Does anyone think there is a correlation between caesarean delivery and people being 'abducted by aliens'?!

Question

I couldn't help but see the similarities. Take America as a case study. The increase in babies born by Caesarean Section started to occur round about the time more 'alien sightings' were reported. Other countries with far lower c-section rates have far fewer reports of alien abduction. The common story of 'bright lights, green men, bodily intrusions, being laid on a table...' Sounds like surgery to me!! It seems to me that many people's first view of the world is buried deep in their subconscious and comes out in them when they've had too much to drink/ have hit their head. What does everyone think of my theory?

Well thankyou *takes a bow*.....

No, really, I think faaarr too much!

To Gnomon:- Nah, if you claim you've been adbucted by aliens in Europe you just get shipped to America ;)

No, I wasn't born by C-Section, and no, sadly I've never been abducted by aliens. For all you who are telling me that aliens don't exist, I'm not saying they do. Read the question again. Note the inverted commas. Think before answering, I beg you. It's been fun X

Answer 1

When I first started reading this question I must admit I thought 'here we go, another nutter' but, having read the whole thing, I believe you may just have a point.

Answer 2

The only way you could go to prove a correlation is to find out from those who have had a cesarean whether or not they believed in aliens or alien abductions and to what extent they believed in aliens in general. Then generalise your results to that society before going to the next society and measuring your hypothesis of that society against another to check for a positive correlation. Good luck, sounds like a time waster. Even if there was a correlation, who is going to ask the aliens what they think.

Answer 3

I've actually heard this theory before. It goes some way to explaining why in the abduction scenarios, they usually open up with a big flash of light (your Mum's belly getting cut), and taken into a very white clean area (a hospital), where they are prodded and tested (getting cleaned up.

I'm curious. Do you a) have an experience like this, or b) were you born by C-section?
As children get older, these recessive memories gather weight in their subconcious, and through social conditioning they do not realise that what they experienced actaully happened.

Answer 4

Good theory!

But there is also the point about social acceptance. In America it seems to be socially acceptable to claim you were abducted by aliens. If you claimed that in Europe, you would be laughed at, or worse, committed to a mental hospital.

Answer 5

Babies are born with their eyes closed. Babies have no memory.
Their memories develop over time. Finally Aliens do not exist. I am not convinced by your theory.

Answer 6

I think your theory holds about as much water as a peanut shell. Having said that, I can't fault your imagination! Perhaps you'll become a famous writer one day after developing this theory into a plot formulation.

Answer 7

I like. I thought your question was going to be something like correlation between c-section and inabillity to bond with their babies. But I think your theory is better.

Answer 8

Julius Caesar was abducted by pirates and we get the word caesarian from him. This can not be just co-incidence. Perhaps they were space pirates!

Answer 9

good theory, never really thought about it like that before

Answer 10

Not bad at all, I like this theory.