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…
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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CaerieD’s experience sounds like a classic example of a sleep paralysis episode, a subject upon which…the Master speaks!
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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?
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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.
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.
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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.
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Wow. Sorry to hear that. Did you get probed and…pixilated?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
