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Thank God I Found This

by Bill
(Western New York)

I'll write more tomorrow because I'm too exhausted at the moment. I'm petrified to sleep - it's getting worse & worse every single night - harder & harder to "snap myself out of it." I've heard of SP before but last night - i was finally convinced it was something evil. The breathing's getting harder and it literally felt like something was doing this to me.

I was asleep on my parents couch, laying on my right side - and it was as though something or someone was pushing as hard as they could against my back as if to suffocate me with the back cushion of the couch. I'm going to lay down on it right now - and again, as i do nightly, i will pray for God to allow me to wake up alive.

Sometimes i think it happens because i think about it & fear it so much leading up to falling asleep - that maybe i'm the cause of it's onset myself. I'm just glad i'm not alone - i thought i was possessed. i hope to be able to write more tomorrow - but if tonight's any worse than last night - i fear there won't be another night for me. Goodnight all.

Kevin: I'm glad you found us too Bill. And happy to hear from you. I strongly recommend reading the book I talk about here. It's about taking control of your sleep paralysis, written by a guy who's battled it for almost two decades. I hope the strategies within can help you sleep much more peacefully.

Let me know how it goes,
Kevin




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Thank God I Found This

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Mar 01, 2011
 You're not Alone
by: Anonymous

"it was as though something or someone was pushing as hard as they could against my back.."

This is the first post I've read where an
SP episode occurred while someone was sleeping on their stomach and they felt as if something was pushing on their BACK.

You're not alone though.
I've only experienced SP whilst sleeping on my stomach and facing into my pillow... can you say terrifying?

May 17, 2011
 Pray...Nevwr
by: Coco

Don't let it get the best of you cause the more you fear the worse it gets. I've had this experience so many times. It had gotten to the point where I would
Sleep with every light on in the house. I thought it was jus SO but I strongly believe its much more than tat. I started burying myself under a lot of blankets cause I was so scared but that didn't work sleeping with all the lights on didnt work either. I prayed and called on Jesus and I started reading the bible eventhough i didnt understand most of it. I sleep with the bible open under my.pillow and that helped me.
May 17, 2011
 Pray...Never Fear cause when u fear it gets worse
by: Coco

Don't let it get the best of you cause the more you fear the worse it gets. I've had this experience so many times. It had gotten to the point where I would
Sleep with every light on in the house. I thought it was jus SO but I strongly believe its much more than tat. I started burying myself under a lot of blankets cause I was so scared but that didn't work sleeping with all the lights on didnt work either. I prayed and called on Jesus and I started reading the bible eventhough i didnt understand most of it. I sleep with the bible open under my.pillow and that helped me.
Sep 13, 2011
 my poor baby
by: worried MOM

Until today I never even heard of SP. I began searching online for answers to what is happening to my son. He is 14 yrs old, and has been complaining off and on his whole life about having bad dreams about ghosts .This progressed into complaints of waking up feeling as if he was being watched and then he began describing waking up and seeing a dark figure looking down on him.He feels this "man" has intense hatred for him ,he feels very threatened and frightened and worries that noone believes him ,or think he is dreaming ,and I actually considered a psychiatric condition could be effecting my child .The more i read the more I am learning about this condition.This is such a helpless feeling for me as I can see my child is truely terrified and severly affected by what is happening to him.THANK GOD I FOUND THIS!!!
I now have a starting point in which to research and help my son to learn about what is happening to him.

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