I've experienced sleep paralysis a lot, it is exactly what she says, hearing noises like someones is in the kitchen, shadow figures in the bedroom, trying to scream for help and trying to get out of the bed and just run out of the house. But this has nothing to do with very detailed stories of abductions. I think people who have experienced abductions and talk about their story, would be confronted with the phenomenon of sleep paralysis very soon. They would clearly say, that this was somehow similar but still another experience.

Sleep paralysis and alien abductions are to different things. Ive experienced sleep paralysis one time in my life and I will never forget it.

To put human reasoning when explaining extraterrestrial motives, capabilities and/or reasoning just further shows how many people don’t know what they are actually speaking on.

Yea but going into a space ship and seeing beings several times missing hours of your life while driving sleep paralysis only explanains some of the experiences and not nearly all of them

I have had several experiences which couldn’t be explained. When I was younger something woke me in the middle of the night and I peered out the window and seen a UFO 🛸 a bright white light I did not see the beings but it was there and gone in an instant. After that initial encounter and to this day I am experiencing consistent sleep paralysis , telepathy, lucid dreams, and one night I even felt my bed shook uncontrollably and I was being lifted out of the bed towards my window. It was terrifying. This gives me validation. Thank you Professor. 👩‍🏫

According to mathematics and probability, other beings exist and are light years ahead of us in science.

Fascinating I been experiencing this since age 14 I'm fifty now and until I'm in my grave I will always remember

Some people don't want to believe the truth because it is too horrible. Most people don't want to believe the truth because it is too mundane.

I wish my psychiatrist would have explained this to me first before pumping me full of chemicals when i told him about my encounter at twelve years old.

How do you explain when people have things implanted and are awake when it happens?

If it ever happens to you, I very much hope so you will be similarly reasonable. When you know you are not dreaming. Everything happening is very real. And you are powerless to do anything about it. And you are trying to grasp onto your reason.

Not having watched this yet I'ma guess sleep paralysis, buried sexual abuse memories, and confabulation via hypnosis? Edit. Nailed it. I wish she would have talked about the individuals who claimed to have been abducted while awake in the daytime.

maybe one of these days she will abducted and greys say: "don't worry we not exist, you said in your previous conference" lol

What about people who have experiences when they're not in bed? I don't think it is likely that these experiences are due to "aliens from another planet" or whatever. I think that we may actually have no idea whatsoever what is going on. Jacques Vallee has written extensively on this, and yet the critics hardly ever even mention him. I suspect this is because the goal isn't explaining the phenomenon, but rather explaining it away.

Why do so many of them report seeing the same kinds of aliens (tall greys, short greys, reptile beings, insect beings, tall blond beings) and procedures? Why aren't they seeing blue dragons that play chess with them?

So you start by redefining the word abductee to suit your argument, then you assume the consequent. Whether this phenomena occurs in physical reality or not, your discussion is firmly mounted on fallacy. Not proper science.

wow so only few views and no comments. I know what sleep paralysis is. I encountered it only once. I was afraid to sleep that night after it happen. I was afraid to close my eyes. Not just close but i was extremely afraid to even blink even one time. I mean literally i was afraid to blink even once. Because if i would do so i was afraid that i was going to get again back to the state - sleep paralysis. I took about an hour or maybe two or so and than i was starting to think that it's time to get back to bed. I was about maybe 23 or maybe 25 at that time. It was extremely scary but i can't tell at what year it happened. That's how it is for some folks. No matter how many people will tell you what sleep paralysis is you won't understand it, you won't somehow imagine and feel it unless you been through. Feelings are so much more than words. I have tried to tell few people what i been through but they never experienced and they don't grasp it. It meaningless to them. It so meaningless to them that they wouldn't even remember me mentioning it. They don't have even similar conception of the similar event and there is nothing them to associate it with. There are no words in the word to express how scary it was. My case was classic one. I woke up in my body as in prison. My body was as vessel - flesh&bones. I felt as if i was in my body but disconnected from it. It was two separate things. There was flesh&bones and there was me - consciousness. And me the consciousness wanted to control the flesh&bones so badly but there was no connection whatsoever. We were two separate things. Oh man, you don't know how scary i felt and suddenly me - my consciousness suddenly got connected to my body. Oh my god, what urged and needful feeling became present. Due fear no more blinking for few next hours. You can't compare that to dog fear, to water or height fear. This fear was different. After so many years i can remember this event quite well but fear itself vanished as dust in the wind. Unfortunately that how we are made. We remember it was there but don't feel it. Maybe that's way we love material word so much, because it can linger little bit longer, not like feelings. Nevertheless I'm not saying i would want to remember it but it would be cool to have at access to it on demand, controlled access. If i could somehow conserve/synthesize such fear i been through and sell it in pills, I would be billionaire, no roller coaster is near to it. Our brains are extremely well orchestrated equipment. If it goes little bit wrong we might go through heaven or hell. That's why we must try to be open minded and sensitive about others feelings and thoughts. Sometimes it's only glitch in the brain but sometimes maybe something else. If they say they were abducted than maybe it's what they been through. Really to share experience is only by participating together. After the fact it's only dust in the wind. Don't let wind to blow all dusts.

I was 4 years old when I experienced sleep paralysis. I can remember the details like it happened yesterday and I am now 51! I was terrified! I saw tall figures at the end of my bed and I felt my long hair being cut at the head of my bed. I was completely awake but unable to move and so scared! The next three months I refused to sleep in my room and began sleeping in my sister’s doorways. No one understood how to help me but to this day, I don’t care what anyone says, I experienced something very odd! As for this lecture, to assume people are ‘weird’ because they believe in alternative health etc…is very sad. That is NOT a ‘weird’ ideology unless you are still believing in a patriarchal society. Time to change our beliefs. Aliens are real and they have been here for many many years.

I had sleep paralysis happen to me once when I was 12. I saw a tall shadow figure wearing a tall hat. Another freaky thing happen to me about 2 years ago when I was walking out my room. I opened the door and felt like I was loosing control over all motor functions and briefly saw 3 tall beings about 7 feet tall. The one In the middle maybe all of them at once tried to communicated something to me but whatever they were doing to me was begging to make me unconscious.

You make a presentation about abductees, but start off by putting actual abductees to the side to focus on an entirely different demographic for the rest of your presentation? Why? Sleep paralysis is interesting and all, but it's not the reason why some people are getting abducted and tagged like animals by an intelligence of unknown origin.

If she assumes arguendo that alien abduction is not real... then why is she constantly trying to debunk the possibility throughout the talk. Also, referring to people and their beliefs as "weird" is not part of a sound logical argument.

This is a classic debunk.

I've experienced quite a bit of sleep paralysis. It actually usually happens if my body can't handle something I ate (like eating too many carbs and not drinking enough water). My hallucinations are usually that some kind of entity (I've never seen an entity--only felt its presence) is trying to possess my body in some kind of way and hold me down. I definitely have trouble breathing and feel that I am in a fight for my life. Often I'm afraid to go back to sleep as I often will get more than one night terror in a night. But in the morning I always feel fine and haven't experienced trauma from these otherwise scary experiences. Right after I break free from the sleep paralysis (or night terror) I tell myself it was just a night terror.

I’ve had sleep paralysis all throughout my young life. As far as I can remember never once did I hallucinate or think other beings were there. It was certainly a feeling of panic and fear but I just assumed it was because I was paralyzed and that’s not a comfortable feeling especially when you’ve had it before and it comes back again and you’re like “oh no not again“. Only one time, and it may have just been a dream so to speak, and it was only after I had been exposed to sleep paralysis being daemonic or aliens or whatever, did I “think“ that I was seeing a shadow moving on my wall for a brief second. It was only the one time, and incidentally it was one of the last times I know I have ever had sleep paralysis. That being said, my word people the proof is beyond out there at this point, sleep paralysis in no way fully explains what is going on with people claiming abductions and little gray aliens and UFOs. You will be looked at unfavorably in history if you were one of the close minded/ignorant/arrogant Who worked against the investigation of this matter in a series and open minded manner that being said whatever entities are behind the paralysis of the human body during these events may be triggering the same mechanics in the brain behind normal physiological sleep paralysis, hence the similarities

minde28383 if I lie in bed too long after initially waking in the morning I can almost guarantee sleep paralysis, I can feel it coming. Terrifying at first when in my lazy teen years but now as a seasoned paralysis veteran I'm actually in control of it to an extent and can snap out of it if I really try. My most memorable experience was crawling from my own body and across the wall through a swarm of bees. It was as though I was tethered with elastic bands but I had the strength to keep crawling away. I imagine this is what astral projectors experience. It's all mind trickery for sure. As psychedelic as you can get without the drugs :-D

The fact that this intellectual would possibly question John Mack - ridiculous. The man was a pulitzer-prize winner, Harvard psychiatrist and trained psychoanalyst. The sleep paralysis theory has been advanced since the beginning of recorded abductions. Notice also she does not compare Benny and Barney Hill's SEPARATE hynotherapy archives which corroborate the event independently. The fact that Mack or others on his level would not be able to tell the difference between sleep paralysis and trauma of this sort is hopelessly naive, reckless, and dangerous. This speaker should be ashamed of herself.

I think we try to understand as best we can and its beyond our understanding

Sleep paralysis will explain a lot of abduction cases but I didn't agree it can explain all .each case can be vastly different.

She obviously thinks all of us here in North America are wackos, LOL. She points that out quite a bit in her lecture :-)

Not a particularly interesting talk, just the usual rehash of the "sleep paralysis and movies make people believe in aliens" trope. Just summarizing and citing other work, no original contribution here. Not worth your time.

And then for some people it really happens. Gotta go. They are here again, i hear them calling, and i really want to go.

no, this experience of sleep paralysis you are talking about I am quite familiar with as well. That is astral projection when you wake inside your body and sometimes leave and there can be what you would refer to as hallucinations, but this is quite different from the abductions! I am an abductee for all of my life and trust me these abductions are not the same thing as sleep paralysis! They are very difference experiences although there are a few similarities because of how they abduct you and the way they maintain control. I have been abducted during the day while not sleeping and once in my car while driving. How does sleep paralysis explain that? would be happy to explain further if anyone is interested! I have been researching this for over 30 years now. I am 51 now and I have many memories and experiences throughout the years.

It’s amazing how all these people that can’t afford to even consider the phenomenon as “real” - appear to be continually attracted again and again to the area. Really you’d assume it would be a topic that faded away once it was decided to be something other than what it purported to be... ...maybe it is what it is. ?! 🤔🙂🛸 -

I had tons of sleep paralysis but most abduotions dont take place while a person is asleep. Plus physical phenomena is documened associated with abducions ..its a real phenom that did happen and if it was psycological there would be other indicators which arent present

Good argument. My question would be on the basis, slim chance an alien abduction (or government abduction) did happen, how could you get anyone to believe you, or do you go into a state of denial?

Sleep paralysis is naturally occurring in our bodies, it doesn’t necessarily happen only to prevent us from acting out dreams, but it can also be induced by stress. I’m an abductee, and I know they can put us in a state of paralysis for their own safety. These tall beings people see can many times be shadow people which are ET’s or screen memories. I had an experience once where I knew they were present in my bedroom and they put me in paralysis and one was petting my head with a finger, until I passed out. Abductions also happen my time of day, preferably when there are not people around, but if they need you they’re going to get you even if it means putting everyone at your office meeting in a state of suspended animation. They can cloak their ships so coming for people in daylight hours are no problem for them. Lastly for those people in the comments wondering why they won’t leave us alone, they’ve been abducting us for way more than 50 years 😂 Abductions are generational, what they’re doing is creating other humanoid types. Aliens are the ones that created us and evolved our “look” from asrozlepithecus. And for the grand finale, they created “jesus” too, aliens are god.

I sure hope you're right

*imagine what the aliens i abduct tell thr therapists* now i nearly feel guilty. it is a make work program tho. _JC

She left out being missing and returning later.

This was filmed in 2015. Several years before the US military admitted observing UAP craft, and before the 1994 Ariel school encounter details became well known. Dozens of children described an interaction with alien beings and many of the details they witnessed are also details most abductees describe. We are the wolves, they are the scientists in the helicopter with the tranquilizer gun and tracking tags.

I had this last night, its real but they're more like hyperdimensional biengs and yes one over the bed and two in the corner of the room.. very cool! I woke up and they were pissed because they couldn't control me and i didnt seem to give a shit.. but it was the real deal, very strange phenomenon

Well, this makes no sense whatsoever. It’s much more likely these people are being abducted. Thanks 👍🏼

Now tell me why the AATIP studies this topic VERY closely … how you explained the lost of kilometers of 6 km of my parents in one sec….

"I have no proof of anything either way, so I'm 100% convinced these people are all lying". Is that how science is taught?

At the end she says about paralysis "the experience is more likely to be caused by something normal than something paranormal". But don't u think normal is paranormal, paranormal normal? Come on people these days are opening up up to spirituality

I’ve had sleep paralysis happen many times but only during one time in my life when I was dealing with a paranormal nightmare, did I hear something next to me in the room (most awful growling sound I’ve ever heard in my life). During these episodes, while wide awake More than once I’ve been completely paralyzed during a few of these episodes. These are def demonic attacks.

It really helps speaking to psychiatrists and psychologists about your experiences. I tried different antipsychotics over a period of years, but they didn't stop or alter the experiences. My wife and I talk about our experiences on a doc here on UKposts. The best thing experiencers can do is talk to others who've gone through the same thing. It helps feeling less alone.

One time when I was a child, I believed i was levitating and touched by a witch. It was sleep paralysis for sure.

You cannot blame them for coming to conclusions such as these for explanations considering the fact the government has don’t such a good job discrediting the subject to the point there was simply to reasonable way to believe them. We know differently now. The crafts objectively exist so that must give such events a second look.

would you do this if I was abducted and violated sexually and mentally by another human on earth instead of an alien? Would it be okay to dismiss the persons experience as false or fake giving power to the abductor by doing so.. Treating an abduction this way right off the bat just silences the victim and shames them into never seeking treatment for their PTSD or anxiety related to these experiences or ever reporting it. Is this right? Ask yourself this!

One of the most interesting theories that i have heard about alien abductions says that such events might be flashbacks from the day we were born, which explains the strong lights, being on a medical table, and the almost human looking but not quite there alien look.

Working with military personnel and witnesses one knows there is irrefutable and definitive evidence for alien abduction. In Italy we had it confirmed by psychiatrists and policemen at the same time. Thus your opinion is not required. This is what happens when one claims to give lectures on such complex matters when knowing only information in her/his field.

ive been abducted and got round mark at my left temple but I didnt tell anybody

Until it happens to you.

I cant believe this lovely young lady got so many negative likes shes amazingly intelligent ! Loved watching this speech !!! 🌴😎🏖️

Describe the damn alien ship in detail if aliens kidnapped you and make draws.

The hypothesis that these individuals had prior beliefs in other mystic or physic beliefs is demonstrably false. Many of these individuals were what we would define as traditional in their belief sets, basic christian judaeo beliefs and had no interest the other worldly, the physic, or the unexplained. Its strange that the speaker was not willing to acknowledge the braid cross section of individuals who report these “abductions”.

Typically academic full of theory and no experience in life . This lady is delusional 🖖

What about the catagory of people who never said they were abducted but actually were abducted? Like me.

"Why are aliens stupid" is hardly a sound argument. A lot of this discussion is actually interesting, but baseline assuming that a) humans are alone in the universe and b) alien motives can only be logically sound by human standards are not assumptions that can be supported scientifically. And that's ignoring that there are plenty of explanations to be had even within human logic. We catch wild animals, tag them, and release them all the time. We institute breeding programs for animals. When we don't understand something, we capture it and study it. And we've been doing it for millennia and will continue to do so. There are tons of creatures that we *share* a planet with that we don't understand yet and have been studying for decades. Hells, there's tone about *humans ourselves* that we don't understand yet, and we've been studying ourselves for as long as we've existed. There is merit to this discussion but using this as the 'logical' assumption as to why all abduction recounts are false is a flimsy foundation at best.

I've had many sleep paralysis. I had never watched an alien movie . But that's what I saw on top of me when I forced my eyes open. AND WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE AWAKE WHEN THEY ARE ABDUCTED,?

Why do so many people try so hard to quickly explain things away instead of neutrally observing and recording? Someone should explain that away in a presentation.

Sure lots of 8 year olds have the beliefs and have studied the list she spoke of. They have watched the film's and go to mufon events. There are even 5 year olds like that.

As a practicle person who believes in hands-on evidence, i've seen 2 or 3 mainstream tv programs where implants have been surgically extracted from claimed alien abductees after x'rays taken because the abductee has seen unusual skin surface marks &/or felt constant irritation in a defined area, sometimes feeling the physical prescence of a small subcutaneous object) These programs have follewed the proccess & paid to have the extactded onbjects analyised by proffessional laboritary & on 1 program by the M.I.T. laboritary, in the cases shown, these objectd were declared as being manufactured using "unidentifiable elements" one lab declared, "metals & dments not of this world" another lab concluded & "did you get this from z meteorite"... said another ..."because whatever this is made from, it's not made from any element known or theorised to exist" ..like many were found long after Mendelev came up with the Periodic Table. The unusual ones cane late, like Moscovian, Tennessine & Donaldtrumpian. Encouraging effort of research but she's a kid with much to learn about the seemingly paranormal, as the majority has inc' myself but when this type of physical (& scientifically properly analysed by highly credited laboratory) ...implant evidence shows up many times ...true science, investigatory science follow-up from eye witnessed accounts & assumptions like this one, of fanciful dreaming during sleep paralysis to explain alien presence) ...must be totally seperated. (Everything we know about most historic events like military battles for 1 e.g. come from "eyewitnessed accounts" but whe 2, 5 or 25 or 5000 people witnessed a huge triangular ufo above Pheonix ...then it's just "mass hysteria" There is a deep-state agenda concerning ufo's in USA & UK & affiliated countries. UFOs can't only be seen in counyries who made ufo evidence open to the public! P.S. ve had 1 encounter of sleep paralysis as a 9 or 10 year old, strong, real & unforgettable because it's alarming & scary enough alone & without aliens standing around. 1 morning immediatly after opening my eye's & becmong wide-awake as usual, i instantly found i couldnt move. I know i'd opened my eyes but i lay there for maybe just a couple of minutes & tried my hardest to invoke some or any movement at all but in vain like the link between brain & any movable body parts had been totally severed. I was glad when the effect suddenly disappeared in within a nano-second & i knew i was not dreaming, apart from trying but failing to scream "mum!" Nothing happened in that paralysed time. I remember it was a horrible feeling while i was incapacitated. It never happend since then, 40 odd years ago & ive never been abducted or evdn seen a classic ufo even tho ive spent years as an amateur astronomer & ground my own Newtonian t/scopes 8" inch reflector mirror at Christchurch Astonomy Club it still gets used tho only when there's some scheduled & viewable event like Hale-Bopp, a Saturn or Jupitor moon highlited in transit & Haley's comet last pass in it's 76'ish cyclic return. But no ufo's, not that i'd waste time trying to see one, the countries like France, Chile & Argentina who have publicly released footage of their military jet possies sent out after radar finds them in their airspace, they succeed or just try to keep up with them when instructed to observe & often witnessing them performing tight right-angle instant 90'degree turns, often at 7 to 12 thousand & more mph, that G-Force would desroy our aircrft & would destroy our constructions & squash humans to < a few atoms thick no matter what strapped anti-G force suit or gunk you could be suspended in ...all tells me something's going on. Especially around military bases, power stations & other sources of high radiation, even tho they are contained, UFOs are most seen buzzing around those places more than anywhere else. Or maybe those pilots all fell into sleep paralysis & thier camera's telepathically photo'd their simultaniously syncronided dream or ufo ...or something similarly stupid like this kid might believe.

Lady, there are more things around than you could imagine.

You can still be abducted and appear to still be in the here and now.

Boy this won't age well

Academics offering disfunctional strategies for understanding what's going on. This video is aging poorly.

Sleep paralysis doesn't explain abductions where the abductee was physically absent during the abduction or abductions that involve multiple people at the same time. I really wish you would read a bit more instead of regurgitating this tired old sleep paralysis theory.

You make the statement that most abductees are in North America, this is incorrect, most people who are investigating abductions and speak English are in North America and Europe and we know that is a worldwide phenomenon. I agree that sleep paralysis is a real thing I have experienced it, but I never saw any aliens, you also make the assumption that most abductions happen during sleep, again incorrect, or at least misleading, they are abducted when they will be missed the least, this may happen to be during sleep but many are taken during daytime hours while fully awake, you make the assumption that the "Aliens" keep doing experiments on people, that they shouldn't need to keep doing therefore it's nonsense, that is not the working hypothesis and hasn't been for decades because the evidence never held for that, this is the problem with science too many people who know nothing and don't do the research and refuse to look at it, but will stand quite confidently spouting misinformation. Seems to me scientist can always find time and funding for pointless research like how many boiled sweets it takes to choke a kestrel, but won't even look at this subject, that is, in my opinion why the definition of academic is: of no practical use or value.

Ask a cow or a chicken or pig what its like to be abducted for some other species agendas. So has above so has below.

I stopped watching when I read your first assumption✌🏼

I'm a young FEMALE, I believe I KNOW!!!!!

its not new those are DJins

you have no idea what you are talking about and this is actually harmful!!

What a stupid explanation! Alien abductions have been well researched for over a decade by PhDs in several professions, including psychologists, psychiatrists, material scientists, and other fields. They've proven the reality of it, which is quite different from sleep paralysis. Doesn't she realize the implants that have been removed, which are made of iridium and emit radio waves, cannot be explained by sleep paralysis? Could she have a good explanation for that? Also, she should do better research.

Oh yeah, all our experiences are conscious recollection with the exception of some events I didn't know about. My psychiatrist at the time said those were flashbacks and prescribed Stelazine...which was actually the only med I took that helped in some way. It got rid of the flashbacks, at least. So yay Stelazine! 🎉

Spoken like a true Reptilian 😁