Another good article Lesley, I like your take on things. About sleep paralysis and abductions, you wrote:
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With abductions, we have the 'hallucination explanation' disguised as sleep paralysis. Now, I realize everyone probably experiences sleep paralysis differently, but I have never hallucinated anything during an experience of sleep paralysis, other than the paralysis itself. No bright lights, no beings, nothing other than me being pissed off that I am experiencing sleep paralysis and that I can't seem to move. How someone could fantasize a time consuming and detail oriented abduction in the few seconds sleep paralysis lasts -- I am not sure.
I've experienced sleep paralysis all my life (although I've noticed they're not as frequent as I've gotten older) and, I've had UFO and paranormal events all my life. Yet I've never, not once, thought 'aliens" or "abductions" during even the most intense sleep paralysis episode.
I have had the very real sense of a "something" that is both unpleasant as well as non-human in the room during these times, but never considered them UFO or alien related in any way.