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......... -
@natureman I get that, but that’s scientists assuming they know what the person is seeing. I think the scientists who suppose this, believe people are seeing sorta blurred blank spot of any color (usually white or black or pulsating) with vaguely defined traits, due to extreme stress and psychosis and the eyes/brain essentially being retarded, aka a hallucination — then a paranoid schizo interpretation of it (essentially those “what do you see” inkblots)?
I don’t think this explains seeing a spiritual being, well defined, plain as day in the daytime. Or two people seeing the same thing at the same time. Or a picture of it (a friend showed me one). Or being physically harmed by one.
Imagine being the only one on the planet that saw a cow, but we can’t find it — everyone would make up an explanation for why you were crazy because cows don’t exist. If you painted it poorly it would be a hallucination, if you painted it excellently it would be a delusion.
I think an interesting point is that while every religion has a version of a benevolent spiritual being in their mythology, all I could find on the internet is that Christians are the only ones who report seeing angels today, while people of all religions (or none) report seeing demons. I’m welcome to be proven wrong of course.
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@LetTheRedeemed it's just brainwashing.... from stories, books, movies, art.
A paranoic hallucination of a being in a setting where there's no influence from our society would be something resembling another animal/human, because that's the only thing that would scare us.
It could be seen as some demonic entity, but the term alone is already so loaded with programming, difficult to discuss without establishing clear context first.
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Sleep paralysis was always an extremely harrowing and traumatic experience for me. I was never able to calm down when I'd entered a state of paralysis, even when I was fully cognizant that I was in paralysis. I would wake up, unable to move, unable to breathe, unable to speak. Below are a few different experiences.
A vivid experience was when I awoke with paralysis and a dark shadow figure looked like he was leaning over my face and staring down it me. I could feel the tilt of the bed as it's hands pressed into the bed so it could support itself as it leaned over me. I was absolutely convinced it was a person in my room too dark to see.
Another experience I had was a series of deep hallucinations while in paralysis. I woke up and was in the state of paralysis, and I slipped back into a dream that I had woken up from that night and decided to explore around my block. I entered someone else's apartment (an apartment that I'd never been in before), and proceeded to collapse on their living room and reenter a state of paralysis. Then I slipped back into a dream that I had woken up in my bed and walked to the kitchen of my apartment and once again collapsed into paralysis. Some variation of this continued on for what what felt like days/weeks. When I actually woke up, I had no idea what was real anymore. The hallucinations had genuinely felt like they had happened to some extent. This was by far the worst of all of them. Would not wish it on anyone.
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@natureman said in Sleep Paralysis Stories:
it's just brainwashing.... from stories, books, movies, art.
If you have a scientific explanation for artistry that doesn't hinge on assumption, I'd love to read it. If it's original, computer science would also like a word and there's probably a buck in it for you.
I think someone can get there. I'm just not aware it exists right now.
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@ThinPicking most art that people got to see was comissioned by the ruling class. Imagery is the easiest way to imprint your brain.
