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I See and Hear Actual Events During my SP

by La'Tasha
(Magnolia, MS)

My SP episodes started around 5 or 6. I had caught a virus and was very weak. I was so weak, I had to be carried from one room to another. My father laid me down on the floor so I could be cool. It was there I had my first episode. I could no longer talk, flinch, or grunt. I felt like if someone would just touch me I could move. I stayed that way for what felt like forever. It ended when my father scooped me up minutes later.


The next episode happened when I was around 12. I woke up before school and couldn't budge. I panicked at first, but it didn't help. I could move my eyes and even blink but nothing worked. I could see my bedroom clearly and hear my father scurrying in the other rooms. I calmed down and focused on my foot. I made it move then it broke.

In high school the episodes got worse. I fell asleep a lot in my classes because of my lack of sleep. But I only had episodes in one class. If I dozed off 5 times in the class, I'd have an episode 5 times, everytime harder and harder to break. I eventually had to focus on bigger parts of my body to break it. I had to make my head move very quickly for it to work. I dropped that class and didn't have another episode until after college.

I began working at a prison on the graveyard shift. The episodes became violent and more exhausting. I fell asleep while at my post one night. I remember fighting to stay awake but it felt as though something was drawing me into a deeper sleep. I fought to break the paralysis and felt again I would die if I quit fighting. I awoke out of breath and not remembering any events that had happened in the last 40min. I had taken notes, made radio calls, and phone calls. The handwriting was not mine.

I became very ill once while working there. I had to leave work for several weeks. During that time I was on strong medication which made me drowsy, but I could not rest. Every time I tried to sleep, I had a paralyzing episode. I was so weak and it became harder and harder to fight to break the attacks. I felt as though I would die if I gave up. When I regained my energy the attacks weren't as strong. Now I fell my attacks before they happen and have to get up and walk before I can lie back down. How do you guys fight your sleep paralysis?

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Mar 01, 2015
Narcolepsy
by: Kevin

Hi La'Tasha, Thank you for sharing your story. It sounds a bit like narcolepsy may be involved. Have you looked into that disorder before? Here is our page on narcolepsy.

May 24, 2015
Always sleep with pillow magnetic south to cure yourself of monsters NEW
by: Anonymous

Your sleep posture is making you vulnerable to nefarious entities!

What direction is your pillow/headboard of your bed facing?

I suspect you may be sleeping with the top of your head facing magnetic north or equally bad magnetic west. Magnetic north is called the "death position" because coffins are buried facing north and if you sleep north ghosts appear in your life, says the folklore.

The people of Bali say "sleeping magnetic west means you will have no love, everyone will hate you and you will experience violence" I paraphrased but Google search "Balinese sleep north"

Many cultures recommended that you sleep with the top of your head facing magnetic south and feet facing magnetic north. An alternate position is your head facing magnetic east and feet facing magnetic west. Use an electronic compass, it has to be exactly south, any deviation such as south west of south east makes you open to nefarious entities.

Never sleep with head facing magnetic north cuz you are guaranteed to see ghosts and have nightmares.

Also never ever sleep on your back. Sleeping on the back is the posture of the corpse in a coffin and "vastu" says sleeping on the back ruins the brain. Try to sleep on the left side of your body always to get wealthy. Sleep on the right side is ok but not best and monsters probably attacked you while you slept on the right side of your body of slept on your back. Sleeping on left side is best and you get rich wealthy. Never sleep on the stomach you suffocate, sudden infant death syndrome.

I recommend you read this website, it explains the significance of monsters in sleep. www.revelatorium.com/starrgram19.html

Also Google search "vastu sleep direction" and search also "sleep facing south" to get more information. Sleeping facing south makes you wealthy and healthy, sleeping east makes you intelligent but not wealthy so east is for children still attending school.

The information I wrote was for the northern hemisphere, I dont know about sleep position for the southern hemisphere of earth.

Also, what is your blood type? If you are blood type Rhesus Negative (Rh negative) then this website might be informative

http://www.rhnegativeregistry.com/Rh_Negative_Connection_Forum_Theory_Myth_Facts_Fun.html?fb_9667099_anch=12699366


Best of luck! Feel free to Pass this information on to non-demonic people.

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