E.T. PHONE HOME

I absolutely believe in aliens.

Of course, you’re welcome to contradict me, but I look at it in terms of probability. Word is that our observable universe is currently about 13.8 billion light years, and that’s just the sphere that we can see. If one light year equates to 9,461,000,000,000 km, saying our universe is big is a massive (bigger-than-our-universe kind of huge) understatement. If a sphere that big doesn’t contain at least SOME kind of life, I’d be baffled.

Thanks to Warner Bros for bringing us this lovely fellow ->

I don’t necessarily mean the classic green martian that comes to mind when googling ‘alien,’ but some kind of life. Although, they could be green. How fun would it be if people having seen aliens, and the stereotypical image of alien, originated from some of us having spotted people from the future? (PLEASE GO WATCH INTERSTELLAR IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY) Imagine: future humans having figured out time travel as well as bioengineered chlorophyll and related photosynthetic processes in human skin. A remedy for global warming and food sustainability wrapped into one. I’d be impressed if that ever came to be.

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My lovely friend is an exuberant speaker, loud, emphatic and hilarious. Getting her talking aliens is always entertaining, she truly believes that they’ve been to Earth and have been instrumental in most of mankind’s great accomplishments. The pyramids? Aliens. The Renaissance? Aliens. Stonehenge? Aliens. Personally, I don’t know if I can give extraterrestrial life that much credit, but this story from my friend surprised me with its complete conviction. 

Now you’ve heard something like this stuff before, I’m sure. But the part that really got me was listening to a friend of mine tell me about her experience with aliens. 

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Ridiculously beautiful furniture

^ Alright this one isn't particularly alien related, but check this artwork out at:

It started happening to her in high school. She’d go to sleep, and wake up every night at 1 a.m. Each time, she’d remember metallic tentacles coming in from her window, snaking down for her ankles, arms, anything they could grab. They’d pull her up, and just as she’d be out of her bed and suspended in the air, the image/dream/memory would end in white light. She’d wake up shaking and sweating each time, and the duration of the images increased upon seeing the movie The Fourth Kind. Although this could be attributed to media influences, and sleep cycles, my friend tried everything to shake the occurrences. She tried going to sleep at unusual times, and setting her alarm in the morning at different hours, to no avail. She started noticing odd changes to her room; her bed frame, heavy wood, started showing odd scratches on the bed posts at the foot of the bed. Suspecting they were from her dog, she looked at dog scratches on other household objects; they looked nothing like her bed posts. They resembled fingernail scratches going up the grain of the wood. It was if they’d come from someone who was being hoisted into the air and had struggled to stay on the bed. Still, upon telling family members about her experiences, they were skeptical. After months of the same occurrence, waking up at 1 a.m to images of tentacles coming for her, she had another unusual experience. There’d been a dinner at her aunt’s house, and she’d worn a t-shirt casually, talking to everyone in the room. It was a comfortable shirt, so she decided to wear it to bed. Upon waking up in the morning, she had an overwhelming desire to look at her back. Going into the bathroom and gazing at her shoulder in the mirror was easy enough, but processing what she saw was not. There was a circular melted portion of her shirt. It was about the size of a quarter, the edges crusted as if they had been pressed into hot metal. The size of burn that would have occurred if a metal tentacle had managed to grab her back. A big enough burn that those at her aunt’s dinner party would have commented on it, had it been present that evening. Panicked, the following night she had her mom sleep in her room with her. Just before 1 a.m that night, her mom woke up to their dog barking, and went to calm the dog. In the process of doing so, she accidentally hit her head on part of the bed frame and cried out "sh*t sh*t sh*t". My friend, thinking it was the sound of a space ship, snapped awake at 1 a.m to see a dark figure at the end of her bed! She shrieked, flailing her feet and launching her comforter into the air. Once the hysterics subsided and she realized what had happened, it occurred to her that she hadn’t thought about the metal tentacles that night. She hasn’t encountered them since, be they aliens or imaginings.

Take it or leave it, but I still believe.

If you’ve had an alien experience, or want to mention anything extraterrestrial, please comment on this post! I’d be more excited to hear about your alien experiences than to eat this gigantic gummy tentacle, and that’s saying something.

Space and Alien Movies to Watch in No Particular Order:

• They Live 
• Interstellar
• Sign
• The Fourth Kind
• Alien
• Predator
• The Day the Earth Stood Still 
• War of the Worlds
• District 9

GIgantic gummy goodness