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54 Alien Abductions May Be Vivid Dreams

Alien Abductions May Be

Vivid Dreams, Study

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By Natalie Wolchover

Researchers say they have conducted "the first
experiment to ever prove that close encounters
with UFOs and extraterrestrials are a product of
the human mind."
In a sleep study by the Out-Of-Body
Experience Research Center in Los Angeles, 20
volunteers were instructed to perform a series of
mental steps upon waking up or becoming lucid
during the night that might lead them to have
out-of-body experiences culminating in
perceived encounters with aliens. According to
lead researcher Michael Raduga, more than half
the volunteers experienced at least one full or
partial out-of-body experience, and seven of
them were able to make contact with UFOs or
extraterrestrials during these dream-like
experiences.
Raduga designed the experiment to test
his theory that many reports of alien encounters
are actually instances of people experiencing a like Princess Jasmine. They wanted to scare me, profound spiritual experiences.
vibrant, lifelike state of dreaming. If he could not to 'make contact.' As a result, I was According to the study, that subset of
coach people to dream a realistic alien extremely frightened and regained awareness in patients also had elevated levels of carbon
encounter, he said, that could prove that many my own body." dioxide in their blood compared with patients
Raduga plans to publish his results and who did not have NDEs, a condition that causes
reports of such encounters — such as alien
to conduct further studies on humans' ability to anoxia, or oxygen deprivation in the brain.
abductions that take place during the night —
fabricate alien encounters that seem real. [] Anoxia, in turn, causes euphoria, visions
are really just products of peoples' imaginations.
of light tunnels, hallucinations and other typical
Raduga's OOBE Research Center is not
affiliated with any academic institutions, and the 4-Year-Old's Out-of-Body symptoms of NDEs. In other words, anoxia is
new research has not been published in a peer- Experience: Religion or likely what causes the phenomena.
reviewed journal.
"When people experience alien Science? That may not be the end of the story,
abductions in the night, they usually don't know however.
they are actually in REM sleep and having an A research collaboration called AWARE
Several years ago, when Colton Burpo was 4
out-of-body experience," Raduga told Life's (AWAreness during REsuscitation), led by Sam
years old, he underwent cardiac arrest and was
Little Mysteries, adding than an estimated 1 Parnias at the University of Southampton in the
resuscitated during emergency surgery for a
million Americans have such experiences each U.K., is studying NDEs and out-of-body
year. "It's very realistic and people cannot ruptured appendix. Four months later, Colton experiences in the hope of learning more about
understand how it happens. [Our study] shows started saying strange things to his father, a consciousness and the relationship between the
that it's not about aliens, it's about human Nebraskan pastor named Todd, and his mother, mind and the brain. In 2009, Parnias told the
abilities, and it can happen to almost anyone." Sonja, about his near-death experience (NDE). press, "At least 10 to 20 percent of people who
Study participants were told to try to Colton recounted rising up out of the have been brought back to life will tell us they
operating room, looking down on the doctors
"separate from their bodies" every time they had consciousness present, and a proportion of
and his praying parents from above, and floating
became half-awake or lucid during the night. If them will tell us they were able to see doctors
away to heaven , where he met his dead
they were able to dream that they had separated and nurses working on them as if they're looking
grandfather, his unborn sister who had died in a
from their sleeping bodies, they were then from above.
supposed to look for aliens in their homes. If miscarriage, Jesus and God. In the New York "When people have died, their brain goes
they were unable to have an out-of-body dream Times bestseller "Heaven is for Real" (Thomas into a flatline state, so consciousness shouldn't
experience, they were told to go back to sleep Nelson 2010), Todd Burpo tells the story of his be present. But it could also be that [doctors] did
and try again later in the night. son's trip to heaven and back. something amazing to get blood into their
"Some could do it by the first attempt. Judging by book sales, this young boy's brains.
out-of-body experience in the operating room
Some needed three to five attempts to have an Parnias is also testing the possibility that
has given a great deal of encouragement to many
out-of-body experience. Not everybody could the mind really does momentarily separate from
people's religious beliefs. But what about those
do it — some were unable to do it because of the brain during death. He has initiated the
who don't believe in the Christian idea of
their fear. They were able to separate from their placement of boards with symbols on them in
body but they became too afraid to look for heaven, but who also don't feel comfortable intensive care units in 21 hospitals worldwide.
aliens," Raduga said. calling a 4-year-old a liar? Is there a scientific The symbols are unobservable to people in
By the end of the study, 35 percent of the explanation for what happened to Colton? hospital beds, but they are visible to observers
volunteers said they had made visual contact looking down from above. Over the next three
with aliens, and they described their encounters Recent research seems to show that years, Parnias and his colleagues will collect
for the researchers. there is. data on whether or not patients who have out-of-
One participant, identified as Alexander Several studies, such as a study by Slovenian body experiences report seeing the symbols.
N., recalled making a successful attempt to researchers published in the journal Critical The researchers hope to provide a
separate from his body: "I [then] tried to find Care last year, have found that NDEs are quite definitive answer to the question of whether out-
aliens. Three of them materialized right before common. Around 20 percent of heart attack of-body phenomena are real, or merely
my eyes. They seemed more like creatures from survivors report events such as moving toward a hallucinations arising in oxygen-deprived
the movie 'The Thing' than tadpoles with eyes bright light, feelings of peace and joy, or brains. []