I've had this happen to me on numerous occasions. The first time it happened, I was totally convinced I had been attacked by an intruder with a horrible, deep, menacing voice, and I could feel myself being pushed hard into my bed. I thought I was going to smother. It happened every so often after that..never before in my life, until I was about 56. My question is..why does it only happen when you 'see' demons? I've had nightmares before, and they never end in sleep paralysis..why the demons?? And I never dreamed about demons in a regular dream..but have dreamed about various 'monsters'..but they were dreams, and I knew it.
Now here's the part where no one can explain this to me at all...My husband and I never told anyone about these episodes..especially our son. We didn't want to scare him, influence him, or have him worry that his mother was crazy! Well, one night, I was in his room, and we were talking about dreams..and he told me that a few months earlier. he had some terrifying experiences..he said one time he woke up and found himself naked in the middle of his floor, leaning against a cabinet, unable to move. (he wears shorts or pajama pants to bed..he's never naked) He said he also saw shadows rolling like waves above his bed while unable to move. One time, he saw a huge black figure float into his room, with hair like branches, and glowing eyes. He had quite a few stories..and when I asked him when it started, it turned out to be the exact same time MY incidents started to happen. He was 17 when it started.
And that's how it goes..it stopped for both of us for about a year (I had removed some recently acquired old books from the apartment, and bought a talisman on the advice of a friend who had experience with such matters. I was skeptical, but figured..what could it hurt?
Then, a few weeks ago, I fell asleep, and suddenly felt myself roll over on to my husband. We both started to sink into the bed, and he started screaming that I was crushing him, and he couldn't breathe! I was terrified, and screaming, too. I couldn't pull myself off him, because we were sinking..suddenly, there were all sorts of colors and lights swirling around..orange and green..like an Aurora Borealis ..then there was lightning and thunder crashes. I felt someone grab me by the shoulders, and lift me off, and away from my husband. It turned out to BE my husband..he heard me moaning in the way that I do when I can't make myself be heard in these episodes. Needless to say, we weren't sinking into the bed, and neither of us was screaming. I got hysterical, because I was never so scared in my life! I told him all about what had just happened.
Later the next night, my son came home from work late..he's 20 now, and in college. He was walking down the hallway toward his room.He stopped midway, and came back to the living room. He said.."Oh..check THIS out..I forgot to tell you..last night, one of those strange things happened to me again! I was dreaming I was in the side yard, and lots of the family was there, too. Suddenly, it started to get very dark and foreboding. I got really scared. Then, we were all sitting on a double decker bus, and the top blew off, and something horrible was happening..we were all screaming, and all these colors started swirling around..greens and oranges..and there were big crashes of thunder, and lightning! When I came out of it, I was TERRIFIED!!"
Now, I had called my husband in to the room just as he started to tell his story, because I just KNEW it was going to coincide with mine..so this way he could see and hear first hand how my son and I have the same type of experiences at the exact same time..and neither one of us is aware of the other one going through it simultaneously. That's what scares me. How can they be just 'dreams' when this is happening to us both?!
..and by the way, no..there was no storm outside that night..no thunder, no lightning..just in our 'dreams'. :(
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