Alien Abduction Explained by False Memory Syndrome and Sleep Paralysis

Whether the abduction of foreigners is scientifically stated as a product of sleep paralysis, erroneous memories, dreams, or simply overactive imagination. Abduction victims said they were awake from sleep and were brought to an alien spaceship. The explanation usually begins with an episode that sounds like sleep paralysis. Up to 60% of people experience sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis occurs before sleeping or waking up (Spanos, Cross & DuBreuil, 1993). Waking up from REM sleep, the brain and the body temporarily lose synchronization.

Clancy (2005) concluded that erroneous memory will arise when people who have a lively visual imagination and believe in foreign visits experience sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain emerges from REM sleep but the body is still paralyzed - this will happen to all of us, we will not dream our dream. While sleeping, the mind is conscious, but the image of the dream lasts and may cause the real world to feel a dream. For some people this experience is very painful. But, alone or with the help of treatment, they believe that they are allegedly abducted by aliens, as many abductees believe that these dreams of sleep are reality, not dreams. For Clancy's study, abductees formed samples of people who began to believe in their strong false memories. Therefore, there are individual differences in susceptibility to erroneous memory, abduction victims are extreme in this scale

Whether the abduction of foreigners is scientifically stated as a product of sleep paralysis, erroneous memories, dreams, or simply overactive imagination. Abduction victims said they were awake from sleep and were brought to an alien spaceship. The explanation usually begins with an episode that sounds like sleep paralysis. Up to 60% of people experience sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis occurs before sleeping or waking up (Spanos, Cross & DuBreuil, 1993). - Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) is a disease that does not show muscle paralysis or atrophy during REM sleep. Since there is no muscle atrophy, patients with RBD show "behavior" to "express" their own dreams, which can be harmful to themselves and surrounding people (Gagnon, Postuma, Mazza & Montplaisir, 2006, p. 425).