Hopkins reports a case in which a woman feels herself hanging upside down, detached from her bed. She senses poking and prodding in intimate areas, described not as sexual but as instrumental. The sensations are surreal and frightening.
Her perceptions oscillate between bodily immersion and symbolic confusion, resembling the shifting logic of a nightmare. She fears wetting the bed, then gagging, then vomiting, though none of these appear to occur physically.
Hopkins interprets the episode as a hybrid dream-encounter state in which physical sensations and symbolic fears merge during an abduction.
