The theory that alien abductions are memories of your birth
You already know that I love a good conspiracy theory - or random hunch - about anything. My favorite thing to do is attend a happy hour with of my most….open-minded friends….and just swap theories back and forth.
And whenever I get together with my brother and sister-in-law, we love swapping conspiracy theories with each other over drinks (or, a couple drinks).
By the way, you might remember my sister-in-law Haley from when she came on the podcast for this episode: Sex trafficking in Hollywood and social media
Haley was telling me last summer about a new theory, that the stories of alien abductions are just deep-rooted memories people have of when they were birthed.
It sounded out of this world (haha) when I first heard it, but the more she started to explain it to me, the more it made sense. We’ve all heard bits and pieces of alien abduction stories from ‘survivors’ who had supposed encounters with aliens. If anything, it’s turned into a bit of a gag, with even SNL picking up on the bit a few years ago.
A lot of these stories have similar elements to them:
You’re picked up by aliens, usually by a bright beam of light that carries you into their UFO
They take you into a spaceship where they gather around you and perform experiments on you, pricking and prodding
You’re naked in front of these aliens as they examine you
Then you’re delivered home in some way that you can’t fathom
Some people think that these alien abduction stories are really just deep-rooted memories that people have from when they were born.
The themes throughout the stories are insanely similar.
You’re at home in bed when suddenly you’re removed, and a bright light takes you up into a UFO. This is a similar feeling to when you’re in the womb, and suddenly you’re being birthed through the birth canal, and you as a baby see light for the first time - which would be the “beam of light” that alien abduction stories say comes from the UFO.
Next, alien abduction stories talk about how aliens examine them while they’re naked, and do weird experiments to them. It seems pretty similar to how after birth, babies are touched with instruments and hovered over by doctors and nurses to make sure that they’re breathing properly, and things like that.
Next, alien abduction stories talk about being returned home in a way they couldn’t really fathom - which would be the same for a baby who had just been born. You can’t really see, you don’t know what’s going on, and suddenly you’re back in a comfortable place (with your mother, who has been your home for the last nine months).
It’s a really interesting theory because we all have the memory of being born, but none of us (or, most of us) are able to access a memory that far back.
Maybe there’s something that happens in the brain, or as we sleep, that can cause certain people to activate that initial first memory - but instead interpret it as an alien abduction.
Do you remember that movie Lucy? Scarlett Johansson was in it, and it got a lot of criticism online (I’ve never seen it) but I remember watching a clip of it on YouTube where her brain is fully “activated” and she calls her mother, and tells her mother that she remembers what her breast milk tasted like.
Weird scene. And everyone online basically agreed that the whole “you only use 5% of your brain” thing is false. We are using every part of our brain - there’s no secret 95% that we have yet to access.
But at any rate - the movie Lucy referenced this idea that your brain can access your earliest memories. Is it real? No idea. But it works for this blog post so we’re throwing it in here!
And here’s the creepy clip if you want to watch it:
So what are your thoughts on this theory?
Do you think that there are enough parallels to abduction stories that have similarities to the experience of birth? Do you think alien abductions are real, or do you think the stories are made up for attention? The whole concept of alien abductions (and how so many of the stories are similar) is super interesting, and I would love to hear your thoughts!
Until the next one,
S