
Originally Posted by
austintorn@aol.com
I did study abduction…
Science, as it explains more and more each day, actually thus pushes people to seek even stranger sources of mystery and wonder, such as being abducted by aliens.
What makes abductees stand out is an inability to think scientifically. They are often asked if they understand that sleep paralysis, in which waking up during a dream causes the dream to leak into consciousness even while you remain immobilized, can produce the weird visions and hopelessness that abductees describe. They say that they do but that it doesn't apply to them.
It’s really more that they didn’t know what was happening and so they settled on abduction as the most plausible explanation, it being the simplest for such episodes as a pain in the groin being the stealing of sperm by shadowy figures of ETs. But are aliens really the most likely reason for bad dreams, nosebleeds and bruises?
By a lucky coincidence, I will be putting yet another reason in my new "Why People Believe…" thread in a day or two, which especially addresses the meditation angle.