 Most of the alien abduction stories happen under a couple of different conditions. One is like the one you described, through hypnotic regression or just kind of trying to recall through using your imagination. Or the other big one is at night when you're asleep. It's called sleep paralysis. Some small but not trivial percentage of the population has these lucid dreams in which they wake up in the dream. They're still asleep. Their body is super relaxed and