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FWIW - The commonality of alien abductions can actually be decently explained by sleep paralysis + hallucinations (+ the mind already having been 'seeded' by the idea).

It's something that perfectly sane people could experience and not realize it was a hallucination because it's a quite rare & unknown phenomenon(and one that you often won't mention because everyone thinks you're crazy if you say it).