Sleep Paralysis Stories
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I have only experienced sleep paralysis a handful of times in my life — each time I can wake up by praying and I hear and feel rumbling and rushing air over my face, then I wake up.
Please share sleep paralysis anecdotes or stories below; I am curious as to what experiences people have had. -
I would Feel a dense cloud of darkness, and feel the presence of beings. I would get this intense vibrative feeling that grew so loud it hurt — it was a fear inducing climax that you didn’t want to experience the other side of no matter what.
As I grew in the Spirit I understood from testimonies of others that demons want worship. So as I grew in the Lord, I had more peace in those moments to the point I wouldn’t let myself be scared in the moment — it would stall after the climax in this moment where the being was present waiting for something to happen but I could just go back to sleep. That’s when it stopped happening.
Testimony of the same principle:
https://youtu.be/wURjR4zANxc?si=GGb5d7nmCAY0WkYSSmith Wigglesworth has a very similar testimony with satan.
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@highseabasch used to get it, tried to move my toes first like that scene from kill bill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHl24Kjp5Vs
think i usually had to relax and accept it was gonna take a bit of time as a process underway for things to flip back online -
Basically it happens when your brain wakes up during a dreamphase before your motor neurons reactivate.
The inability to move while still being awake can trigger some deep rooted fears, combined with the fact that you are still halfway in dreamland the brain can make up visions of entities holding you down. The unfocused eye position when freshly waking up creates a black area in the center of your vision. Depending on personal associations some people see a black goblin like thing sitting on their chest, others see hands pulling them down. For me it was like a floating dementor thing. It was quite exhilirating and intense experience staring the thing down directly. Later when I understood what is happening it was not fearful anymore and then also the visions stopped having this character. Just became a drugged like state. What really helped was like @cs3000 said, focusing on the toe or finger and slowly starting to wiggle them until gaining full control of the body bit by bit.
Now it doesn't happen anymore. Usually came from sleep deprivation, eating irritating foods, or going to bed hungry.
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@natureman this is indeed the standard secular explanation. It does explain well what the body is doing during this state — but I don’t think that means that that’s not simply how the spirit realm works. It’s actually just decent extrapolations and assumptions. For instance, it doesn’t explain seeing a demon with the naked eye while wide awake.
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@LetTheRedeemed said in Sleep Paralysis Stories:
For instance, it doesn’t explain seeing a demon with the naked eye while wide awake.
I thought my whole paragraph was about that
. How do images form in your dreams or from psychedelics? It happens the same way. You associate something scary from the situation of seeing your surrounding without being able to move. Your subconscious creates whatever image you associate with the situation. Usually something in the center of your vision because you usually wake up with lazy eyes creating a dark blur in the center.........
