Anyone who knows me, knows I’m a believer in a lot of things. Psychic powers, aliens, a whole pile of odd things. One of the things you hear about now and then is alien abduction. Now, there’s a lot of people that figure the whole thing is a big pile of crap, and they are entitled to their opinion, but I have my own. I watched the latter part of “Fire In The Sky” the other night. I have seen this movie before. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, it’s the true story of a man who claimed he had been abducted by aliens. The entire thing was witnessed by four of his friends and was never dis-proven. The story is quite horrifying to watch and I recommend it to anyone who’d like to know a bit about what supposedly happens.
Anyway, a lot of people say alien abductions make no sense and there’s a lot of holes in the accounts of what happened. That may be true, but here’s my own take on the whole abduction thing.
Now, just for a few moments, forget the entire abduction thing and just imagine that you are a fish. You have been a fish your entire life. You’ve lived your entire life in the ocean and know nothing more than what it’s like to live in the ocean. You also are only aware of the life that exists in the ocean itself. Other fish, whales, snails, frogs, octopusses, crabs, etc. You know nothing about man, or the kinds of life that lives on land. In fact, you don’t even really know what exists above the water line. You know something is there because if you jump out of water, you can get a glimpse of it, but you can’t stay above water, because you’ll die.
So, you live your whole life as a fish, then one day, you’re on your way home from your fish job, and everything goes dark. The sunlight coming through the water disappears and it gets very dark and hard to see. You hear some strange noises, and all of a sudden you feel something grab you. You try to swim around but find yourself trapped and barely able to move. In fact, you’re being pulled upward towards the surface of the water. You push around with your body but feel something against you that is preventing you from getting away, but you are still moving upward. You are getting more scared because you know you can’t breathe above water, and you don’t really know what’s up there.
Terrified you are going to die, you feel your body pop through the top of the water line. You try to hold your breath knowing that you won’t be able to for long. You’ve got your eyes shut as hard as they can be and you feel your heart pounding. Still scared, you manage to open your eyes to see what is around you and what’s happening. You see sunlight and you see the top of the water. You also see some kind of mesh that’s all around you. Inside the mesh, you find yourself, and a bunch of plants that somehow got caught in this mesh around you. Through the holes in the mesh, you see a strange object that looks a lot like some of the sunken monuments you’ve seen underwater but this one doesn’t look damaged. It looks normal. You see strange creatures moving around. They don’t look anything like you, but they have some of the same things. You see that they have eyes but instead of being on either side of their head, the eyes are together. You also see a mouth, and some other odd things attached to where their head is. You also see strange limbs that they seem to have on the side of them, and underneath their body. Two of the limbs seem to support their whole body, and you don’t see any gills, or fins.
You feel the mesh moving hard and you see the base of the monument coming closer very fast. You slam into it hard, and you hear one of the creature say something but you don’t understand what it is. The creature pulls away at the mesh and grabs you. You still can’t breath but you’re so terrified you’re not even thinking about it. The creature pulls at you, and seems to inspect you on all sides, while speaking something to one of the other creatures. He throws you down and moves away. You see your chance to get free since you are no longer in the mesh but you can’t get anywhere. You can’t swim because there’s no water so you just flop around useless. Gasping for air, you hope that maybe you might be able to breathe but your fear is growing because you know death is coming soon if you can’t get air.
One of the creatures comes back and grabs you and throws you into some kind of chamber or container. It contains water so you are finally able to breathe. You can barely move in this chamber but have enough freedom to be able to turn around. You look around and the creatures are distorted and dirty from the view you are at. You can barely see it, but you see another fish that’s been cut open and it’s insides exposed. Just as you take a few more breaths, you see one of the creatures approach you and with it’s limb, it grabs you and throws you back into the ocean. Everything is still black, but then you hear a loud rumble and the water gets real rough, and the sunlight reappears. You swim home, exhausted, and thankful to be alive.
You go home and tell your friends and family about your experience. No one believes you. They think you made the whole thing up or are just pulling a bad joke. You’re still shaking from the experience and leave to be alone. You later discover that some other fish do believe you and tell you stories that are similar. Being taken out of the water against their will, and being put somewhere strange, and then being forcefully sent back into the water. The tales are frightenly similar to yours and you soon feel that you are not alone, and that what happened was real.
Ok. As a fish, you would find that entire story quite scary. But as a human, looking at it, you know what happened. Some fisherman threw a net into the water, the fish got caught, and pulled into the boat. The fisherman took the fish out of the net, looked at it, then threw it on the deck of the boat. The fish flopped around for a few seconds, before the fisherman grabbed a clear bucket or jar, and threw the fish in the jar with some water. The fisherman decided he didn’t want that fish, so he grabbed it and threw it back into the water and then the boat zipped away. It doesn’t seem like such a big deal to us, because we eat fish all the time. Lots of us going fishing for food and for sport, and especially in the sport industry, we throw the fish back into the water. We don’t think we’re doing anything wrong because we are above the fish. Fish don’t have feelings or thoughts or anything like that. Why would it bug us?
Now, what if there is an alien life form out there that thinks the same thing of us, that we do of fish. That whole fish out of water story could very easily be turned into an alien abduction. Forced out of the water could be the stories of being pulled from your bed or a car. Not being able to move or get away is pretty much the same. Being held in a strange place, strange creatures, strange noises and language. Being inspected or looked at. Perhaps seeing someone else being worked on. Then for no apparent reason, being sent back to where you came from. People around you don’t believe what you say. All of these are the same thing that happened to the fish. But we don’t think of ourselves as abducting fish and doing experiments on them do we? The poor fish was totally traumatized and will live with it for his whole life. Same thing with abduction cases. People who’ve been abducted have horrible stories about what happened and what they’ve dealt with since.
The only reason we don’t think of it as a problem, is because we don’t think that fish are intelligent enough to know better. We have no problems eating fish, cows, pigs, or chickens. We have no problem using insect spray to kill a mosquito and step on a bug. Because we are “superior” to them, and above them.
Who’s to say that aliens out there don’t perceive us in the same way we perceive lower life forms. To them, we’re the fish, or bug, or insect, or pig. Alive, but not intelligent enough to really matter. Mankind in general has a very large arrogance that perceives itself as the most powerful, and most intelligent being out there. But yet, there are millions of things we don’t know about or even understand, so when something like the idea of other creatures being out there comes up, a lot of people don’t want to accept that, because it would mean we are “less” than something else, and that’s not acceptable. If people would grasp the idea that just because we are less, doesn’t mean we are unimportant, we might have a better chance of understanding some of the strange phenomenon that we experience.
When you look at alien abduction in this way, it really makes you think about whether or not the stories are true. I just think it’s a neat way to compare what we as humans already do, and accept, to what a lot of people refuse to believe. We are not alone.
So there, I’ve had my say.
