I myself have been attacked in my sleep, if you read some of my other posts about sleep paralysis you will find some of my idea's and theories concerning what it is.

Seems to me you've accidently crossed through the veil into the astral plane (and not all of it is pretty) and had an encounter with something that needed your energy, like a moth goes to light, so do these things go for us.

I think this is where there legends of the vampire originally stem from, there are no human vampires as such, but there are leechers (entities that as you say exist on sub-harmonic levels) therefore not physical in much the same way that a bass frequency isn't physical, you can feel it but not touch it.

As I say, I encountered it twice in one night a few years back, during a pretty bad experience in and out of something in-between an attack of sleep paralysis, an OOBE and a lucid nightmare. For me I was terrified and it was feeding off my fear from halfway across the room, the more i tried to move, the 'darker' it got.
It was something like a long and tall 'man' all in black and was very evil, its very presence made the room darker than normal.

I felt a huge pulse of vibration going through me from my feet to my brain, and a sound like every particle in the air was shaking, a strange electric buzzing sound and other scarier sounds like distant screaming, the sound of two people talking to each other but the words were indecipherable and an old style radio voice, plus other weird stuff....

I think the screaming sound could have been me (in my head) but the other sounds were coming from everywhere in my room.... Like this thing carried sounds with it and its very being wa causing disruption the the air. That's the only way I can explain.

The weird thing is, I felt more 'alert' and 'tuned in' than I'd ever been, like I could hear the tiniest of sounds all amplified and slightly distorted.

It didn't get close to me though, instead it mocked me from across the room...

I 'awoke' or unparalysed and I knew the thing was still about, depsite my rational mind telling me it was an hallucination, I KNEW it wasn't...

I then drifted in and out of disturbed sleep and again felt that rushing feeling and awoke to find my housemate standing over me shining a blue cell phone light into my face and he was laughing... smirking.

I couldn't move but could hear myself shouting at him (wtf! are you doing standing over me etc!) and then the blue light was shining in my face...

I then 'awoke' again and looked around my room and things weren't as bad, whatever it was had gone... my door was locked in the morning.

My housemate denied all knowledge of pranking me (i mean why would he get out of bed, break into my room and shine a phone in my face?)

Very freaky but interesting stuff...

I've had sleep paralysis fairly often since then, but nothing as bad as that attack.

Thanks for reviving the thread guys,

mr.lizard that is intense! Especially your second experience of having the roommate cackling over you with the cell phone light

That is exactly the kind of thing I imagine a lower consciousness would want to put in our heads... give us nightmares of family members or someone else killing us etc.

I have heard that bad dreams in general are the result of lower consciousness clinging to us in our sleep. But sometimes a bad dream feels almost deliberate... like something is deliberately trying to frighten us or present us with scary imagery. Yuck.

I also have to add that as a child I used to suffer from bad dreams and nightmares, but the above experience was nothig of the sort.

Although that's an interesting concpet of the 'created dream', not saying its true, but its a scary thought.

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EDIT: SPOOKY! Just listening to a new CD i ordered from the internet and the song that came on whilst i was writing the above is called 'where dreams come from' - by the commercial hippies, I just glanced at my media player.

[edit on 22-3-2008 by mr-lizard]

Scary as heck and not without precedence.

If you Google-kung fu your predicament you will find hundreds of years of history on this subject.

Sometimes called "The Old Hag", this phenomena has been recorded throughout history. You can even find paintings from hundreds of years ago with a "demon" sitting on someone’s chest "feasting" on them.

Completely disturbing but, totally in your mind.

Please, please don't read anything into this: I would seek professional help concerning what the root cause may be. There is something in your life causing extreme sleep disturbances ("nigh terrors") and your horrible experience is how your subconscious is manifesting itself and demanding attention.

Please accept that in the kind, not judgmental and certainly not "throwing stones" way it was intended. I just want peace for you, that's all.

Originally posted by NewWorldOver

Originally posted by zenjewel
Sounds like bumpy re-entry from astral travel.

Do you recall any astral travel events previously?? Some have reported being with other energies while traveling. Maybe it was 'someone' that was traveling with you??

zen

No I don't remember any recent events like this. Bumpy-re-entry is a perfect way to describe my first sleep paralysis experience. This felt more like 'waking up' and catching something in the act of feeding on me. It distinctly felt like I had woken up with a predator feeding on me, like a camper might feel waking up with a mountain lion on top of him. I could not see hardly anything except the darkness of the entity and a small amount of light, I am now wondering if my spirit was struggling with something and woke me up in order to witness it or 'help' get it off. Agh.

[edit on 14-12-2007 by NewWorldOver]

Feeding on you eh?? Perhaps you have heard of physic vampires?

Your story reminded me of an incident I had many years ago. I awoke one morning lying on my stomach feeling as if my face was being pressed into the pillow. I could hardly get a breath and I was unable to get up regardless of how hard I struggled.

My first thought was someone had broken in and was attempting to smother me. I could see no one however. I'm a large guy, and at the time I was in very good shape, and couldn't imagine anyone being able to completely immobolize me like that. I felt totally helpless. The experience seemed to last forever, but was probably less than a few minutes in reality.

All of a sudden the pressure was gone, and I was able to get up. The bedroom door and window were still locked, and there was nobody in the room aside from myself. I know I wasn't dreaming. It was very real, and very frightening.

It never happened again, but a few months later I did see something in the house that looked like an elderly woman. She looked very angry and unhospitable as she acknowledge me with her eyes. She was passing through the living room heading for the upstairs staircase, but by the time I got to there she was nowhere in sight.

Nobody believed me when I spoke about it later, including my family. They all said I must of had a nightmare.







[edit on 3/22/08 by LLoyd45]

Defcon5...

It helps but then raises more questions...

Why, oh why do we 'dream' or 'hallucinate' similar imagery when experiencing the paralysis... why not a beautiful woman or a balloon or a plate of eggs, why always the dark, ominous being, why the strange noises and the heightened sense.... and more than anything a sense of evil... (when the entities are there)

The Freudian lovers will argue that it's simply a manifestation of the fear of the unknown and the dark and what-not, but things really are appearing... my old cats used to go weird when I woke up and would leave the room....

and also why is it on the knife edge of lucidity and out of body experiences.... I think it's easy to simplify, but in all honesty all we have is statistics on brain frequencies and percentages... what we don't have is a true answer.

It's hard to explain to someone if they haven't experienced it.


[edit on 22-3-2008 by mr-lizard]

I have to say, all the rationalist explanations that are possible - I have met them already. I've thought about them.

I already considered the possibility of sleep paralysis and I'm fully aware of it having studied and experienced it before. This experience of being attacked was an event that happened mid-dreaming, mid-sleep and I experienced it not so much as a person lying in bed frightened, but as if I were floating in dark space ... I am also aware what that feeling signifies.

I'm fine with considering it all a dream. Except that I also understand that dreams are the product of something more than the physical chemical mind - and that is a topic deserving another thread.

Thanks for the reply mortalengine.

I still do not understand why my husband and I both experienced this at the same time ? very uncanny and weird I must say.

Maybe we are on the same wave length even when asleep ? Are we that intune with each other ?

To all the other posters...I have enjoyed reading this thread

take care all of you
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i went threw the exact same experience as you did, im so happy i found your post.
I saw the same thing as in with the black fog and the light in the background, the sounds, the pushing, vibrations, everything was the same as my experience.
This hapened to me a month ago

Last night i had the worst sleep paralysis ever in my entire life though,
The vision i had was something throwing me against walls and my door, trying to get me out of my room and dragg me somewhere else in my house in the complete darkness, im really scared...It was like nothing i have ever experienced before...

If you want to talk more about this, you can add me on msn, meetch_@hotmail.com, it would be cool to talk to someone who has been threw the same thing...

Take care

It sounds like you had an encounter with a demonic entity. Just a lowly earth-bound demon. Sometimes, I fight demons in my sleep, but when they try to attack, I say "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus, you foul and unclean spirits!" Then I send them to a dry place or into a herd of pigs, in the name of Jesus! This is biblical, by the way! I think we all fight demons sometimes. My husband fought demons in a dream, also. He had gone to see some strippers, with a group of his buddies, when they were in Florida. On the way home, he stayed at his friend's house. The family were atheists, and he said that he fought demons all night long in his sleep. He was kind of freaked about it, etc. You must keep your guard up, always! I would begin praying again, and I hope that you are praying to Jesus or God! You might want to get a book of Spiritual Warfare Prayers. Lester Sumrall has some good books about demonic entities, and how we open doors to let them enter. The meditation thing is interesting. I have heard other people say that they became much more sensitive to the spirit realm. when they meditated or were involved in TM.