ ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/54 "2007-12-22T15:46:25Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] This is awesome on so many levels I cannot begin to tell you. I’d like to invite this guy for family dinners just to liven things up. [/QUOTE] If you want him, by all means come and get him. I’d love to be able to walk to the laundry room freely at night. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/55 "2007-12-22T19:09:41Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] If you want him, by all means come and get him. I’d love to be able to walk to the laundry room freely at night. [/QUOTE] I’m willing to put on a black suit and shades if another doper will. We walk up to him in front of the above laundry room: “Please come with us, Sir.” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/56 "2007-12-22T20:20:39Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Lance Murdoch] I don’t get your reasoning. Given the number of planets in the universe, it’s difficult to believe that the earth is the only one with life on it, though there is not yet proof of any extra-terrestrial life. I can think of no corresponding argument that God exists. [/QUOTE] Some people believe that all improbable things are equally improbable, which explains the existence of _Fate_ magazine and psychic fairs, where nothing, no matter how wildly improbable, is questioned. ---
**Author:** ![Qazzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@Qazzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qazzz)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/57 "2007-12-30T01:53:42Z")
Ugh, the snarky, unnecessary comments on this board are terrible… Do not, in any way whatsoever, encourage creativity, innovation, or progress. Try catering to the question in the thread title instead of using it as a reason to mindlessly argue. My sister believes in abduction phenomena. She doesn’t profess to know its origins, but finds the most feasible explanation to be the existence of multiple realities - astral planes, etc. - which periodically intersect with our normal, 3D worlds. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/58 "2007-12-30T02:04:24Z")
There’s creativity, innovation and progress and then there’s just plain vapid and uniformed speculation. I’d place a belief in multiple realities or astral planes squarely towards the latter end of that spectrum. ---
**Author:** ![chocolatefrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/41988e/32.png) [@chocolatefrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chocolatefrog)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/59 "2007-12-30T14:13:32Z")
Nah. I’ll keep a lookout for you and abduct some if they ever come my way. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222/60 "2007-12-30T15:16:43Z")
A dingo once carried away my baby. I think that should count. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-or-anyone-you-know-been-abducted-by-other-life-forms/430222.md?page=4)