ALIEN ABDUCTION OR SLEEP PARALYSIS?

Millions of people are believed to have been visited by members of an alien species and, in some cases, physically taken to an alien planet, or a scientific laboratory. Wright, in 1994, summarized 317 transcripts of hypnosis sessions and interviews from 95 separate cases and concluded: “Numerous types of entities have visited our planet with a certain regularity. However, the” gray “is clearly the alien most common “. In many reports of kidnapping, the experience begins at night, when the person is at home in bed, even if sometimes abductions occur during the day, outdoors: almost always, the abductees see an intense blue or white light, an hum and the sense of an inexplicable presence, which generates a state of anxiety. Many see an aircraft with flashing lights, to then be led inside it. Once inside, the person can undergo various medical procedures, which often involve the implantation of a small object in the nose or other parts of the body. In almost all cases, communication with alien beings occurs through telepathy, while the adduct almost always feels completely helpless and paralyzed.
The alien figures they see are about four feet high, with a thin body and neck, a large head and huge almond-shaped black eyes. Grays usually have no hair and often only three fingers per hand. The rarer aliens include green or blue types, the northern aliens have blond hair, they are taller, and sometimes there are even seemingly human figures that collaborate with extraterrestrial creatures.
So far, abduction reports show two types of purpose: adductions for the reproduction of hybrid creatures (half human and half alien), and adductions where extraterrestrials alert humans to an imminent ecological catastrophe. Some abductees spontaneously remember their experiences, while others remember the experience under hypnosis. Most of Wright’s ninety-five abductees have been hypnotized and interviewed several times, however there are many cases of “conscious recollection” of the abduction without hypnosis.
Naturally, the hypothesis of mental illness was also evaluated: Bloecher, Clamar and Hopkins in 1985 found an intelligence superior to the average in the patients and no sign of serious pathology among nine adducts. Parnell, in 1988, found no psychopathology among 225 individuals who reported only having witnessed a “sighting” that did not produce a kidnapping. More recently, Spanos, in 1993, compared or compared forty-nine people reporting UFO sightings, finding that they were no less intelligent than the average, no longer prone to fantasy, and showed no more signs of psychopathology. Even the “temporal lobe lability” has been analyzed: individuals with relatively labile temporal lobes are more inclined to fantasy, and more likely to report mystical and extracorporeal experiences, visions and psychic experiences: however, Spanos has found no difference in a temporal lobe lability scale, among the people who had seen UFOs and various control groups. Cox, in 1995, compared a group of twelve British abductees with a matched control group and a student control group: once again, he found no differences on the temporal lobes. A concluding theory states that abductions “are elaborations of sleep paralysis”, in which a person is apparently able to listen and see, without being able to move. The “International Classification of Sleep Disorders” explains that sleep paralysis is common among narcoleptics, in which paralysis occurs mainly at the beginning of sleep, while only occasionally manifests in isolation during sleep. During paralysis, a person wakes up completely paralyzed, perceives a presence in the room, feels a sensation of panic, complete with lights and buzzing: attempts to get out of the state of paralysis during sleep are usually unsuccessful. Spanos highlighted the similarities between alien abduction and sleep paralysis: most of the abduction experiences studied occurred during the night and most of the abductees reported symptoms very similar to the phenomenon of nocturnal paralysis: Cox instead divided the his twelve kidnapped, in six daytime abductions and six nocturnal, discovering in this way that the “night adducts” reported a paralysis of sleep significantly more frequent than any of the control groups.