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Surprisingly, overt mental illness may be one of the least likely explanations for abduction experiences. Research has previously suggested that alien contactees are no more likely to show signs of mental illness than the general population, a finding which has been backed up by several other studies. However, many features once thought present only in mental illness have now been discovered to be held by much of the population. If we look at the healthy population as a whole, these features seem to exist on a continuum with some people reporting anomalous thoughts and feelings or having certain traits more than others. In this vein, it seems people who report themselves as abductees are more likely to endorse unusual experiences, be creative and imaginative, have depressive ideas, be suspicious, have dissociative tendencies and to have suffered childhood trauma.
The Japanese call it kanashibari, represented as a devil stepping on a hapless sleeper's chest; the Chinese refer to it as gui ya, or ghost pressure.
it is also rather hard to believe my own imagination would be as vivid and capable, when my dreams are for the most part; really stupid.
Strassman, a psychiatrist in New Mexico, traces spirituality to a single compound, dimethyltryptamine, or '___'. In his book '___': The Spirit Molecule, Strassman proposes that '___' secreted by our own brains plays a profound role in human consciousness. Specifically, he hypothesizes that endogenous '___' triggers mystical visions, psychotic hallucinations, alien-abduction experiences, near-death experiences, and other exotic cognitive phenomena.
But what makes '___' unique among the known psychedelics is that trace amounts of it naturally occur in the human body. Scientists first isolated '___' in human blood in 1965, and in 1972 a group led by the Nobel laureate Julius Axelrod of the National Institutes of Health detected the compound in human brain tissue.
Volunteers also reported visions that did not fit neatly into Strassman's scientific or spiritual worldview, however. Forty-seven percent encountered otherworldly beings, variously described as clowns, elves, robots, insects, E.T.-style humanoids, or "entities" that defied description. These bizarre beings were not always friendly. One of Strassman's subjects claimed to have been eaten alive by insectoid creatures. In part out of concern about this negative experience, Strassman discontinued his research.
Originally posted by LiveForever8
reply to post by serenesupreme
Hey serenesupreme, thanks for sharing your experience
That sounds like a case of sleep paralysis to me.
The buzzing.
Inability to move.
Acute sense of danger.
Dont know if you clicked this link but it includes a picture Henry Fuseli which might interest you.
Also:
The Japanese call it kanashibari, represented as a devil stepping on a hapless sleeper's chest; the Chinese refer to it as gui ya, or ghost pressure.
Strange how there are so many similar instances from all over the world.
Also, you might want to check if you saw anything on television, comic book etc or heard anything on radio that could have acted as a trigger.
I believe that things we experience in everyday life can be the catalyst.
Thanks.
Don't know what you hope to acheive with this thread but I'll keep reading it and post any additional info if I think it will help.