posted on Mar, 27 2007 @ 03:38 PM
Why is it so hard to accept what they are trying to say as fact enstead of coming out with a dimented explanation to serve peoples narrow-minded
medical and scientific justification?
That's easy, because there is plenty of evidence for the existence of sleep paralysis, a phenomenon that has been occurring since humans have been
sleeping, and there is no real evidence for alien abduction. It should be much harder for you to answer why you believe the experiences people are
reporting as alien abductions are actually cases in which little grey men with large eyes are taking people to their space ships to fondle their
genitals and poke things into their navels when there is a much more simple and down to earth explanation.
Sleep paralysis experiences are cross-cultural and basically have been following the same format as alien abductions for centuries, except that you
need to substitute the folklore of the times in place of little grey men. For instance, in Europe it used to be a demon or a witch that visited you
during sleep paralysis, in China it was, maybe still is, a ghost. The Japanese have had a term for it for quite a while which means "bound in
metal" to describe the paralysis aspect of the experience.
But hey, if you don't want to take into account the huge amount of cultural data, the scientific evidence about sleep and what happens to you during
sleep (sleep stages, etc), then certainly be my guest to believe in the folklore of our times, but at least realize you're just caught up in modern
day fairy tales: you have no proof and are deluding yourself into belief based only on what people say, as if people cannot be mistaken in whatever
experiences they have, or that people cannot misinterpret strange experiences such as sleep paralysis. Taking someones word for something like this,
or any other such phenomenon, is the first step to self-delusion, as soon as you step back and seriously consider fact and evidence, the whole
abduction hypothesis falls apart.