Missing Time Hypnosis, False Memory, and Dreamwork
If you're interested at all in the UAP/UFO or NHI/ET contact phenomenon, then you need a working understanding of missing time, hypnosis, and dreamwork. Missing time is gap in memory related to a UFO/UAP or NHI/ET contact event. It's been described like blacking out, stepping into a dream, or even time traveling, usually associated with seeing a UFO or UAP.
Missing time is important because its one of the main sources of information regarding ET/NHI contact experiences. Experiencers often present supporting evidence for contact like a deep intuition, physical marks upon the body, concurrent witnesses, or other forms of documentation.
Missing time is one of the most triggering and taboo topics related to UAPs because of its association with hypnosis. The hypothesis was that missing time is caused by repressed trauma or alien mind control, therefore hypnosis might counter-act the resistance to memory and actually enhance recall. However, hypnosis in service to memory enhancement appears to be something more like a psychic ability than a reproducible technique and has been shown to lead to false memories in some cases.
It appears that hypnosis is a special-case of shamanic dreaming practices that have a long history, which has been often obscured by materialist academics. Dream studies requires a different set of ethics and epistemologies than historic evidence. It appears that dreamwork related to missing time does not directly lead to historic testimony, but is meaningful in the way that dreams are meaningful.
Missing Time and Hypnosis
There is a long history of using hypnosis in service of understanding missing time and a long history of confusion about the testimonies.
- In 1966, John Fuller published The Interrupted Journey about Dr. Simon's hypnosis of Betty and Barney Hill, which established the hypothesis of hypnosis as memory enhancement (note that Dr. Simon developed hypnosis alongside the therapeutic use of "truth serums" on war veterans)
- In 1981, Budd Hopkins published Missing Time, which presented a hypothesis of ET contact based upon hypnotic regressions
- In 1987, Whitley Strieber published Communion: A True Story, which defined ET contact as abduction for a generation
- In 1994, John Mack published Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, which established the abduction phenomenon as both legitimate and non-clinical
- In 1998, Dolores Cannon published Custodians: Beyond Abduction, which redefined the field of hypnosis in service to experiencers, shifting focus from historic testimony to healing
Hypnosis is problematic
While hypnosis may indirectly lead to memory, it is best understood as a dream-like experience
There are many reasons why hypnosis is a problematic means of historic knowledge regarding the missing time experience:
- Hypnotic regressions have been shown to lead to false memories (in tests where the hypnotists intentionally mislead participants)
- It is impossible to avoid non-leading questions because most communication is non-verbal anyways
- We don't even know if missing time experiences happen in historic spacetime, so how can we know there are even memories to be enhanced or recovered?
However, it is very important to note that hypnotic regression is only one hypothesis among many.
Lindsay, D. S., Hagen, L., Read, J. D., Wade, K. A., & Garry, M. (2004). True photographs and false memories. Psychological Science, 15(3), 149-154.
Zelig, M., & Beidleman, W. B. (1981). The investigative use of hypnosis: A word of caution. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 29(4), 401-412.
Hypnosis may actually be dreamwork
Hypnosis as a special type of dreaming is not problematic because the ethics and epistemology of dreams requires nondual and mythic ways of knowing
While scientific literature in inconclusive about the efficacy of hypnosis for memory enhancement, there is general acceptance of the notions that:
- Hypnosis produces a physiological state similar to a nap or relaxation
- Hypnosis produces a psychological state similar to daydreaming
Given that experiencers work with hypnotists for more reasons than memory enhancement, we must conclude that hypnosis is a special type of dreaming that may be best understood through shamanic frameworks.
Barrett, D. (1979). The hypnotic dream: Its relation to nocturnal dreams and waking fantasies. Journal of abnormal Psychology, 88(5), 584.
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