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Sleep Paralysis, Sexual Abuse, and Space Alien Abduction

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Harvard psychologists' study of people who report abduction, finding that sleep paralysis with hallucinations, a prior belief in the phenomenon and recovered-memory techniques account for the reports without any abduction. Speakers cite it as the mainstream explanation Mack's work is measured against.

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Identifierhttps://gwern.net/doc/psychiatry/2005-mcnally.pdf
Issuing bodyRichard J. McNally and Susan A. Clancy; Transcultural Psychiatry 42(1)
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Wherehttps://gwern.net/doc/psychiatry/2005-mcnally.pdf

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Our studies suggest that people who report having been either abducted by space aliens or sexually abused as children experience episodes of sleep paralysis at higher rates than do those denying histories of alien abduction or CSA.

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  • 0:13:05 The “Clock” That Can Predict Death ▶
    idea has really spawned an industry by now. There are several startup companies that pursue that idea. For example, I'm involved with a company that was started by David Sinclair from Harvard. Um David um developed a modification, a protocol that rejuvenated and regrew the optic nerve. Somebody may have a very damaged
  • 0:03:10 “These Are Parts Of an Alien UFO!” -Stanford Scientist Garry Nolan ▶
    and Arthur C. Clark wrote 2001 Space Odyssey. Right. Right. And I always found interesting, you know, sort of the monolith in 2001 Space Odyssey, which is this sort of thing placed on Earth that it inspires tech innovation. It's almost like John Mack would talk about a lot of these alien sightings being slightly more
  • 0:42:06 Eric Weinstein Debates CIA UFO Expert Hal Puthoff ▶
    i'm being honest and open i still carry the sense of i cannot believe i'm sitting here discussing visitations from some intelligent life that we don't understand potentially uh but okay so you know a scientist should be able to consider these things and i'm not going to be the prisoner of the stigma but i am going to
  • Sleep Paralysis, Sexual Abuse, and Space Alien Abduction Richard J. McNally and Susan A. Clancy; Transcultural Psychiatry 42(1) · 2005

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