Andrew Huberman· PhD
But it is quite possible that people are experiencing these things and they are an invasion of the sleep state into the waking state and they can last several minutes or longer.
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But it is quite possible that people are experiencing these things and they are an invasion of the sleep state into the waking state and they can last several minutes or longer.
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And there is a theory in the academic and scientific community at least, that what people report as alien abductions have a certain number of core characteristics that map quite closely, yearly similarly to these experiences. A lot of reports of alien abduction involve people being unable to move, seeing particular faces, hallucinating, extensively feeling like their body is floating, or they were transported. This is very similar to the experience of invasion of atonia into the waking state, waking up and still being paralyzed. As well as the hallucinations that are characteristic of dreaming and REM sleep.
it adequately explains most if not all alien abduction stories because when was the last time you saw a news article or on the news that someone said okay today it was very clear that Jimmy in Wisconsin in the middle of the day was abducted by aliens and everyone saw it you know you're at the meeting table and whoosh what happened that was Jimmy he just got whisked off by alien doesn't happen that way it's normally that you're in bed at night it's the early morning hours just before you're waking up these aliens came into the room they injected something into you they paralyzed you you couldn't shout you couldn't move it's simply REM sleep paralysis
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