Welcome to Dreamviews, Steven!
Well, the Old Hag syndrom you mention has nothing to do with Lucid Dreaming. Actually is one of the misnomers we are trying to dispell.
Lucid dream is simply a dream, in which your daytime memory kicks in (normally is off during sleep), and you suddenly realize, you are dreaming, and your physical body is safely in your bed, asleep.
This realization gives you freedom to do anything in your dream.
The Old Hag syndrom is associated with SP. SP is a disorder, when we notice being paralyzed. Normally, we are in SP every time we dream, so we don't act out our dreams. If something goes wrong and our body turns it on too soon, or fails to turn it off when we wake up, we may find ourselves unable to move or talk. This is when some people describe somebody sitting on chest, making it hard to breathe. In my opinion, this is something that our mind fills in, when we feel our body being very heavy from SP.
The theory of alien abductions is in my opinion an entirely different subject. Has nothing to do with lucid dreaming and with SP. Is it possible that someone is startled awake, finds himself in SP, gets scared and his imagination filles in the gaps with shadow figures? I think so. But I'm not going to dispute claims of alien abduction. For all I know, they could be real.
Also, some things that we experience may be explained as hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations. We get these often, when we stay aware past the time, when our mind should already be asleep. These HH are the beginnings of dreams. When we already asleep when we start to dream, we just remember them as dreams. But if we are still awake, then we see them as HH. That part of sleep can get very confusing. We see, hear, feel things, that we take as normal when we dram them. But when still awake, they can get spooky. Or enjoyable, depending on every individual.
When I was actively trying to have an OBE - out of body experience, I knew I have to wake up just after I would fall asleep, to see my dream body exit my physical body. So by chance I did wake up one night. I was few feet above my bed, half way between bed and window, being dragged by my ankles to the window. I clearly felt hands holding me. My awareness split, and I experienced this from two perspectives at the same time. One, from my sleeping physical body on the bed, and the other, from my dream body above the bed. Classic alien abduction scenario, right? I would have been spooked, had this been my first out of body experience.
So the way I see this, we have 3 different issues here.
1. Lucid dreaming
2. Sleep paralysis
3. Alien abductions
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