 Lost time, nightmares and general trauma are reported by 'abductees', like the other prominent group of trauma victims, survivors of sexual abuse. People who think they may have been abducted by aliens sometimes use the evidence of repeated nightmares as proof that something terrifying has happened to them. Victims of extreme trauma generally report having nightmares, which may be recognisable as a replay of the trauma, or may be frightening and unidentifiable, but leave the person waking in a state of panic, which brings to mind the trauma. Experiments show that people who report abduction are unusually suggestible when tested under experimental conditions, tending to believe that ideas which have been added by their own thought process are in fact real. Repeated recall of negative ideas and imagery to 'therapists' or other 'support group' members tends to reinforces these ideas. Such people could in fact have suffered some other trauma, such as sexual abuse, of which they are unaware and have transferred the fearful ideas to thoughts of abduction. A victim of sexual abuse in early childhood could have repeated frightening flashbacks or dreams of a figure entering their room in the night. They may know that the original abuser is no longer there but believe that someone is. Surly only an alien could be walking through walls and closed doors? An alien who abducts humans for sexual experimentation, even impregnation. Earlier societies believed such haunting were the work of a night hag or night mare, sexual demons, Incubi and Sucubi attacked sleeping victims. |
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