A fascinating new study found that accounts of UFO or alien encounters may have a connection to lucid dreams. The thought-provoking project was reportedly the brainchild of a Russian-based organization, known as the Phase Research Center, which is devoted to exploring the mysterious sleep state wherein an individual becomes aware that they are dreaming. Observing that skeptics have long suspected that alleged alien abduction experiences have some relationship to "dissociative REM sleep states," the group devised an experiment to see if they could manifest an encounter with UFOs or ETs by way of a lucid dream.
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