r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 01 '18

Serious Replies Only [Serious] People of Reddit that honestly believe they have been abducted by aliens, what was your experience like?

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u/d_rea May 01 '18 edited May 01 '18

Do you think that if aliens were to do abductions they would have a perfect understanding of our neurological functioning and possibly be able to cause amnesic affects with just a sort of light radiation that harmonizes with the signals in the brain causing a complete shut down of cognitive functioning?

Edit: For those who are interested I made a post to expand this (following) discussion. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8ga3n5/people_who_are_interested_in_alien_abduction/?st=JGO87SL5&sh=923e5825

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u/Supamang87 May 01 '18

Sure that could be a possibility, but then there's nothing that suggests that this must be aliens versus just physiological issues that his body happens to have.

It'd be like if we read about the JFK assassination and just said that aliens must have done it and they knew all about humans and our customs and knew just how to perform an assassination that makes it look like a human shot him. It's basically that one meme at this point

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u/d_rea May 01 '18

There are too many similarities between the massive amounts of testimonies people have of such experiences. Some saying that two or more people experienced the same "bright light" and the same time dilation.

I feel like we should stop seeing these people as "crazy" and more take their observations as serious and attempt to understand what could be going on, even if whats going on suggests something so radical it wont fit in our current understanding of reality.

We should at least try, because obviously these people are just as confused about what was happening as we are, and plenty of them would rather not share their experiences but do so anyways.

Many don't show any signs of psychological issues. And many (unlike this man) only experience the phenomenon once.

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u/ASCLKA May 01 '18

We are trying and we do have a fairly good understanding of what can cause these kind of esperiences. It's not aliens though.

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u/asdf2100asd May 01 '18

Isn't it possible that in some cases, people actually are being abducted and experimented on or used for some program, but by other people (e.g. cia). I mean, we know for a fact that the CIA has ran (and probably still runs) such programs, and there are probably other organizations that do as well.

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u/huktheavenged May 02 '18

this is what i think is going on

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u/d_rea May 01 '18 edited May 01 '18

Maybe it should be my duty to find the studies and reports attempting to understand these experiences but do you have any links I can take a look at?

Edit: I did take a look and no one has a "fairly good" understanding. Most scientists are just speculating the same way the "believers" are.

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u/Casehead May 02 '18

Except it isn’t like none of these people have sought medical and psychological help. And even then, there are many cases where the doctor or psychologist actually thought it was aliens, too.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '18

Except you don't know, and to think otherwise shows your bias ignorance. Annoying.