![]() We call that "missing time" – it's very common. Some hadn't experienced anything until they woke up at home thinking it was morning before realising 48 hours had just gone by. They saw non-human beings around them, whether they were at home or in an external place that might have been a spaceship. Often these people tell me they were awoken in the middle of the night and found themselves paralysed. So what's the evidence you look for that makes you believe a patient may have been abducted? ![]() One of them, Sonia, has been experiencing these kinds of abductions since she was little. I still see five of them regularly, several years after they first came to me. In the four years I've been doing this, I've seen about 100 patients, all French, who have shown signs of an abduction. Nicolas Dumont: Firstly, it's not as if they all come in saying "I was abducted by aliens", but lots of them think that it might be what happened. How many patients have you seen who think they've been abducted by aliens? This time, I wanted to chat to the psychologist about how he thinks he can tell whether someone has been abducted or not and why he's convinced that more medical professionals should be open to believing in the supernatural. ![]() But they're describing an experience that's real and intense – something being done to their bodies."Ī while ago, I spoke to some of Dumont's patients about their experiences. But in these cases, it's nothing like that. In 2003, he explained in an interview: "When you're talking to a psychotic who's telling you something that seems like a psychosis, you do get the feeling that it never happened. John Edward Mack, a professor at Harvard and former psychiatrist, spent part of his life studying this same phenomenon, following nearly 200 cases of people who believed they had been abducted by aliens. Dumont isn't the first psychologist to specialise in this. ![]()
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