Whatever happened, and however you responded to it, there isn't much research into how humans process weird events. More than 60 percent reported having their experiences while awake and alert, and almost 40 percent were alone at the time. Participants were fairly evenly split on whether their experiences were something that science could or eventually would be able to explain. "Highlighting these possible positive outcomes is important to help people make sense of them and help to normalize them." But regardless of what's actually going on, understanding them in more detail could help support people who report strange things.