Fascinating Alien Abductions

Great thread. thought I'd share a posting of mine from the Australian blog at ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com...

"Another topic which appears to have relevance to UFO abductions is the subject of "false awakenings."

Definition:

False awakenings are episodes in which a person believes they wake up from sleep, in their normal surroundings, e.g. their bedroom. They might then get out of bed, visit the bathroom, have breakfast or carry out other everyday activities. However, they then really wake up. The preceding recollections had in fact occurred while they were still asleep. Hence the name "false awakening."

Celia Green:

False awakenings can occur after both lucid dreams (dreams where you realise that you are dreaming) and non-lucid dreams. False awakenings seem to occur more among individuals who frequently have lucid dreams. (Click here for more on Lucid dreams.)

Celia Green (Green. 1968. Lucid Dreaming. London. Hamish Hamilton) described a type-2 false awakening. These are instances in which a person appears to wake up normally and finds themselves in bed. The surroundings may at first seem normal, but then the environment becomes unusual or uncanny, and a "funny" atmosphere sets in. Alternatively, the person may awake immediately to a "stressed" or "stormy" feeling. In either case, the individual can experience fear and panic, or hallucinatory or apparitional effects are noticed. This may be accompanied by an apparent paralysis or out-of-body experience. (Click here for more on Green.)

To an outsider, a person undergoing any one of these experiences would appear to be asleep, lying with eyes closed.

Peter McKellar:

These false awakenings can seem very real. Peter McKellar, a psychologist, wrote a book titled "Experience and behaviour" (Penguin. London. 1968) and cites the following example. (Click here for more on McKellar.)

A young couple had a routine of the wife getting breakfast for her husband, then seeing him off to work, before preparing for work herself. One morning, the woman recalled waking up, getting out of bed, washing, dressing, making breakfast and finally being in the process of kissing goodbye to her husband. Then she really woke up to find she was still in bed. Her husband was leaning over her kissing goodbye to her.

Her husband told her that he had woken up that morning, to find her still asleep in the bed so he left her there sleeping. He made himself breakfast and was kissing her goodbye when she woke up.

The woman had experienced a false awakening, where her recollections of being awake and doing a number of things, occurred while she was still asleep. These recollections were "as real as real." Yet it was all created within her own mind.

Relevance to abductions?:

Imagine someone waking up during the night. A grey figure in in their bedroom. The being communicates with them via telepathy. The alien disappears through the wall. The witness then wakes up to find themselves in bed. They feel that the alien episode was real, but it actually was a false awakening with the imagery of the figure derived from their mind's recollections of a film, a book or any other manner of data infeed from previous real life.

Falling sleep:

One of the odd things about accounts of UFO abductions which has always puzzled me, is the way that an event happens and then the abductee/experiencer says that at the end of the experience they simply either find themselves in their bed, or simply fall asleep. It is something that is mentioned time and time again in the UFO literature.

You would think that after such an extraordinary event, an alien abduction, that the last thing a person would do, is fall asleep. Yet this is what is repeatedly described.

Examples of this may be found in John Mack's book "Abduction" page 158 where abductee Catherine, at the end of the experience says "So I went back and got into bed and went to sleep."

Abductee Paul (Mack p221) "He had been coming out of a dreaming sleep when he heard a loud buzzing...went back to sleep..."

Other Mack abductees speak of finding themselves in bed at the end of their abduction.

Abductee Scott (Mack pp99-100( "After this Scott remembered being "dropped in bed" in his room feeling very frightened and also angry, but had no recollection of how he was returned."

Abductee Jerry (Mack p126) "The next thing I was back in bed, waking up."

Abductee Eve (Mack p241) "...dreams of beings in her room that are still there when she wakes up..."

Abductee dave (Mack p274) "At this point Dave said that he 'blacked out' or lost consciousness or something...The next thing I knew I was lying in bed on my side."

My comments:

My thoughts are that what if the "abduction" event occurred in the state of a "false awakening?" Then believing that you fell asleep at the end of the event, would be quite normal, given that you were never awake at the time.

I think that false awakenings have real relevance to some UFO abductions. Perhaps this is another entry point to an abduction experience as has previously been suggested for sleep paralysis; migraine auras and prodromes; hypnagogic/hypnopompic imagery; fantasy-proneness, and courtesy of Jenny Randles, vasovagal syncope.

Sleep paralysis and false awakening:

What is the difference between sleep paralysis and false awakening? Both experiences occur on the boundary between sleep and awake.

With sleep paralysis, you wake up from rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep where you are dreaming, and can't move, apart from your eyes. Hypnopompic imagery may occur at this point.

With a false awakening, you remain asleep but believe you are awake, and can recall undertaking everyday items such as getting out of bed etc which seems "as real as real." Finally, you really wake up, know you are in consensus reality but can vividly recall your experiences you have just had. When fully awake the false awakening memories remain with you and still feel "as real as real.""

While false awakenings can account for SOME abduction scenarios, they cannot account for the daytime, driving in a car and being taken into a craft scenario. Many abductions occur while NOT in bed and NOT during the night. False awakenings cannot account for physical trace evidence such as implants, bruising, bloody noses, and radiation levels being above average.

To me it seems like we are all grasping at straws trying to rationalize and explain away something that is neither rational or explainable (at this point in our evolution)

--GeminiSky

Why is it that only the ones that don't want to be abducted do...I mean hell....I've been waiting for more than 35 years for that particular chance.....I guess they don't like Canadian bacon ???

I have contemplated since this happened actually coming here and posting about it but it is weighing heavily enough on me that I feel the need to.

About 2 months ago my daughter awoke me hysterical at the foot of my bed at 1:30 in the morning saying there had been an alien standing over her bed watching her sleep,. I was not quite awake yet so it took me a few minutes to get my wits about me. She explained that she started screaming and it pulled out this thing it aimed at the wall which opened up a black circle it climbed into. She said it happened like time was just stopped.As soon as it was thru the room was warm again, the cat moved, she was able to leave the bed.

My daughter is 11. I do not doubt her story, who would I be after all my own experiences to question it? The interesting part is the device it aimed at the wall and opened a portal. She drew me a picture. It was an abnormally tall grey with fingers she described like Patrick's from sponge bob.Huge eyes that took up its entire face, black and dead. She said it was more blobby than the skinny aliens we all hear about. Struck me as odd. It was wearing a coat over a shiny jumpsuit. Seems the typical attire.

It bothered her for awhile but she told me a few weeks ago, there is nothing we can do to stop them from studying us.

Hope I can post this here. This is a recollection I have from when I was about 5 or 6, my older brother remembers it too, he is 2 years older. It was in the 70's. Me and my brother are playing in our bedroom at night, bouncing on our bunk beds, I cannot remember if we had our light on or a lamp on, but anyway, suddenly there was a brilliant bright white light seem to come into the room, a blinding kind of light. Next thing there seemed to be an opening/door whatever in one of the bedroom walls. The member above OF TH ETHER mentioned a "wall which opened up a black circle it climbed into".
It was that line that made me think of my own experience. Anyway, next thing I can remember is being guided/shown around the ufo/spaceship whatever you want to call it. But it was not by one the the grey aliens you read all about, but by those blonde haired nordic looking ones, I was taken to somewhere where there was maps/star maps of galaxies whatever, and the being showing me around was pointed at certain stars/places, cannot remember what for. That is all I could ever remember, but it has always stuck with me.

I do not like to tell this to people, obviously, they would think I was a crank or something, but I still recall it now, and my brother has vague recollections still of it.

Originally posted by CHA0S
reply to post by Fox Molder

 

How about the movie " The Fourth Kind" that movie absolutely fascinated me.

I'm pretty sure none (or very little) of the footage in that movie was real. I'm not 100% though.

2nd.

edit on 20/10/10 by CHA0S because: (no reason given)

Yes. The movie was a movie that "pretended" to be a documentary, just like Blair Witch.
None of the movie footage was real - except in the sense that it was "really filmed", just like any other movie.

Originally posted by GeminiSky
Hey everyone,

Its been a while since I posted anything so I will share various alien abduction accounts and sketches that I have recently come across while surfing the web.

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Nice illustration.
I'm not sure if these were "alien abductions" but we had two mysterious disappearances in my family. The most puzzling was my oldest brother, when he was just a few weeks old. My mom had left him lying on their bed. She came back in the room and he was gone. They searched the whole house and couldn't find him. But a short time later, they went back to their bedroom and he was back lying on the bed. This totally mystified my parents and they often talked about it.

(Note: For some reason, I always thought it was aliens who took him. That was my thoughts, even before I ever heard about "alien abductions" like the Betty and Barney Hill case.)