An Alien Abduction Story: Extraterrestrials, Spirit Abduction or Sleep Paralysis?
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For anyone who wonders about paranormal experiences, all they have to do is ask around. Many people have their own personal experiences. Within our circle of family, friends and acquaintances, we’d be surprised by the first-hand stories we hear. I am not a fan of unverified second-hand stories. But when people tell me their own actual experiences, it gets my attention.
I heard such a story this past weekend.
A young lady told me the following experience she had three years ago. She lived in a second floor apartment with her husband. Early one night while she was lying in bed with her husband sleeping next to her, she had not yet gone to sleep, when she noticed something outside the bedroom window. A large disk of light, nearly filling the window, rose up like a giant version of the moon. It became stationary, and she heard a buzzing sound. She became completely paralyzed. Her paralysis was so complete she could not wiggle a finger. She tried to awaken her sleeping husband but she was utterly unable to move. She was terrified. She felt an intense pressure, describing it as if something was inside her head trying to remove a part of her skull. This lasted for a couple of minutes when the disk of light moved away from the window and her paralysis ceased. She was frightened and could not sleep all night.
She then recounted an event that happened the previous day before her nighttime encounter. On occasion her job required her to drive to the bank. Usually it took half an hour. That prior day, after taking care of the banking business, while driving back to the office, she noticed something very strange. The clock in her car was over two hours past the time she left the office. Nearly two hours were missing. She hadn’t gone anywhere else, and had no idea where the time went. When she returned to the office late she didn’t give it much thought afterwards.
After her scary paralysis experience, she investigated what happened to her. Only after reading about other people’s similar experiences did she make the connection between her own missing time and the events that transpired the night afterwards. She was convinced aliens visited her. Missing time, paralysis, the disk of light, the feeling of having something implanted or removed are all common elements of the phenomena.
What should we think of her experience? Sleep paralysis combined with a waking hallucination would be a natural explanation. Sleep paralysis is said to replicate some of the alien abduction sensations. During REM sleep (rapid eye movement), the body is in paralysis. Otherwise the body would fling around during REM sleep repeating the behavior in the dream. When someone awakes from REM sleep, the body might continue this paralysis for a short time while conscious, which would be very disconcerting. Vivid hallucinations often accompany waking from REM sleep.
However, she said she hadn’t gone to sleep yet and was wide-awake. Plus we have the baffling missing time. IF it was not sleep paralysis, was it a paranormal event? Actual aliens? We don’t know. I can see why extraterrestrial intervention seems like the logical explanation for these phenomena. We assume aliens would have almost magical abilities with their technology. Perhaps a bit too magical.
Extraterrestrials seem to be invisible at will. They can enter houses with closed windows and touch an individual while their spouse sleeps undisturbed in the same bed. Can aliens move in and out of time and space? Sounds more like the behavior of spirits to me. Some say that alien abductions are really out-of-body spirit/faeire abductions. A clue is the buzzing sound and paralysis, which are the beginning stages of astral travel. Out-of-body episodes would explain the missing time as well. Was the disk of light a portal to where astral entities dwell?
She was lucky to have this experience. She had a chance, however frightening, to experience something otherworldly. If it was only (still rare) sleep paralysis, such an experience could be a learning experience in the origins of a lot of mythology. If it was a real encounter with aliens or spirits, better yet. THAT would really be a learning experience!
May 25th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Never had anything like that happen to me. There are other reasons for lost time, though. It’s a common symptom of multiple personality disorder (or whatever they’re calling it this week).
Long story how I know that.
May 25th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
It is hard to believe this stuff really happens, but this is what she experienced. When someone tells a personal experience like this it has credibility. It really makes me wonder what is actually going on. This young lady is a very credible woman. She is a law student.
May 26th, 2009 at 12:28 am
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May 26th, 2009 at 4:08 am
I’ve had some run-ins with the other side.. blogged about some of them here, if you don’t mind dropping by
May 26th, 2009 at 4:33 am
I don’t discount that odd and paranormal stuff happens.
I have plenty of stories of my own there, too. Lost time, though, has many explanations. I don’t know that alien abduction isn’t one of them, though.
May 26th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Hi Lynne, I’ll stop by and check out your experiences. I think people who are skeptics, all they have to do is ask around and they’ll hear strange stories that will challenge their skepticism. It seems almost everybody has at least one experience that might be paranormal.
May 26th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Stephanie, substance abuse can cause lost time. But then we’d know the cause and in that case it isn’t aliens!
May 31st, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I’ve had some interesting bouts of sleep paralysis, the weidest was probably seeing a dancing nun at the bottom of my bed. Another time there was an large angry red bee on my hand and I was terrified it was going to sting me, but when I fully woke I realised I had gone to sleep lying on my arm and had cut the circulation to my hand.
Whenever I have these episodes there is a strange smell which seems to be in my throat and nostrils, as opposed to coming from outside. I can’t describe the smell but it’s definitely not burnt toast.
May 31st, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Steve, your sleep paralysis is interesting. How long does it last? Can you move at all? That has to be a scary experience.
June 1st, 2009 at 7:06 pm
(Sorry for my English …)
I had before 20 years a UFO meeting.
It was so close …
I had seen more sites when seeing the UFO, then just UFO, that turn clues about connections between NASA & IDF & UFOs.
Because of that, some officers, which served in the army, talk to me as insane.
I see also many instruments and some aliens on my sleep.
(Maybe a warning sign of an earthquaque, but since I was insane, no-one listen to me).
For 20 years, I am keeping that case.
I live normal life (job, family, car, etc …)
I would like to talk to some famous people, to represent my story, like Edgar Mitchel.
I can send you the full story, but keep it on secret, please.
Thanks
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:53 am
Never had any missing time events, but I love reading about them.
Though, I do go through episodes of sleep paralysis very often and have had them since I was a teenager. Every event of missing time and even alien abduction stories I have heard sound absolutely nothing like a case of sleep paralysis. I’m sure what transpires during sleep paralysis varies from person to person, but, all the same, I’m baffled as to why so many are willing to use the condition as an excuse for the paranormal.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Lindsay, it certainly could sleep paralysis. However, what I find intriguing is that the day before she had missing time. Are they connected? Could sleep paralysis and missing time be symptoms of something similar? There are so many instances of this combination of experiences. I don’t know the answer.
June 8th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
I just had this experince last night I couldn’t move any part of my body and I was having trouble breathing. It felt like something was holding me down, I heard a ringing noise in my ear then sort of like a laugh followed by a buzzing noise in my room. Im still looking for an explanation…any thoughts?
June 8th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Hi Tristan, it could just be sleep paralysis. I never experienced sleep paralysis so I can’t say. In folklore it is called a “hagging”. The idea is of an old hag sitting on your chest trying to strangle you as you sleep. Sleeping disorders or just be a bad dream. Then again the dream world can be direct connection with higher realities.
June 12th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
I’ve experienced sleep paralysis upon waking many times. Always wondered if anyone else did. Usually happens when I’m awakening from the strangest dreams, usually involving aliens. Never seen the hag, but I can always feel someone in the room and can even feel the bed sag when they sit on the bed. If you want to fight this the only thing I’ve ever been able to do is concentrate on breathing and try to breathe harder. That usually breaks the paralysis.
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:06 am
I’m french from quebec,so i’ll try to be comprehensible.When i was young i had a couple of ”dreams”where someone invisible would take me off bed and carry me throught my house(even throught the celling).One day when i was five,my religion-moral teacher asked the class to draw ,in a book we had, something weird that happened home.(probably to detect child abuse and stuff).I spontaniously draw an invisible man taking me off bed and making me float around the house.Now,is it an astral travel i don’t know.Can anybody really tell what is an astral travel anyway???I mean,i was five then,but one of the ”dream-astral travel-thing i had” is still VERY clear to my mind.The reason why is because i’ve been scared.Now i’m an electrician and a pictural artist,i don’t know how credible is that,but you can all be sure it took me a lot of guts writing this down on the net.I’ve never personally drawn any conclusion about these experiences,I ‘m a VERY sceptical guy,and really these experiences could only be dreams,astral travels(???),or anything else.All i can do is to describe the one ”dream” that’s haunting me:I started to fly off my bed, but this time i went circling in my room and went close to the window,Then , i started to rise and got closer and closer to the ceiling.Once i got ,let’s say ,to a feet close to the ceiling , i raised my hands to prevend me to hit the ceiling ,and at this same time i REALLY got scared.Then i felt this weird feeling you have when you go into an rollercoaster,like your heart wants to leave you.And then i fell in my bed ,in a strange oblic fall,and i swear i felt the landing with my back and legs.I Know i’m not direcly responding to the topic and that i am exposing a personal experience.But i would like to ask this question:when we, or the physicians, or the scientist are giving names to the unexplanable,are we really resolving anything?Me for example,I don’t beleive in spirits,but if someone somewhere sees one with his own eyes,i could tell him anything, that he is been exposed to very low frequencies and that it has created ”Images” by deforming the curve of is eyes..or that he was exposed to too many stress and that he is in a state of extreme paranoia combined with a psychose…there no end to it.my point is,we will never know because we are limited by our senses and by the way we modelise the world around us,which is influenced by our physionomy and mental structures.I never wrote so many sentences a a row, i kwon that it shows…i just hope i’ve benn understandable a bit.Thanks
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:17 am
oh and i forgot.my mom really seen and ufo.It happened in Saint-Adolf in the laurentides,Quebec.And later that day the radio and television confirmed that radars of the us military base nearby had caught something really strange.These’s some weird stuff that are happening.now it happened to my mom,but it’s my mom and i beleive her.
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 am
Hi Simon,
That is very interesting. I am a big believer in people’s first hand experiences. These experiences are very real. What exactly is happening, we don’t know. But something is happening. I think skeptics dismiss people’s experiences, but when we add up all these experiences, it can’t just be disregarded. When I hear someone’s personal experiences with the paranormal, I listen intently for the details. In the details we might learn something important.
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:31 am
Simon, that sure sounds like an astral experience to me. Very interesting. This invisible person could be related to the alien/fairy phenomena. There is a long history in folklore and actual experiences (like your own) that suggest there are entities that sometimes interact with humanity, and carry away our astral body. The result is missing time, out-of-body experiences, and encounters with entities that seem to assume the form of images from our imagination. In the past they would be faeries, today they appear as UFO aliens. Why they choose some people, and not others is a question I would dearly love to understand. It is a rare and special experience, no matter how scary it is. In the details of the experience, we can learn valuable new information into the nature of this. Thanks for your personal story
August 9th, 2009 at 5:26 am
what scared me the most i guess was to speak about it…thanks dave,you’re a great guy.
September 7th, 2009 at 2:23 am
Hi Ann,
An encounter with entities is scary. But what can we learn from such an experience? From what I can figure out, these experiences are really rare and special. I want to understand what is going on. Dare we plunge into the unknown for hidden knowledge?
November 27th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Interesting article….yes I’ve read various articles (some on Christian websites!) that alien/UFO phenomenon could be linked to ghosts/demons/spirits/etc. The interesting thing is, according to eye-witness accounts, UFOs completely disobey our natural laws of physics; eg., gravity and inertia have no effect on UFOs! Definitely seems like a spiritual entity to me….
November 28th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Hi RG,
If aliens can dematerialize, pass thru walls and abduct an individual without waking up their spouse in bed, and return them later without incident, thatis a pretty good trick even for the most advanced extraterrestrial civilization. But if these aliens are spiritual entities of some type, then invading the consciousness at night when someone is most susceptible is the way to go. They could still be aliens, but extra-dimensional and not extraterrestrial.
Dave
December 21st, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Hi David.
I think your theory on extra-dimensional and not extraterrestrial is very interesting. I often have sleep paralysis and it is quite alarming.
With it there’s usually a feeling of fear as I ‘feel’ another being within the room. It’s hard to decipher what is real as everything around me is as it would be in waking life -including time.
Even my dogs have interacted with my paralysis/hallucination. On one occassion, as I felt ‘the entity’ getting near me (yet I could not move) my dog began to growl and bark. I could feel my dogs’s hair on my toes/feet so I knew I was half-conscious. It was strange that I knew I was half-asleep and frightened and yet my dog was confirming my fear with his bark.
I will say, though, that in the last few months the word entities has been prevalentin my dreams.
In one dream, I sat with a coven and they were teaching me psychometry and how to use that along with wielding energy to remove entities that plague humans.
I have no idea where this idea came from.
December 21st, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Hi Rose,
Sleep paralysis could be entirely natural, but it could also be a doorway to the astral realm. Your dream about being taught psychometry is interesting. You might have spiritual guides trying to contact you. The form they appear in would not their true form, but how we perceive them. I’d suggest trying to communicate with them more deeply next time, and get a feel if they are only a dream, or if they feel like sentient, self-aware entities. You may learn truly valuable insights. Many times dreams reveal hidden insights that seem to have come from somewhere else.
Dave
January 24th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
I have had this frequently since about the age of 9. I always believed that the people that thought they were actually dealing with entities (ETs, dimensional beings or otherwise) just did not understand their own minds very well. As the sleep paralysis continued into my 30s I had learned to fearlessly gain control of the experience and turn them into OBEs. The OBE experience is similar to the sleep paralysis in that the perceived world is a mixture of dream and reality. The main difference is that I am totally mobile (fly and go through or sit on walls) and the pressure,noise and ambient fear are gone. I have had this experience in unfamiliar physical settings where in the OBE I went into unknown rooms/spaces that I could later verify as reality the next day when awake. One of the most interesting things to do in this OBE state is to find a mirror and look at my reflection. I have no face just kind of vibrating skin that is somehow confusing to look at but I cannot explain how so. I don’t know what the hell that is all about but I have never seen my face in the mirror in an OBE. It is ALWAYS the same. The rest of my body is perfectly normal- although I am floating. Clocks are also strange like this. Digital clocks just swirl and watches with hands are broken off and loose under the glass of the watch face. In this state I have also had prophetic type experiences but it is rare. So, as a result of all this, my views have radically changed on the otherworldly nature of sleep paralysis. Speaking of otherworldly, I started regularly seeing UFO about a year ago. I always thought UFOs were even more silly than I had previously thought taking SP entities as real. Now I know UFOS are real. I usually see stationary star sized flashes above my at 90 degrees or slightly lower. The flashes are randomly spaced and stay in the exact same spot for sometimes over 20 minutes- then just stop. So, because I am the same guy that has always experienced sleep paralysis, I am beginning to wonder if the sleep paralysis/alien abduction phenomenon is not an either or question. Instead both theories are needed to grasp the meaning of these experiences.
January 24th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
From age nine to about 33 the sleep paralysis happened almost nightly. While I was in college, it was every time I went to sleep. Now that I am 39. it occurs more like monthly. I miss the experience now that it is more infrequent even though it is a very trying ordeal.
January 24th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Hi Matt,
Thanks for recounting your experience; your story is fascinating. Your account of the OBE has wonderful details, and in these details are the clues to understanding the Unseen World. Why was your face not visible in the mirror during the OBE? That is a very good question and I don’t have an answer, only guesses. As for UFOs, are they physical realities, do they exist outside of time/space or both simultaneously? You are lucky; you are in a position to investigate these enigmas!
Dave