Alien Abduction

ALIENS - ABDUCTIONS?
Grays in the Night

UFOs and Alien abductions? Close encounters in the night? Do I ever stop thinking about mysterious things? Rarely. I'm the kind of indiviudual who's perpetually curious about the unknown. Being a virgo, my analytical faculties are a driving force to the personality, so I thirst to know the unknowable. Most times, its like living in a desert in search of the long, cool drink.

How's that for alien angst?!

How's this... one of my closest friends recently told me of her own bizarre experience that occured early in the morning. She woke in the wee hours to see numerous black shadowy shapes flitting about her bedroom and, initially, assumed they were her husband's dogs, somehow having got in the house and inside the bedroom. But she was awake and alert enough to realize this was not possibly the case, so she continued to watch these elongated dark shapes moving about the room. She began to feel frightened and huddled down in the blankets, considering all the while if she should rouse her husband sleeping beside her. Other than that, with children grown and gone, it was only the two of them in the home.

The longer she watched the more impacted she became as the poor woman tried vainly to make sense out of what these figures could actually be. When they approached her side of the bed, she shut her eyes and refused to look at them. In some way, she also refused to acknowledge them.

Well, as so happens, my friend eventually fell back to sleep and that was that. Later during the day she questioned her husband, but he had not been awakened nor noticed anything out of the ordinary. While not well versed in the ET phenomenon, Sandra's spontaneous thoughts were that the 'Gray Aliens' had been there again and she must remember to tell me, being well familiar with my unending search for high strangeness.

Unremarkably, since the morning in question, Sandra has developed an aversion to having the curtains opened at night. She and her husband, a late-middle-aged couple, live out in the country with no other homes adjacent to theirs, but such issues of privacy or being 'watched' had not previously caused her any concern.

Are the greys real? Did my friend truly have a close encounter? If not Grays, what did she see? Had she been or was she about to be abducted? Is there such a thing or is it a metaphor that our brains design as a closest approximation for something we don't have a reference point already existing in our memory storage?

The frustrating aspect of this type of occurance is that it does not answer any questions, it only raises more of the same. However, it must be said, the quickest known way to instigate a leap in intelligence in mammals is to expose them to a stressful, ever changing environment where the cheese is never in the same place twice.

Grey Alien abduction = real or imaged events? Are extraterrestrial beings hiding our cheese? If that's not food for thought, I don't know what is :)