For me, I was btwn 11-14. Early 1980s. My grandmother was into
Edgar Cayce, the American prophet who started a lot of the
modern atlantis mythology and such. [he also was kinda right on
global warming too - who knows, maybe he started it in the
consciousness? I dunno] Anyway, Theosophy, which broke into New
Age and Science Fiction later on. My book was "Chariots of the
Gods". A little paperback I read cover to cover, through and
through. Then by the age of 14 or so, I was like, "eh, it was
fun but I'm done". 10 years later, X-Files came out and I was
like, "OMG NOT AGAIN!" and that was the early 90s. I couldn't
even WATCH the show 'til it was almost finished, and FINALLY I
allowed myself to watch it. Until then though, I was like, "I
can't believe ppl are still into this". Now we're in 2015. Not
much has changed smile emoticon