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

[Jan KLIMKOWSKI]

On Wed, 18 Jan 1995, Basileios Drolias wrote:

>
>  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...

Well, it just so happens that I have read the New Scientist article and, uh, 
do you really think that constitutes a catch-all scientific explanation? 
 'Cos I sure don't.

Way before the alien abduction story started being discussed on telly 
individuals were telling their shrinks about aliens, and they were always 
gray.  Why is there such resistance to a genuine exploration of this aspect 
of the phenomenon? - ie that all these people are describing a gray alien, 
and that not all aliens in popular culture are gray.  Surely such a 
discussion merely takes us to Jungland rather than to anywhere as 
scientifically disreputable as a belief in real aliens.

jan