(January 23, 2017 at 1:12 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Hell I don't pay it much mind when loads of people swear they've been abducted by aliens in the night nowadays.
The "abducted by aliens" thing was most likely a Sleep Paralysis episode (AKA Old Hag Syndrome). I am quite familiar with this as I experience it myself from time to time. The hallucinations can be visual, auditory, tactile or a combination but they can seem very real and they can sometimes be quite terrifying.
If you every have an episode yourself, you will understand why some people will believe in things like ghosts, demons and aliens. It's really just all in your head though. It's nothing more than a benign and harmless stress and fatigue induced sleep disorder but it will freak you out if you don't understand what is actually going on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
[QUOTE]The Nightmare is a 2015 documentary that discusses the causes of sleep paralysis as seen through extensive interviews with participants, and the experiences are re-enacted by professional actors. In synopsis, it proposes that such cultural memes as alien abduction, the near death experience and shadow people can, in many cases, be attributed to sleep paralysis. {/QUOTE]
