The thesis of our original piece was that an (exaggerated) 12 million people think lizard people run the country. You say hiccup in the sleep cycle Dana says reptilian interaction. Although the words "simple hiccup in the sleep cycle" were running through my head and the same time I was thinking, Holy Shit, they really do exist. In the middle of the night I found myself elevated, with a humming electrical force running through me and spinning like a rotary chicken. My only weird experience was with sleep paralysis, while I was writing the book. Abductions could be a 21st century religious experience." Dana describes how reptilians take control of a human: "The signs of this possession," she says, "differ from person to person."Ĭlancy also suggests that the conflation of alien belief with religious overtones is common, as in Dana's description of reptilians having "had many names throughout history including Demons." Clancy: "Most people believe in God and there are no scientific data to support that belief either. Clancy's point is that Truman Show delusions are just a more recent subset of long-standing behavior.įor what it's worth, Dana's experience - she "spend a great deal of time working with people who contact me mostly via email about their reptilian interactions" - comports with that. "The plot largely maps on to the TV shows, books and movies that preexisted." Earlier this year, The New Yorker wrote about the " Truman Show delusion," in which people suffering from mental disorders map what they experience onto the plot of that movie. "I think the details say a lot about the psychology of the individuals who get abducted (what they need/want)," she writes. In an email with The Atlantic Wire, she suggested that Dana's experiences with reptilians were similar to others that Clancy had interviewed.Ĭlancy describes how the details of the experiences change while maintaining some typical outline. She's written two books on the subject of belief in alien interaction, including Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens. Susan Clancy studied post-traumatic stress disorder while earning her Ph.D. There are just regular people under the control of reptile-like entities from elsewhere in the universe.ĭr. They are "beings who wish to access our realm and cannot in their own bodies." There are no reptoids. "The end goal of the Reptilian is to inhabit and control the human's physical body for it's own use," Dana told us. Those "dream state" interactions between reptilians and humans are benign, until either the human wants them to stop or the dreams beocome nightmares. "The most common ways the Reptilians access humans," she wrote, "are through the dream state posing as a romantic/sexual partner or through drug or alcohol abuse which lowers the bodies energy vibration and allows access." Dana conflates reptilian control with demonic possession - suggesting that claims of the latter are, in fact, manifestations of the former. In an email exchange with The Atlantic Wire, Dana explained the significance of the distinction between her energy and physical bodies. Suddenly my energy body came back, I was whole, elated and triumphant. I broke lose and attacked, I tried to kill the bastard with my bare hands, then I was back in my physcial body feeling the reptilian slam my energy body's head into a wall, I laughed and taunted him. That night I awoke in my energy body laying beside a reptilian Being on a bed with 2 greys mentally holding me down. "They become obsessed and paranoid and can accuse people with very little evidence of being a reptilian." "This seems to be a trend with teenagers that is far from healthy," she wrote. She believes in reptilians, and was writing not to take issue with the tone of the article (which was admittedly not sympathetic) but with a warning: young people, using our perfunctory-and-largely-made-up identifiers, might become convinced that they are reptilians. UFOChick, whose first name is Dana, doesn't. It was: Why does this person think that he could be? "I'm 'UFOchick' from your article," its subject read, and with that, the story was no longer, lol, is Obama a lizard. After the second of our (groundbreaking!) stories about this theory of reptilians, we got an email that shifted our perspective. It's a human one.Īt some point, conspiracy theorists joined their theories in the realm of things that sit on the fringe of American culture, shorthand jokes that trigger predictable responses. Why they believe that isn't a political or scientific question. Some go farther, and believe they themselves have had contact with alien lizards. Ī sizable number of Americans, 12 million or not, believe that reptilian beings control the government. This article is from the archive of our partner.
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