Hello! I have never personally experienced anything like all of this but I have friends that have experienced night terrors and such...I was even sleeping next to my boyfriend one night when he woke up coughing and choking because he said he was being attacked by a dark figure and it was holding him down and he felt like he was wide awake...he could see me but he couldnt reach out or call to me. I've heard so many stories from people that went through something weird and similar that it can't be all just coincidence or in their head. I believe in God but I don't go to church or consider myself to be very religious. I am open minded to a lot of things but in the end, turn to God for everything and fear him the most. My parents are pretty religious and i guess in the area I grew up in, there were a lot of people that dabbled in witchcraft. So my mom would pretty much tell me, if all of a sudden you feel scared or uncomfortable, like something is wrong, call on God. Maybe you're rolling your eyes or don't want to hear it and I'm not trying to preach. From lisening to others' experiences, I have gathered that these types of things happen to people during stressful periods or in low points in their lives, times of crisis, etc. i do really think that maybe these are the times when you are most vulnerable to be attacked or to be influenced by something else that is evil. My mom said if you don't believe in these things and don't open your mind to them or show fear, this type of stuff can't hurt you, affect you, or come near you...I really believe this is true. I suggest to try and preoccupy your mind with something else or maybe go to a local church and get holy water or ask that someone bless your house. Even if you don't pray, ask someone else that does to pray for you because that helps also. Who knows, there's a lot about ourselves that I don't think we know or powers or senses that we may have that others can tap into a little better than the rest of us, know what I mean? If this is true, maybe if we have too much negative energy around ourselves or something, maybe we're subconsciously inviting these ugly beings or they can sense that we're more vulnerable to them during these times. Whatever the case, if they are evil, you have to believe that they can't affect you...maybe that was the case with the first guy in which these things were so upset that they couldn't do anything to him...show no fear, close your mind off to evil, call on god or any other higher being to save or protect you and surround yourself with positive energy. best of luck!

Originally posted by dave420
It's called a "dream". Look it up in a dictionary

Years ago as a teenager I was sleeping alone in the house for the first time. I woke up and looked out the window and saw the scariest thing I had ever seen in my life right outside the window staring back in at me. I freaked out broke into a cold sweat and finally "came out of the trance." It was one of the most terrifying moments of my life, possibly the most terrifying. I knew I was not asleep because everything in the room was perfect.

Fortunately for me my subconcious leans towards killers not demons, so the thing outside the window was a shaved head mutant (think Hills have Eyes). If it had been a demon looking in at me I am sure many here would have told me it was quite real. Of course some here would say it WAS a demon it just took the FORM of a mutant killer. Haha.

Seriously these dream sleep paralysis demon sightings are just that. Dreams. Especially when it appears half of the netherworld is trampling through your bedroom in the dead of night. If they wanted to hurt you so bad and they had the power to cause you to be paralyzed, well, i am sure they could do more than just give you hissy looks.

to the poster who asked if shadow beings can be seen by more than one person - yes, this has happened on more than one occasion and my animals have seen them.

me and a group of friends had lost a couple of friends to suicide back-to-back, i had lost my father that same year and my cousin a few months before my dad.

we were outside at a friend's house and someone came up to me and said "look across the street." i did and was astonished to see a GROUP of shadow people in the vacant lot. my first thought was it was our deceased friends showing us their new friends, and vice-versa. then without a word i went to the porch light and blocked it and still saw them, it was not our shadows. i said to the rest of the group "hey check that out across the street" while still blocking the light and every person looked and saw exactly what we saw. me and my friend who first saw them decided to go check it out, and one person remarked "don't bring the shadow people back." we got about 5ft from them, we both felt kind of a feeling of release, no fear - then they were gone. we calmly walked back to the group and said "oh it's just our homies playing with their new friends." and everyone went back to what they were doing. oh yea, we were all "uninvited" from the second dude's funeral, i bet he was pissed about that.

yes drugs were involved but not everyone was using and everyone saw them. mass hallucination? this phenomena is very real, google "shadow people" and check out accounts from around the globe, or check out www.shadow-people.org.

it has gotten to the point that i see them so often i ask "may i help u?" or "what do want?" or i just kinda shrug my shoulders and go on about my business. i think i have repeat visitors, because there is often a feeling of familiarity. i am a very psychically strong individual so i naturally do not fear them, but it is strange when i don't see them for a few days and they pop up. i also see shadow animals, they usually precede the people.

i have been looking, for 20 years, to share this story with someone who has also experienced demonic activity.

first, though, i have to call out the few people who completely disreguard this sort of thing as a dream when they could never imagine the amount of sheer terror that accompanies such a horrible experience. i believe the reason people, and namely children, are attacked at night is because they are at their weakest in wit and physical strength when trying to sleep, thus they cannot as easily fight off someone/thing.

when i was about seven, i had this next door neighbor friend who decided it would be absolutely hilarious to do the ole "bloody mary" chant thing that kids do, but at MY house, in MY bathroom. needless to say, it frightened me, and i had to use my parent's restroom for a few months afterward. i also recieved a nice scolding from my mother for letting her do something dark sided-ish or as she would later claimed may have "opened the door" to the demonic. i don't believe this would do the same for everyone - it could be anything that triggers an attack - but i knew better than to mess with that kind of thing (raised southern baptist).

basically, what i can vividly remember more than any other childhood memory is this "man" that started hanging around my bedroom not too long after the bloody mary incident.
he would come in after i was tucked in, and sit or crouch in the corner of the room next to my bed, so i couldn't ever really see him after he'd come in . he was black. all black, but in the vague shape of a man.
the worst thing of all, and i think the most devious and scary, was that he would talk to me. sometimes for hours. i can remember his voice being that of a man, one who befriended me - i know this because i although i can't recall specific conversations, i wasn't afraid of him at first - he seemed like he wanted very much to be my friend. this went on for a few days, until things changed.
at first my mom thought i was dreaming this crap up. kids do say strange effing things and if i were her i'd too probably think it was some bid for attention or just imagination.
she changed her mind, tho, when i confided in her i'd become afraid of this man because he told me to kill her. even today when i bring this up, my mother refuses to say anything about it. she won't even go into detail as to what it said exactly. she clams up and stares at me, almost angrily for even bringing it up i guess, not saying anything... and i can see how seriously she takes the whole thing.
i am VERY lucky to have had a mother who made us go to church every sunday, or i don't think we'd have responded properly. she had our pastor come over and annoint the home and me with oil, and said a very specific prayer. she also had this book i still remember the cover of called "the seduction of our children" i think. i remember some of the chapters she read with me after the whole thing. after this, not much ever happened again, i'll write that story if anyone is interested, on the contd. page.


i definitely believe the things this creature said to me were too traumatic to remember some of - from the look on my mother's face, i think i probably said things a seven year old should never even formulate into thoughts - and i'm sure the years haven't helped either.
i would definitely urge anyone with this kind of problem to message me or definitely go to a pastor/priest/minister NOW because i am covered in goosebumps just typing this out, remembering it. i don't even want to know what would have happened if it would have progressed or i hadn't told my parents about it.

i do find it very insightful that all of the accounts here have some similarities, especially that these bastards love to come at night, to defenseless people - either too little, or tired, or even paralyzed.

thank you very much for writing your very personal stories also, it gave me an outlet to finally share this.