“Imagine, then, that someone with whom you are in a deeply attached mode of relation… this might be romantic, parental… or other such modes… imagine that you regularly hear them in conversation with another person of such incredible intelligence… that you cannot even imagine how such a mind could exist… and, over time, you are a passenger-seat observer to long (hours long) conversations between this person you’re attached to and what might as well be a collective of highly advanced alien intelligences. Imagine the effect this would have … on your dreaming, your development, your future… your life path… just witnessing these ‘conversations from beyond’ … one seat away from directly participating in them.”

— infraheard