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Paranormal Or Not?

I'm 16 years old and have often woken up to find myself unable to move or speak. First of all I have been having problems sleeping for months now, where every few weeks i will have nightmares, or disturbed sleep, including waking up to find i cannot move. I have noticed that this will last a week-3 weeks at a time and they will not occur again for a few weeks or months, so I don't know if my sleep patterns and nightmares are causing the sleep paralysis or not.


I can't remember the first time i had an episode but i always seem to have the same thing occur; I cannot move, speak at all, it feels as though im not alone and i feel as if this Evil presence is sitting on my chest, preventing me from breathing. Although I say I feel the presence I never see anything unusual, which frightens me even more, because I find that even after I can move again, the fear that this thing may still be in the room with me is terrifying. For the fist time in months i had an episode, and found that there was a slight change in what was happening.

As always, i felt the presence leaning on my chest, but i managed to move my hands, using only my hands I managed to pull myself round to face where my sister was sleeping and wake her up by poking her, however she simply looked at me before turning and going back to sleep. Soon after this I found I was able to move again like normal, and the earlier felt presence had gone. Even after this though, I felt paranoid and did not want to go back to sleep but was completely exhausted and couldn't stay awake. The entire day after that night i was tired and by the next night I was so scared to go to sleep. I have been reluctant to go to sleep before but I have never gotten so upset. Last night i slept with the light and TV on and had my cat with me just so I could relax slightly...

I don't know whether I should go to my doctors or not because I always have sleep problems; waking up in the middle of the night, every night/ nightmares/ sleep paralysis and they terrify me to the extent that I fear going to sleep, I feel exhausted the next day.

Kevin: Thanks for sharing your story. I think you would benefit a lot from reading this book by a sleep paralysis expert named Ryan Hurd. It's full of empowering insights that will calm your fears, and even give you some strategies to take power over your episodes.

Hope it helps,
Kevin

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Jan 18, 2011
 Almost Suffocated
by: Anonymous

The same thing happened to me but my first time was when i was seven years old and it kinda freaked me out,i used to have nightmares that were real and i woke up one time and it was like the Evil presence was pshing my face down into the pillow and the thing held it there till my father came to wake me up for schoolwhich was 3 minuets later.
Apr 26, 2011
 Sp
by: Anonymous

I've had sleep paralysis since I was 14 years old. I am now 23. I have at least 2 a month. Sometimes 2-5 times in week.
It's almost always the same thing, I wake or so I think, I can't move, can't talk, hard to breathe....I feel something, evil. I hear loud noises that get closer and closer. I don't always see something but when I do it's just black. I never see the face. I feel like I'm being pushed into my bed, my hands hurt...I once thought I felt some kind of animal, I could feel it breathing on me. Though everything feels so real and I can see everything around me in the same place, I know I'm dreaming everytime.
Sometimes I know when it's going to happen. When I lay down at night I get that feeling. Usually when it happens it happens up to 5 times in a row. I want so badly to get up in between to stop them, but I feel so tired and exhausted from the first one that I just lie there and wait for the next.
I find it crazy that you mentioned Jesus and how saying his name helps you. I went to church when I was younger but quit when I hit the teens. I question too much to really believe and don't agree with a lot that the bible teaches me. But I've tried everything to stop the SP and nothing ever worked...One night about a year ago while having one I said to myself, "God, please help me." and it was over. I woke up. It didn't stop them. I still have them, all the time, But everytime I ask for His help or I say the Lord's prayer...I wake. I still never go to church and I don't talk about it much either. I too, do not want anyone to think I'm crazy.
Feb 11, 2012
 Same NEW
by: Anonymous

I didn't have the feeling of a prescence but i did have a period when i woke up and i couldn't move or i had nightmares. What i found out is that if sleep facing the wall I didn't have that anymore. It might just be me but worth a try finding a sleeping facing a different side.
Mar 29, 2012
 Power in the Name NEW
by: Redland Girl

For those of you who found freedom through the Name of Jesus, you are not in the minority. Many who have researched alien abductions have also discovered that the Name of the Lord is often the only way to end the abductions. If it brings you fear, smells, is ugly, wants to do horrible things to you, then you need to call on a power that is good and more powerful. Also: purge your life of those things that would open the door to these experiences: Ouija boards, etc.
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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