The difficulty on our side is not only trying to understand possible messages from intelligences a million years ahead of us - but to even recognize that there are messages at all. We're more likely to disregard the experience as dreams, hallucinations, psychosis - since the information these visions contain is so beyond the context of our everyday lives.

> aliens don’t bring meat suits whilst doing interstellar travelling

I lean toward what the sibling commenter dismissed as "secret aliens living in a parallel reality" but literally, beings inhabiting other dimensions, their minds travelling through space and time. Their "Hello, how are you?" is like an angel looking through your soul and entire existence as a hyperspatial object..