or a 'Hag's Dream'. They're very common. The feeling of paralysis, of being completely aware, of being pinned down and something or someone over you. It's not paranormal, it's just normal.
Casey: I say she's a very nice person.
Dan: I say she has no reflection.
That's the common excuse given by atheists in reaction to all claims of ghosts in homes.
shareI don't think night terrors care what religion you are. I used to get them in my 20s. It was terrifying. I found out pretty soon that it was common. I wasn't being haunted.
Casey: I say she's a very nice person.
Dan: I say she has no reflection.
I agree with Kurt. But I'm glad you admitted to having them. I had them, too, when I was in my early 20s. Every person I've know who's had them were in their early 20s. And there's no such thing as coincidence. I always found it ironic the "scientific" believe in coincidence.
Anyway, just because it's "common" -- I don't know THAT many people who have had it, or admit to it -- doesn't mean it's normal. My home wasn't haunted before or after either. I just thought some very evil entity -- that's why they're so terrifying -- found it's way in AND out of my house.
For those who haven't experienced this, it's not that you're conscious and can't move. It's that you're conscious, paralyzed and there's something in your bedroom with you that's talking to you, in the most tauntingly sadistic way, and you don't know if this undeniably evil being will try to physically hurt you. THAT'S what makes this experience suqq so hard.
It happened to me at least half a dozen times, when I was about 20. I never saw the entity. It was always just out of sight, behind me, to my right, always in the same part of my bedroom. My body was paralyzed, but I was afraid to really strain my eyes to see it. I thought if I caught a glimpse of it, that might antagonize it to physically assault me. Or give it more power in some way.
I noticed that I'd experience it RIGHT before a deep sleep. I forget what stage that's called (REM, theta, alpha, what eve). But, it's definitely not a dream. After about half a dozen "visits" from this nasty, evil, intelligent entity, I learned how to wake myself up and, thus, avoid it. It's very difficult to do because the natural brain chemicals that knock you out have been released, so it takes a lot of effort. But when I learned to do that, the "visits" stopped, thank God. I probably got too old for it, too, eventually.
And, NO, it wasn't my "id", or my "guilty conscience", or a nightmare. When we dream, don't we know how a dream feels after we wake up, and sometimes even during it? This was much different. It said things that were very advanced in the degree of insight and hate, that I didn't have at that young age, and still don't have, thank God. It very much felt like a separate, independent, unfamiliar intruder.
Anyone else experience this?
This is a nitpick but:
an atheist = somebody who does not believe there are any gods or god
a skeptic = somebody who has some disbelief in a claim eg of aliens, ghosts, gods, the paranormal etc