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I feel so...different. Like I'm an alien.?

Hello. I guess I'll just jump right into this then. I feel very much like I don't belong here. If you ask me what, or where "here" is, I won't have an answer for you. I just don't feel comfortable in my own skin, in my own world. I feel so lonely, so eager to go home! But when I go home, I feel lonelier than before. I'm not sure how to explain this, but I feel like my home is out there somewhere that I haven't yet reached. I feel like I might be an alien, but I'm not sure that is even possible.

I am a college student, who is involved, has friends; I even had a boyfriend for awhile. But I'm not typical. I do not like alcohol, and let's just say that it's an isolating factor about me. I don't enjoy being around a TON of people. I don't mind crowds, but I feel like I'm walking with people who are different than me, and when there are a lot of them, I feel like they can sense I'm not the same. I look typical, dark hair, white skin, but I just don't feel it. I haven’t felt normal my whole life. At first I thought it might be adolescence and that I’d grow out of these feelings, but I’m 22 now…and they haven’t faded at all. If anything, being at college has only made me more aware of how different I am.

I love people. I love talking to different people, and getting to know them. I care about people I don’t even know, and I’ll cry during the news if someone has died. I feel like a part of me has died when I hear about death. It’s like I feel their pain, and if I see a loved one on the news discussing their loss, I can hardly control myself. But I feel so sad on a day to day basis. I feel that every night when I lie down to sleep, my hope is slowly fading away, only to be replenished the next morning. It’s almost as if I’m expecting the world to be different when I wake up. I want to just WAKE UP at home…wherever that is.

Medically I was diagnosed with depression when I was 17 because I was unsure how to handle these feelings. I talked to my authoritative parents about this, but it turned into me being “off” and being sent to doctors and therapists. I don’t mind these professionals, I enjoy talking to them, and they seem to think that I’m “normal” and going through different phases in my life. But I don’t feel normal. I don’t know what to do. My previous relationship knew of these feelings, and just told me I was too self conscious and to forget about it. But I can’t. The only thing I want is to explore. I want to know why I’m here, why I don’t fit in like everyone else does.

I feel like no one really knows how I feel sometimes. I feel that everyone else has a “place” in society and I’m merely on the outside looking in. Like I’m just going through the motions. Everyone has something they enjoy, a passion, or something that defines them. But not me. I’m really not interested in anything. It’s hard for me to function when I feel like there isn’t much for me to do here but watch. I’ve wondered for several years if I could be an alien, but I have a rather good memory, and can remember back to my childhood. No strange abductions, I’m not adopted, I’m typical and normal. I have a sister who fits right into society, and two parents who fit right in. Everyone has their place, their role to play. Strangely, not even my animals bond with me. My family owns three cats, and a dog. None of them have bonded with me like they have the rest of my family. They tend to avoid me if I am home, and we’ve had these animals for close to 12 years.

Is there anyone out there like me? Anyone who feels like they’ll never be like everyone else? I can’t hold onto a stable relationship to save my life. I could just pick bad choices, but I feel that I can’t communicate with them. I just want to know that I’m not alone.

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  • Dustin
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    You are, in fact, one of the few people in this world who have the ability to question and look at life from another viewpoint of ideas. I can relate to how you feel so much, like you are disconnected with this world to some extent, like you understand there is so much more to this universe we live in, and that a lot of people don't understand you or they look at you like you don't belong.

    Throughout my life, my time in this physical realm of existence, I too have always questioned life and looked at life so much different than a lot of others that I have known, but never thought that I was actually an alien or anything of that sort. However very recently, in the last week and a half, I have began to question this realm of existence more than ever, beginning to possibly believe that aliens are in fact real, and that all of us too, are in fact aliens. I am not certain, but I believe that there is so much more than what we live in, and that when we finally die and leave this physical realm, then we are finally able to wake up in our homes, our real homes. Of course you probably have no idea what I am talking about, and there is no other being in my life, except a few perhaps, that I can talk too about some of the feelings and experiences I have recently endured in.

    I know exactly how you feel, slightly disconnected. I also know that you are a very intelligent individual, based on your writing abilities, which are very impressive.

    I suppose what I am trying to say is, you are in fact not alone at all. They do have others that feel and experience things just like you, and they do have others who have actually contacted certain entities and learned from them. Just because people have actually been blessed to experience and look at these possible concepts does in fact not make them crazy at all, just in case if that's what you were wondering.

    Lastly, all I can say, is that there are so many people who are going to look down at you for feeling and thinking this way, but they do have others who will be able to relate to you so much in life. They are out there, and I hope you find someone to connect to, because life is one insane trip, and no living creature on this planet wants to die alone.

    There is so many mysteries and concepts to explore in life, and I can only hope that you will start to look into these things, which are not hard to find, especially people like you. I wish the best of luck to you and your future.

    https://www.dmt-nexus.com/forum/default.aspx?g=pos...

  • 5 years ago

    Thank you for sharing your feelings. I know exactly how you feel because I constantly feel I shouldn't be here and don't belong.

    I have two sisters and a brother who I adore but cannot get close and connect with the way they can. I also feel like a stranger everywhere I go even in family get togethers. These feelings make me resent people around me at times but it's nothing like being the 'black sheep' because I've been treated the same and upbringing was excellent. It feels like I was stolen and I don't come from earth.

    When you feel like you want to cry looking at the stars I feel like that when I have certain dreams where I'm in a completely different place with different people as though I'm remembering something so I wake up emotional. Now when i look at the stars i feel whole and i get this warm glow like i am watching a long lost family.

  • 6 years ago

    You are not alone. Every day is hard for me living amongst people who seemed to have accepted life in moden society without question. All I can remember is being so curious and sensitive of everything. Ive always known there is so much more to life than earning money. There is a whole universe and we barely even understand what we can't see yet. I feel for you so much because I know the pain of feeling so alone. I want to be part of the pack and it seems like you're right they just know you're different. I think this is a time when souls like ours need to find each other and regroup on how we got to this planet and what we're ment to do here. Never feel afraid to ask someone something so taboo or unusual because sometimes you find that others are unspoken about their feelings as well and are trying to wear a mask just like you. Life's such a beautiful thing and it makes me feel comfortated that there are other out there. From one conscious being to another I wish you luck and love.

    Source(s): Personal Experience
  • 7 years ago

    You just might be you know why you can't seem to remember i don't know for fact but I think everything isn't what it seems something happened a long time ago I don't know what but it might be your soul traveling through the pyramids to earth and you can't remember because you don't have your old alien brain I've done a lot of thinking it may sound crazy but that's how society wants you to see it the only thing that can help is knowing as much truth as you can even without full proof because people like us don't need it by the way what color are your eyes?

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  • 6 years ago

    Sweetheart, I know how you feel. you feel dissociated from everyone. You take things that are emotionally physically. Your mindset is very much open. I know this is a late answer, but its no doubt that you are specially gifted. You are not an alien. Don't get me wrong .. Aliens are very real. But your more of a gift, its not that your not a human being.. Your very much human.. You just connect with more than this realm. It could be a few reasons of what gift you have.

    1.) You can be an empath /clairsentient

    (Note to self: there's a difference between an empath, and being empathic. ) you can look up what those two are, but to save you time .. Theres a link ..I'm an empath , and believe me .. Its hard living as an empath. But you gain to learn how to adapt to it. By reading your experience / story.. I believe you could be one of those two.

    There won't be links to the rest of these but you can search them up. Its better to research

    2.) You can be a Psychic

    3.) You can be very spiritual , with spiritualities of Buddhism.

    4.)You have your third eye open.

    5.)Your a highly sensitive person , meaning the five senses are more increased..normal sounds to you will be louder. Sight is clearer seeing more unknown things. Taste is stronger, touch is more effective. Smelling is stronger. (You won't have all of these , there just symptom ,daily actions for sensitive people) .

    6.) You could be having a spiritual awakening

    I know its a lot. But just look into them. There interesting, and I think you should really look into them. It will help you find who you really are . and your purpose in life. Your special, the lord put you here cause he knows your strong.. Your different.. Your awake from the illusion of this world. And your rare <3

    God bless..

    If you have any questions , email me always good to chat with people with similar experiences like I've had. . Ritaorsumthin@yahoo.com

  • 6 years ago

    You're not alone. I'm thirty five snd still feel like I am different from the rest of the world. Since I was a child I questioned the reason for our existence in this world. I have compassion for others and oftentimes pick up on the emotions of other's with or without them displaying them. I used to feel as if I didn't belong here. I was always the odd ball or the weirdo. I see things happen beforehand. I'm often disgusted with the behavior of our species. I now believe that people like me are set apart for a purpose. Finding out what that purpose is may be the tricky part. Because I choose not to sink to the level of other's I am often mistaken for a pushover but it takes an extreme amount of effort to make me upset. i am a history fanatic. I love doing research and still I am different.

  • 6 years ago

    I can definitely say, that you are not alone, and I wish I could meet people where I live that feel the same way I do, I fee the deep longing to go home, and don't know where it is, but since I believe in GOD, I assume it must be heaven, that I want to go back to, I have also read some things on the internet about spiritual awakening, have you tried to look into that? it explained a lot to me and how I feel on an everyday basis, but even after you read that, you still feel alone, because, you don't have anyone else around you, that feels like this, it's just a spiritual awakening, and it's a very deep topic, that most don't understand.

  • 5 years ago

    I pretty much have the same dilemma.

    I'm currently in college and going through a problem involving my friends because they can't understand me, or maybe they do but won't back down. I've been spending time alone and thinking things through because this is not the first time I got betrayed by my own "Friend". And it sucks because it does not only involve one person but three persons.

    I've been through several phases of moving on and now I'm just confused.

    I don't mind alcohol but I always draw the line at getting wasted. I never developed any attachment towards smoking either. I had friends who let me try vape but I also don't feel an attachment towards it.

    The only thing that I am obsessed with since High School was books. I had an unhealthy relationship with pocketbooks when I was in my third year of High School. I'm drawn to the characters, their story, how the author could create such a beautiful world and the author himself.

    I have a different outlook in life and it sometimes shifts to suit the new things that I learn as I grow older. I do care about the money because realistically speaking, the world revolves around it. But I am also a believer in experience and adventure. I just lack the guts to do it. I think I'm a weird blend of dreamer and realist. I believed when I was a child I had a purpose, that I will someday do something great to help the world. I still somehow believe in it but I'm still lost because I don't know what it is that I'm supposed to be doing. Or that am I even close to what I wanted? To do something great for the world? I have this gut feeling or maybe it's just my ego telling me that I will be important someday, that I will play a big role in helping the earth. I just don't know. I'm still seeking.

    I was also medically diagnosed with depression but at an earlier age. This was because of a traumatic experience when I was 14 or 15 yrs. old. And I was never the same person again. This experience did help me become a better person in other ways but it put doubts, fears, insecurities and a deep sadness in my life.

    I am also extremely empathetic, I would cry at short videos and images of a couple getting wed, a group of people making other people happy, a father grieving over his daughter killed by terrorists and so much more. I could easily empathize with other people. I tend to try and understand other people because I'm too open-minded and I care more than I should.

    I love being with my friends and be social but I have this need to be alone. I love meeting new people and listen to their stories but there's will always be a time where I'd rather stand back and just watch all of them mingle with other people and be human.

    I also have a thirst to learn and do a lot of things. Certainly not academically because I sometimes neglect my studies, but things that concern the world. I had a crazy idea of going abroad and get involved in charity work. Also here in my own country. I dream of traveling and meeting different people, learning their culture, living in a different atmosphere.

    A friend told me to stop being so inwardly drawn to myself but it's hard when you feel so much when you focus on other people.

    --- and I'm also sorry for the not so organized thoughts. One of my many flaws.

  • I'm similar. Ever since i was little i had distinct characteristics to everyone around me, i was extremely curious; so curious that i would sometimes dissect animals just to see what it was like inside and how things worked. I'm 18 now and those feelings are not as strong, but i feel that there is somewhere i should be..sometimes i question whether this is reality or whether i died when i was born and ended up here, so many unusual thoughts that an ordinary kid wouldn't have. In the last few years i've had an interest in spirits, E.T's dimensions they are so interesting to me but others are scared of these topics or try to avoid them when i talk about it to them. When i talk about something very emotional or see something that triggers great emotion in me i cry, whether it be happy sad confused etc, it's weird, i'm also a boy which makes it even more bizarre. I too think that this place we call earth is not where i am from, deep down i'm different to everyone else. Everyday i pull a false smile just to show that i'm ok but deep down my emotions are all over the place. Your not alone i feel the same emotions, me writing this brought a tear to my eye that's how bad it is. I wish you all the best, you have a massive hug form me..your not alone.

    -George

  • 1 decade ago

    I actually have this same exact feeling, quite often. I can identify with you right down to the crying-over-the-news part. I can't even kill even bring myself to kill a bug. It might be slightly stranger, since I'm a guy-- but it's who I am. I'll be attending college next semester and I can tell I won't be heavily into drugs or alcohol. My "depression" segment happened at around age 15 and when i went to the doctor I was given some information about magnesium deficiency (that's actually the first question I asked about here). Whatever emotional pit I was in went away.

    I would say I'm a social person, never had trouble in high school or anything. I just felt like they were all different than me. Like I have a completely different analysis of the world. Even in my family. I struggle to see why no one can see things from my perspective.

    To answer your question. I don't know if you're a spiritual person (I'm not very religiously fanatic). But, I believe that we all are from somewhere 'before' and people like you and I have the gift of knowing that wherever we are is not that place. I tend to think of us, humans, as spirits. The physical part (skin, bones) is the shell. But, what makes 'you' is the spirit. Because, if you cut off your arm or leg-- you are still yourself and no less of who you are.

    Wow, going on a tangent and lost sight of the question. Oh well, knew it would happen.

  • 5 years ago

    You're not alone. To help you along your path, may I suggest checking out "The fabric of the cosmos" on YouTube which was super helpful in getting me to understand quantum stuff. What I mean was the visuals were extremely helpful and helped me with my own individual scientific research. I'm not a fancy school scientist, but the great thing about it is that everybody kind of helps with research. Unfortunately, I'm more Luna Lovegood than Hermione, but I'm cool with being an underdog in that regards. What I mean is, I got visited by a creature when I was a child, and even though I can't see it anymore, it still communicates in different ways. I think it's possible that we are subatomically entangled. I Don't let the small minded folk get me down, but it's difficult to convince people who are so close minded, so I keep to myself.

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