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    Sleep Paralysis

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    moonlit
    , 06-01-2013 at 09:58 AM (422 Views)
    I want to talk about my experiences with sleep paralysis for a moment. As a child, it affected me in such a way that my parents took me to a sleep study, around age 5. I remember seeing shadows moving across my walls at night, they would grow in size, get close to me, and when the light would be turned on, vanish. I still see them, moving around in mirrors, darting across the hallway that is always kept dark. They frightened me a lot when I was a kid, but they're either there with bad intent, good intent, or they're passing through. Some are simply travelling around, and have no business with you in particular, and some seem to keep an eye on you- I'm not sure if it's good intent, but that's debatable. Because none of us know what they are to begin with.

    Anyway, any time I've had SP, it's from these things. I'll see one of them hanging around the ceiling, or it's pulling at my feet. Since I'm an adult now, I fight them pretty easily. I just scream at them and they'll get off of me and go away. The only pain that they've ever caused me was when I was sleeping over at a boy's house, and I felt tons of negative energy in his room and around him, I really wanted to leave and could barely sleep. I was woken up by what felt like hands and fingers of multiple things pulling me from underneath, almost like through a dimension or something. It was very uncomfortable. I could feel all of the fingertips and their hands grabbing, this is a sensation I'll never forget. It would be nice to sleep without these dumb annoying pests, which is all they are, bothering me. Any time I feel intense fear, they come hang around. In my waking life, I'm not often afraid, but if I'm walking through an area and suddenly become filled with intense fear that I can't explain, there's a shadow person hanging around.
    Prayers don't help with these things, because using prayer assumes that there's evil in the world to be prayed away, and evil is merely a projection of our inner fears that we can't externalize. The only way to get them to go away is ignore them, pretend that they're not there, and don't feed them any fear. Just leave the area or try to wake up, show them who is the boss, you're alive and they're... well... not, I guess. I'm still not entirely sure what they are, but I'll say that they're not from our time, space, or world.

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    Updated 06-01-2013 at 11:44 AM by 63364

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    1. Unbound's Avatar
      That is interesting! Tell me, do they just follow you, or have you ever seen or heard about them follow someone else? Maybe the rest of us just don't notice them or something.
      And this about negative energy, was it from the boy or his house, or was it something caused by these shadow people?

      Sorry for bothering you with questions, but I am curious!
    2. moonlit's Avatar
      Thanks for the comments Yeah, they're always around. I'll see them every few days, sometimes every day, but it's not a sure thing that they'll pop up every day. My best friend also sees them and she says that they're lower astral entities, she can't even meditate because then she becomes super sensitive to them and can feel them touch her, but I don't know if I think that, because not all of them make me feel bad/afraid or touch me during meditation, some simply pass by. I've seen red and blue ones too, I don't see them in the shadows though, they'll appear around my bed when I wake up, probably the same sort of thing though.
      I think it was the guy, he had a lot of repressed things that I noticed, and a lot of self-hatred and this is bad for everybody. I think they like to hang around people like that, who are very negative, when someone is negative they ooze this energy I can notice. When I lived alone, they barely appeared, just to pass by. Now I'm living with my incredibly negative, ailing grandmother to take care of her, and there are tons of weird things around this house now. But good for me because I'm very curious about these things.
    3. Unbound's Avatar
      So I might have invisible astral entities following me that I can't see? I am not sure if that is disturbing or fascinating or both.

      Heh, I said your dream world seemed to be an interesting place, but your waking world seems to be almost just as interesting, you see things that I can just imagine.

      I suppose that about the boy makes sense. Or maybe negative people attract more negative, annoying entities, while positive people attract ones that doesn't disturb one quite as much? I am just speculating though, I have heard about astral planes and entities before, but I don't know much about them.
    4. moonlit's Avatar
      I don't think they follow everybody but they're around everybody even if they see them or not. Negative people attract all sorts of things, and open themselves up to bad experiences, because of their beliefs and energy. Positive or negative people attract things because we're all alive, and we leave energy and thoughts around where we visit and especially where we live. But positive people don't open themselves up to fear so less things happen to them, like nightmares, seeing frightening things. The astral planes are interesting, I've had out of body experiences and I don't like them or visiting there, it's too intense... but they're interesting!
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