Ive had an interest in "aliens" since reading von daniken when i was 5, (yes i could read before i started school, i was operating a hewlett packard mainframe at 16.)
Had a large collection of books on the subject prior to the internets
And yet, wether my experience was real or illusion, the fear was the most intense ive ever felt, and ive been in rock climbing accidents and car accidents where i thought i was going to die.
In neither cases did i faint with fright
But it seemed like i did that night, the fear peaked as it got closer to my head and i blacked out in fright.
There has been some speculation in the abduction narrative as to wether this is something induced by the entitys on purpose, or a hard wired animal reaction to things that are truly "alien" to our experience.
If either of the latter scenarios are true, wishing for the experience might not be a counter to the fear factor, it may be an autonomic response.
I once ruminated on how i might counter this were i in "their" shoes hypothetically speaking
One scenario i envisaged was to upload their conciousness at death into a simulation of their lives so detailed as to seem "real" and then have the software intoduce an "interest" in ufo's into this simulation to slowly acclimatise them to the reality of whats happened to them.........