Some Dark Entity Disrupting My Sleep Again
As someone with PTSD, having frightening dreams, nightmares, and night terrors are "normal" for us as it is one of the symptoms that we have to deal with when having this kind of mental disorder. I have been living my whole life with them and eventually, I was able to control them especially the sleep paralysis thing.
The past few months though, I have been having really vivid dreams (both good and bad) every night and I do remember them every time I wake up. This is quite weird to me since I know an average person can only remember a few dreams a week, and I have never experienced having vivid dreams every night before.
Yesterday I woke up at 6 am and figured my sleep wasn't enough so I slept again. My mind "woke up" and I was paralyzed (aka having sleep paralysis). I usually have sleep paralysis and I'm not scared of it anymore but usually, I can clearly see my room (with my physical eyes closed) the way it is in reality.
This time, I was seeing a dark room. It feels the same room as mine but it looked different. If you have seen the film series "Insidious" by James Wan, they visualized the other dimension aka The Further as something dark with bluish lights and stuff. That's what I was seeing.
Anyway, having sleep paralysis, I expected my body to vibrate. It did, but I was having some weird ticklish feeling as well. The back of my head felt cold, as well as my entire back. I felt something was behind me. Something dark and unpleasant. Like it was trying to get inside me.
As someone who believes in the existence of other dimensions, I knew what was happening. I was being attacked again but it wasn't as aggressive as that girl who attacked me months ago lol.
So this black thing was behind me and was extracting my energy. I felt my breathing got shallow so I focused on that and tried to breathe properly. I thought of happy stuff and I imagined I have a light inside me and spread it across my body to shield it.
It went for minutes and I eventually woke up. I was like WHAT WAS THAT lol. I was annoyed of course because I was exhausted.
If you believe in other dimensions, spirits, entities, astral bodies, and stuff like that, you could probably think of my experience as me getting visited by some shit.
If not, then the psychological explanation to that is I'm stressed. lol. Basically, thinking of happy thoughts while having sleep paralysis is a good solution to it too if you are having a hard time waking up. By doing so, you will prevent some crazy hallucinations like some demons in your room and some crazy incubus sitting on your chest.
So yeah, whatever that was, real or not, all I know is that the emotions felt during that time was real. It's crazy having all these dreams as I could feel them as if they were true but all I could do is accept them. I don't close my mind with the ideas of having several dimensions as well, as I know that there are lots of things that we don't know yet. If they are true, I do hope I could use that ability to get ideas like how Nikola Tesla and some other geniuses did. :p
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Oh man, I just want to hug you - I know exactly what that feels like, I recently heard about a book that I really want to read calledThe Terror that Comes in the Night: An Experience-centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions
Book by David Hufford
Oh wow, I searched the book and it has good reviews. Combining spiritual and psychological explanations.. nice! I don't usually read books but this is pretty interesting to me. Might give it a try sometime. Thanks for sharing! :D
And also, hugs to you as well!
Terrifying! I have experienced sleep paralysis couple of times, but luckily I was always aware of what's going on, so I was able to play it cool.
Yeah, just play it cool and don't allow the negative thoughts to come! :D
It looks great so far, I hope you get some sleep though :/ I included this post in my weekly curation Ocean of Art!
Thank you! <3
Fascinating. Reminds me of the Buddha meditating under the Boddhi tree when he fought the temptations of Mara and gained enlightenment.
My mother had sleep paralysis experiences where she saw children passing over her and through the wall.
I once had a vision of another dimension too, and the lights were like the reflection of a prism / rainbow 🌈
Really expressive painting 🙏🏽
Thank you! Reflection of a rainbow.. that sounds cool!
70% of my sleep paralysis experiences don't have any other presence in there. So it's also kinda cool for her to see children passing over lol. The 30% of my sleep paralysis are just monsters and ugly stuff lol like come on brain show some fairies or pretty stuff xD
One of my sisters is a psychologist, and she likes to say that "broken minds are monster factories". Maybe that's it. I cannot say anything about it being of supernatural cause, unless I feel something of that nature emanating from your artwork. But, nada. Or, maybe I'm just numb right now.
And, if you're a Catholic, even if you're not a practicing one, I suggest you get a crucifix and a rosary and hang both in your room. I have a rosary from the Vatican, as well as a scapular. I feel safer with them than without. Both were given to me by my ex, and she's the one who got me back into the faith.
Now this is perfect and I certainly believe that. This could be just another hallucination of me as well. The mind is powerful but it couldn't distinguish reality and fantasy that good lol. I made that work maybe 2 weeks ago, as I have not touched that yet cos I focused on other things first so not sure if it would emanate something?
I do have a black tourmaline crystal but I don't want to become "dependent" on them that I'll feel naked without them. I would like to strengthen my mind and face my fears alone. Besides I stopped believing in rosaries and other "holy" things. If there is indeed a creator, then I would like to connect with it "directly".
Oh, thank you!
I though I'm getting crazy when I was "sleep paralyzed", so not me alone get this thing!
But with me was multiply dream inside the dream where I tried to wakeup and all the time I wakeup inside other but same dream !
That was so real...
haha yeah the classic dream within a dream.. glad to hear I'm not the only one too!
I get what you are saying. I remember vividly experiencing something similar during my childhood. A couple of incidents, not recurring and never happened since then.
Yeah I think a large percentage of people do experience this at least once in their lifetime. :D
This happens to me as well and I think your approach of summoning your inner light to shield you was a wise idea. Personally I summon into my mind fractals and other images that allow me to see beyond good and bad.
You should work with this, don't let the fear get the worst of you. Practice turning those sleep paralysis into astral projections. It'll allow you to deal better with the entities that are attacking you and open your possibilities.
A big hug, and keep up the awesome work you do :)
I've read a lot about sleep paralysis and how the vibrations are actually your astral body separating from you so I also read that to protect yourself, you have to think of love and stuff to raise your vibrations. I am less afraid now though but just annoying these still happen. I tried projecting maybe thrice but I wake up right away and I think it was cos my life force was threatened of something... Other times someone I know said I was actually doing OBEs and that he knew it instantly when he saw me. So yeah I am practicing my projections but I don't "push" it or try to do it everytime I sleep. If it happens, I just try and explore lol
Thank you for this!