In their case, Simon himself concluded that the Hills had not been taken aboard a spacecraft, but rather had created a shared fantasy based on Betty s nightmares. Creating a fantasy from nightmares does not in and of itself constitute dreaming. But the Hills represent only one case. In recent years, a great deal of research has been conducted into the phenomenon of alien abduction. Few experts really believe that people are being physically taken aboard ships from the stars.
Most experts believe that something internal is happening in the brain.
That s not to say that they think people are crazy. In fact, almost all who have conducted psychiatric exams on abductees say that they are definitely not crazy. Sleep paralysis occurs when the mechanism that shuts down our motor functions during dreaming malfunctions. The purpose of this mechanism is to prevent us from flailing about while we sleep and dream. When we wake, the mechanism should shut down.