{"id":9583,"date":"2020-12-21T13:16:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinkyourself.com\/?p=9583"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:06:36","slug":"aliens-invaded-our-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkyourself.com\/fr\/aliens-invaded-our-house\/","title":{"rendered":"THE YEAR THE ALIENS INVADED OUR HOUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up in the middle of the night. I could hear some noise in the living room. Watch the following video or read the transcript to know what it was… (Spoiler alert: it wasn\u2019t aliens.)<\/p>\n

Well, let\u2019s be honest, the middle of the night was probably like 10:00 PM. I was eight or nine years old back then, so for me, it was the middle of the night, because my bedtime was much earlier. So, I hear this noise, and I’m sitting in my bed completely petrified, because I’m absolutely sure that there are aliens surrounding our house, or even IN the house. I get up and I start tiptoeing towards the living room. I was scared, I was holding my breath. The one thing I actually wanted to do was run back to my bedroom, shut the door behind me and move the dresser against the door to keep the aliens from attacking me. Yes, I really thought there were aliens in the house.<\/p>\n

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A child\u2019s imagination is amazing, isn’t it? So awesome. We want to preserve that. Now, instead of turning around – and as of today, I’m not sure what brave energy pushed me to keep going – I actually continued my heroic path towards those bizarre noises that seemed to be coming from the living room. When I got there, I wasn’t sure what to think.<\/p>\n

There they were. My parents. Playing Pacman on a brand-new machine that they were planning on giving my brother and I for Christmas! They practiced at night so that they could get ahead, because they knew as soon as we would get the alien-noise-making gift, there would be no way they would be able put their hands on the joysticks.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes, our deepest fears are actually a source of joy and fun times. To this day, this is still one of the fondest memories I have of Christmas. I want to take a moment here to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, Happy holidays and enjoy time with your loved ones.<\/p>\n

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I woke up in the middle of the night. I could hear some noise in the living room. Watch the following video or read the transcript to know what it was… (Spoiler alert: it wasn\u2019t aliens.) Well, let\u2019s be honest, the middle of the night was probably like 10:00 PM. I was eight or nine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":25805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"tve_updated_post":"

I woke up in the middle of the night. I could hear some noise in the living room. Watch the following video or read the transcript to know what it was... (Spoiler alert: it wasn\u2019t aliens.)<\/p><\/div>

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Well, let\u2019s be honest, the middle of the night was probably like 10:00 PM. I was eight or nine years old back then, so for me, it was the middle of the night, because my bedtime was much earlier. So, I hear this noise, and I'm sitting in my bed completely petrified, because I'm absolutely sure that there are aliens surrounding our house, or even IN the house. I get up and I start tiptoeing towards the living room. I was scared, I was holding my breath. The one thing I actually wanted to do was run back to my bedroom, shut the door behind me and move the dresser against the door to keep the aliens from attacking me. Yes, I really thought there were aliens in the house.<\/p><\/div>

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A child\u2019s imagination is amazing, isn't it? So awesome. We want to preserve that. Now, instead of turning around - and as of today, I'm not sure what brave energy pushed me to keep going - I actually continued my heroic path towards those bizarre noises that seemed to be coming from the living room. When I got there, I wasn't sure what to think.<\/p>

There they were. My parents. Playing Pacman on a brand-new machine that they were planning on giving my brother and I for Christmas! They practiced at night so that they could get ahead, because they knew as soon as we would get the alien-noise-making gift, there would be no way they would be able put their hands on the joysticks.<\/p><\/div>

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Sometimes, our deepest fears are actually a source of joy and fun times. To this day, this is still one of the fondest memories I have of Christmas. I want to take a moment here to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, Happy holidays and enjoy time with your loved ones.<\/p><\/div>

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