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Intense Sleep Paralysis

by Addie
(Seattle)

I'm 19, and when I was 17 I went to work at a Kenyan orphanage for a month. One night, I woke up and saw many of the children in the room with me (they weren't allowed in there), and they were being very quiet and sneaky. I meant to get up and ask what they were doing and take them all back to bed, but I found that I was unable to, I couldn't move. They walked around for a very long time, blending in with the dark walls, and I began to doubt if they were real. After a while I found I was able to move, and I looked down only to see a tiny naked baby next to me, on top of the blanket. For some reason, a huge panic gripped me--she wasn't breathing. I stared and stared and stared unable to move again, or do anything about it, trying to watch her little body for signs of life. I could see every little finger and fingernail, though the longer I stared, the more I realized that it was very dark in the room, and she might have only been a large fold my blanket, not a baby at all. I was terrified. Finally, minutes later, I found I could move and breathe normally again.


But she didn't go away, or at least my paranoia didn't. Careful not to touch her, I slipped off the other edge of the bed. I was so scared of seeing a dead baby on my bed that I crawled to her side, looking up at her from the floor, trying to see her eyes or her face or something that would give me a clue whether she was alive or even real. It was too dark. I stood up very slowly, completely panicking, and lit a candle, holding it up to her.

She was a fold in the blanket.

Feeling like an idiot, I went to back to bed.

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Oct 19, 2012
 first time induced SP NEW
by: Ben Shepherd

Last night I successfully induced Sleep Paralysis to have an out of body experience but I wasn't expecting it to be like it was although it fit the perfect description of what I got told was going to happen.

I suddenly woke up when I was about to fall asleep and everything went extremely white like a light switch had been turned on. I felt an intense vibration and heard buzzing. I started to hallucinate audio and visually.

I managed to open my eyes and it went and I was so confused when I woke up (out of SP). I then realized that was SP. It was terrorfying but amazing at the same time. Atleast now I know what it is now.
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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