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Paul Davies Abducted by Aliens?

Professor Paul Davies is recognised as an extremely eloquent and open-minded thinker on scientific topics, having authored more than twenty books on subjects from quantum physics to astrobiology, and cosmological speculation which sometimes borders on religious philosophy.

Alien Worlds magazine managed to score an interview with Davies recently, and were treated to some fascinating revelations from the respected cosmologist. He told how he had experienced lucid dreams, and related it to the ‘alien abduction’ experience:

The one situation where I do feel I have an understanding of what’s going on is with alien abduction, which I think are closely related to lucid dreams.

If you don’t know you are dreaming, I think these lucid dreams can be very scary and have all of the hallmarks of an abduction experience. I think that is easily the most plausible explanation for what’s going on there.

The upshot of all this is, in principle we could be being visited but I don’t think we are. I don’t think it is happening now and if it is, I’m very disappointed in ET.

You can read further extracts from the interview – which are equally as fascinating – on the Alien Worlds blog:

As scientists I think we should be open minded and be prepared to look at the evidence and in the case of UFOs, I’m one of the few scientists who has actually looked at the evidence. I’ve read the Condon Report which came out of Project Blue Book and talked to witnesses. Obviously people see things in the sky all the time and the vast majority of sightings are just misperceptions or atmospheric phenomena of various sorts.

Then there’s a tougher residue that’s harder to explain and I would say two things about those. One is that these are real experiences – I don’t think anyone is lying. The second thing is that to me, they don’t have the hallmark of extraterrestrial visitation and it is not what I would expect from ET. So whatever lies behind this, and there may be different explanations for different things, I don’t think will be extraterrestrial visitation will be one of them.

The full interview can be found in Issue 3 of Alien Worlds – purchasing/subscription details can be found on the AW website.

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  1. Yeah but…
    [quote] Richard Fineman [sic] was the person who expressed it well. He said, “In good science, the more observations you make, the better the science gets. With bad science, the worse it gets” and it seems to me the UFO thing is exactly like that. No matter how many observations are made, you get no further forward and so that suggests to me this is not a scientific phenomenon. We’re not dealing with extraterrestrial visitation but instead probably a whole range of different things.[/quote]

    What exactly do we mean when we state that something is just not a ‘scientific phenomenon’? For me, it implies that it cannot be measured or analized by the current available tools of science. But then the question arises: wherein does the fault lie? Is it Science’s fault because of its limmitations, or the phenomenon’s because of its intrinsic nature?

    The thing is this, I do not believe the UFO phenomenon has ever been observed in a truly scientific manner. Maybe it can’t, but to me that remains to be seen until we *really* give it a try.

    And I agree that lucid dreaming can be an important part of the abduction phenomenon, but that leaves a very big question unanswered: Just what the hell ARE lucid dreams? Because then we have to admit that by dreaming alone people can cause the appearance of all sorts of strange scars in their bodies, aswell as burn marks in ther backyards—in other words, science would have to admit that what seems to be a mere subjective internal experience can have some sort of external consensual manifestation.

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

  2. Lucid dreams vs Vivid dreams
    [quote]

    If you don’t know you are dreaming, I think these lucid dreams can be very scary and have all of the hallmarks of an abduction experience. I think that is easily the most plausible explanation for what’s going on there.
    [/quote]

    DUH, if you don’t know your dreaming, your not having a lucid dream. Sounds like Davies is making the common mistake of thinking that a “lucid” dream is just another expression to describe a “vivid” one. Not so. Lucid dream and vivid dream are two completely different animals. Lucid dreams ARE vivid, to be sure, but mere vividness does not a lucid dream make.

  3. sigh….
    Once again, we have someone claiming to have researched the topic, yet who seems unaware of the more compelling case histories out there–i.e., abduction cases that occur while the individuals are fully awake and not asleep or dreaming; or where there are multiple witnesses involved; or where there is physical evidence (such as body scars).

    And what are we to make of people who say they don’t accept the existing case histories because the aliens described don’t act as “expected”? One has to wonder where they developed the ability to know exactly how aliens are supposed to think…

    Ray G.

    1. Indeed
      Well said…er, written.

      Another thing that bothers me is that Davies claims he has studied the UFO phenomenon, by searching through the Condon report. That to me is akin to try to make an informed opinion of the war on Irak, by solely watching Fox News 🙂

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

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