Alien abduction or lucid dreams?

A grey alien; this depiction of aliens became popularized in Ufology subculture during the 1960s in the wake of the Betty and Barney Hill abduction reports. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I decided I'd do a little research on alien abductions and see what I could dig up for my readers. Sadly, a lot of it was silly, couldn't be crossed checked or was simply b.s. I did run across a concept through my research that bears some discussion and perhaps some thought regarding alien abductions.

Having never been abducted myself, (not to my knowledge anyway) it is hard for me to understand how the whole process takes places, seemingly always in the dead of night, while the abductee is sleeping. Now I do know there are documented cases where the abductees claim to have been fully awake when the abduction occurs initially, but they always, emerge from the experience “waking up.” There never is a story that indicates that the abductee walks straight into a police station after getting beamed back down to earth. So even if they were initially awake, the abduction seems to “end” when the abductee rouses from some sort of unconsciousness, or sleep.

So naturally I am interested in this latest theory/explanation that the abduction is the actual result of a lucid dream? Is that possible? How about the well documented case of Betty and Barney Hill, who both allege that they were abducted by aliens in 1961? They both couldn't possibly be having the same lucid dream could they? Not likely. Reports do indicate though, that Betty Hill did have very vivid dreams 10 days after the abduction.

One then has to recall also the wildly reported story of the four men in Allagash Maine that also claimed to have encountered a large glowing object while  camping in the Allagash wilderness in 1976. I have personally been to that part of Maine, and I can tell you from first hand experience, it's very, well, different. You do get the sense that you're in a movie sequel to the Deliverance when you're there. At any rate this too, was a widely reported incident and again, can four young men have the same lucid dreams, at the same time?

It may yet still be a relevant explanation for many that have claimed alien abduction, and like with most reports, videos, pictures, the majority of actual authentic cases are quite small. One has to make every effort to rule out all other rational explanations, and lucid dreams has a place on that list. However, where there are more than one involved, one has to go another route. What say you?

Some researchers and scientist claim these lucid dreams started a long time ago, and were implanted in the imagination via comic strips and alien stories and movies, but my question is, where did they get those ideas from? If you study some Egyptian art and early renderings from long ago, you'll see they were drawing these space men way back then..who planted that idea? Surely not a movie, or watching too many Star Trek episodes.