Alien abductions ‘explained’
February 19, 2003
THEY have terrified those who experience them and baffled those who investigate them.
But alien abductions - along with ghosts and other paranormal visions that have spooked mankind for centuries - have a simple explanation, scientists are claiming.
A study suggests that visits from aliens and night-time ghostly encounters all result from a surprisingly common sleep disorder.
Professor Richard McNally said his research suggested a condition called sleep paralysis can account for many types of paranormal experiences.
In a study of those who claimed to have been abducted by aliens, he found all suffered from the condition.
In sleep paralysis, victims begin to awake from deep sleep and become partially conscious of their surroundings but remain paralysed.
Crucially, dreams can still intrude into their consciousness, appearing to be genuine experiences.
“Almost one in three of us will have episodes of sleep paralysis at some stage in our lives,” Professor McNally told a science conference.
One in 20, he added, experience sleep paralysis and vivid hallucinations. Professor McNally, of Harvard University, tested 10 adults who claimed to have been abducted by aliens and a similar number of people who did not.
“Crucially, the people who claimed they had been abducted had all had an episode of sleep paralysis,” Professor McNally said.
How people interpreted this experience depended on their culture, Professor McNally added.
“Sleep paralysis … has been reported in many different ways in many different cultures throughout history,” he said.
“In Newfoundland, it’s called being visited by the ‘old hag’. In the southern US, it’s being ‘ridden by the witch’. In the Middle Ages, it was interpreted as being visited by agents of the Devil.
In Massachusetts, it’s being taken up in a space craft and molested by aliens.”
Herald Sun
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I wonder how much the American Government paid the scientists to “make this discovery”. One word . . . “Propaganda”.
It makes you wonder though, how they knew the people who thought they had been abducted have had an episode of sleep paralysis. One word . . . “CONSPIRACY”.
“It makes you wonder though, how they knew the people who thought they had been abducted have had an episode of sleep paralysis. One word . . . “CONSPIRACY”"
Maybe because its “a surprisingly common sleep disorder” which makes that person prone to such an episode?
This certainly sounds possible and i wouldn’t say its just a conspiracy or whatever. but bleh, we will never 100% know the truth to things like this. We can’t tell where the lying starts and finishes
This report doesn’t explain physical evidence some abductees recieve. puncture holes on the neck and head for example.
It also doesn’t explain when more than one person have the same experience.
i reckon most of these things are a hoax; not just alien experiences, but things like scultures of ‘the virgin’ mary who weeps tears and scuplures of jesus who bleeds from its hands. Elaborate Hoax’s from fanatics.
That said, I feel there is more chance the alien stuff being true than the religious crap being true.
There is far more evidence to show that there is possibly aliens and that there is gods. There are even books showing a lot of evidence jesus didn’t even exist. We can see with telescopes that there is so many other planets other than ours that could be home to other life
-atariboy
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