I can totally understand where 'legitimate' claims of alien abduction come from now: Sleep paralysis.
but worryingly I could also hear foot steps in my room and I just wanted to be able to move so I could see who was there but I just COULDN'T move. When I was finally able to move I literally had to pinch myself just to make sure I wasn't dreaming (there was nobody in the room).
If all abductions 'occured' while asleep then maybe yes.Definitely. What alien abductees often claim are experiences mirroring victims of sleep paralysis. Almost all sleep paralysis victims claim seeing something or someone in the room and feeling helpless to do anything and generally scared out of their wits. Combine that with a dream of pop-culture sci-fi grey aliens and bam you have your alien abduction.
What "abductions" do you have evidence of that haven't occurred while the "abductee" was asleep?
Actually what i meant was that there are just 'claims' of abductions which occur while awake.
Theyre as valid as non-valid as you want them to be ultimately, but thats a seperate issue as i see it.
In my opinion believing absolutely that all abductions are the result of fraud or too many beers is just as much of an article of faith as believing that all abductions are objective experiences. Way too much dogma in both directions, which tends to make it very hard to work out what is actually going on.
having met a large number of people who have had these experiences, many of whom are professionals, even scientists, I take them very seriously. I do not think any of them are confusing dream imagery and sleep paralysis with their experiences.
The most disturbing account I heard was the morning after by 2 members of a family. Their stories were upsetting, not something they felt happy discussing and were not exactly the same, but with a great deal of overlap.
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