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“I swear I had an abduction like experience.. I went to bed just like normal and I had what could only be rationally explained as a really lucid dream that I awoke to a darkened room with a light above me. I was in a medical chair and what made me ‘wake up’ was an extreme pinching pain around my cervix. I was comforted by a human female who held my hand and told me to go back to sleep, it felt like I was given a sedative and everything went dark and I don’t remember waking up that night only that I became aware that i was staring at my ceiling and I couldn’t move (sleep paralysis) and when I was able to move I rolled over I was still scared at that point but I managed to go back to sleep and never told a soul.. it wasn’t weird until I went to my next gyno appointment a month later when I was told I had abnormal scaring on my cervix that wasn’t there before so it always made me question if my experience was real. I have a hard time talking about it for fear of being thought of as crazy.”