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Back when I was religious and superstitious I had what they call “night terrors” or “demonic attacks”. I was convinced that I was being tormented by demons in my. The conclusion doesn’t makes sense: your body is in sleep mode but your mind is aware of dream images (which aren’t dream images because that would be lucid dreaming) you can clearly see the room as it is with no sort of freaky dream images so the mind doesn’t makes up a room. It takes it as it is. And then there comes 1 single.
Jason struggled to open his eyes as the oppressive pressure on his chest became more severe. He sensed a presence in the room and felt her weight pushing down on him as he struggled to breathe. As his eyes opened slightly, he saw the shadowy figure above in the dimly lit bedroom.
Her presence and a vague sense of dread filled him as he realized that he could not move. No matter how hard he willed his body to come to life and take protective action, nothing happened. What was happening and why? Time stretched on and his grew. Finally, his arms and legs responded and he sat up, finding himself alone in the room and shaken by this frightening visitation. He found it difficult to fall back to sleep and wondered what had happened. Had he somehow been violated? Off and on during the next day, he shuddered as he thought back on the unearthly presence he had encountered in his bedroom.
Jason's experience, surprisingly, is not that uncommon and is certainly not the most dramatic report of what is sometimes referred to as an incubus attack. In this case, it may be more appropriate to call it a succubus attack as that is the term used to denote the demonic female presence.
This kind of experience is commonly reported around the world but with differing mythological explanations. For example, in Japan, they have been referred to as, in China as ghost oppression, and in England and America as the. Frightening and overwhelmingly realistic, these experiences are another example of a, specifically, sleep paralysis. They can be hypnopompic (occurring while awakening) or hypnagogic (occurring while falling asleep) and are associated with frightening imagery.
The idea of the incubus attack is based in the medieval lore of the nocturnal demonic visitation. In one version of this lore, the demon is able to take on both male and female human shape and potentially impregnate a woman, causing her to give birth to a demonic child. The demon would initially take on the form of a female, known as a succubus, which would mate with an unsuspecting male victim. Capturing his 'seed' the demon could then take on the male form, known as the incubus.
The incubus would then mate with a female victim who could be impregnated with 'demon seed.' This frightening explanation for these nocturnal experiences is still embraced by some today, and many people who have had this experience find the demonic explanation convincing, at least initially, because the experience is so intense and apparently real. Other explanations have, of course, been offered.
For example, an embarrassing nocturnal emission might have resulted from an uninvited demonic visitor. An unexplained may have been explained as the result of a visit by an incubus.The scientific explanation for the incubus attack is that the person experiences a state in which part of the mental apparatus comes to conscious awareness even as the rest of the brain is in the stage of sleep. The body remains paralyzed so as to prevent acting out the dream. The realization that it is not possible to move contributes significantly to the unpleasant and frightening quality of this event. In addition, a potential sexual aspect to the experience is provided by the physiology of REM sleep which causes erection in men and lubrication in women. Awakening from a frightening experience and subconsciously recognizing an erotic bodily feeling lends itself to seeing a connection between the experience, and the working of dark and evil forces.
The conscious experience is a combination of dream mentation superimposed on the sensory background of the room in which the person is. Long before Hollywood perfected the green screen technique or computer graphics allowed for the easy integration of the fantastic with the realistic, the brain was able to seamlessly blend together the inner world of the dream with the outer world of sense perception during these state dissociations. It must be emphasized that for the person who has experienced an incubus or succubus attack, the rational, scientific explanation may lack the powerful emotional force of the demonic explanation. Even for trained scientists who have had these experiences, shaking the belief of having been visited by a malignant force is very difficult. An interesting account of this may found in book, 'Fire In the Brain.' Many patients seeking reassurance will agree that the state dissociation explanation makes good sense but. Sleep paralysis as an isolated event occurring once or twice in a life time is surprisingly common.
The International Classification of Sleep Disorders, second edition, notes that most studies suggest the prevalence of at least one episode of sleep paralysis to be 15% to 40% of the general population. There are, of course, definitional, methodological, and possible cultural and ethic factors which complicate the estimate and lead to the wide range cited. In addition, sleep paralysis may be a symptom of other sleep disorders, most notably narcolepsy. In the clinical practice of sleep medicine, reports of sleep paralysis are common.
I do not recall a single case in which a patient has presented for treatment primarily of recurrent isolated sleep paralysis but patients often report it during a comprehensive sleep evaluation for other possible sleep disorders such as sleep apnea. It is further estimated that hallucinatory experiences accompany the paralysis in 25% to 75% of patients. The hallucinatory experiences vary greatly in content and interpretation by patients and only a small minority are, in the urban United States, experienced as demonic in nature. I do not have estimates for the occurrence of specifically demonic experiences.
The case I described is fairly typical of these 'attacks' when reported to me by patients. As I noted, however, it is far from the most dramatic, frightening or persistently troubling account I have encountered. I was wondering, I had started to wake in orgasm nightly for the past month or so when my boyfriend did not stay overnight, but brushed it off to sleep paralysis and wet dreams. In the past few days though I have started to experience what I am calling full on 'spector sex' during waking hours.
I can feel full penetration, rubbing, and at times hair pulling. The more fear I seem to feel the rougher they become and the more I pray during these attacks the longer the attacks last.
I had it this morning, I was attacked shortly after showering and was manipulated to orgasm several times over 30 min, although the entity seems to be aware of the presence of my children and tends to stop in their presence. I feel like I am going crazy. Can anyone give me any advice?. Hello AnonymousYou mentioned that you prayed during these attacks. Do you rebuke and pray in the name of Jesus Christ. It is written in Philippians 4 vs 13' I can do all things through Him who strengthens me'. These is power in His name and that entity that stalks you knows who Jesus Christ.
All evil, unclean spirits, devils and even satan himself fear Him (Jesus Christ), even saying His name they fear. Rebuke it the name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
But remember this if you are committing sins, this allows demons to come back and torment you even worse. In Luke 11 24-25 ' When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he roams through waterless places in search of rest, and finding none he says, I will return to the house which I left. And when he has come to it,he finds the place swept and clean.
Then he goes and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and the last state of that man becomes worse that the first.' Rebuke and repent.May Father God protect you and bless you in the name of Jesus Christ.
Thank you for speaking on this topic - I rarely hear it mentioned! I began having these attacks when I was a teenager. I've never even heard of a sexual experience happening; that's surprising to me. All of my experiences have been completely evil and murderous.I was told not to sleep on my back; that really seems to make a big difference although I have no idea why. It's remarkable how I can know exactly where I am and what day it is, yet I'm convinced that someone has walked through the door and is trying to kill me.
I also have some really wild auditory hallucinations, like roaring and screaming from the would be killer. I usually think that I am also screaming, but once I regain motion in my limbs I realize that I am just struggling to move, and that I have ringing in my ears.I feel as though science has gone a bit overboard talking about the international aspect of the disorder, and talking about the mythology. Quite frankly, it scared the hell out of me when I was a teen and just made the disorder worse. I am happy, though to have an explaination and to know I was not losing my mind.
Since reaching adulthood, I haven't been bothered by this nightly menace. When I was a child I experienced it far too often. I've heard the incubus/succubus correlation, and I discovered long ago that this was a dissociative state caused by partial waking. I think it's interesting that you've written in some of the associated folklore. In African American culture, this figure is called Boo Hag, and the only way to free yourself from the nightly visits is to capture the witch in a glass bottle. Personally, I had no experience with seeing a figure crouching above me. Instead, I experienced paralysis and a sense of being unable to hear or speak.
I also experienced an inability to breathe. Time does indeed lose its parameters during this event, and it was terrifying until I finally discovered what was happening was purely physiological. While still upsetting to feel unable to breathe, I discovered that by focusing really hard on moving I could waken myself enough to shake the experience. Thanks for the post. In June 2007 I had my first encounter with this thing called Incubus. I haven't until recently discovered the name, the meaning and heard of other with similar experiences.The first time I had an Incubus attack I was going to sleep and watched the clock it was abou 2.30 at night. I closed my eyes and sudenly felt that someone was in my room, i tried calling out for help but was paralyzed, I tried to reach for the lamp beside me but couldn't move.
I awoke as sudden as I fell asleep and my arm stretched with high speed towards the lamp. This was about two minutes after I had watched the clock.The second time was about a month later. I had been curious for a long time about who had visited me last time. I took a look at the clock it was 01.56 at night.
(I have written it in my journal) November 11th 2007. I laid down in my bed and felt like the last time that someone was entering the room. I had now moved to another place and realized that it was not my old house that was haunted.
And like the first time I was paralyzed, both in speech and movement. The incubi was standing in the room just watching me a couple of feet away from my bed. It sat down on the bed beside me doing nothing.
I tried to rip off my quilt and awoke with my hand ripping down the quilt with high speed.The third time was in March 2008. I was about to go to sleep, looked at the clock it was about 3 at night.
And like the previous times I suddenly felt that someone was in the room. I was paralyzed and I started crying, the incubi sat down on my bed and put its hand on my shoulders and pushed me back in my bed. I said repeatedly in my head 'I'm not afraid'. I awoke crying about a couple of minutes later.The fourth time was October 30th. I have now moved back to the place I lived the first time I had an ancounter. The last time I checked the clock it was 01.36. At the moment I fell 'asleep' I heard the door slam shut, someone sat down on my bed and grasped my feet firm.
I tried to screm, no sound. It made a murring deep sound like trying to speak and what i heard from it, it said 'Who are you'. I tried to scream again and it came up to my face and put its hands on my neck like trying to strangle me. I formed 'who are you' with my mouth, so in other words I was not like the previous times completely paralyzed. It answered back in a totally different voice than the first time 'You shouldn't give a damn'.
I tried to get it off me and it fell on the floor in front of my bed, I threw myself at the floor reaching for the door handle but was thrown back in bed. I still couldn't scream and still felt paralyzed even though in this incident I wasn't.
It was back on top of me now with it's elbow against my throat As sudden as it came, it was gone. I awoke 01.44 in the same position I fell asleep in. The door was slammed shut and my quilt was down at my feet. I am 100 percent sure that there is no one in the house that eithe closed the door to my room or pulled down my quilt.This is really getting to me. What do I do?.
This does sound very distressing. The early encounters you describe sound most like sleep paralysis with hypnopompic hallucinations. The last encounter seems more like an episode of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder which could possibly account for the closed door and moved quilt. Other explanations are also possible. Both of these topics were briefly covered in some of my earlier posts.
In any case I would recommend discussing these episodes with your physician with a possible request for referral to a sleep specialist if needed. I began experiencing these attcks when I was fifteen and have had them quite often for the past seven years. I had never found any research that could explain them, and the more I had the more I was able to know that even though I was consumed by terror I did have the consciousness to tell myself I was just having a 'night terror' (a description I used just because of the feeling and lack of info on what they actually were) while experiencing them. Some were very basic, just a dark presence or noise, some were extremely detailed and sensory and lasted for what felt like hours.
I notice that they are more frequent when I under stress or anxiety, or I am avoiding some type of emotion throughout the day. Mine became so common that during the attacks I began to focus on my breathing, repeating in and out in and out to myself to retain some sense of calm. Though at some point the pressure on my head or the feeling of being crushed, or a dark presence and noise gets more intense, if I focus on my breath, and practice a 'determination' in knowing I am safe and that nothing can harm me, it has definitely helped me come out of paralysis and wake up faster, and now I wake up with a much less intense feeling of terror. I have found just through trial and error that maintaining well-being, different practices in using the consciousness I have while in these attacks, they have become less frequent and consume much less of my head space. I had one the other night and was actually able to sing to myself a song i liked during it to keep my emotions and head out of the terror while it was happening until I could 'wake up' I've spent years wondering what this is from and what I can learn from it.
In a strange way it has pushed me to become more aware of what emotionally, mentally, diet wise what triggers them that is not conducive to my all around state of health. Though I know there are many other factors and unknowns, I have gotten quite a bit of interesting info and awakening due to this sleep disorder.
I am so glad to be hearing about all this and finding it, because when you have these frequently is difficult to explain and can be quite frusterating, and you lose quite a bit of sleep! Thanks for everyones input and I hope more is revealed. Hopefully some of that helped. Ive been havng those dreams too for more than a decade, but lately they have been occurring more often than before. My mom gave me a holy water to use so everytime it visits me, i sprinkle some while reciting the St. Michael prayer. And it is really effective, i could even see the shadows moving away.
My problem is, sometimes it visits me in other places where i stay, and its hard to make it go away without the holy water.ive been trying to look for a scientific study that would help make it go away completely, but i couldnt see any. HelloToday I had the worst and most terrifying attack. Usually I am pinned down, choked and can't breathe. Sometimes I feel as if I am being raped. I fight to awaken and I feel I am conscious and I say 'here we go again! I can get out of this!' I am 'dreaming' but can't no matter how hard I try, pulling twisting struggling -nothing works.
I read an article to try to take control of the experience and I have had some success. There have been times when I have been able to manipulate the situation and have had the power to alter the experience by 'flying over mountains and oceans. I finally saw the face of the monster on top of me glowing in red. He was chanting all sorts of words and phrases in a language I didn't understand yet I did somehow. And for the first time when I called on Jesus Christ to save me, I awoke- heart pounding out of my chest, struggling to catch my breath and sweating.
I am so sick of this, is there anyone out there that can help?. It is interesting how psychologists try to dismiss the other planes of existence that are very real. There was a movie, 'Incubus' based on real events about a woman in CA who experienced an incubus and had it verified by the psychiatrist who attended her.
She sought his help because she thought she was loosing her mind. The entity that engaged her did so sexually and it was very real to the woman experiencing this. It would restrain her and move objects around in her room while she tried to sleep. It was after her for sex.
The events led to the Dr wanting to try to capture the entity away from her house after they discovered that it would follow her. They attempt to capture was unsuccessful, however, the damage caused by this attempt to the campus was real and substantial. The woman ended up moving to Texas and the attacks subsided some but never completely went away. 'There is more in Heaven and Earth than is dreamt of in man's philosophy' Shakespeare.
Why is this issue so difficult to conduct research on? I can think of a few reasons such as violations of certain ethical research codes.
Aside from journal entries from the vast population, why not try to induce this sort of effect onto the body? Perhaps there is a drug out there that triggers this? Mescaline, Cocaine, LSD, Shrooms ect.Is it possible that certain people who experience this just simply have more of these chemicals in their brain or body? Athletes probably have more adrenaline stored up than other people who arent NBA or NFL class.
Perhaps just higher levels or certain human barbiturates??And what are the solutions for those who experience this? Obviously not E.C.T. I personally have a girlfriend who has experienced this as early as she can remember.
Strange enough she is from a culture that widely believes in the 'demon on the chest myth' Her ethnic background comes from the Hmong tribes in Southern China. They are a very nomadic group and there so call homeland has not reached the level of technological order of many other nations such as our own.I have experienced this once in my lifetime.
And I did not have any vivid visualizations at all. All I saw was my bedroom. Full motor control of my eyes. None, or lack of motor control of my major and minor muscle groups. And only a sudden increase in my pulse when I tried to move. Eventually though I overpowered the paralysis.
A major reason that this research is difficult is that these events usually occur infrequently at random times and it is very unlikely that one will happen while a person is undergoing a sleep study. Sleep studies are expensive and cumbersome and are not economical to repeat over many nights. As recording equipment gets less intrusive, wireless and can be monitored in the home environment, this kind of research may get easier to conduct with a high probability population.As for inducing them, we do know how to increase the probability of REM events spilling into wakefulness.
This is accomplished by disrupting REM sleep. This can even occur naturally as when a person has sleep fragmentation due to sleep apnea or to being on call during the night. With fragmentation of REM sleep it is more likely that the person will experience sleep paralysis and hypnagogic or hypnopmpic hallucinations.
Use of narcotic medications may also increase the probability of these events. Only a small subset of these events will, however, give rise to Incubus Attacks. Why this is we do not yet know. The first time the sleep paralysis happened to me was when we were traveling to Illinois, I wa 16 years of age. I was in the car and could not wake up.
Mu eyes would not open but a little, my arms were not functioning and could not talk. This seemed to take forever to wake. I finally did. The next time was a decade later. I was in my apartment and was laying on the couch. I took a nap and could nto wake. My eyes were shuttering and I could not move.
With my eyes shuttering I witnessed black shadows on my wall at the very top. I could not make much of them. I was still in parlysis.
I eventually woke. The next time was when I was pregnant at our house almost two years ago. Same thing with black shadows.
The last time has been reent. I was sleeping in ou basement where my sister that lives with us resides. I could not wake.
The basement was so black and I could not see a thing. I felt my sister was standing over me with the light on and then my husband was standing next to the bed smiling and then he ran up stairs fast.I could not get up. Finally I did and could not of ran fast enough upstairs.
I want to know what this is and what is going on with me. Is this a posession or are the demons curious? Any answers would be great. I have read all posts and I am rest assured with knowing I am not alone. Here in Missouri. This may sound perverse to those of you who have either had a bad experience or never experienced it at all but i was visited many times during my early 20's by what i now suspect was an incubus.when it first started i was just pinned to the bed unable to move but it progressed to touching my nipples, i felt them harden at the touch - all the time being paralysed.
Now here's the thing, i was a single woman in bed alone and i started to enjoy the visits, they weren't scary, in fact i've never been so turned on - he was good at what he did! I used to want him to come to me, i think i even saw a glimpse of what he wanted to appear to look like during one sexual encounter.the only problem was that his penis was very hard and cold but other than that it was great sex. I never knew what it was or whether anyone else had these experiences until it had stopped and i read an article about it prompting me to do a little more research. Maybe i just had a sexual dream during sleep paralysis or maybe these things really do exist.towards the end though i did have an unexpected pregnancy which was terminated, the nurses told me afterwards that had the child somehow lived it'd have had severe abnormalities, they seemed to be hinting that the foetus was really abnornal. I dont ask anyone to believe me, i know what happened and apart from the pregnancy which may or may not have had anything to do with it i wouldn't change it for the world, sorry if this offends anyone, happy if it helps someone in a similar situation. I believe that science has to explain everything so that there is never a spiritual aspect to anything.
I truly feel this is a dark spirit using our bodies to gain energy. Maybe they are stuck in an in-between state, and our bodies in their weakened state are useful in gaining some energy.Whatever it is. It is very scary and started happening to me about four years ago. And in fact, now that I think about it. It probably happened to me as a little kid, but I didn't know what it was. Just knew I never went to bed at night because of it. I am a 48 year old mom, no sleep disorders, no drug involvement, no unresolved conflict, issues, sleep deep and wake up great.
One night, all males gone in my house, I was alone. Woke up with pressure on my back with something trying to 'cuddle' and 'spoon' with me. Totally surprised and frightened and sure someone had broken into my house and was attacking me. The presence was large and wouldn't stop moving. As quickly as it came it left. Never experienced it after.
Only night in 24 years I was alone in my house. While I believe that there are psychiatric explanations for many things, I am not convinced about mine. Although any psychiatrist can spin their interpretation on anything, there is NOTHING to disprove this experience was not paranormal. All opinions are valid, as there have been NO studies to prove or disprove any theory. I have never believed in the paranormal, but this personal experience has opened many questions for me and there are no definitive answers. It has never happened again to me and I reject the explanation that I have a sleep disorder or apsychiatric disorder. I am normal and average in every way.
Unless I have lots of problems that only decided to surface once in almost 50 years never to return, I cannot accept unresolved conflict, neurosis or psychosis as an explanation. Cline can give his opinion, but for those of you who have had this experience, like me, this does not provide any satisfactory plausible answer about my experience. To characterize the experience as 'being visited by a demon' ridicules and diminishes the experience for many average well adjusted, intelligent people. I do not believe it was a 'demon', never thought of it that way, but it is an experience which remains unexplained and unproven. To characterize this experience as as middle ages type ignorance or pure craziness, does not square with me or my experience in any way. Cline and his colleagues can offer their opinion but nothing is definitive until there is scientific objective proof of any theory.
I have many questions and few plausible answers at this point. I too could feel its breath on me and also its gentle pressure rather than grip on either shoulder.
I began sensing the entity about ten years ago when I felt slight pressure on my bed covers. I shook it off and it went. It returned periodically and I only gave vent to its intentions about two months ago. I did this out of curiosity. I did and do not feel threatened by the entity.
The sensual sensation for me is experienced while I am awake and is fantastic. I resist its lure most nights now but occasionally indulge it in the daytime. Remarkably, my leg cramps have gone, I awake with an erection nearly every morning now - something my normally poor circulation prevented - I mount escalators without feeling breathless, and I no longer suffer migraines. I can only guess that all this is due to the increased blood circulation as the entity gets to work on those erogenous zones that it knows gets a guy going wild. I do pray each day in Jesus' name for God's protection, asking Him to put a shield about me and also to grant me the measure of grace that will help me resist the lure of the entity. The entity is still very much present in my house but as I said earlier, I am able to resist it most times now.
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I'm really glad to have found this site. I have never really had a chance to explain to others what I have experienced the last 15 years. I would like to just get this out, if you can bear with me.I have written it according to the understanding I had at each point in time.I moved into a new flat when I was around 22 years of age.
One night I was having a slightly distressing dream and was suddenly aware I was 'lucid dreaming' i.e. I was able to control the events in my dreams - i.e. I had control over my actions.
I then became aware of a demon standing at my wardrobe at the foot of my bed. I knew I was still asleep and tried to wake myself up.
As I did so the demon rushed towards me and attempted to get on top of me. I was physically paralysed but seemed to be able to struggle with the demon by force of my will. I could not make it go away but my 'will' seemed to prevent it from getting into my chest. After an unspecified time (it felt like minutes) my paralysis seemed to dissolve and I woke up very distressed. I had never experienced anything like it and interpreted the experience as a spiritual attack (my flatmate had commented on a weird presence in the house previously).Unfortunately for me these attacks continued. It happened on a nightly basis for about a week or two and then a few times a month for the next 5 or so years. For the last 10 years it has been fairly rare.The manifesitation also changed from a describable demon (I could draw a picture of it) - to be less distinct 'presence'.
It moved away from trying to rip open my chest to being more like a presence that would circle me and that was trying to get into my head. It was accompanied by a very high pitched noise, like a drill going into metal. It was accompanied by physical pain in my head.
Over time I became less fearful of the visitations, and they became more of an annoyance. Unfortunately I would be forced to wrestle with them and 'will' it at bay until I woke because of the physical pain associated the thing trying to drill me if I didn't fight against it.My initial reaction was that it was a purely spiritual encounter. I am a practising Christian and I sought spiritual advice from my ministers.
However the advice they gave me and the principles under which I believe the spiritual realm operates did nothing to explain or abate my problems. I then thought that perhaps I was going crazy and wondered if I was having schizophrenic hallucinations.I wasn't until 5 years had passed that I saw by chance saw a drama-documentary called 'The Entity'. This is the first time I had heard of sleep paralysis or incubus. The scientific explanation that the doco offered gave me a reasonable explanation of my situation. It put into place many of the characteristics of my experience. However, there was no sexual element to my experience. It would most commonly happen in the morning, particularly if I slept in past 7am.It has now been 15 years since my first experience.
I very rarely experience it now and if it does occur I generally try really really hard to bring myself out of sleep before it gets too painful.However, I do want to say that despite the fact that I subscribe to the scientific explanation, the experience felt very very very real. That first time I experienced it is one of the most terrifying experiences of my life (I have a few to stack it up against!).For anyone out there that is suffering from this, I would recommend taking a multi-faceted approach. If you are religious, then it is OK to go and seek spiritual counsel. God does care about what you are going through, irrespective of it's cause. But I would also recommend getting a doctor's or psychiatrists opinion.The mind is a complex thing and we need to seek a holistic solution (physical, spiritual, emotional) if we want to be whole as human beings.Once question I have though is the physical pain thing and the ringing-drill noise.
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Is it very common? Is there are scientific explanation for this?Cheerst. Back in February when I was coming off Seroquel I was having a lot of different experiences, incubus attack among them. I had been on it for about a year. It was so real at the time that it seemed like the fabric of the universe had broken down and was rebuilt. I could write a book about all the stuff that I was thinking and experiencing, but I wouldn't want to burden the world with it. The drill noise you heard though is similar to something I experienced, so it doesn't surprise me much.
Also the physical pain can seem very real, and to you it IS real until it disappears.Suffice it to say that psychiatry is barely scratching the surface on this stuff. When this is happening, the barriers between the internal and the external begin to break down. Your thoughts end up superimposed on reality, and it's frightening just how quickly your mind can conjure things up. It begins working in ways which seem impossible, or at least impossible for you. In essence, reality becomes for you like a dream or nightmare because it's so difficult to tell what is real and what isn't.
It really sucks when you can't even rely on your own senses. It can trick you into believing all sorts of crazy things.I firmly believe that some parts of your brain can be asleep while other parts are fully awake.
It's doubtless that it's so simple, but seems that way sometimes. Also, some parts can have trouble communicating with other parts and will get attitudes with one another.That's not to say I dismiss the 'paranormal', as I do believe in the spirit realm, but people have different beliefs and this isn't the place for me to be preaching to you. Unless something is observed by two or more people simultaneously, it's impossible to know weather you hallucinated it or not. The more people see it, the more likely it was to have actually taken place.Of course, video recordings can be a big help.
If stuff is moving around in your room like the doors opening and closing and stuff on a regular basis, it's a good idea to start video recording. Hard drive recorders can go for hours and hours. That way if you experience something, you can look at the video later to see what actually happened, like weather you were sleep walking and doing the moving yourself. Infrared lights work really well because you can't see the light from them, but the camera will pick it up. This is fascinating stuff, I've 'suffered' from sleep paralysis episodes all my life.
Several visitations - some demonic, some not. Often absolutely terrifying.The thing is, I don't want to lose it.I find it creatively inspiring, like a shamanistic journey to the underworld. Often the accompanying visual hallucinations are amazing, and the auditory hallucinations incredible - sometimes shouts, voices, sounds - and yes, that increasing 'buzzing' - but sometimes a blues band, or a symphony orchestra. And they're in the room with me, I can hear every instrument with such clarity.Again - don't get me wrong - I have experienced this in it's most terrifying form. And it is, experientially, very real - very vivid - very frightening.
But at the same time, an incredible experience, and one I don't wan't 'cured'.I guess it comes down to control and frequency - if I was plagued by it every single night, I might think differently. So I've read most of the comments on here and I can't believe how so many of us have experience similar experiences. For me this incubus attack has come at a strange time in my life, a time when I'm feeling strong and treating myself right whereas I used to abuse myself in a lot of ways.
For the first time in my life, I am nurturing myself.And I think that the negative energy of my past in addition to the nurturing energy of my present are attracting these attacks. However I wouldn't really call them attacks, in fact they just feel like visitations. I've had many different experiences with it:- The spooning sex effect. I felt male like breathing in my ear as if it were climaxing. Then it made me climax and i felt incredibly good, yet I felt safe.
I was awake and it was holding me down and it was bright in the morning.- The dark shadow near the bed and the presence in the room. Feelings of being watched or followed.- The paralysis when its on top of me, the drilling high pitched sound in my ear, and a feeling like i was being sucked out of my own body - however when i told it to stop because i was scared it stopped immediately, which is different from sleep paralysis, where I have to fight to stop it.- visitations since i was young, except when i was young i would only talk to it or watch it fly about the room.
When i was young it was never sexual, it was just sleep paralysis.- dreams where i can feel an entity have sex with me and giving that deep pleasurable feeling, but feeling hands from behind me hold my stomach and i feel safe and warm in its arms like its protecting me.I really don't understand what's happening and when i was in a relationship and i told it to leave me alone, it stopped. But once i got out of the relationship, it started up again. The sexual encounters have all started this year of 2010. Does anyone know if these visitation are necessarily evil? I keep asking my friends and they say don't mess with it.The strange thing is I feel this strange attraction to it. Like I don't want to give it up, I want it to visit me, I want to know what it wants from me.
Everyone keeps talking about making it stop and I don't know if i I want it to. This strange attraction part of it makes me weary, as if its a temptation or devil like thing. But I don't know what is this?
Am i being lured in the hands of the devil or is there just a spirit here having sex with me and wanting to take care of me.I am a Buddhist by the way and come from a culture that believes in spirits, but my parents never really raised me with those ideals, this has come on its own. Help please. I have read with much interest the article and the comments regarding the article. I too have suffered sleep paralysis. It went on for a few months, until i visited my doctor and told her what was happening. She said it was happening because my body was releasing some heavy duty stress that I had endured over the previous two years.
I accepted this explanation, and the paralysis stopped. Or so I have told myself.In continuing to read though, many of the experiences mentioned above resonated with me. I have had a few very scary 'dreams' where there is an evil presence trying to harm me. The physical pressure I feel is indeed overwhelming. I have felt myself touched and choked, and these I have just put into the 'just a dream' context, so that I could go back to sleep.It is terrifying to feel these things, and it was very comforting to find that I am not alone.Having said all of the above, I have had a 'ghost buster' visit my house, and she told me that I have a portal to another world in my room and gave me some tips on how to manage it. The main thing being that I say before I go to sleep that there will be no visiting in the night, and only spirits that mean me no harm are allowed to 'roam'.
Surprisingly, this works well. As she said, I am more powerful, because I have a body, and they do not. Whether any of the above is true or not, matters not, it works, and I sleep better.Good Luck to everyone.
Oh, and also.praying also works, but when you scared to death, it usually doesn't occur to me until I am trying to get back to sleep after I have battled. These reports are horribly fascinating and bring back memoreis of my own. I eventually became part of an in-depth study by the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, which gave the experiences some grounding in my mind, after reading all the other reports. I had these episodes as a child.
I can remember waking up and being unable to move from a kitchen chair, and my grandmother getting a little ehated, telling me to get off said chair, and being completely unable. The worst experience happened when I ws in my forties, after a very emotional day at a funeral for the neighbour next door, filled with Russian Orthodox choral music, passionate stuff indeed.
I was tired, and sat at the dining table, reflecting that I was so sorry not to have said 'Goodbye' to this gentleman. I heard what sounded like shuffling feet in the kitchen behind me, and got up, for my husband and two boys were down in the playroom, watching television at the time, and it sounded as though someone was about to be ill over the sink - I don't know why I thought so but this is what came to mind. No one was there,and Iresumed my plce at the table. The shuffling came again, louder, and once more I arose, to find no one, and this time I called down to be sure no one had surfaced. They were all deeply into 'Star trek', and no one would have missed a single second, at that time!I sat down again and was immediately paralysed. The feeling was of awful fear of course, like all of you who have been through this. My eyes could look at all the book shelves opposite and go back and forth, but nothing moved.
And then came something that I can only describe, from behind, as an immense yellow-green cloud about six feet in diameter, that surrounded my body and tried to take my life. I had to fight with everything I had to say mentally, I WILL not die'. I also remember the sardonic sense of humour I have coming into play as well. The neighbour had said that whichever one of us departed first, was to come back to tell the other that there really was something on the other side!
And I do remember saying 'Joseph, if this is the way t's done, I want no part of it!!' .Accompanying this awful time was cold air and the scent of dill. I have no idea why, but simply report the facts.The mass started to eventually ebb, and go towards the dining room windows towards the neighbour's house, and I willed it to leave as fast as possible, and when it was almost gone, I found my body could begin to move. I have never been so shaken in my life. Since then, I've had several episodes in bed like this, and am always trying to scream for help, but all that comes out is the faintest of odd sounds.The University study gave some reassurance, but I will always wonder what this is really allabout.
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