'"who, sent, the Dream?"'??????????????????????

[Basileios Drolias]

On Wed, 18 Jan 1995, Jan KLIMKOWSKI wrote:

> 
> Whilst I think this is an interesting argument, it does kinda beg the 
> question.  Because these people ALL SEE THE SAME ALIEN - who's gray, with a 
> strangely curved head, and big eyes.  Now, I'd like to know where in popular 
> culture is this ubiquitous gray alien?  I suspect if you asked people on the 
> street to imagine an alien, you'd get a range of different descriptions. 
>  The first alien I see is a green Venusian fishboy.
> 

If you had read the relevant article in the `New Scientist' about the
abduction by aliens story you would have seen that the explanation given
there is that people see the same (or vaguely the same) alien because they
hear on TV other people describe that type of alien abducting them. Now it
may not be the type that popular culture has of aliens but maybe its the
type our mind has of aliens... 

basil