Alien abductions

Two words: Bill Cosby

Blackouts from drugging/drinking.

Sleep paralysis and/or mental illness.

Time to reread Jose Chung's book

I think that creepy 80s film COMMUNION does a good job expressing how these claimed experiences may be a mix of mental disorders / physiological issues, but possibly also based on real experiences.

The film is often abstract and explains almost nothing, but somehow nails it.

I would read some books from UFO investigators who interviewed people who claimed to have been abducted. They all follow the same pattern. "Missing time." Various PTSD disturbances. Scars. The encounter revealed usually only under hypnosis.

The Betty Andreasson case, investigated by Ray Fowler, from 1967, is one of the most detailed.

It's hard to believe the Betty and Barney Hill case (New Hampshire, mid-1960s) could have been two people suffering mental disorders concurrently.

I bet there's at least some MK Ultra type fuckery going on

I have no idea what's actually at the root of the phenomenon, whether it's mental, neurological, or people actually being abducted by some unknown agency. But similar experiences go way back. People used to attribute it to being waylaid by fairies or other mythological creatures, long before flying saucers and aliens from space were part of the public consciousness.

That’s true r8. I feel like there has to be something real going on but I have no idea what it is

[quote]It's hard to believe the Betty and Barney Hill case (New Hampshire, mid-1960s) could have been two people suffering mental disorders concurrently.

Speaking of that, the Obamas' production company is behind a film, still in pre-production, about Betty and Barney Hill:

Yes, I was abducted once, and I mean that most seriously. Except for one thing. Except for the fact that I knew I had one of those sleep paralysis episodes, and I'm glad that the first time I experienced it I recognized the experience for what it was because otherwise it would have been so terrifying I might have had a heart attack. And then the subsequent times I had the previous episodes to rely on on top of my previous knowledge. All the experiences had many things in common such as I could only move my eyes, the light and the colors that were nothing like the light and the colors you'd experience normally on Earth, the sounds being extremely loud and the fact that I could only ever see the aliens from the corner of my eyes, from my peripheral vision and never front, center and focused.

By the way, my aliens were looking like the alien in the movie Signs (with Joaquin Phoenix) and I think it has to do with the fact that Signs was the latest "alien movie" I had watched before the episodes started.

Now each time an alien abduction story starts with "I was sleeping in my bed when... (shit happened)", I'm like uh-oh, I think that was just sleep paralysis, but you didn't know what it was, and I know that it seems SO REAL. Now if the story of an abduction starts with "I was working in my orchard, when..." then it's a whole different kettle of fish and I'm agnostic.

R11 Well, read the synopsis of the Hill case in the post above, They weren't in bed at the time.

I do not disbelieve it

I wuz probed.

I like blue.

Some kind of DMT trip? DMT released from the pineal gland as in a near death experience.