Abduction stories are strikingly similar. Victims wake up and find themselves paralyzed, unable to move or cry out for help. They see flashing lights and hear buzzing sounds. Electric sensations zing through their bodies, which may rise up in levitation. Aliens with wrap-around eyes, grey or green skin, lacking hair or noses, approach. Instruments are inserted in their noses, navels, or other orifices. It’s painful.

Then it’s over, after seconds or minutes. The intruders vanish. Victims are back in their own beds and can move again. When you dream, you are paralyzed. It’s a natural adaptation to prevent people from lashing out, jumping out of bed, walking into doors or windows, and otherwise injuring themselves. But it’s possible to wake up while still paralyzed. Bizarre effects aside, sleep paralysis is normal. It’s not a sign of mental illness. About 25 percent of people around the world have experienced it, and about 5 percent get the whole show of sight, sound, tactile hallucinations, and abduction. Some of these people become completely absorbed by what happened and seek an explanation of it.

Such techniques include hypnosis, guided imagery, regression, and relaxation therapies are needed. “These all work in roughly the same way,” “The therapist lulls the abductees into a suggestive state, in which normal reality constraints are relaxed, and then asks the person to vividly image things that might have happened.” or might not have happened. Whether it is true or not, that causes sweaty hands and rapid heartbeats because it feels so real.

Add to this a recurring interest in aliens expressed in books, in movies, and on television, as well as true discoveries of more than 150 planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy. Overwhelmed by this hurricane of sleep paralysis some people seek explanations in ghosts and reincarnations. Others find that alien abductions provide answers and peace of mind. Either way something feels like it has definitely happened to you and you need some answers. The first thing would be to find a hypnotherapist would can regress you and find out what has happened.