Waters of Life

As an individual who takes everything into account, I recently revisited a biological theory that may be used to explain the "psychosis" of abduction phenomena through a biological mechanism. Now again, I am only playing devil's advocate here because of two reasons 1) Abductees Report Dehydration and 2) Symptoms of Mild Dehydration. As an abductee, I know that what is happening to all of us is real and not cause by this biological mechanism.... after all how can complete unrelated strangers consistently have the same delusion?

Dehydration ranges in three various forms: hypotonic/hyponatremic (loss of electrolytes and sodium), hypertonic/hypernatremic (loss of water), and isotonic/isonatremic (loss of water and electrolytes). In humans, the most commonly seen type of dehydration by far is isonatraemic dehydration which effectively equates with hypovolemia. Dehydration really has something more to do with the amounts found in blood plasma and can effect the neurological system in some cases.


There are four levels of dehydration; mild, moderate, severe, and terminal. Each levels has a variety of symptoms and begins once 1% to 2% loss of water of the individuals body. So most people in general will usually experience mild dehydration from time to time. Once the body reaches 3% to 6%, moderate dehydration occurs, at 6% onwards severe dehydration occurs, and at 15% or greater it can be fatal.

Mild Dehydration Symptoms: thirst, decreased urine volume, abnormally dark urine, unexplained tiredness, irritability, lack of tears when crying, headache, dry mouth, dizziness when standing, visual snow, and in some cases can cause insomnia. Mild dehydration also has been shown to negatively impact people’s moods

Moderate/Severe Dehydration Symptoms: Some of the previous symptoms, there may be no urine output at all, lethargy or extreme sleepiness, seizures, fainting, sunken eyes, increased heart and respiration, body temperature may rise because of decreased sweating. At the 5% water loss, symptoms change to groggy or sleepy, headaches or nausea, a paresthesia (tingling limbs). At 10% muscles may become spastic, skin may shrivel and wrinkle (decreased skin turgor), vision may dim, urination will be greatly reduced and may become painful, and delirium may begin.

Now as with most things concerning people biology, all of are thresholds are different and we may experience more or less of these symptoms as indicated. Most intriguing is the symptoms of visual snow and delerium.

The aspect of visual snow is interesting becuase of the associated non-visual symptoms; tinnitus, depersonalization-derealization, fatigue, speech difficulties and cognitive dysfunction, anxiety, panic attacks or depression may develop. Abductee most commonly report tinnitus, a sensation of "ear ringing" prior to an experience. Also the after effects usually cause psychological behavoirs leading to be labled as depersonalization and derealization. Now delirium only occurs in certain situations with dehydration, but delirium does include hallucinations.

However, as stated early I am only describing the aspects associated with dehydration. This may possibly be a factor as many of the symptoms are experienced by abductees, who do in fact report some level of dehydration. However I am unable to answer this question, why and if are all the hallucination the same?
Is it possible as humans we do have some sort of genetic memory and lamarckism theory may have been right? Could these shared hallucination be a result of this?