What was life like in the 1980's?

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Lee Iacocca was da man.

Actually in 1977 and 1978 I experienced a lot of weird stuff that changed me. I did eventually open a blog site about my experiences in early 2000s but deleted it and haven't really talked to anyone since.

I had out of body experiences and was visited by lights outside of my bedroom. At exactly the same time my brother suffered from severe nose bleeds and my sister started sleep walking and often unlocked the front door and ended up a mile away in a park fast asleep in the morning.

It all stopped around 1978 and we left that house in 1979. I never spoke to my parents about my experiences because they are religious and would just think I was crazy and needed christian counselling.

Whatever it was that happened, the 70s are permanently burned in my long term memory...

WOW that is FASCINATING! would you say it was a haunted house experience, or something higher than that?

I had a similar experience, there were a lot of weird paranormal things going on in my life around 1997, and again around 2003.

It certainly didn't help that I was dehydrated over the Summer of 2003, but even before that I was having lots of strange dreams that were semi-lucid, and a few ASPs (among other things).

In a muslim community they would associate these stuff to Jinns.

While Christians here would associate it to evil spirts or Satan.

Americans seem to associate them to aliens.

I've not seen any aliens, as far as I know.

I never considered ghosts! although I was only 9-10 yrs old at the time so was clueless, I think fairies was one theory I had

It wasn't till 1990 that I picked up a copy of Whitley Strieber's "Communion" that I considered it was alien abduction. I'm not sure if you remember I used to use the cover page from that book as my WP avatar from 2011-2016

The truth is out there...

the truth is inside all of us also, waiting to be discovered.

At the moment any discussion of personal experiences that fall within the bounds of the paranormal is put down (at best) to an over active imagination and (at worst) visual hallucinations

I can't erase any memory of the 70s without that particular reference point. I should say the lights were quite beautiful. watching them in the night sky from our house overlooking the Indian ocean.

The experience is almost identical to lights this video I found on youtube except I experienced them at 2-4am in the morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2U3eh172VQ

^^^I've only seen single unexplained moving lights, so you got to experience something extra-special.

What stayed in my mind was how the lights (like the ones in the youtube video) seemed to play with each other and sometimes chase. The lights appeared to be under some type of intelligent control

They seemed solid and flashed periodically so they weren't laser pointers (which I don't think existed in 1977)

the laser pointers did exist then but were bulky as machine guns, a.c. Clarke had one of the first ones which he demonstrated in new York city back in the early 70s. the single lights I saw in the sky, were visible during dusky daylight hours, like within an hour of sunset on the far side of it. they changed directions and appeared to fly across the flight paths of other aircraft in the sky at the time, even though there had to be thousands of feet gap between them. I couldn't really tell how far away they were but they were about the same size and brightness of the youtube lights.

I also play with the idea that maybe these were some type of Naval test drones, although again this is 1977 so it's interesting to know if they really had drone technology back then?

the technology behind [remote controlled] drone aircraft have been in existence since WW2. but drones as we know them now [compact] didn't happen until the last 2 decades or so. there is an interesting "Unsolved Mysteries" episode about a real-life person named Betty Cash had an interaction with what seems to be an American military-related UFO in 1980-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-Landrum_incident

I think the lights taken with other concurrent incidents was (for me) freaky
Nowadays I just file it away in my own x-files until more data surfaces

haven't seen any "freaky" lights but I did see at least 2 poltergeists