Hypnosis may be the key to recovering so-called memories of abductions, but another brain phenomenon may be responsible for kick-starting the idea in abductees Minds to begin with it’s called sleep paralysis and it’s a true waking nightmare.
I was held down by these living sort of ribbons that came across me and tightened up around me and bound me down and then of course the aliens filed into the room and levitated me and took me out of the room and it was a very bizarre experience and I thought I’m being abducted you know why why am I being abducted what are they doing turns out I was just having sleep paralysis
When we dream our brain switches off our ability to move so that we don’t injure ourselves acting out those dreams when we wake up it switches us back on again but sometimes the switch is out of sync and we wake up paralyzed.
“Sleep paralysis is the experience of either falling asleep or waking up and you find that you’re paralyzed we have some degree of conscious awareness and your eyes are still able to move and you can look around the room it’s often a terrifying experience for people that are suffering from it not only from the paralysis but because of the hallucinations that often accompany it”
Brian Sharples – Clinical Psychologist
The hallucinations vary but come in three general types:
- First the intruder an evil presence approaching
- Second the Incubus something pressing on your chest choking or assaulting you
- Finally levitation the sensation of being lifted off the bed and even transported elsewhere.
Put them together and you may have something strikingly familiar to a sleep researcher acquainted with UFO abduction stories:
“I think all three categories are consistent with what people who report being abducted by aliens experience having a presence in the room feeling if someone’s on top of you assaulting you or potentially levitating you”
Sleep paralysis is thought to be responsible down through the ages for numerous terrifying nighttime visitations where one time or place might find witches demons ghosts and spirits as an explanation for sleep paralysis it’s possible at 21st century Americans might find technologically advanced areas as an explanation.