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Evil Presence In The Room

by Erin Riddle
(Missouri)

I had another episode last night. Now that I am 36 they happen less often. My mind wakes up but my body cannot move. The air in the room feels different, some how more evil. I know that it's going to be one of those nights. I cannot move my body. When I was little it felt like someone was holding me down. The only thing I can think of is to pray. I pray really hard that God will take away the evil in the room, take away the presence that is holding me down. Praying always helps me to wake up.

I tried to explain the experience today to a friend and found myself feeling crazy. How do you explain to someone that there is evil in the room or that you feel an evil presence holding you down without sounding crazy.

I know when I am going to have one of those nights. Even after I am awake I can still sense a change in the air in the room. I'm not saying that there isn't a scientific explanation for everything but I am saying that this is how I feel when it happens. When it's happening I am frightened and feel helpless I cannot move.

Kevin: Thanks for sharing this Erin. Prayer has definitely been noted to be an affective way of dealing with sleep paralysis and the feelings of evil forces that sometimes accompanies it. As you might imagine there are various opinions for why this is. Some attribute it to supernatural intervention of course. Others may suggest that the positive thinking the prayers tend to foster help change the negative projections of the mind (to which the evil feelings are attributed to) to more positive projections. And that this positivity in itself, as well as simply more time elapsing, helps end the REM atonia that causes the paralysis.

If you'd like to learn more about these feelings of an evil presence from someone who has experienced them often and researched them thoroughly I highly recommend reading this book by the sleep paralysis specialist Ryan Hurd.

For everyone else, for more information on sleep paralysis episodes like the ones Erin describes, you can also read our informational page here.

Warmly,
Kevin




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Evil Presence In The Room

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Dec 14, 2010
 Crazy?
by: mike

Erin,
You are not crazy and you are by no means alone. I'm having a new one lately. I can not move and I have a sence that thre is an animal with human intelligence in the room. There is a foul odor and I can feel its evil. When I find I can move I start kicking and flailing my arms because I know if I can wake up it will end. At this point my wife will give me a little shake and I will wake up. I'm afraid to go back to sleep so I stay up all night. I never tell anyone except my sleep doc and on sites like this where I won't be judged a drunk, druggie or crazy... lol...Join a Narcolepsy group/forum. They are very familier with your experience. I know a very good one that I have belonged to for 5 or 6 years. If its alright with Kevin I'll give you the address. Could you chime in here Kevin?
Dec 14, 2010
 Narcolepsy Group
by: Kevin Morton

Hey Mike, feel free my friend. Thanks for asking.
Mar 23, 2011
 Why evil?
by: Anonymous

I don't understand....why is it that every experience of SP I've read about includes people describing a feeling of an evil or malevolent presence?? I had a similar feeling. If it's just related to your sleep stage why is the feeling always negative??
Jun 03, 2011
 must be evil
by: Anonymous

I have had these same experiences. I know it's about to occur when all of a sudden I get a chill to the bone that raises the hair on my body and it's not a peaceful presence! I can't open my eyes, can't yell for help-no sound coming out of my mouth, can't move anything on my body! This presence is litteraly on my back, holding me down by using my bed sheets around me; like making a cacoon. I start praying in the name of Jesus to rebuke it and it leaves. Once I am able to move, my breathing is awkward as if I can't get enough oxygen and I am trembling with fear. I wake my husband to hold me and we both pray for peaceful sleep. This will occur sometimes 2 or 3 times a night.
Jun 15, 2011
 Evil Presence
by: Anonymous

I am new to this whole posting thing but last night was something to remember. I remember laying down to go to bed but I do not remember falling asleep. I looked at the clock and it was around 3 am. Then all of a sudden I felt like I was being held down and a hand went around my throat. I was able to mutter out the Lord's name and the presence seemed to release and vanish for the moment. I remember laying in my bed, heart pounding, sweating and unable to get back to sleep. I eventually feel asleep but started having strange dreams about 3 deamons in my room, standing over my bed. 2 female and 1 male, I remember feeling a sense of dread while in the dream and a sense that I could not escape. When I awoke, I felt very tired like I did not sleep at all. I am pretty sure the part about the 3 deamons was a dream, but the part about the presence holding me down and trying to choke me has happened before.


Does anyone have any thoughts on this??
Jul 07, 2011
 @ must be evil Anonymous
by: Anonymous



I would just like to say I get the same kind feeling before it happans, only I think I feel a heat wave and I feel like my head is vibrating... right after that is when I can't move and I see s**t. Last night I swear there was an old lady sitting on the edge of my bed, It was more of a torso with a head wearing a hood with long hair covering most of her face but I could see her eyes, I've only had these I think two or three times. The first time It happend I felt like someone was holding me down and I could see them, they had a hood on with a dark face. (grim reaper if you will) and it said just breathe just breathe and it went away and I sat up. This latest one with the lady torso I started slamming my foot on the floor ( so I thought) its all just a dream, no one heard me. They sure are crazy though...
Sep 30, 2011
 All negative experiences, why?
by: Anonymous

I also had en "episode" last night, but have had them off and on throught the years. Good question, why does this have to be scientifically explained and why does everyone feel terror?! I woke up all of a sudden, ears ringing and vibrating, lack of breath and speech, eyes concentrated stright ahead and genuine terror feeling...not startled. Whos's to say there isn't entities outside of our 'senses' spectrum? Peace.

Erick
Oct 31, 2011
 evil presence?
by: Anonymous

Years ago, while ordering drinks at the bar for myself and friends, this 'guy' just stared at me and I felt abit nervous, but when it continued and I looked up and at him, his eyes were VERY dark and went right thru me, the hair on my neck stood and fear went right thru me....I left the bar area and to my friends and told them that I was leaving and walked out....refused to even be around the area. I have NEVER forgot that feeling, it wasn't a normal fear...
Now, 20 some years later, just the other night, this creepy feeling guy, out of the blue, grabbed my left hand and squeezed it so hard that tears came to my eyes, I poured my drink on him as if to say WTH???? But the SAME fear ran thru me....my partner said he re-appeard right behind me and touched my neck and said "Are you scared???" Honestly, it looked like the same exact 'person' that I saw 20 some years ago, and the fear was the same, and uncontrolable fear, one that can't be supressed....I just prayed.
Not sure what is going on, but even as I type this my arms are shaking....
Nov 22, 2011
 Call out the name of Jesus.. NEW
by: Anonymous

Hi i stumbled on this site today after getting frustrated and was looking to see if there were other seemingly crazy people like me.
Well, i have had several episodes starting may 2010. The first time i could feel this evil presence lifting me out of my body and swinging me round my bed among other nightmares while asleep. It was very scary and i was really afraid of going to sleep lest i experience the same scary feeling.
Needless to say, i started sleeping with my Bible and made sure to pray often. The s/p as its referred to still persists and the most scary bit is when am feeling held down and helpless. I try to shout at my husband or pinch him hard but it amounts to nothing. I have resorted to calling out 'Jesus Christ' a few times and then it leaves.
I am comforted that i am not going insane. Thanks a lot to this site. God bless you. We will survive by faith. Amen.
Dec 26, 2011
 Evil NEW
by: Adam

I'm only 19 and this has happened only 4 or 5 times. The first time I was in juvenile hall in a room alone. I woke up and could not move anything but I was saying something weird, the room got super cold and my eyes started watering. A minute later I twitched and got the chills, ran to my door and asked to use the restroom. When I told the staff what had happened they didn't believe me. After my stay that staff had mentioned to other kids about how he heard banging on the door and there was nobody in that room.

Earlier this week I was sleeping and when i awoke again I couldn't move the feeling of the air was thick and unwelcoming when I was able to move I went and slept in the living room.

Then again today I was taking a nap and when I woke up it felt as if something was touching my back, my heart rate boomed and my body started tingling and got really warm then went cold. Then it felt like something was touching my head and I was able to move again. The evil feeling wasn't so much there this time because it was day light but i still had that feeling.

The apartments I am at are built on an indian burial ground so im wondering if something is trying to communicate with me or doesn't like my being here.
Mar 14, 2012
 Maybe its you? NEW
by: Jelly Belly

Maybe the evil presence is you. Maybe God is telling you something. Like you can't pray your way to heaven, and only when you start acting like a decent human being, rather than going to church every sunday and paying the rent on your preachers soul insurance, then you will start to feel better.
May 10, 2012
 GETTING RID OF EVIL SPIRITS NEW
by: Anonymous

The name of jesus is feared by all evil spirits. Get your house blessed. Use holy water everyday. say the st. michaels prayer. Go through your home and get rid of items that are not right. Through prayer you will find what they are. Repent if you have ever used astrology etc. You could have opened a door you must close it. Go to confession. I hope this helps. One done they will leave you alone. SAY JESUS JESUS ALOUD & THEY WILL FLEE!

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