>>8693383People claimed to see angels on mountain tops, on roads, on hills, etc. etc. all over the place (especially in a particularly widely available source). The state of sleeping paralysis, despite the name, is not exclusive to the state of sleep, nor are hallucinations exclusive to sleeping paralysis, and of course, none of these are exclusive to making shit up.
And people have always thought weird shit in the sky was the work of the gods. Constantine marched his troops around the capital for a straight month when Haley's comet came by. People have literally claimed ball lighting were angles. And again, in said same popular source, folks repeatedly claim to receive visions from God this way, and describing all sorts of shit Ufologists claim to be sightings of aliens as angels and whatnot.
>I agree with you but all that being said I would still argue alien encounters of today are still described way different than any of the angelic and demonic encounters of back thenAnd this sentence I'm pulling out, as it makes no sense to me whatsoever.
You hallucinate dog, it barks.
You hallucinate duck, it quacks.
You hallucinate demon, it pokes you with a pitch fork.
You hallucinate alien, it probes your ass.
Genre affects expectation, expectation affects hallucination (and storytelling). That's basic gestalt, consistent, and suggests these are all manufactured.
On the other hand, it'd be better evidence for aliens, if all these traumatic encounters had something in common. ...or would it?
So, to play devil's advocate - you know what succubi and incubi are famous for repeatedly doing in the old ages? That's right, paralyzing you, holding you down, and cutting into you. (And occasionally probing your ass - though maybe not with a probe.) ...Just, like, the fucking aliens. Sexualized fear response is pretty much universal to the sleep paralysis state, and as the name suggests, you are generally immobilized and helpless.
And look at the morphology of reported aliens.
