2-28-10

The opening scene to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" never ceased to scare me as a kid. It always seemed to be on late night cable television, when my parents weren't awake. Of course, I never made it past that scene until I was seventeen.



The popularity of shows like X-Files or Beyond Belief: Fact or fiction, fed into my fear of aliens. Even though my fear of aliens is pretty much gone - the intro song to X-Files still gives me the heebie-jeebies.
My parents even pretended that they were aliens for hours on end. They would say that they found me under a rock and that I had no parents, just aliens. This is pretty great now that I think about it, but god damnit I believed them.
Maybe my fear of aliens was a symbolization for a common fear of the unknown. I was extremely young when I harbored this fear so this particular reasoning sounds legit. Or I might just have been freaked out by creepy looking things that would want to steal me.