Gadzooks, here is a thought. We are gerbils, in a metaphoric sense, we live out our lives in our defined area. We have been watched the whole time but because of the manner in which we were watched, we never really knew it. We know we have limitations to our little area but we can’t understand them anymore than a real gerbil understands why it can’t go any further because of the Plexiglas tank, or cage. Then somehow, these “humans”, watching over us figure out a way to communicate. To us “gerbils”, they would seem like magical beings, the stuff they can do, how they can travel freely pass the Plexiglas, and even MAKE Plexiglas, we gerbils might find humans to be really special, divine-like beings. We might even come up with a method of communicating with them, like a religion.
OK lets sit back and listen to all the minds popping right now.