✦Description
The experiencer becomes the specimen: beings crowd around, probe with instruments or attention, run what feels like a scan, a reading, an inventory of the body or mind. Strassman's volunteer Dmitri reported being 'tested, probed, and examined' by alien beings in a high-technology setting; volunteer Ben found himself on an examination table. Lawrence 2022 coded a whole medical-interaction category, most often 'an entity examining, observing, scanning, or analyzing' the author. Strassman himself noted the resemblance to alien-abduction narratives summarized by John Mack.
✦Interpretations
Experiencers frequently report a felt reversal — the research subject becomes the entities' research subject. Researchers point to the clinical setting (IVs, monitors, observing staff in Strassman's trials) as ready material, though the motif also appears in non-clinical reports.
✦What the sources say
Medical-type interaction in 154 encounters (9.0%); examining/observing/scanning/analyzing in 141 (8.2%).
Dmitri 'tested, probed, and examined' by aliens in a high-tech lab; Ben on an examination table.
Strassman explicitly compared these session reports to Mack's abduction-narrative summaries.
Questions
What is 'The Examination — being scanned' in DMT reports?
The experiencer becomes the specimen: beings crowd around, probe with instruments or attention, run what feels like a scan, a reading, an inventory of the body or mind. Strassman's volunteer Dmitri reported being 'tested, probed, and examined' by alien beings in a high-technology setting; volunteer Ben found himself on an examination table. Lawrence 2022 coded a whole medical-interaction category,
Is 'The Examination — being scanned' commonly reported?
Lawrence 2022: medical-type interactions in 9.0% of entity encounters (n=154), with examining/observing/scanning/analyzing in 8.2% (n=141). A well-attested minority motif.