Hi wemadetheworld
These abduction stories resemble vampire folklore
Is there any abduction story in particular that you have problems with, or are you generalizing?
The abduction phenomenon is real and rather well documented from well established sources. However, what it really is, or represents, cannot be 100%
established as of yet. I would point you to the work of
Dr. John E. Mack, a man with
impeccable credentials, that has done much work in this field. I'm sure you are aware of him. The conclusions of a Harvard Medical School faculty
member, psychiatrist, writer and winner of the Pulitzer prize can hardly be called pseudo-science. I will give you this though - you are right, the
field of "abductions" does have a lot of "wanna-be's" and attention grabbers that are more loony tunes than real scientific investigation.
Having said this, I will tell you what the abduction phenomenon is NOT: dreams in one shape or another.
This hypothesis (of abductions being some sort of dreams) has been put forth by "professional" skeptics that are interested much more in preserving
their dogma than in following the truth wherever it may lead. It has been shown to be flawed time and time again (and I'll demonstrate again below -
rather easily I might add).
You state:
On several occasions, usually when under stress, I have been convinced that my dreams were actually real events. For example I have spent the
entire day believing that I went to the shops and bought some toothpaste then in the evening realise that I have no toothpaste because you can't buy
toothpaste from the Easter bunny
I think many of us can relate to what you describe. However, as in your description, we become aware that it was a dream. You, yourself, describe it
as a: I thought that this happened, but upon further analysis I came to the conclusion that it was a dream. We all have experienced this.
But this is NOT what is happening with the (real) abduction victims. There is no "snapping-out" of it. As a matter of fact, upon analysis, the event
becomes even clearer and loses any dream-like quality. This would be much more akin to schizophrenia or some other mental affliction. The problem here
is that these patients (the ones with credible accounts) do not show signs of any mental disorders, even when examined by professionals.
Another problem with the dream theory is that abduction victims usually follow a similar scenario which repeats but in different surrounding,
depending on where the person is located. Reoccurring dreams usually do not do this. If you have nightmare of someone breaking into your house and
attacking you, then you sleep over your aunt's house, the nightmare would not change to someone breaking into your aunt's house and attacking you, but
rather would remain the same - you'd be in YOUR apartment with someone breaking into it.
Yet another problem with both the dream or mental disorder theory is that abductions seem to affect (sometimes) more than one person in the household.
Abductees also report rather similar experiences and beings encountered. The reports seem to hark back to the same entities most of the time (most
prevalent the greys).
One could argue that this is the result of movies, but this is a feeble argument since no abductee with any credibility ever reported encountering the
monster from Aliens, Predator, the Blob or any other high profile movie creature - with the exception of Close Encounter's of The Third Kind (but that
movie was actually made based on descriptions of abductees, rather than the other way around).
This is just the tip of the iceberg if you will. There's more to say on the subject. It's good that you're critical, analyze things and don't take
them for granted. If you want to follow the abduction subject in more detail I suggest reading John Mack's books as a start and then go from there.
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