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Old 8th March 2017, 02:32 PM   #45
Praktik
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Originally Posted by Bikewer View Post
The "black eyes" thing has been used in all manner of TV shows and movies to indicate some sort of paranormal activity going on.
The X-files made extensive use of it.

Such images get into your memory as "tropes" and often get figured into dreaming.

Do not bother to try to analyze dreams.....They essentially mean nothing. Dreaming is how your brain does housekeeping.
This.

UFO phenomenae are another way to track this kind of dynamic in modern myth making - it takes popularization of a certain story for it to take root in the cultural hive mind. You can see the introduction of concepts leading to reports of similar experiences and nothing before that TV show covered it or a big story went around about "little grey men" with "long heads and huge, deep, black eyes".

Which kind of reminds me - the "black eyes" thing in horror movies kind of has a common thematic element there with the classic alien face - which also has all black eyes.
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