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A was more curious and slightly amused when I experienced it (2 times one night) because I had heard about it quite a lot by that time. Although I might be misremebering it.
Happened to me once. I thought the devil was on top of me. I tried to say a prayer, but my mouth wouldn't move. Fortunately when I woke up I knew what it really was.
@@carissstewart3211 The first one was a very enlightening experience for me regarding the similarities between people's stories about abductions, because my experience was so similar, though I never believed I was abducted. I knew I was just not awake, and my brain was messing with me.
I experienced it twice myself. In one case, it was 6 bright red lights in a grid pattern pointed down at me from an angle, that had a feeling of "presence" to them. but, if I looked around the room, they moved with my vision. I actually joked about it being aliens, because the experience was so similar. The other time I was much younger, and I don't remember it clearly. It was a hooded "monster" holding a red lantern looming over my bed with a hand on my chest. I oddly felt no chest pressure during my second encounter later in life. Most experiences I read have blue or white lights as well, so that shows little details vary here and there.
It's interesting that you should say this, Mathias. There has been considerable research into "alien abduction", and there is overwhelming testimony to substantiate the insidious reality of it. The pioneering work of Dr. David Jacobs, the late Karla Turner are a good place to start. I know people that have been affected by the ET alien presence that is on and around our World today. Alien abduction is a violation of the individual, and a crime against humanity. It is happening to men, women and children all around the World. The victims not only suffer the violation by ET, but also ridicule, dismissal etc. by some of human society. There is ignorance, denial and coverup and the clandestine nature of the ET Intervention, serves its agenda, perfectly. More about the nature and activities is disclosed at Human Sovereignty org.
I have sleep paralysis a couple of times a month, with the expected weird backstory every time. I've known about the phenomenon since I was a lot younger (I'm 60), so I've never claimed to have been abducted by aliens. The entities involved are not always aliens, either; sometimes it's demons, or lost loved ones, "shadow people," or just weird but unidentifiable creatures. I find that if I can turn the situation to something pleasurable, like sex, using Lucid Dreaming techniques, the bodily sensations are anything BUT scary. Often, if I force myself to feel an object in my hand, and find my hand empty when I wake up, the paralysis will end immediately.
I too have it every month or so and have recently started to happen in the last couple of years. Lately I find they don't happen to feel like I am as trapped as I used to be and when I start to realize what's going on my dream ends quicker and also the paralysis part ends quicker as well.
I usually get the "shadow people." It's never felt too real, or been too scary. They usually *run* out of the room or fade away. It's definitely close to feeling like someone's there.
@@Nyambui originally I had a presence feeling or a dark figure in the room. The first few times it happened I had such an overwhelming sense of fear that I have never ever felt in my life something didn't quite add up. I couldnt look around or move. Another time later i actually "sat up" tried to "swing" at the entity and called out to my wife but then that's when I realized I was still laying in bed. Now days I feel more like "oh this thing again" I just relax and it usually passes quicker.
@@shamrock5725 I'm glad it's never been that bad for me. A couple of times it's felt like someone has invaded the home, I'll wakeup wondering if I slept through or woke up during a home invasion. It's always one though, a group of them would be pretty intense.
Damn that’s cool you can control it now. I have them too rarely to remember what’s happening lol so they’re always traumatizing. Wake up the next morning exhausted telling my husband, “you have any idea what I just went through??” 😂 What’s scary is i hallucinate figures with my eyes and voices right in my ears. Like I can feel their breath. 😭
Me too..then 30 years later the same thing and same figure was over my son. He was 12 at the time. He never new of my experience but described the exact same being and experience. Ironically we both called out to Jesus and it immediately went away. I believe 100%
Fun fact: all my knowledge of sleep paralysis allowed me to help my mom learn that her 2 biggest paranormal encounter events were probably sleep paralysis.
This sounds nothing like the abduction phenomenon. What "abductees" experience tends to be a very specific set of symptoms and visuals that sleep paralysis simply can't account for. What is being presented here is pure speculation while in reality we still have no idea how or why this phenomenon occurs.
@@The_Indomitable_Human_Spirit_1 There's no way you're taking the words of someone who DOESN'T study UFO's more seriously than the literal FBI and MILITARY REALEASING VIDEOS OF ACTUAL UFO'S. Now you're the lunatic nobody would believe, even when the evidence is in plain sight.
Even knowing what sleep paralysis is when it happens it is still terrifying. I experience it a couple times a year and when you are in a panic it's difficult to remind yourself this isn't real and it will pass. Then again it warps your time perception so what is in fact only a couple minutes can seem like it went on for hours.
How Hank looked when he says "Consciousness" at 4:59 has officially convinced me that he is the only person qualified to play the Joker. Now we just gotta get #HankGreenJoker trending and make it happen.
There are monsters in many cultures who sit on a person's chest while they are sleeping and try to strangle them or similar. They could easily have come out of the combination of sensing a threatening presence and feeling pressure on the chest while unable to move.
People in Iran one would simply say, oh anyways last night a bakhtak was sitting on my chest for a whole 10 minutes, I was freaking out. Even if you don't believe in this stuff , it's a common phrasing of the sleeping paralysis experience.
I am sorry but this doesn't explain the phenomena. I experience sleep paralysis multiple times a week and sometimes multiple times a night. What these people are experiencing is quite different and cannot be explained by sleep paralysis when there are multiple witnesses or a shared experience.
As a person who consistently suffers from sleep paralysis. I don't see how certain details like lights could be in those misremembering of said experiences. As every time I have episode its very much dark. But as far as feelings of floating or moving. Unable to move, feeling pressure or movement or choking, are all experiences I have had. They can be terrifying but the compelling accounts of abduction I have read rarely start in a bed, or were they sleeping before the event.
I've experience sleep paralysis a few times but it's been a while. My memory is of fear, but not knowing why. Slowly the paralysis wears off as does the fear. I had a very similar sensation when a tilt table test identified that I have POTS. Once laid back horizontal and my heart restarted, I was paralyzed for some time until it wore off, but once again I had the feeling of fear.
I woke up from a bad dream kicking the blanket of me to then see 2 very bright human shapes sort of translucent looking without features at the bottom of the bed I got out of bed and they fizzled away in a sort of wave formation I then went to the toilet saying to myself what the f were them ,they fascinated me so I researched about this type of thing and was shocked to see photos of whats called interdimensional beings that looked exactly like what I seen one taller than the other aswell, I was not asleep I know what I seen ,
While phenomena like sleep paralysis and false memories are certainly responsible for some of the abduction experience, the sheer volume of people having these experiences, and the physical evidence that often accompanies them, shouldn't be immediately dismissed.
And what if people KNOW how sleep paralysis feels like and claim it was not it, and what if that they DON'T aspire to be abducted by aliens, but still have very realistic feeling of abduction, along with strange markings on their body? What then?
This sounds similar to an article on RationalWiki. The article proposes that the reason why we believe aliens exist is because of this type of mental play. It is aliens today, but in the days of our ancestors, it would have been fairies or gods.
Here's the thing I've seen things that I don't have the scientific knowledge to understand that appeared supernatural, but the difference is I am well aware there are false memories, optical and auditory illusions, and hallucinations. And like a scientist I consider ways I could be sure my eyes and ears deceive me. I think well I've never physical felt these beings, and additionally it does looking appear to nothing more than an optical illusion or hallucination when I really consider what I think I saw. While it's not as if I tested it the point is I don't assume that it something at all let alone a particular sort of thing with no evidence it exists. More importantly supernatural things don't exist once we understand it it's not supernatural anymore. And if we don't understand it it's just something we don't know not something that isn't possible to know.
Rationalwiki isn't always reliable. To see this for yourself, find an article on rationalwiki, then go find an article on the same topic over on conservapedia. You'll find that VERY often, the articles were clearly copy-pasted from one to the other. A common thing I see over on conservapedia is that it'll be made up of lines copy-pasted from rationalwiki, but with extra stuff sprinkled in through out the article. I'm guessing people like to make articles like that to make it look like rationalwiki is omitting facts on controversial topics. I've also seen a lot of complaints from older users how fans of conservapedia were sabotaging rationalwiki. And even if its not from conservapedia, its pretty common for rationalwiki to post false facts about scientific beliefs. Rationalwiki is really just a new atheist site that's recently been attacked by conservatives. And no, new atheists aren't the brightest of individuals. New atheists often DO preach false scientific facts, not to mention most of their followers are just fools who got sick of being called stupid online (I was one myself once, just so we know). Yes, some sites like snopes have cited rationalwiki in the past, but the people making the articles there are NOT experts, and in recent years the site's really gone downhill. You really shouldn't see it as a valid source. Frankly, its no more reliable than wikipedia. In all honesty, its just like wikipedia but it was created by new atheists, and then taken over by right-wing trolls.
I had sleep paralysis with a night terror last night and I was aware of sleep paralysis (it has happened to me 2 times before last night, always after being up for too many hours due to a major deadline or something that made me stay up longer than I wanted to) so I didn't completely freak out, but it is still very alarming. I could see a dark figure standing next to my bed looking down at me, but the room was too dark to see the figure. I was leaned on my right side and my vision was slightly obstructed, like as if the sheet was over my face and I was looking from under the sheet. There was a green flashing light that flashed about every 3 seconds, originating from a single point (when I woke up I immediately checked my room for anything like a fire alarm, glade plug in, electric toothbrush, or something that could have been blinking green like that, but nothing). I remember trying to move my arms and body, but having that feeling like when your arm falls asleep and you want to move it but can't. I always sleep with my bedroom door closed and locked. I have black out shades on both my windows. I know how crazy this sounds, but I felt like something was studying me. I don't remember being moved or abducted, but it felt like the entity staring down at me was observing/monitoring me. No one can see into my room from the outside, so if something is able to teleport into my room via technology or through evolutionary means (we know alternate dimensions exist and there are parallel worlds, potentially infinite worlds), then that could explain it. I believe it was way more likely just sleep paralysis+night terrors and my brain trying to make sense of what I perceived, but I don't rule out alternate explanations regardless of how unlikely it is. The universe is vast, we are so small.
Good Afternoon, I think that this is very interesting but when it comes down to it, a second study would need to be conducted about why the three group had difficulty remembering. A hypothesis could be surrounding emotional flooding. The third group sounds like their feelings (possibly of fear) surrounding the event had not been explored, which, in general does produce a lowered ability to recall and an increased need to insert memories which cause similar feelings.
No evidence? What about Betty & Barney Hill? What about Travis Walton? What about author Whitely Strieber? These are three well known cases with evidence.
In the medieval era, the same symptoms of sleep paralysis were interpreted as being kidnapped by a witch, or hag, and being ridden by said witch through the skies like a broomstick. The victim was returned very much the worse for the wear. In their bleary- eyed and eye- circled state, they were described as hag-kept, from which concept the word haggard is derived.
I had my first memorable Exploding Head Syndrome experience the last time I had sleep paralysis. Usually I don't get auditory or much visual hallucinations. The sense of dread came first then I started hearing whispering about how amusing my aroused state was. Their snickers had words placed in the wrong order. My immersion into fear started to break when some scary music started deafening me. I knew it was a hallucination and it couldn't harm my ears so I tried to recognize the music until it became a mundane suspense theme. Dream states can be very novel in how they mix your subconscious thoughts! I don't appreciate narratives that give power to unsrutable entities when they are an innocent reflection of our quirky memories. Don't get pulled into the mass hysteria for nothing because a critical mind is more fun.
@@joshuab2437 not everything is demons. There are other gods, you know. Legion is my God. Your god is an old liar volcano god that weaponized victimhood. He's gross
When someone starts talking about angels and demons, it's normal. When people talk about aliens or watching videos of aliens or movies , it's insane. It's not insane. What's insane is if some random person kills indecent people for no reason at all. What's insane if someone sees stuff that no one else sees. What's insane is if someone is paranoid of random stuff. What's insane is someone scared of every one. What's insane is someone not trusting no one even thier own family. The point is if you talk about aliens or watch stuff like aliens videos or movies or all of them, it doesn't mean your insane, but if you see stuff that others don't see that means your insane.
This theory could possibly make sense in some cases with regard to abductions that occur at night while a person is lying in bed. But it does not explain alien abduction that occur when an individual is wide awake and has not been asleep, which there are many cases of.
When I was a kid I woke up suddenly and couldn't move, especially my legs. I wiped my eyes of sleep dirt (Frank Zappa's term) and low and behold our big fat cat was asleep between my legs above the covers. No aliens, no Bigfoot, no ancient alien, no Giorgio A. Tsoukalos . Just a big fat cat, although he always acted suspicious.
I remember watching a golden spaceship like that near my house when i was 8. My father also remember that. But we agree we were blocking something darker, thou idk what it was.
I've had a couple of vivid nightmares about alien abduction. It was terrifying at first. Fortunately I'm familiar enough the the sleep paralysis hypothesis that I realized that the experience wasn't real and was able to force myself awake during them. I can totally see how someone could misattribute an experience like that though.
I don't feel up to writing alot at this time, but I will tell you that I had sleep paralysis/night terror's for years and years presented by the same two 'entities' every time. I concluded that it was a 'spiritual' thing, and at one particular time, I 'awoke' in the paralysis state and instead of the fear factor, I was PISSED OFF this time. I was sick and tired of being sick and tired and the old hag sitting on top of my chest suddenly became aware of the 'change in my energy vibration' and looked at me. THAT is when I was able to communicate with her in a telepathic sort of way. My message was simple, "I SEE YOU!" and that did it! No longer was there any FEAR for her to feed on and she had been seen! I saw fear in HER then. Also in the shadow man that was suddenly uncovered standing not far away from me. 'I SEE YOU TOO!' my mind shouted and they 'ran'. I do not mean that ran as we would run. They made haste to get away from the spirit IN me. I felt just as much power coming *from* me as I had felt their power in pushing on me prior and to this day, I have NEVER had another episode. I'm convinced this is an attack from another being outside of our 3D , but I can't label it in the term of 'alien' as others describe them to appear.
I was hoping this would cover those stories... A person is driving on a long, empty stretch of highway late at night, they feel something is "off" - then suddenly they're back to driving again, 45 minutes have passed, and they have no memory of what happened. What is the psychology behind that?
Around ten experiences, roughly eight types I can remember off the top of my head. "Pink Greys" left me with the worst impression. The green "Mantis" type left me feeling the weirdest I've ever felt. Like a middle layer of an onion squirming while in your hand. Other kinds but those are my extremes.
My uncle just passed away claimed that he was abducted several times by the greys. He believed that they were his friends and he even miss them and wondered why they hadn't come to seen him in so long. He died from cancer that exploded inside him and only took three months to take his life. After he'd passed about an hour later the family showed up to spend the last but the moment they could with them and pray over him. As soon as I walked in the room and saw him the immediately wondered what was going on because it did not look like him at all. In fact my aunt stated that he looks like an alien..... Now that creeps me out. Something tells me that she was not exaggerating and maybe it could have been an alien in his place. No Idea if that could be true or not but who knows. Pretty peculiar. He had told me that the greens were not very friendly. I feel like these aliens go after people with high intelligence. Are you rather smart? I also feel they could have been a reason why he had cancer explode so quickly and fast.
A few years ago I was driving my truck up here in the Sierras. It was a Winter night dark and foggy. As I was driving along as I looked in my rearview mirror and what was about to happen terrified me .I saw 3 aliens in the back of my truck scared me to death I slammed on the brakes and yelled immigration! They jumped out, ran into the woods!
My friend doesn't have sleep paralysis but she get hypnagognic hallucinations, I had to explain to her what was happening when spending the night once. The figures she "sees" sound absolutely terrifying
False memories can explain this phenomena; what if we accept that there is more to the universe than we'll ever understand and something else could also be attributable that we haven't yet discovered?
Theres no explaining it, youll never know unless it happens to u.. i hate when scientists try to find a “reasonable explanation” for everythting.. some things are unexplainable and can only be experienced.
Oh man i've had those before. wall of text incoming i was in the dream, in my bed with my eyes closed. When I opened them, i instantly started hearing a loud buzzing, like a very strong arc of electricity would make. Shadows on the wall I was facing were moving erratically with the buzz. Overcome with fear, and unable to breathe. I would sit up and fall off the side of my bed. Into a dark void, only to come back to me in the bed with my eyes closed. Did it 3 or 4 times before I actually woke up. Had a similar one, but it involved getting up for water and falling through the floor a few times.
I wouldn't say it explains the origin more than it could show how religion kept strong and significant throughout history, and could explain how individuals can shape and solidify their religious beliefs through their lives.
YES. Listen to Terrence McKenna about ''machine elves'' while being on DMT. Aliens, religions, gods, demons, fairies, etc. It's all ther in his researches :)
It's the necessity for spirituality in self aware beings. Self awareness means the organism knows it can kill itself. So the harder love becomes, the more important becomes the question "why bother?" and that is something only religion can give answers to. (or meta religions line Buddhism who expand the concept beyond religious limitations)
I get sleep paralysis accounting for an initial brief abduction scenario. I have experienced it myself. But what about the thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of adults and children across cultures who describe similar specific detailed accounts of being on craft, interacting with beings, engaging in telepathic communication and shared information, being shown technology or alien human hybrids? As well as the physical details and sensations accompanying such phenomenon? Are these thousands of individuals all 100% convinced of such experiences simply due to pop cultural assimilation and/or confabulation? I doubt these similar, often lengthy, detailed experiences are solely the product of sleep paralysis.
I don't think you should deny everybody who claims to be abducted. Just because their stories are extraordinary doesn't mean that they are all fake. Observations. Experiences. It's like if you've never tried a taco all your life. Others tell you about them, but to you, tacos are just a figment of the imagination. Of course, until you finally see and try one as then it becomes a personal experience.
My sleep paralysis was so bad I had to redecorate my room. My storage unit and wall decor lined up to make a pretty convincing silhouette that always made me think there was a very large biker standing at the end of my bed... In a different room when I was a kid, the outside lights that shone through the blinds at night were at the end of my bed, so it was often an angel I would see, and had my sister convinced I could see ghosts!
I believe in "Teasers": usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets that haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz them, meaning that they find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one's going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises.
"every now and again, somebody claims to be abducted by aliens. you know about this, you're on the internet" 17 seconds in and i'm gonna claim without watching the rest of the video first, i've already heard the best line in this video.
Big fan of SciShow and scientist here (Ph.D.). However, how will you feel telling this to Travis Walton? Travis Walton was missing for five days and six hours on November 5, 1975, and his six coworkers SAW him getting abducted... ohhh yeah, 6 people saw him going up in the sky in a beam of light! Police didn't believe them and they were almost charged with criminal charges of murdering Travis. False Memories are a big issue within the justice system. And it is an important field of science, but if you put in the same bag real science (False Memories, Sleep-Paralysis or Misattribution) and pseudo-science (denying something because doesn't fit in your Paradigm), science will stay in the same place where people discarded "flying" because was impossible, or "germs" couldn't exist because we couldn't see them (yet). There is an amount of scientific evidence - lie detectors, evidence recollected, police investigations, etc., etc. - that shows everything really happened. There is no scientific evidence for disproved what happened to him, and that means denying it is just pseudo-science. I am not defending any other case, because the Travis Walton case is the one with all the evidence and science behind it, and it can not be denied (by open-minded science). Science for sure can not explain (yet) what happened, like germs before microscopy was invented, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. First time you let me down.
This is probably the 3rd time I’ve dreamed about aliens, and the 4th time that I’ve woken up terrified. 1st was aliens in my apartment building, and everyone was getting attacked in their rooms. I locked my door, and was freaking out. Somehow, I got convinced to open it, and it’s a bunch of green alien dudes here to do terrible things to me - so I jump through the window, 30 stories up. One time I woke too terrified was when my still-alive father had died in a dream. We also fought ghost-alien monster things that inhabited old mannequins in one dream. I was terrified of it, until my dad finally came out the bathroom and we started fighting back. 3rd time waking up terrified was when I think that I dreamed of having sleep paralysis(Never had it before, but descriptions always have me terrified). I was at my computer desk, looking at something, and then I went to lie down. My bed faces my closet, though, so I couldn’t help but stare into the darkness in my dream, and eventually I saw something; it was like this weird floaty green-thing, it had one red eye, and looked like a rag or what you’d think a ghost would look like. I ran out my room when I woke up. Most recent time, today. In the dream, my dad, his fiancée, and my sister were in the suburbs, for some reason, at this park. It was dark, and I looked up at the sky and saw a massive UFO. I saw it zoom over to someone’s house - my dad did too, so he had us leave immediately. We go home to the apartment, and then I sit in my room and look at my phone. I was writing about what just happened in the notes app, but autocorrect is acting creepy, and making me right about reported alien sightings. I delete it, but then autocorrect tells me that my house was abandoned after getting raided by aliens. I freaked out, and threw my phone, but then the TV cut on to show me something. It was a person in a movie theater lobby, and they tried to stab their own throat. Aliens burst in, though, and restrained the person. Once restrained, they sedated and then started carving up the person right on the spot. I’m scared beyond belief, so I go to get my dad - who’s on the toilet again. I’m screaming, but either one of us is invisible, or he was never there at all. I go back to my room and lock the door, and it’s basically a repeat of that 1st dream with the aliens - jumping out the window. Still never lucid-dreamed though
I've experienced sleep paralysis twice. The first time, which was the most memorable, I had awoken from a nightmare that I was drowning in a submerged car. I knew I was awake and I realized that it was just a dream but I couldn't move for a full 20 seconds or so and it felt like the weight of the water was pressing down on my chest. It was a terrifying experience but I never felt/saw a presence that I've heard from other sleep paralysis stories.
Seems to all fit in with how our brain takes in very limited amounts of information and then uses that to create a model of reality, rather than directly streaming reality itself. Memorable pieces of information are strung together, through post hoc analysis, into a narrative that makes sense to us. We all live in our own little worlds of virtual reality. Sometimes they align. Sometimes they don't.
There is actually a controversy over false memory research nowadays. In a lot of sexual assault cases, a common defense is that the victim has false memories, but there is new evidence to suggest that false memories aren't very common in traumatic experiences. That isn't to say all cases of alien abduction are real, but it might mean that using the false memory hypothesis might be our way of creating an institutionalized dismissing of people's experiences.
I experienced sleep paralysis twice myself. In one case, it was 6 bright red lights in a grid pattern pointed down at me from an angle, that had a feeling of "presence" to them. But, if I looked around the room, they moved with my vision! I actually joked about it being aliens, because the experience was so similar. The other time I was much younger, and I don't remember it clearly. It was a hooded "monster" holding a red lantern looming over my bed with a hand on my chest. I oddly felt no chest pressure during my second encounter later in life. Most experiences I read have blue or white lights as well, so that shows little details vary here and there.
Okay... What about if you weren't sleeping?! What about when you and your neighbors all see the same thing?????? Nonody was sleeping or thinking about anything that was from a movie. Especially at the same time
@@davidjacobs8558 No, he is an abductee. He explains that at the beginning of the book. Continues to be involved in the subject and he has a podcast so there
I can’t remember experiencing sleep paralysis until after a specific, frightening experience in my room. (Someone I knew but is estranged and not allowed in was banging on my door trying to get in.) Now every time I experience sleep paralysis, it’s related to that incident.
there's a wonderful moment in keel's 'the mothman prophecies' which i think of whenever i hear about sleep paralysis. keel wakes up suddenly to find he can't move and sees a dark form in the room: 'oh,' he thinks, 'this is sleep paralysis.' he then writes about trying to analyse the experience while within it.
Yeah the Pentagon released that crazy footage...scary af. Colbert and them treated it like a joke cuz of covid and whatnot but it was the headline for me
I used to experience sleep paralysis often, especially in college. For some reason if I slept too much, this phenomenon would occur. Luckily, being a psych major, I had learned about what was happening and although it was still terrifying, I knew what was going on. It’s an awful feeling. I felt as if I was half in reality and half in a dream state. I can completely understand why some may believe they were being abducted. I saw shadowy figures gliding around and heard strange buzzing noises that seemed to come from my brain. Also, I could sometimes tell when it was going to happen because I could hear the same buzzing sound in my brain as I was falling asleep. And if I force myself to sleep too much, I can often make it happen again, which I absolutely don’t want to do. Has anyone else ever had a similar experience?
irregular sleep cycle will cause sleep paralysis. for some weird reason, you can't move most of your body, but maybe able to move your eyes, and also your toes.
Sleep paralysis doesn't cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder nor do they cause scars or other marks on the skin, nor do they cause implants. Nor does sleep paralysis occur while wide awake and driving a car. Nor are you physically missing from friends, family or search parties
There was a lot more peoples abducted by aliens back when "therapies" to get at repressed memories were popular back in the 70s, that is if the patient did not "remember" being sexually abused by their parents or in a satanic mass, it all depended on the leading questions they were subjected to. With that said sleep paralysis in terrifying the first few times, it happens to me less than once every few years (unless I fall back asleep and do not remember in the morning) but when it does I still have a short instant of panic until I remember to relax and then it shortly goes away.
@Yesmer Yes, but I don't think you understood the video, Oh never mind, your part of the few who think UFO's are aliens and not Random goverment prototypes. Let me put my tin foil hat on
@Yesmer someone who studied it for 25 years should have irrefutable proof by now, and not be sitting here liking their own comments. By the way, there is a thing called for people who imagine stuff together but I can't remember the term, it' s a studied thing for over 25 years that people can experience fake memories together and medieval accounts does show this phenomena of imagining things as en entire village.
I get alien dreams, sometimes Grey's sometimes from the Predator movies. They're TERRIFYING, but I've embraced the horror and now call them my "Action Dreams". I kinda like them now.
I wonder if this explanation for "alien abduction" could also be used to explain when people think they remember meeting other supernatural creatures like fairies, ghosts or angels.
I saw an alien peeking out of a hallway. I was wide awake. My sister was there and i asked her if she saw it. She said no. Might be a hallucination but the point is, it was real to me, so i saw one. Btw, the alien didn't look anything people say. His skin was beautiful, almost like the clear sky at midnight. There were bigger, darker spots on his face. Very lean but not as skinny as people say. Average height. P.s. i wasnt on drugs
Oh no, I just found out the area 51 raid was cancelled! Aw, man, I was looking forward to (other people doing) that. It was going to be awesome (to watch from safety).
@@Gulgathydra too bad. I had hoped that one of those idiots would livestream the event. Well, it's possible some people will show up anyways. Fingers crossed.
@@carissstewart3211 Yes, it's hard to get folks to disembark the stupid train once it's left the station... here's to hoping the air force stocked up in less-lethal incapacitators!
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Why give false information for RUclips views?
plot twist: the studies/research were conducted by aliens
Freaky stuff. Like shooting their jizz all over it.
Plot twist: Hank is an alien, John isn’t.
Plot twist: We’re all aliens and we didn’t know it
I'm not going to say it's aliens but it's alien's.
I have experienced sleep paralysis, it is truly terrifying when it occurs.
A was more curious and slightly amused when I experienced it (2 times one night) because I had heard about it quite a lot by that time. Although I might be misremebering it.
Happened to me once. I thought the devil was on top of me. I tried to say a prayer, but my mouth wouldn't move.
Fortunately when I woke up I knew what it really was.
@@carissstewart3211 The first one was a very enlightening experience for me regarding the similarities between people's stories about abductions, because my experience was so similar, though I never believed I was abducted. I knew I was just not awake, and my brain was messing with me.
I experienced it twice myself. In one case, it was 6 bright red lights in a grid pattern pointed down at me from an angle, that had a feeling of "presence" to them. but, if I looked around the room, they moved with my vision. I actually joked about it being aliens, because the experience was so similar. The other time I was much younger, and I don't remember it clearly. It was a hooded "monster" holding a red lantern looming over my bed with a hand on my chest. I oddly felt no chest pressure during my second encounter later in life. Most experiences I read have blue or white lights as well, so that shows little details vary here and there.
Since you have experienced sleep paralysis, was wondering if you have experienced a False Awakening?
You know... All of this makes a lot of sense but it also sounds an awful lot like something an alien who doesn't want to be discovered would say 🤔
Turn off the TV 🤔 live long and prosper 🖖🖖🖖
This sounds like a good joke comment but i'd bet atleast 10% of your likes are people believing you were serious
It's interesting that you should say this, Mathias. There has been considerable research into "alien abduction", and there is overwhelming testimony to substantiate the insidious reality of it. The pioneering work of Dr. David Jacobs, the late Karla Turner are a good place to start. I know people that have been affected by the ET alien presence that is on and around our World today. Alien abduction is a violation of the individual, and a crime against humanity. It is happening to men, women and children all around the World. The victims not only suffer the violation by ET, but also ridicule, dismissal etc. by some of human society. There is ignorance, denial and coverup and the clandestine nature of the ET Intervention, serves its agenda, perfectly. More about the nature and activities is disclosed at Human Sovereignty org.
@@mjt5307 is this sarcasm or just a wierd conspiracy theory? If so, I'd be somewhat worried about you.
@@Lena-xz1xw It's neither .... it's true. But, I can understand your point of view, because I used to have similar.
I have sleep paralysis a couple of times a month, with the expected weird backstory every time. I've known about the phenomenon since I was a lot younger (I'm 60), so I've never claimed to have been abducted by aliens. The entities involved are not always aliens, either; sometimes it's demons, or lost loved ones, "shadow people," or just weird but unidentifiable creatures.
I find that if I can turn the situation to something pleasurable, like sex, using Lucid Dreaming techniques, the bodily sensations are anything BUT scary. Often, if I force myself to feel an object in my hand, and find my hand empty when I wake up, the paralysis will end immediately.
I too have it every month or so and have recently started to happen in the last couple of years. Lately I find they don't happen to feel like I am as trapped as I used to be and when I start to realize what's going on my dream ends quicker and also the paralysis part ends quicker as well.
I usually get the "shadow people." It's never felt too real, or been too scary. They usually *run* out of the room or fade away. It's definitely close to feeling like someone's there.
@@Nyambui originally I had a presence feeling or a dark figure in the room. The first few times it happened I had such an overwhelming sense of fear that I have never ever felt in my life something didn't quite add up. I couldnt look around or move. Another time later i actually "sat up" tried to "swing" at the entity and called out to my wife but then that's when I realized I was still laying in bed. Now days I feel more like "oh this thing again" I just relax and it usually passes quicker.
@@shamrock5725 I'm glad it's never been that bad for me. A couple of times it's felt like someone has invaded the home, I'll wakeup wondering if I slept through or woke up during a home invasion. It's always one though, a group of them would be pretty intense.
Damn that’s cool you can control it now. I have them too rarely to remember what’s happening lol so they’re always traumatizing. Wake up the next morning exhausted telling my husband, “you have any idea what I just went through??” 😂
What’s scary is i hallucinate figures with my eyes and voices right in my ears. Like I can feel their breath. 😭
The first time I experienced sleep paralysis, I was 674% sure I was being haunted by a demon.
Sorry About That.
It was a demon, give your soul to christ
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people- Stephen Hawking
Me too..then 30 years later the same thing and same figure was over my son. He was 12 at the time. He never new of my experience but described the exact same being and experience. Ironically we both called out to Jesus and it immediately went away. I believe 100%
How did you find out it wasn't a demon
Fun fact: all my knowledge of sleep paralysis allowed me to help my mom learn that her 2 biggest paranormal encounter events were probably sleep paralysis.
Same here :)
what if they have a witness...my friend and her mother both seen the ufo and abduction in broad daylight,,,they were not sleeping
Well that doesn’t explain the things that happen when people are awake
@@kay8698 where did this happen at
This sounds nothing like the abduction phenomenon. What "abductees" experience tends to be a very specific set of symptoms and visuals that sleep paralysis simply can't account for. What is being presented here is pure speculation while in reality we still have no idea how or why this phenomenon occurs.
this exactly.
@@The_Indomitable_Human_Spirit_1 There's no way you're taking the words of someone who DOESN'T study UFO's more seriously than the literal FBI and MILITARY REALEASING VIDEOS OF ACTUAL UFO'S. Now you're the lunatic nobody would believe, even when the evidence is in plain sight.
Yeah i was surprised that he would latch onto kind of a pathetic little experiment like it's proof that alien abductees are all liars or stupid.
@@alanwayne7643 "studying UFOs" just makes you sound less credible
@@alanwayne7643 this , exactly have you read the report on UAPs that released the 25 of June?
I was visited twice by red fire ball ufos when I was 7. The fist time I called my parents and neighbors and they saw them with me.
Says our brains are so cool that aliens wanna do stuff to them
It's actually our butts. This video gets SO much wrong....🙄
@@NightMedicine 😂😂😂😂😂
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Even knowing what sleep paralysis is when it happens it is still terrifying. I experience it a couple times a year and when you are in a panic it's difficult to remind yourself this isn't real and it will pass. Then again it warps your time perception so what is in fact only a couple minutes can seem like it went on for hours.
How Hank looked when he says "Consciousness" at 4:59 has officially convinced me that he is the only person qualified to play the Joker.
Now we just gotta get #HankGreenJoker trending and make it happen.
Well I thought he looked like Ace Ventura.
@@flophi me too
Do these types of experiences differ between cultures?
daniel creevey
l want to know really bad. l immediately has that thought
There are monsters in many cultures who sit on a person's chest while they are sleeping and try to strangle them or similar. They could easily have come out of the combination of sensing a threatening presence and feeling pressure on the chest while unable to move.
Great question Daniel ! Some google fodder for late nights.
In Iran there is the monster bakhtak that sits on your chest while you sleep. Often around sunrise time . It paralyzes the body , until it goes away
People in Iran one would simply say, oh anyways last night a bakhtak was sitting on my chest for a whole 10 minutes, I was freaking out. Even if you don't believe in this stuff , it's a common phrasing of the sleeping paralysis experience.
I am sorry but this doesn't explain the phenomena. I experience sleep paralysis multiple times a week and sometimes multiple times a night. What these people are experiencing is quite different and cannot be explained by sleep paralysis when there are multiple witnesses or a shared experience.
Yay, I'm early? I guess the only way to find out is to raiding area 51!
Then Skinwalker Ranch!
As a person who consistently suffers from sleep paralysis. I don't see how certain details like lights could be in those misremembering of said experiences. As every time I have episode its very much dark. But as far as feelings of floating or moving. Unable to move, feeling pressure or movement or choking, are all experiences I have had. They can be terrifying but the compelling accounts of abduction I have read rarely start in a bed, or were they sleeping before the event.
I've experience sleep paralysis a few times but it's been a while. My memory is of fear, but not knowing why. Slowly the paralysis wears off as does the fear. I had a very similar sensation when a tilt table test identified that I have POTS. Once laid back horizontal and my heart restarted, I was paralyzed for some time until it wore off, but once again I had the feeling of fear.
Then how do you explain the abductions of multiple people or with many witnesses?
what if they have a witness...my friend and her mother both seen the ufo and abduction in broad daylight,,,they were not sleeping
I woke up from a bad dream kicking the blanket of me to then see 2 very bright human shapes sort of translucent looking without features at the bottom of the bed I got out of bed and they fizzled away in a sort of wave formation I then went to the toilet saying to myself what the f were them ,they fascinated me so I researched about this type of thing and was shocked to see photos of whats called interdimensional beings that looked exactly like what I seen one taller than the other aswell, I was not asleep I know what I seen ,
While phenomena like sleep paralysis and false memories are certainly responsible for some of the abduction experience, the sheer volume of people having these experiences, and the physical evidence that often accompanies them, shouldn't be immediately dismissed.
And what if people KNOW
how sleep paralysis feels like and claim it was not it, and what if that they DON'T aspire to be abducted by aliens, but still have very realistic feeling of abduction, along with strange markings on their body? What then?
I didn't get this in my subscription box, but on the home page. Weird.
youtube is well known for their inconsistent user experience
This sounds similar to an article on RationalWiki. The article proposes that the reason why we believe aliens exist is because of this type of mental play. It is aliens today, but in the days of our ancestors, it would have been fairies or gods.
It used to be demons, lol, all the sleep paralysis horror movies come up with the same artwork as proof...
Here's the thing I've seen things that I don't have the scientific knowledge to understand that appeared supernatural, but the difference is I am well aware there are false memories, optical and auditory illusions, and hallucinations. And like a scientist I consider ways I could be sure my eyes and ears deceive me. I think well I've never physical felt these beings, and additionally it does looking appear to nothing more than an optical illusion or hallucination when I really consider what I think I saw. While it's not as if I tested it the point is I don't assume that it something at all let alone a particular sort of thing with no evidence it exists. More importantly supernatural things don't exist once we understand it it's not supernatural anymore. And if we don't understand it it's just something we don't know not something that isn't possible to know.
The "mare" in nightmare is a demon who sits on people's chest in the night and causes bad dreams. That imagery is clearly inspired by sleep paralysis.
Or witches.
Rationalwiki isn't always reliable. To see this for yourself, find an article on rationalwiki, then go find an article on the same topic over on conservapedia. You'll find that VERY often, the articles were clearly copy-pasted from one to the other. A common thing I see over on conservapedia is that it'll be made up of lines copy-pasted from rationalwiki, but with extra stuff sprinkled in through out the article. I'm guessing people like to make articles like that to make it look like rationalwiki is omitting facts on controversial topics. I've also seen a lot of complaints from older users how fans of conservapedia were sabotaging rationalwiki. And even if its not from conservapedia, its pretty common for rationalwiki to post false facts about scientific beliefs. Rationalwiki is really just a new atheist site that's recently been attacked by conservatives. And no, new atheists aren't the brightest of individuals. New atheists often DO preach false scientific facts, not to mention most of their followers are just fools who got sick of being called stupid online (I was one myself once, just so we know).
Yes, some sites like snopes have cited rationalwiki in the past, but the people making the articles there are NOT experts, and in recent years the site's really gone downhill. You really shouldn't see it as a valid source. Frankly, its no more reliable than wikipedia. In all honesty, its just like wikipedia but it was created by new atheists, and then taken over by right-wing trolls.
I had sleep paralysis with a night terror last night and I was aware of sleep paralysis (it has happened to me 2 times before last night, always after being up for too many hours due to a major deadline or something that made me stay up longer than I wanted to) so I didn't completely freak out, but it is still very alarming. I could see a dark figure standing next to my bed looking down at me, but the room was too dark to see the figure. I was leaned on my right side and my vision was slightly obstructed, like as if the sheet was over my face and I was looking from under the sheet. There was a green flashing light that flashed about every 3 seconds, originating from a single point (when I woke up I immediately checked my room for anything like a fire alarm, glade plug in, electric toothbrush, or something that could have been blinking green like that, but nothing). I remember trying to move my arms and body, but having that feeling like when your arm falls asleep and you want to move it but can't. I always sleep with my bedroom door closed and locked. I have black out shades on both my windows.
I know how crazy this sounds, but I felt like something was studying me. I don't remember being moved or abducted, but it felt like the entity staring down at me was observing/monitoring me. No one can see into my room from the outside, so if something is able to teleport into my room via technology or through evolutionary means (we know alternate dimensions exist and there are parallel worlds, potentially infinite worlds), then that could explain it. I believe it was way more likely just sleep paralysis+night terrors and my brain trying to make sense of what I perceived, but I don't rule out alternate explanations regardless of how unlikely it is. The universe is vast, we are so small.
Don’t let them make you think otherwise
Man. I remember my sleep paralysis. I remember I couldn’t move or breath in my own and I was blind but had my peripheral vision. No aliens though.
RUclips put the Wikipedia link on this video, it must be a conspiracy theory.
I was so confused why they did this
Good Afternoon,
I think that this is very interesting but when it comes down to it, a second study would need to be conducted about why the three group had difficulty remembering. A hypothesis could be surrounding emotional flooding. The third group sounds like their feelings (possibly of fear) surrounding the event had not been explored, which, in general does produce a lowered ability to recall and an increased need to insert memories which cause similar feelings.
No evidence? What about Betty & Barney Hill? What about Travis Walton? What about author Whitely Strieber? These are three well known cases with evidence.
Don't hit 'em with facts or that utterly destroys their case.
In the medieval era, the same symptoms of sleep paralysis were interpreted as being kidnapped by a witch, or hag, and being ridden by said witch through the skies like a broomstick. The victim was returned very much the worse for the wear. In their bleary- eyed and eye- circled state, they were described as hag-kept, from which concept the word haggard is derived.
Any source? Thanks in advance
Precious Key This is something I learned in the sleep hygiene section of high school health class. I’ll check up on it further.
I had my first memorable Exploding Head Syndrome experience the last time I had sleep paralysis. Usually I don't get auditory or much visual hallucinations. The sense of dread came first then I started hearing whispering about how amusing my aroused state was. Their snickers had words placed in the wrong order. My immersion into fear started to break when some scary music started deafening me. I knew it was a hallucination and it couldn't harm my ears so I tried to recognize the music until it became a mundane suspense theme.
Dream states can be very novel in how they mix your subconscious thoughts! I don't appreciate narratives that give power to unsrutable entities when they are an innocent reflection of our quirky memories. Don't get pulled into the mass hysteria for nothing because a critical mind is more fun.
you're being plagued by supernatural demons. Turn to Jesus for protection!
@@joshuab2437 not everything is demons. There are other gods, you know.
Legion is my God.
Your god is an old liar volcano god that weaponized victimhood.
He's gross
When someone starts talking about angels and demons, it's normal. When people talk about aliens or watching videos of aliens or movies , it's insane. It's not insane. What's insane is if some random person kills indecent people for no reason at all. What's insane if someone sees stuff that no one else sees. What's insane is if someone is paranoid of random stuff. What's insane is someone scared of every one. What's insane is someone not trusting no one even thier own family. The point is if you talk about aliens or watch stuff like aliens videos or movies or all of them, it doesn't mean your insane, but if you see stuff that others don't see that means your insane.
This theory could possibly make sense in some cases with regard to abductions that occur at night while a person is lying in bed. But it does not explain alien abduction that occur when an individual is wide awake and has not been asleep, which there are many cases of.
When I was a kid I woke up suddenly and couldn't move, especially my legs. I wiped my eyes of sleep dirt (Frank Zappa's term) and low and behold our big fat cat was asleep between my legs above the covers. No aliens, no Bigfoot, no ancient alien, no Giorgio A. Tsoukalos . Just a big fat cat, although he always acted suspicious.
Ah man, I hate it when that happens; Giorgio Tsoukalos is scary as hell!
(I never actually had sleep paralysis :/ )
PeaCan06: Giorgio must be an alien. Can you get your hair to do that? I can't.
I remember watching a golden spaceship like that near my house when i was 8.
My father also remember that.
But we agree we were blocking something darker, thou idk what it was.
The fact he was an acidhead...
what if they have a witness...my friend and her mother both seen the ufo and abduction in broad daylight,,,they were not sleeping
I've never been "abducted" but I have been "visited" on three occasions. My conclusion: It is sleep paralysis, and it's terrifying.
They are fallen angels/demons. Turn to Jesus for protection!
Maybe yours is sleep paralysis, but that doesn't mean really there aren't legitimate cases.
I've had a couple of vivid nightmares about alien abduction. It was terrifying at first. Fortunately I'm familiar enough the the sleep paralysis hypothesis that I realized that the experience wasn't real and was able to force myself awake during them. I can totally see how someone could misattribute an experience like that though.
How do you explain being take while on a bridge crossing in my car. Wide awake! My son was with me... he has the exact same memories
I don't feel up to writing alot at this time, but I will tell you that I had sleep paralysis/night terror's for years and years presented by the same two 'entities' every time. I concluded that it was a 'spiritual' thing, and at one particular time, I 'awoke' in the paralysis state and instead of the fear factor, I was PISSED OFF this time. I was sick and tired of being sick and tired and the old hag sitting on top of my chest suddenly became aware of the 'change in my energy vibration' and looked at me. THAT is when I was able to communicate with her in a telepathic sort of way. My message was simple, "I SEE YOU!" and that did it! No longer was there any FEAR for her to feed on and she had been seen! I saw fear in HER then. Also in the shadow man that was suddenly uncovered standing not far away from me. 'I SEE YOU TOO!' my mind shouted and they 'ran'.
I do not mean that ran as we would run. They made haste to get away from the spirit IN me. I felt just as much power coming *from* me as I had felt their power in pushing on me prior and to this day, I have NEVER had another episode. I'm convinced this is an attack from another being outside of our 3D , but I can't label it in the term of 'alien' as others describe them to appear.
RUclips's algorithms must think this is a crazy conspiracy theory video because they put a link to Wikipedia below it.
The only thing that this doesn't explain is when people are abducted in broad daylight. In their car while driving, and in large groups.
Same goes for people who claim to have seen ghosts.
I guess Travis Walton and his 5 friends were sleep walking in the woods and Travis was sleeping for 5 days....wow, who would've thunk!
Yeah, it's funny how their 'research' never mentions any of those cases.
I was hoping this would cover those stories...
A person is driving on a long, empty stretch of highway late at night, they feel something is "off" - then suddenly they're back to driving again, 45 minutes have passed, and they have no memory of what happened.
What is the psychology behind that?
Brain: Sleep paralysis + Mass hysteria about aliens = IT WAS ALIENS
Sometimes I mix up memories of things that really happened with memories from dreams lmao
The only cure is looking at "ayy lmao" memes.
Around ten experiences, roughly eight types I can remember off the top of my head. "Pink Greys" left me with the worst impression. The green "Mantis" type left me feeling the weirdest I've ever felt. Like a middle layer of an onion squirming while in your hand. Other kinds but those are my extremes.
My uncle just passed away claimed that he was abducted several times by the greys. He believed that they were his friends and he even miss them and wondered why they hadn't come to seen him in so long. He died from cancer that exploded inside him and only took three months to take his life.
After he'd passed about an hour later the family showed up to spend the last but the moment they could with them and pray over him. As soon as I walked in the room and saw him the immediately wondered what was going on because it did not look like him at all. In fact my aunt stated that he looks like an alien..... Now that creeps me out. Something tells me that she was not exaggerating and maybe it could have been an alien in his place. No Idea if that could be true or not but who knows. Pretty peculiar.
He had told me that the greens were not very friendly. I feel like these aliens go after people with high intelligence. Are you rather smart? I also feel they could have been a reason why he had cancer explode so quickly and fast.
A few years ago I was driving my truck up here in the Sierras. It was a Winter night dark and foggy. As I was driving along as I looked in my rearview mirror and what was about to happen terrified me .I saw 3 aliens in the back of my truck scared me to death I slammed on the brakes and yelled immigration! They jumped out, ran into the woods!
I’ve had alien-related sleep paralysis before, but I knew about sleep paralysis before it happened, so I just chilled out with an alien for a bit.
Tell us more!
Were you buttprobed by the alien?
Hank has been paid by Area 51 to disuade us from invading them so that we don't see the aliens
My friend doesn't have sleep paralysis but she get hypnagognic hallucinations, I had to explain to her what was happening when spending the night once. The figures she "sees" sound absolutely terrifying
I've had sleep paralysis and I was under a single foot of water. I could see bubbles coming out of my mouth floating to the surface.
False memories can explain this phenomena; what if we accept that there is more to the universe than we'll ever understand and something else could also be attributable that we haven't yet discovered?
Looks like I picked the wrong day to re watch Mars Attacks.
Theres no explaining it, youll never know unless it happens to u.. i hate when scientists try to find a “reasonable explanation” for everythting.. some things are unexplainable and can only be experienced.
this guy's not a scientist. he's just some hipster on RUclips he keeps talking about science so he seems legitimate
Can you please do an episode on False Awakenings.
I've recently had my second occurrence in my life and its really intense and interesting.
Oh man i've had those before.
wall of text incoming
i was in the dream, in my bed with my eyes closed. When I opened them, i instantly started hearing a loud buzzing, like a very strong arc of electricity would make. Shadows on the wall I was facing were moving erratically with the buzz. Overcome with fear, and unable to breathe. I would sit up and fall off the side of my bed. Into a dark void, only to come back to me in the bed with my eyes closed. Did it 3 or 4 times before I actually woke up.
Had a similar one, but it involved getting up for water and falling through the floor a few times.
In one of my dreams I woke up and went to make breakfast and then I randomly checked behind me and saw a huge black floating blob
A few times I have experienced nested dreams and false awakenings.
“Consciousnass.” Lol! Got me.
These human brain mechanisms might also help explain the origin of religion.
I wouldn't say it explains the origin more than it could show how religion kept strong and significant throughout history, and could explain how individuals can shape and solidify their religious beliefs through their lives.
YES.
Listen to Terrence McKenna about ''machine elves'' while being on DMT. Aliens, religions, gods, demons, fairies, etc.
It's all ther in his researches :)
It's the necessity for spirituality in self aware beings. Self awareness means the organism knows it can kill itself. So the harder love becomes, the more important becomes the question "why bother?" and that is something only religion can give answers to. (or meta religions line Buddhism who expand the concept beyond religious limitations)
I get sleep paralysis accounting for an initial brief abduction scenario. I have experienced it myself. But what about the thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of adults and children across cultures who describe similar specific detailed accounts of being on craft, interacting with beings, engaging in telepathic communication and shared information, being shown technology or alien human hybrids? As well as the physical details and sensations accompanying such phenomenon? Are these thousands of individuals all 100% convinced of such experiences simply due to pop cultural assimilation and/or confabulation? I doubt these similar, often lengthy, detailed experiences are solely the product of sleep paralysis.
Never let people like this guy keep you from free thinking never stop believing.
I don't think you should deny everybody who claims to be abducted. Just because their stories are extraordinary doesn't mean that they are all fake. Observations. Experiences. It's like if you've never tried a taco all your life. Others tell you about them, but to you, tacos are just a figment of the imagination. Of course, until you finally see and try one as then it becomes a personal experience.
only four days until we find out the truth!
I'm going are you?
Pair of dweebs, they'd have shot the pair of you. Or maybe you did get in but they've like erased your memory....
My sleep paralysis was so bad I had to redecorate my room. My storage unit and wall decor lined up to make a pretty convincing silhouette that always made me think there was a very large biker standing at the end of my bed... In a different room when I was a kid, the outside lights that shone through the blinds at night were at the end of my bed, so it was often an angel I would see, and had my sister convinced I could see ghosts!
I believe in "Teasers": usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets that haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz them, meaning that they find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one's going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises.
In the past Succubi and Incubi were blamed for sleep paralysis, now it's Aliens.
I’ve been abducted by aliens last year while driving in Nevada at night while camping. Recently was on a podcast talking about it.
I wasn’t asleep.
The more we open up a memory the greater chance we can add up or remove something from it
I've had sleep paralysis my whole life and I'm 41 now and not once did I think aliens came to abduct me
This too may be of the reasons sleep paralysis is insufficient as an explanation for this phenomenon.
Thank you!!!!!!!! Same here not once did I think I was being abducted
Precious Key exactly!
Still, there's a pretty big jump between "I woke up feeling weird," and, "I woke up on a space ship which I can describe in detail." :-D
I’ve had sleep paralysis and sir you should not make assumptions about things you have not experienced
"every now and again, somebody claims to be abducted by aliens. you know about this, you're on the internet" 17 seconds in and i'm gonna claim without watching the rest of the video first, i've already heard the best line in this video.
Big fan of SciShow and scientist here (Ph.D.). However, how will you feel telling this to Travis Walton? Travis Walton was missing for five days and six hours on November 5, 1975, and his six coworkers SAW him getting abducted... ohhh yeah, 6 people saw him going up in the sky in a beam of light! Police didn't believe them and they were almost charged with criminal charges of murdering Travis.
False Memories are a big issue within the justice system. And it is an important field of science, but if you put in the same bag real science (False Memories, Sleep-Paralysis or Misattribution) and pseudo-science (denying something because doesn't fit in your Paradigm), science will stay in the same place where people discarded "flying" because was impossible, or "germs" couldn't exist because we couldn't see them (yet).
There is an amount of scientific evidence - lie detectors, evidence recollected, police investigations, etc., etc. - that shows everything really happened. There is no scientific evidence for disproved what happened to him, and that means denying it is just pseudo-science.
I am not defending any other case, because the Travis Walton case is the one with all the evidence and science behind it, and it can not be denied (by open-minded science). Science for sure can not explain (yet) what happened, like germs before microscopy was invented, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
First time you let me down.
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that we’re still raiding Area 51 in 3 days
Yeah, how did that go exactly?
This is probably the 3rd time I’ve dreamed about aliens, and the 4th time that I’ve woken up terrified.
1st was aliens in my apartment building, and everyone was getting attacked in their rooms. I locked my door, and was freaking out. Somehow, I got convinced to open it, and it’s a bunch of green alien dudes here to do terrible things to me - so I jump through the window, 30 stories up.
One time I woke too terrified was when my still-alive father had died in a dream. We also fought ghost-alien monster things that inhabited old mannequins in one dream. I was terrified of it, until my dad finally came out the bathroom and we started fighting back.
3rd time waking up terrified was when I think that I dreamed of having sleep paralysis(Never had it before, but descriptions always have me terrified). I was at my computer desk, looking at something, and then I went to lie down. My bed faces my closet, though, so I couldn’t help but stare into the darkness in my dream, and eventually I saw something; it was like this weird floaty green-thing, it had one red eye, and looked like a rag or what you’d think a ghost would look like. I ran out my room when I woke up.
Most recent time, today. In the dream, my dad, his fiancée, and my sister were in the suburbs, for some reason, at this park. It was dark, and I looked up at the sky and saw a massive UFO. I saw it zoom over to someone’s house - my dad did too, so he had us leave immediately. We go home to the apartment, and then I sit in my room and look at my phone. I was writing about what just happened in the notes app, but autocorrect is acting creepy, and making me right about reported alien sightings. I delete it, but then autocorrect tells me that my house was abandoned after getting raided by aliens. I freaked out, and threw my phone, but then the TV cut on to show me something. It was a person in a movie theater lobby, and they tried to stab their own throat. Aliens burst in, though, and restrained the person. Once restrained, they sedated and then started carving up the person right on the spot. I’m scared beyond belief, so I go to get my dad - who’s on the toilet again. I’m screaming, but either one of us is invisible, or he was never there at all. I go back to my room and lock the door, and it’s basically a repeat of that 1st dream with the aliens - jumping out the window.
Still never lucid-dreamed though
I've experienced sleep paralysis twice. The first time, which was the most memorable, I had awoken from a nightmare that I was drowning in a submerged car. I knew I was awake and I realized that it was just a dream but I couldn't move for a full 20 seconds or so and it felt like the weight of the water was pressing down on my chest. It was a terrifying experience but I never felt/saw a presence that I've heard from other sleep paralysis stories.
Seems to all fit in with how our brain takes in very limited amounts of information and then uses that to create a model of reality, rather than directly streaming reality itself. Memorable pieces of information are strung together, through post hoc analysis, into a narrative that makes sense to us.
We all live in our own little worlds of virtual reality. Sometimes they align. Sometimes they don't.
There is actually a controversy over false memory research nowadays. In a lot of sexual assault cases, a common defense is that the victim has false memories, but there is new evidence to suggest that false memories aren't very common in traumatic experiences.
That isn't to say all cases of alien abduction are real, but it might mean that using the false memory hypothesis might be our way of creating an institutionalized dismissing of people's experiences.
I experienced sleep paralysis twice myself. In one case, it was 6 bright red lights in a grid pattern pointed down at me from an angle, that had a feeling of "presence" to them. But, if I looked around the room, they moved with my vision! I actually joked about it being aliens, because the experience was so similar. The other time I was much younger, and I don't remember it clearly. It was a hooded "monster" holding a red lantern looming over my bed with a hand on my chest. I oddly felt no chest pressure during my second encounter later in life. Most experiences I read have blue or white lights as well, so that shows little details vary here and there.
Okay...
What about if you weren't sleeping?! What about when you and your neighbors all see the same thing?????? Nonody was sleeping or thinking about anything that was from a movie. Especially at the same time
area 51 raid hype? 🤔
well the NAVY got that video out there...
READ: Communion by Whitley Strieber
most serious alien abduction researchers believe Strieber is not an abductee.
@@davidjacobs8558 No, he is an abductee. He explains that at the beginning of the book.
Continues to be involved in the subject and he has a podcast so there
@@jayerscios Strieber CLAIMS he is an abductee, most serious researchers believe he is NOT an abductee, but lying that he is one.
I can’t remember experiencing sleep paralysis until after a specific, frightening experience in my room. (Someone I knew but is estranged and not allowed in was banging on my door trying to get in.) Now every time I experience sleep paralysis, it’s related to that incident.
there's a wonderful moment in keel's 'the mothman prophecies' which i think of whenever i hear about sleep paralysis.
keel wakes up suddenly to find he can't move and sees a dark form in the room: 'oh,' he thinks, 'this is sleep paralysis.' he then writes about trying to analyse the experience while within it.
Ok but now we know some of those UFO sightings are very real. Explain that scientists 🙄
Yeah the Pentagon released that crazy footage...scary af. Colbert and them treated it like a joke cuz of covid and whatnot but it was the headline for me
watch the host closely you can see his second eye lids blink
He's just out of breath. Is that from Men in Black?
I used to experience sleep paralysis often, especially in college. For some reason if I slept too much, this phenomenon would occur. Luckily, being a psych major, I had learned about what was happening and although it was still terrifying, I knew what was going on. It’s an awful feeling. I felt as if I was half in reality and half in a dream state. I can completely understand why some may believe they were being abducted. I saw shadowy figures gliding around and heard strange buzzing noises that seemed to come from my brain. Also, I could sometimes tell when it was going to happen because I could hear the same buzzing sound in my brain as I was falling asleep. And if I force myself to sleep too much, I can often make it happen again, which I absolutely don’t want to do. Has anyone else ever had a similar experience?
irregular sleep cycle will cause sleep paralysis.
for some weird reason, you can't move most of your body, but maybe able to move your eyes,
and also your toes.
Same thing with people saying they see ghosts or demons. Like a demon is on top of them choking them in bed.
What about when it happens when you're already awake?
Sleep paralysis doesn't cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder nor do they cause scars or other marks on the skin, nor do they cause implants. Nor does sleep paralysis occur while wide awake and driving a car. Nor are you physically missing from friends, family or search parties
There was a lot more peoples abducted by aliens back when "therapies" to get at repressed memories were popular back in the 70s, that is if the patient did not "remember" being sexually abused by their parents or in a satanic mass, it all depended on the leading questions they were subjected to.
With that said sleep paralysis in terrifying the first few times, it happens to me less than once every few years (unless I fall back asleep and do not remember in the morning) but when it does I still have a short instant of panic until I remember to relax and then it shortly goes away.
This would also explain why the number of sightings and experience have increase with the advent of the internet
@Yesmer Yes, but I don't think you understood the video,
Oh never mind, your part of the few who think UFO's are aliens and not Random goverment prototypes. Let me put my tin foil hat on
@Yesmer someone who studied it for 25 years should have irrefutable proof by now, and not be sitting here liking their own comments.
By the way, there is a thing called for people who imagine stuff together but I can't remember the term, it'
s a studied thing for over 25 years that people can experience fake memories together and medieval accounts does show this phenomena of imagining things as en entire village.
I would love to see a video all about eading questions! I think it's a fascinating topic, just how malleable the human mind and memory is.
Tic-Tac was real ...
This came along right after I listened to Joe Rogan talk to Dan Aykroyd about aliens. Coincidence? Yes.
Hotel? Trivago.
The Navy's F18 cameras must be misremembering.
Sleep paralysis is bad enough. Then imagine that the intruder looks like Logan Paul and seems to be holding a video camera...
Dab on them haters! 😀
I get alien dreams, sometimes Grey's sometimes from the Predator movies.
They're TERRIFYING, but I've embraced the horror and now call them my "Action Dreams". I kinda like them now.
I wonder if this explanation for "alien abduction" could also be used to explain when people think they remember meeting other supernatural creatures like fairies, ghosts or angels.
the scary part here is they have a context label for this. Ive only seen context labels used on things they don't want you talking about.
I saw an alien peeking out of a hallway. I was wide awake. My sister was there and i asked her if she saw it. She said no. Might be a hallucination but the point is, it was real to me, so i saw one.
Btw, the alien didn't look anything people say. His skin was beautiful, almost like the clear sky at midnight. There were bigger, darker spots on his face. Very lean but not as skinny as people say. Average height.
P.s. i wasnt on drugs
Seems like you might need some. Or sleep try sleep first.
@@julesmasseffectmusic lol, i slept fine at that time
There's only way to find out.
LET'S RAID AREA 51!
Sure. You do that. I'll just hang back with a set of binoculars. You know, just in case the air force decides to use alien tech to dispatch you.
Oh no, I just found out the area 51 raid was cancelled! Aw, man, I was looking forward to (other people doing) that.
It was going to be awesome (to watch from safety).
@@Gulgathydra too bad. I had hoped that one of those idiots would livestream the event.
Well, it's possible some people will show up anyways. Fingers crossed.
@@carissstewart3211
Yes, it's hard to get folks to disembark the stupid train once it's left the station... here's to hoping the air force stocked up in less-lethal incapacitators!