Do aliens exist? Here's why reports of sightings or abductions might come from recovered memories, explains JustinLehmiller
dreams of being unfaithful to her husband. She believed this had actually happened and felt guilty about it until she chanced to meet the ‘lover’ from her dreams and realized they had not seen each other in years, and had not been romantically involved. Several patients dreamed that their parents, children, orhad died, believing that this was true until shocked with evidence to the contrary, when the presumed deceased suddenly reappeared.
Narcoleptics aren’t the only ones who sometimes confuse dreams with reality, of course. In this same study, researchers recruited a control group of healthy, age-matched individuals, of whom 15 percent reported having had experiences of not being able to separate dreams from reality . Thus, while narcoleptics experience this at highly elevated rates, people without sleep disorders sometimes have this experience, too.
This study didn’t specifically address alien or UFO abductions, but dream–reality confusion could provide another plausible means through which some people might come to believe they have had a paranormal experience.There’s at least one other possible explanation: As Newman and Baumeister argue, sexual masochists are a subgroup of people who might be especially susceptible to believing they have been abducted by UFOs.
Why is that? Because, in their view, escape from self-awareness is one of the defining elements of masochistic activities, such as being bound, humiliated, or subjected to pain. In their words, “masochism is a particularly effective means to deconstruct meaning and escape the self. It temporarily undermines key aspects of the self.” It is “an escape from everyday life and the ongoing pressures of modern selfhood.
What masochists fantasize about and desire sexually holds a lot of parallels to the activities that abductees describe. As Newman and Baumeister argue:"The main features of masochism—both actual activities and fantasies—are pain, loss of control, andFor example, when you look at the scenarios that abductees describe, pain is often one of the main features—people frequently say they were subjected to unpleasant and painful activities aboard UFOs.
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