Alien abduction stories

[Slickster]

Ok I'm usually not one to believe in stuff like this, nevertheless, I do have a story that I am unable to explain.

The year was 1990. I was in my last year of highschool and living at home with my family in fairly large 5 bedroom house. My room was in the basement.

The better TV was downstairs in the living room and that was where my Dad would set up for the evening to watch his shows. My sister and I would watch TV in the upstairs living room after finishing homework etc. This was the routine.

I've always been a "late night" type of person. Preferring to stay up after everyone else has gone to bed. Not sure why.

For some unknown reason on this particular night I decided NOT to sleep in my own bedroom downstairs. Instead I chose to sleep in the spare bedroom upstairs. The bed in there was not nearly as nice as mine so it's really weird that I wanted to sleep there. Anyhow I fell asleep in the spare room and the family dog decided to join me.

Sometime in the middle of the night I awoke suddenly to the dog violently barking right beside me. I immediately sat up and tried to open my eyes but there was a blinding light in the room which left me squinting. I can remember calling out to the dog who was barking uncontrollably but he would not stop. I remember looking out the window and seeing a bright light there. I also remember looking towards the door and seeing it start to open but as it opened the same blinding white light was there forcing my eyes shut so I couldn't see. I remember feeling panic and calling out.

My last recollection of the experience is an extremely weird relaxed sensation. I can remember SLOWLY lying back down on the pillow almost like I was floating. I remember my body feeling incredibly weak as though I didn't have control of my muscles. The very last moment I distinctly remember my head almost melting into the pillow, my eyes closing, and the dog insanely barking right beside my head.

I've never spoken about this experience with my family and have only told a few people about it. If I had never seen an alien abduction movie in my life I would probably dismiss this experience as a dream or something.

The part that really creeps me out is how could I fall back asleep like that with the dog barking so much right beside my head?

 

[CaptainJ]

Sounds to me like a dream. I've had my fair share of dreams: lucid and non-lucid and flitting between dreams and reality and this sounds like such an example.

Let's look at the possibilities:
You were dreaming, but you had such a dream that it seemed to be so real. Note how you can't really recall the ending, but you just remember returning to the pillow, possibly entering in and out of REM sleep thus binding what is real and what is in your dreams.

You were abducted by aliens.

Some guys outside were flicking a light on and off.

You have an undiagnosed mental disorder which can lead to sensory hallucinations.

Ofcourse, logically the most probable answer was that it was a dream, albeit one that felt so real that it may have been lucid. Do you remember any noises? I often find that in my dreams I can't remember what things sounded like and if you were wide awake then you would be able to accurately recall what things sounded like.

 

[Alle_Gory]

I've had some very realistic dreams like that. Testosterone levels will do that. Take a whole bunch of zinc and magnesium for a few days before you go to sleep and see what happens.

 

[Rogue]

One out of four people experience hypnagogic (before sleep) and hypnopompic (waking up) hallucinations at least once in their life, usually around periods of stress or sleep deprivation. It was a coincidence the dog was barking and, I would speculate, being startled awake by the dog may have helped trigger the hallucination.

A hypnopompic state (or hypnopomp) is the state of consciousness leading out of sleep, a term coined by the spiritualist Frederick Myers. Its twin is the hypnagogic state at sleep onset; though often conflated, the two states are not identical. The hypnagogic state is rational waking cognition trying to make sense of non-linear images and associations; the hypnopompic state is emotional and credulous dreaming cognition trying to make sense of real world stolidity. They have a different phenomenological character. Depressed frontal lobe function in the first few minutes after waking – known as "sleep inertia" – causes slowed reaction time and impaired short-term memory. Sleepers often wake confused, or speak without making sense, a phenomenon the psychologist Peter McKeller calls "hypnopompic speech." When the awakening occurs out of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, in which most dreams occur, the hypnopompic state is sometimes accompanied by lingering vivid imagery. Some of the creative insights attributed to dreams actually happen in this moment of awakening from REM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnopompic

 

[LiveFreeX]

Saw 2 in Mexico. Changed my perspective on life. Don't listen to these douchebags, they have no idea what the hell is beyond their office cubicle walls.

 

[Rogue]

In the wee hours of the morning on August 8, 1983, while I was traveling along a lonely rural highway approaching Haigler, Neb., a large craft with bright lights overtook me and forced me to the side of the road. Alien beings exited the craft and abducted me for 90 minutes, after which time I found myself back on the road with no memory of what transpired inside the ship. I can prove that this happened because I recounted it to a film crew shortly afterward.

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience. But thanks to recent research by Harvard University psychologists Richard J. McNally and Susan A. Clancy, we now know that some fantasies are indistinguishable from reality, and they can be just as traumatic. In a 2004 paper in Psychological Science entitled “Psychophysiological Responding during Script-Driven Imagery in People Reporting Abduction by Space Aliens,” McNally, Clancy and their colleagues report the results of a study of claimed abductees. The researchers measured heart rate, skin conductance and electromyographic responses in a muscle that lifted the eyebrow—called the left lateral (outer) frontalis — of the study participants as they relived their experiences through script-driven imagery. “Relative to control participants,” the authors concluded, “abductees exhibited greater psychophysiological reactivity to abduction and stressful scripts than to positive and neutral scripts.” In fact, the abductees’ responses were comparable to those of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients who had listened to scripts of their actual traumatic experiences.

The abduction study was initiated as a control in a larger investigation of memories of sexual abuse. In his book Remembering Trauma (Harvard University Press, 2003), McNally tracks the history of the recovered memory movement of the 1990s, in which some people, while attempting to recover lost memories of childhood sexual molestation (usually through hypnosis and guided imagery), instead created false memories of abuse that never happened. “The fact that people who believe they have been abducted by space aliens respond like PTSD patients to audiotaped scripts describing their alleged abductions,” McNally explains, “underscores the power of belief to drive a physiology consistent with actual traumatic experience.” The vividness of a traumatic memory cannot be taken as evidence of its authenticity.

The most likely explanation for alien abductions is sleep paralysis and hypnopompic (on awakening) hallucinations. Temporary paralysis is often accompanied by visual and auditory hallucinations and sexual fantasies, all of which are interpreted within the context of pop culture’s fascination with UFOs and aliens. McNally found that abductees “were much more prone to exhibit false recall and false recognition in the lab than were control subjects,” and they scored significantly higher than normal on a questionnaire measuring “absorption,” a trait related to fantasy proneness that also predicts false recall.

My abduction experience was triggered by sleep deprivation and physical exhaustion. I had just ridden a bicycle 83 straight hours and 1,259 miles in the opening days of the 3,100-mile nonstop transcontinental Race Across America. I was sleepily weaving down the road when my support motor home flashed its high beams and pulled alongside, and my crew entreated me to take a sleep break. At that moment a distant memory of the 1960s television series The Invaders was inculcated into my waking dream. In the series, alien beings were taking over the earth by replicating actual people but, inexplicably, retained a stiff little finger. Suddenly the members of my support team were transmogrified into aliens. I stared intensely at their fingers and grilled them on both technical and personal matters.

http://www.michaelshermer.com/2005/02/abducted/

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[LiveFreeX]

Debunkers have nothing better to do than shout NO at everything they see.

Deepdish you have been slamming this sh1t at every paranormal thread for the last 6 years, give it a rest. Maybe instead of sitting inside your little box and trying to explain away everything, you should go out and see the world a bit.

 

[Rogue]

Debunkers have nothing better to do than shout NO at everything they see.

Deepdish you have been slamming this sh1t at every paranormal thread for the last 6 years, give it a rest. Maybe instead of sitting inside your little box and trying to explain away everything, you should go out and see the world a bit.

Don't be an idiot. The wise Mark Twain advises against what I'm about to say, to never argue against a fool, but I'm going to give you my piece of mind.

For one, there is no real evidence of alien abductions. There are hallucinations; there are marks and little objects (of earthly origin) on people's bodies which they don't remember how it got there (because they didn't notice); but such does not suffice the burden of proof for reasonable justification for belief. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Before you can reach for out of this world explanations, you must rule out this world. UFOs are "unidentified flying objects" explained by aircraft/human behavior, natural phenomena, hallucinations, misinterpreting distances, hoaxes, and geographical peculiarities. By claiming something as unknown and unidentified, you cannot claim what it is. Just as "god in the gaps" is a logical fallacy, argument from ignorance is idiotic.

The improbability of traveling the precise trajectory in light years of space, even to find Earth in the first place, is so improbable that if you stacked a pile of dollar bills on the floor, the pile would reach Pluto. Nothing can survive in long-term space travel due to cosmic radiation and such would be expected to hold true for all life in the universe; worm holes are no answer. (Yes, there probably may be life on other planets, but that just is an independently different issue). People "seeing" aliens as little green men or thin white dudes with big black eyes is the psychology of influence of Hollywood movies, just as people with near death experiences seeing different versions of the after life based upon their mental preconceptual expectations. Like the philosopher Rene Descartes wrote, "When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."

So, really now.

 

[Zodiac]

People that see aliens need to answer two questions:

1) Before you saw the aliens did you see images of said Aliens?
2) Have you read anything on group delusions?

Seriously this Alien abduction s**t is nothing but the "Old Hag" phenomena.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Alien Abductions are just a form of this. Yes Aliens by the probability of the universe do exist but would they be going around probing people and implementing things in people instead of abducting and dissecting people for a version of science?

 

[Ease]

So are you posting this from the alien space ship? I'm surprised the internet works, was always so laggy last time i was up there.

Dont listen to Rogue, man just gets an erection every time he gets a chance to 'debunk' something. We believe you buddy.

 

[joverby]

I'm really on the fence about these things being some form of sleep paralysis or not too.

My buddy called me up one morning freaking out saying he saw a ghost and stuff after walking up and talked about how he was frozen until he started to pray, then he could move again. Said he couldn't even talk.

I googled what he was desribing and discovered sleep paralyisis. I told him about it and said that's what happend to him. He had a REALLY hard time believing me and that it wasn't real. Just because the experience and haulucination was THAT real.

 

[joverby]

But I have some abduction stories too.

RIGHT before my mom found out she was pregnant with me, she was in a tent camping outside. She had an elaborate dream about aliens coming down and abducting her.

My mom, my sisters and myself were out on our apartment balcony, during the day time(when I was 4) and I apparently looked up and said "look mommy a spaceship."

Like I said it was broad daylight but there was a huge spaceship of sorts up in the sky.(I don't remember this, but my memory is pretty sh1t from when I'm little)

My mom said we all went inside and acted like nothing happend at all, it was really weird.

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

The answer is really simple; they were just waiting for you to leave the room so they can root through your liquor cabinet.

Always keep an extra 40 on hand for just such a close encounter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdHUQtnJsyQ

 

[Alle_Gory]

There's also something called infrasound that makes people believe and feel they are seeing ghosts. Too much infrasound causes nausea and vomiting however. You can't hear it, it's a very very low frequency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound

 

[squirrels]

Maybe you DID have a "close encounter", but assuming you DIDN'T, I'm going to venture a guess as to what happened.

You said you slept in a bed you don't normally sleep in. I know that disruptions in one's sleep patterns can cause odd sleep effects. For example, one night I went to bed, went through my normal routine, then for whatever reason, I decided I was going to stay up a little bit later. This completely threw my sleep cycle off and I experienced a "night terror", one of those dreams where your body is stil asleep but you regain consciousness and feel like you are trapped, unable to move or breathe.

I am VERY careful with prepping for bed only when I fully intend to go to bed now. Not that I wouldn't be able to deal if it happened again, especially now that I can recognize it, but it's not pleasant.

I'm willing to bet there are irregular circumstances behind you sleeping in that bed, either temporally or otherwise, if this is an unusual place to sleep. I have trouble sleeping in new places as well.

This could have caused some kind of very vivid dream experience due to disruption of your normal sleep routine.

The answer is really simple; they were just waiting for you to leave the room so they can root through your liquor cabinet.

Always keep an extra 40 on hand for just such a close encounter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdHUQtnJsyQ

I keep a .45 for 'em.

 

[Vice]

There's also something called infrasound that makes people believe and feel they are seeing ghosts. Too much infrasound causes nausea and vomiting however. You can't hear it, it's a very very low frequency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound

I'm totally geeking out on this sh*t tonight at work. Fascinating.

I wonder if I can buy special audio equipment that can trigger infrasound for recreational use...

 

[5string]

Don't you get it fellas?

It was an alien HB9 with a Maglite who mind melded with the OP.

 

[Alle_Gory]

I wonder if I can buy special audio equipment that can trigger infrasound for recreational use...

Easier to make a resonator and use a couple of subwoofers to produce a "beat" from two different frequencies. I'm sure some people have made an infrasound generator like this.