Article in NYT magazine reminded me of when I lived in Boston. I lived in a house with my friend Pam who worked for John Mack, the Harvard researcher who studied people who believed they had been abducted by aliens. They hypnotized people and when they were done, they "remembered" their abduction experience. As a result of the ongoing study, there were a lot of people in Boston who thought they were abductees. I met them everywhere. On temp jobs, at parties. Then there was Amy, who lived in our house and devoted her life to being a victim of alien abductions. Apparently it happened while I lived there! They were taking her eggs for a breeding program. When I listened to these people talk about it, I used to get goose bumps. One woman had a memory of a kangaroo puppet visiting her in the night when she was little. After hypnosis, the memory resolved itself to being a scary alien and on and on.
One day Pam gave me the questionaire to see if I might have been abducted. It went something like:
- Have any unexplained scars?
- Do you ever lose time?
- Do you ever experience sleep-paralysis?
- Do you have problems concentrating?
Sleep Paralysis? I had expereinced many episodes of sleep paralysis where I wake up, but I can't move and there is a buzzing noise and an entity in the room and something is pulling me out of my body, but I resist it and with great effort I move my arms and snap out of it. I kind of enjoyed them and thought it was my own special thing. I never heard anyone else mention it before.
It was not good to have a researcher into alien abductions be the first person to mention sleep paralysis to me and for about 15 minutes I thought I might be an abductee. After searching my body for mysterious scars and considering hypnosis, I backed out. Thank God! Who knows what memories would have been implanted? But I also kind of wish I had tried it, so I would know what it is like to have memories implanted in my head. It would help in my quest for truth.
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