@Hercules3000 No personal experiences, but I've seen t.v programs, documentaries, read enough books and can't see how there could not be. I think the government know they are real, and its now just a waiting game. I think there are all kinds of them. I hope I live long enough to see them make themselves known.

@Hercules3000 or are you experiencing a hologram as reality....

@Meili some scientists theorize that due to the mathematical nature of the universe that we are actually in a computer program

@Drsmash253 Well, that would explain a lot.

@Hercules3000 pretty awesome to think about huh

@Hercules3000 I was referring to the movie The Matrix to explain what I believe. I doubt we are used as batteries for machines, but I think it's possible that our physical experience is actually more a holographic experience that we believe is real.

@Hercules3000 I am reading a book that describes scientific evidence that our brains store memories like holographic film stores holographic images. My theory originated with this book which asserts that we may be experiencing a holographic existence. I don't believe the theory can be proven conclusively any more than the existence of God can, but I believe it's a possibility. It presents an explanation for things like telepathy and premonition, two things that I have personally experienced. It's a fascinating idea, either way, and made a great movie.

@Hercules3000 It's called The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot

@Hercules3000 I have no idea how. I'm open to both ideas, but lean toward a collective construction. If you were all a construction of my imagination, you would probably all be doing what I want . . . unless I wanted you all to not be doing what I want . . .

@Hercules3000 Sometimes in the mornings when I was a kid, I would get butterflies in my stomach, as though something exciting was going to happen, though I would not know of anything that was supposed to happen. In the afternoon or evening of that day, there would be an unexpected surprise, like an unscheduled visit from a relative. Sometimes the phone would ring and I would know someone had died. I was right every time. I moved to Korea and I was checking my email one day and I expected to see an email telling me my grandma had died. There was nothing. The next morning I woke up to find an email from my mom telling me my grandma had died. Once I was walking down the street and I caught a glance at my parents' vehicle but couldn't see inside. I knew where they'd been and where they were going and knew which of my two younger brothers was in the van with them. I walked to my brother's apartment and asked him where he'd been and was right. That was more recent. The premonitions have gotten more detailed over time.

Occasionally as a child I knew what people were going to say before they said it but that phenomenon has been most active over the past couple years. I will have an idea come to me only to have the person I'm with express that idea a second later. Other times I just know what they are thinking even though they don't say it. Those times are often confirmed through actions the person displays. I've been wrong sometimes so I've learned to be careful not to assume I'm right until I see evidence that I am. My first husband noticed this ability but I thought it was just normal female sensitivity to people. I've since learned it is far more in depth than most other women's sensitivities.

@Hercules3000 Lol. Surely not.

@Hercules3000 Wait until I can levitate and move objects through telekinesis before you start getting excited.

@Hercules3000 Humans create them as a large art project.

How about Atheist/Agnostic humans may have been influenced by a progressive and well evolved alien race?

@patchoullijulie interesting idea for sure

@patchoullijulie, @Hercules3000 perhaps if they were behind our creation ,we are an experiment

It would be nice to have some back up for that statement. I believe that the documentation is the opposite. [en.wikipedia.org]
Wikipedia has a long list of references to read.

@Hercules3000 OCJoe says that it is well documented that they are not not man made. If you look at my link there are lots of references to say that they are man made. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

@Hercules3000 heck yeah ?

@Redcupcoffee That is what I keep telling myself, but Drumpf...

Wow! Now that is outlandish! ?

Based on the fact that over 99% of all species that once lived on this earth are extinct, and that we are quickly altering the environment, your belief is a well founded. The earth has an active biosphere and it is reasonable to assume a time will come when it will no longer be hospitable to human kind.

@Redcupcoffee I do also.