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Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens?
    #7822241 - 01/02/08 12:26 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I'm a grown man with a great wife, a steady job, and am in my 20's. I'm pretty healthy as far as things go upstairs, but for the life of me, I can't figure out why I am so fucking scared of aliens.

I've always been known among my friends as the risk-taker and that guy who can keep his calm in almost any given situation, but when it comes to aliens, I completely lose my cool. I've been deathly afraid of them since I was a little kid. Terrible nightmares of being abducted until I was about 13. Just for the record, I don't think aliens are real.

I feel like this should be one of those things that I should have outgrown years ago, like the boogie-man and ghosts, but I still have this fear of them. I can't even watch those alien abduction type shows on tv, that's a guarantee I won't fall asleep that night.

Maybe some psychology grads on here can help me figure this out. I'm thinking that perhaps they represent something in my unconscious that unsettles me.

Peace.

*I'm talking about these guys, not those e.t. or sigourney weaver ones:



Posting that picture was really fucking hard for me, lol.


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: Anonymous]
    #7822318 - 01/02/08 12:50 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

it's probably attributed to some past memory long ego of some movie that you saw when you were younger and vulnerable and the alien was the antagonist..

this emblazoned the negative image of aliens in your head (even though they do not exist or you feel that they dont exist and within reason they shouldn't).

i had a similar thing happen with goats and the movie dragnet which i saw very young.

i purchased the movie and confronted my fear and have seen goats in real life and shit and it's no big thing now.

find the movie/tv show that made aliens so scary to you and watch it.


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: im_on_a_boat]
    #7822355 - 01/02/08 12:59 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

come to think of it..

aliens are pretty fuckin' scary.

i think i'm afraid of them too.

shit.

i always have these little paranoid thoughts like if you do a certain thing or make a certain noise that it will like call out to the aliens and they will come to you..

i think this was from a really bad dream i had a long long time ago as a child.

it really depends on how you view the unknown. if you believe that they will attack you, maybe you feel that you have done bad things or something in life and maybe you need to come to terms with that (closure). maybe aliens would just want to be friends. i guess if i can give a little insight into what i'm thinking...

i dont know why you posted anon.. this is a legitimate fear in my book.


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: im_on_a_boat]
    #7822402 - 01/02/08 01:16 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Not to freak you outmore but maybe you do know they are real. Maybe you had an experience and as a defense mechanism your mind told you do don't believe in them but in unsafe situations it overrides the disbliefe to keep you from being abducted again.


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: Anonymous]
    #7822687 - 01/02/08 05:45 AM (16 years, 30 days ago)

They've been abducting us and using our genetic code for hybridization of our species, and they use extremely high frequency light equipment to fuck with our bodies. Just stay active n move around n make sure your wife snuggles with u at night n ull be safe. No worries mate


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: Anonymous]
    #7822916 - 01/02/08 08:52 AM (16 years, 30 days ago)



i used to freak over pictures like these.


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #7823605 - 01/02/08 12:36 PM (16 years, 30 days ago)

Many people who have been abducted, thought they dreamt about their abductions, but were real all along.

I know a story of a guy who had a brak down one day, succesful guy like you with wife and kids...but always had something wrong in the back of his mind...an insessent fear about aliens and reoccuring dreams.

Or it could be the movies theory...but if your not scared of aliens like sigoruney weavers ones, then i doubt it was a movie, because movies never have calm looking aliens like the ones in the pictures...atleast not mainstream ones that i know of.

Google abduction stories and see a hypno-psychologist to see if he can unlock why you feel the way you do.


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And remember the computer does not appear to respond to words of anger and frustration - just give it input, in the form of new meanings that you know to be true and its messages to you and the limits it lays out for you, will change.

Guilt is an outcome of believing you are the cause of the problems.

Yet, we are not a cause to something, we see is negative or bad - Unless you believe your intentions are directed towards a bad outcome....


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: im_on_a_boat]
    #7824525 - 01/02/08 05:40 PM (16 years, 30 days ago)

Quote:

drkrobotnik said:

i always have these little paranoid thoughts like if you do a certain thing or make a certain noise that it will like call out to the aliens and they will come to you..





Same!

I think it may be because you view aliens as being able to do anything and you can't do anything about it. Maybe you think they can just beam down into your house any time they want? The fear of being totally out of control?


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: Fruitboot]
    #7825335 - 01/02/08 08:49 PM (16 years, 30 days ago)

Good replies guys and keep em coming if possible.

I had to make this anonymous because this topic is just really embarassing for me to talk about for some reason. I've only told my closest of friends about it too. Not even my wife.

I think there is a psychological explanation for this, the idea of aliens existing doesn't seem possible. Are there really any alien abduction stories prior to the 1900's? None to the best of my knowledge. If they truly are real, why did they just start abducting people in the past 100 years? Doesn't make much sense to me. Plus, they started gaining recognition once mass media took off too.

Man, haha, typing this, I just remembered something very strange that kept happening to me as a child. I had completely forgotten about it until right now. I used to always watch television before falling asleep at night. There were 3 or 4 instances where I would be sitting up in my bed watching tv and a second later or what seemed like a second later, I was sitting in my bed staring at a blank television screen. Completely blank. As soon as I realized I was just staring at a blank television screen, I had this "Why the fuck am I staring at a blank tv screen" thought. So I would search for the remote and find it on top of my dresser then turn the tv back on, only to find out the show I was watching had gone off. I always wondered how the show I was watching just two seconds ago could have just gone off the air. Then I would look at my alarm clock to find that 3 hours had passed by.

The dream which holds the most significance to me and the one that more than likely symbolizes/represents my fear is one that happened to me when I was about 12. In my dream, I'm trying to actually fall asleep in the bed that I am having this dream in. I'm laying there with my head under the covers (I sleep with my head under the covers till this very day if I'm sleeping alone) and I feel this weight come onto the foot of the bed. I immediately break out into this terrible cold sweat in my dream because I want to think it is my dad just coming to say goodnight, but I'm really not sure if it's my dad. I just keep laying there under the covers hoping my dad will say something so I know it's him. About 5 minutes pass and I no longer think it's my dad. The weight is still on the foot of the bed and nothing about it has changed. I decide to take the covers off and steal a quick glance. Sure enough, it wasn't my dad, it was this 7ft grey lanky alien (the guys with big eyes and all). It just sat there completely silent staring at me. In my dream I earnestly felt like I was going to die and I think I wanted to die, the fear was just unmitigating, I've never known fear that great before. Still in my dream, I rip the covers off my bed from underneath the thing and crash to the floor off my bed and get into the fetal position screaming for it to go away, covering myself as tightly as possible with the blanket so I can't see it. Before I know it, my dad walks into my room and asks if I'm ok, I'm just laying in my bed really pale with a really cold sweat, shaking.


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: Anonymous]
    #7825784 - 01/02/08 10:41 PM (16 years, 30 days ago)

that's fucking intense.

i think you found your stimulus.

well dude all i can say is either try to repress that memory, or confront it.. either in your dreams or some other way.

i would say confront it and that would probably be the healthy thing to do, but it's really up to you.

what ya need to do is talk to someone about it. it's really not that big of a deal man.. your wife could see that... maybe she's scared shitless of aliens too.


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: Anonymous]
    #7825826 - 01/02/08 10:58 PM (16 years, 30 days ago)

Greetings,
I think fear of aliens is a lot more common then you might think.  I know I had a major fear until around 12/13ish.  My friends (at that time) also had similar fears. 

I used to be a really nervous kid.  This is probably due to me having two older brothers, genetics, and having two older brothers. :smirk:  I still remember how it started...my dad had bought a book (The Communion) and on the front cover was a picture of an alien.  I laughed when I saw it. My brothers shook their heads and began to explain what aliens REALLY are.  It started a terrible fear that lasted some years.  I had dreams of course.....but other things would freak me out.  Whenever static came on our TV, I would think aliens would be playing on our roof and screwing with the dish.  Another instance was during the north-ridge earth quake.  I was sleeping alone in my Dads house.  (up stairs...it had a door to the outside stair case)  The house started shaking that night...and the door sounded like someone was trying to get in.  I thought, with all my soul, that aliens were breaking in and trying to get me.  I just laid their crying.


haha...those are just a few of the MANY things I went through.  I kind of just grew out of it...I might have replaced the fear with something else...or it was the transition into middle school.  Not really sure.  I know me and my friends would spend the night in each others back yards and tell alien stories/freak each other out....so I did have a little fun with it. 

Being scared of something doesn't always need to link to some bigger problem.  It could be fear itself.  Your mind never got a chance to move aliens from the 'threat' part of your mind into the 'fiction' part of your mind.  Oh, and knowing they aren't real won't help at all! 

I think the key to getting over this is going to take some hard work.  What I would do is expose yourself to alien movies.  Movies are a good start because you know an actor/puppet/CGI is playing the alien.  Your mind will start to except that these things are nothing more the another factious object humans use to put a little magic in the world. 

Yes, this will be scary at first...but you will start to see improvements.  Remind yourself there is absolutely no way an alien is going to get you. 

SOme good movies:
Close encounters of the third kind (classic...great movie)
Intruders (this ones old...but very good.  And pretty positive)

Once you watch those...maybe read up on how those movies were made...it will all help your mind refile the location of 'aliens' in your mind (the real goal!)

next you can move up to a little more scary movies:
Fire in the Sky (pretty scary alien movie)
Signs (Love this movie! also scary...) 

Do some reading on the matter...I know I did.  Lots of interesting stuff out there.  The subject of aliens has been with us for as long as history itself.  Long post...but I do hope it's helped you! :smile: 

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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: Anonymous]
    #7826479 - 01/03/08 05:36 AM (16 years, 29 days ago)

nuclear weapons acted like a homing beacon, lsd

what they did was put a bunch of goodies for us in a weather balloon and then watched like kids with an ant farm. the dinosaurs then came out of hibernation or some shit and started using technology to psy control our governments


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: Anonymous]
    #7826555 - 01/03/08 07:12 AM (16 years, 29 days ago)

That dream sounds terrible.  It reminds me of something horrifying that happened when I was 12ish.


I was up late watching "Sightings" or some other UFO show and I was getting kind of freaked out about it.  I was picturing those grey aliens sneaking around my house in the dark. Then suddenly I heard this crunching/scratching sound behind me.  I whipped around and saw the white face of an alien right outside the glass patio door! 

I screamed this horrible, involuntarily howl.  For a split second I thought I was going to die.

After that split second, the alien face flickered and changed to something else and I realized what had happened.  My cat had made the noise by scratching loudly on the screen door, and as I turned (already freaked about aliens), the image on the TV screen changed to a picture of an alien face, and I saw its reflection in the glass door.

I almost had a heart attack :eek:


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
    #7827921 - 01/03/08 03:13 PM (16 years, 29 days ago)

those droolin aliens always bugged me out

thats why aliens vs predator is a must!!


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: Anonymous]
    #7830601 - 01/04/08 01:51 AM (16 years, 29 days ago)

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Anonymous said:
what they did was put a bunch of goodies for us in a weather balloon and then watched like kids with an ant farm. the dinosaurs then came out of hibernation or some shit and started using technology to psy control our governments



Somehow I bet you cant for the life of you explain this idea with any coherency.


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: bumble]
    #7830756 - 01/04/08 05:16 AM (16 years, 28 days ago)

fear the unknown its cool

shows you got some curiosity at least...


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: bumble]
    #7830809 - 01/04/08 06:02 AM (16 years, 28 days ago)

Squeak! Squeak! Squeak, I tell you! Squeak!"


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: machination]
    #7832086 - 01/04/08 02:07 PM (16 years, 28 days ago)

Honestly bro, this might sound fucked up.

But perhaps you have been abducted as a child?

Most abductees have problems when it comes to aliens, and it affects them very much.

Look into it bro.

Aliens are real.


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: im_on_a_boat]
    #7833693 - 01/04/08 09:30 PM (16 years, 28 days ago)

Well, your going to have to make peace with these aliens.

I suggest you go out side in the middle of the night and stair out in the sky. Make friends with the aliens, because if you don't they will always be your enemy.


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Re: Why Am I Afraid Of Aliens? [Re: p4kSouL]
    #7833722 - 01/04/08 09:40 PM (16 years, 28 days ago)


e.t. scared me when i was a kid.


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