Sleep Paralysis or Evil Spirits?


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2 minutes ago, clbent04 said:

I never spoke or said the words in my mind that would cast out an evil spirit.  I was first trying to just mumble anything I could to break free from my state of paralysis before I actually vocalized the words I intended to speak.  

Then it's a moot question to ask if it was evil spirit or sleep paralysis until it happens to you again.  When it does happen to you again, try my suggestions.  Then it will be clearer.

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13 minutes ago, anatess2 said:

Then it's a moot question to ask if it was evil spirit or sleep paralysis until it happens to you again.  When it does happen to you again, try my suggestions.  Then it will be clearer.

No, it isn't moot, of course, it was an evil spirit. To be held down, not allowed to move freely sure as the dickens wouldn't be caused by an angel of the Lord or one of His messengers!

During the last 5 years of my abusive marriage AND before I re-activated back into the LDS Church, I would have night terrors where demon arms would come up through the mattress trying to pull me down through the mattress, the floor and where ever they were coming from. I went to the Dr (who is LDS & also was the Branch President) to get meds to help me not have these terrors. I also told him that I had marks on my body from their claws/talons extremely long nails. Since I had no fingernails (chewed them down to the nubs) and these marks were impossible for me to have done it - he believed me. He also sent two High Priests over to give me a blessing and to bless the house. They encouraged me to pray at bedtime and to ask Father to banish the adversary from me and the house.

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22 minutes ago, Iggy said:

No, it isn't moot, of course, it was an evil spirit. To be held down, not allowed to move freely sure as the dickens wouldn't be caused by an angel of the Lord or one of His messengers!

I think what @anatess2 is saying is that it's moot because one of the symptoms of sleep paralysis is actual, literal paralysis, which feels like being held down.

That said, I also think it's jumping to that conclusion, and I'm inclined to believe the interpretation of the event by the person it happened to, unless shown evidence to contradict it.

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7 hours ago, anatess2 said:

Then it's a moot question to ask if it was evil spirit or sleep paralysis until it happens to you again.  When it does happen to you again, try my suggestions.  Then it will be clearer.

I wasn't basing my question off of a mistaken assumption you made.  The question can still be asked based on the details provided.

I will try your advice if it happens to me again. I'll let you know if it ever does, but hopefully not!

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On 1/11/2019 at 4:34 PM, clbent04 said:

I wasn't basing my question off of a mistaken assumption you made.  The question can still be asked based on the details provided.

I will try your advice if it happens to me again. I'll let you know if it ever does, but hopefully not!

Like I said, all the details you provided can be experienced in sleep paralysis.  So there is no way we can determine if it is sleep paralysis or not.

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On 1/11/2019 at 12:10 PM, Iggy said:

No, it isn't moot, of course, it was an evil spirit. To be held down, not allowed to move freely sure as the dickens wouldn't be caused by an angel of the Lord or one of His messengers!

During the last 5 years of my abusive marriage AND before I re-activated back into the LDS Church, I would have night terrors where demon arms would come up through the mattress trying to pull me down through the mattress, the floor and where ever they were coming from. I went to the Dr (who is LDS & also was the Branch President) to get meds to help me not have these terrors. I also told him that I had marks on my body from their claws/talons extremely long nails. Since I had no fingernails (chewed them down to the nubs) and these marks were impossible for me to have done it - he believed me. He also sent two High Priests over to give me a blessing and to bless the house. They encouraged me to pray at bedtime and to ask Father to banish the adversary from me and the house.

Iggy, every single one of the details he mentions to describe his experience, including the feeling of somebody sitting on your chest, can be experienced in sleep paralysis.  I have experienced them all.  Therefore, there is NO WAY you can conclude it is sleep paralysis or an evil spirit unless the OP himself concludes such.  As he is questioning if it is sleep paralysis or not, then if he doesn't know, there's no way we can know.  The question is moot.  It will need a repeat of the event for him to know.  The feeling of evil spirits during sleep paralysis is an interpretation the brain derives out of the symptoms of sleep paralysis combined with fear.  So if it happens again, @clbent04, can go through the "counter measures" for sleep paralysis and see if it is truly sleep paralysis or an evil spirit in the room.  An evil spirit wouldn't be affected by the relaxation techniques to correct sleep paralysis. 

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On 1/10/2019 at 10:58 AM, clbent04 said:

What's weird is I never even knew about sleep paralysis or the described side effects of it until researching it myself after it happened to me.  I had only heard about others seeing the same kind of "shadow figures" after I had seen it myself. No one had planted the idea of a shadow figure in my head previous to my first encounter.  So my question is, how are so many people describing the exact same thing?  If it's imagined, how are we all imagining the same kind of shadow figures?

There is a lot about how the brain operates that we don't understand.  My daughter sees what I think you could call shadow people.  Sees them all the time.  I am pretty sure they are not spirits that she is seeing, but something that her mind is making up.  It freaked her out for a very long time.  Now she doesn't pay any attention to it.  The doctors couldn't figure it out.  And they said it wasn't a personality disorder.  One specialist thought that it might be do to a gymnastics injury that had caused some stress to the vertebrae below her skull.  He said that can induce some hallucinations.  But he didn't have a solution other than to let it heal on its own.

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On 1/11/2019 at 9:47 AM, unixknight said:

 

Possible... 

But...

Here's the thing.  We know for a fact that evil spirits exist.  This isn't theory and it isn't speculation.  It's in Scripture, so we *know*  they're out there.  We also know that sleep paralysis is a real phenomenon that science is exploring.  Some people experience one, some experience the other, and a few people will experience both (and that must really stink!)

But what we need to be very careful about is jumping to conclusions about someone else's experience.  You personally may have experience with sleep paralysis but that doesn't mean somebody else's experience is the same, even if it has a few features in common.  I've been posting on various message boards for years and one  thing I've observed is that whenever someone starts a thread about some supernatural phenomenon or another, there is always someone ready to jump in and provide their own theory as to what cause it that has nothing to do with anything supernatural.

I'll give an example.

In the apartment my wife and I used to live in many years ago, the faucets in the bathrooms would sometimes open when nobody was around.  This, coupled with a few other weird phenomena, led me to hypothesize that there  may be some sort of spirit in the building causing it.  I told this story in a thread and immediately I had one or two people coming up with wildly improbable hypotheses like:

  • One of the cats opened the tap.  (Nevermind that the valve was the kind that's shaped like a crystal and you have to turn it.  A cat can't do this.)
  • Water pressure somehow forced the valve open. (Nevermind that the valve is a worm gear, and the amount of water pressure it would take to force it to turn would have been enough to literally blow the pipes apart.)  

What irritated me about that was that those people weren't there, had not conducted any kind of experimentation, study, research or interviewing about this particular case, yet they were not only ready to declare the case as settled, they were arguing with me about it as if they knew more than I did about this case.  Funny thing was, I hadn't even declared it as being absolutely caused by a ghost or anything.  It was just my hypothesis and wasn't independent of other factors.

I have my own theory as to why people do this, but suffice it to say it's not any more scientific than the original story, because science is based on research and experimentation, not making blanket assumptions about others' experience.  

I mentioned earlier that I have had at least two experiences with shadow people.  In neither case was I asleep, and in neither case was I unable to move.  In fact, in one of those cases I wasn't even in bed.

Do I believe in evil spirits?  Yes.  Do I believe they can turn on your faucets?  No.  With all the ghost hunters out there, they have never once caught anything supernatural happening.  No books floating through the air, no doors shutting, no faucets turning on.

Speaking of faucets turning on.  I did have a delta faucet on my sink in my old house that if you didn't have it fully turned all the way, the water pressure would turn it on.  The water pressure varies throughout the day depending on how many people are using water.  You could shut it off in the morning when everyone is showering and in the mid morning when the water pressure increased, it was enough to turn the water on.

So yes, I am a huge skeptic when it comes to the supernatural.  With the billions and billions of cameras out there, I would think that if the supernatural were out there, we would have it on video.

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21 minutes ago, Lost Boy said:

There is a lot about how the brain operates that we don't understand.  My daughter sees what I think you could call shadow people.  Sees them all the time.  I am pretty sure they are not spirits that she is seeing, but something that her mind is making up.  It freaked her out for a very long time.  Now she doesn't pay any attention to it.  The doctors couldn't figure it out.  And they said it wasn't a personality disorder.  One specialist thought that it might be do to a gymnastics injury that had caused some stress to the vertebrae below her skull.  He said that can induce some hallucinations.  But he didn't have a solution other than to let it heal on its own.

Or it could be shadow people.  The best way to deal with it one way or the other is to teach her not to freak out - a perfect time to teach her about trusting in God.

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2 minutes ago, Lost Boy said:

Do I believe in evil spirits?  Yes.  Do I believe they can turn on your faucets?  No.  With all the ghost hunters out there, they have never once caught anything supernatural happening.  No books floating through the air, no doors shutting, no faucets turning on.

Just to clarify, I distinguish between evil spirits and other supernatural phenomena that may or may not have been connected with that incident.

Also, the lack of ghosthunters finding anything really isn't evidence one way or the other.  The TV shows are mostly fake anyway and even when they're trying to be genuine, their methods are far from scientific.

2 minutes ago, Lost Boy said:

Speaking of faucets turning on.  I did have a delta faucet on my sink in my old house that if you didn't have it fully turned all the way, the water pressure would turn it on.  The water pressure varies throughout the day depending on how many people are using water.  You could shut it off in the morning when everyone is showering and in the mid morning when the water pressure increased, it was enough to turn the water on.

My faucet wasn't a Delta.  Even if it were, this is the kind of jumping to conclusions I was talking about.  The details you're not aware of (because I didn't bother to type it all) are being filled in here.  For example, In the 10 years we lived in that apartment it only happened once or twice, and during a period when other odd things were happening in the apartment.  This isn't a case of faulty equipment causing a chronic problem.

6 minutes ago, Lost Boy said:

So yes, I am a huge skeptic when it comes to the supernatural.  With the billions and billions of cameras out there, I would think that if the supernatural were out there, we would have it on video.

Assuming that if actual evidence exists, extreme skeptics wouldn't bombard them with pseudoscientific assumptions like faulty faucet valves in order to discredit it.  ;)

In seriousness, the problem with that thinking is the assumption that the scientific community would be open to embracing such evidence when/if it pops up.  Skeptics out there tend to be as entrenched in their view as believers.  It's not about evidence.  It's about worldviews.

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28 minutes ago, Lost Boy said:

There is a lot about how the brain operates that we don't understand.  My daughter sees what I think you could call shadow people.  Sees them all the time.  I am pretty sure they are not spirits that she is seeing, but something that her mind is making up.  It freaked her out for a very long time.  Now she doesn't pay any attention to it.  The doctors couldn't figure it out.  And they said it wasn't a personality disorder.  One specialist thought that it might be do to a gymnastics injury that had caused some stress to the vertebrae below her skull.  He said that can induce some hallucinations.  But he didn't have a solution other than to let it heal on its own.

So, your daughter is seeing some rather scary things, medical professionals can't account for it and the best they can come  up with is a "well, MAYBE it's this..."   answer.

Brother, I hope you're right that they aren't there, because I can't imagine anything harder for a child to deal with than to have actually be seeing evil spirits (which you mentioned you believe in) but nobody believes her, even her own dad.

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23 minutes ago, Lost Boy said:

Do I believe in evil spirits?  Yes.  Do I believe they can turn on your faucets?  No.  With all the ghost hunters out there, they have never once caught anything supernatural happening.  No books floating through the air, no doors shutting, no faucets turning on.

Speaking of faucets turning on.  I did have a delta faucet on my sink in my old house that if you didn't have it fully turned all the way, the water pressure would turn it on.  The water pressure varies throughout the day depending on how many people are using water.  You could shut it off in the morning when everyone is showering and in the mid morning when the water pressure increased, it was enough to turn the water on.

So yes, I am a huge skeptic when it comes to the supernatural.  With the billions and billions of cameras out there, I would think that if the supernatural were out there, we would have it on video.

You haven't met Benjamin - our resident spirit.  He lifted the rosary from out of the maid's neck and hung it on the peg on the wall while an exorcist trying to eject him from the property was in the middle of the prayer.  The exorcist concluded Benjamin is a spirit but he's not an evil one.  He's just angry.  So an exorcism is not what is needed.  My uncle (who owns the house) was able to make peace with Benjamin eventually and he has become the "household guardian" when we moved into the house.  But if a non-evil spirit can lift objects, why can't an evil one?

Which brings me to my long discussion with my Catholic school's priest on what spirits are - how there are evil ones and non-evil ones.  Who are they?  Things that are now null and void as I embrace the restored gospel.  So if anybody wants to hijack this thread to have a discussion on who are these spirits in light of the restored gospel, I'd be ready with my popcorn.

By the way, Benjamin is not our only spirit experience.  My family got several experiences with these guys.   I love telling people the stories because they always invoke a myriad of reactions.

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15 minutes ago, anatess2 said:

You haven't met Benjamin - our resident spirit.  He lifted the rosary from out of the maid's neck and hung it on the peg on the wall while an exorcist trying to eject him from the property was in the middle of the prayer.  The exorcist concluded Benjamin is a spirit but he's not an evil one.  He's just angry.  My uncle was able to make peace with Benjamin eventually and he has become the "household guardian" when we moved into the house.  But if a non-evil spirit can lift objects, why can't an evil one?

Which brings me to my long discussion with our school's priest on what spirits are - how there are evil ones and non-evil ones.  Who are they?  Things that are now null and void as I embrace the restored gospel.

No, I haven't met him, nor do I believe he lifted a rosary from someones neck and hung it on a peg.  Did you see this happen?  Or did you hear it from a relative or someone?

There are substantial prize money out there for those who show proof of the supernatural.  No one has ever claimed the prize money.

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On 1/11/2019 at 9:03 AM, unixknight said:

Priesthood Authority DOES require vocal cords, at least in some cases.  Otherwise the Sacrament prayer wording wouldn't be so critical, as well as for other Priesthood blessings.  If you can  think of a case in Scripture in which Priesthood Authority was invoked silently, especially involving evil spirits, please point me in the right direction.

Well...

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But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me ...

It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound ...

But Joseph wasn't ordained to the priesthood yet.

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23 minutes ago, unixknight said:

So, your daughter is seeing some rather scary things, medical professionals can't account for it and the best they can come  up with is a "well, MAYBE it's this..."   answer.

Brother, I hope you're right that they aren't there, because I can't imagine anything harder for a child to deal with than to have actually be seeing evil spirits (which you mentioned you believe in) but nobody believes her, even her own dad.

Wow, making me a bad guy here.  Where did I say I don't believe she sees these things?  Nowhere.  I believe she is seeing something in her mind.  She doesn't believe she is seeing evil things.  At first she did because it was scary.  Scary to see something that isn't there.  But she ignores this now. And why do you assume they are evil spirits that she is seeing?

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1 minute ago, Lost Boy said:

Wow, making me a bad guy here.  Where did I say I don't believe she sees these things? 

That isn't what I said.  I said it doesn't sound like you believe they're real when you say "I am pretty sure they are not spirits that she is seeing, but something that her mind is making up."  (And maybe they aren't, but that doesn't sound open minded to me, coming form someone who acknowledges that evil spirits do exist.)

1 minute ago, Lost Boy said:

And why do you assume they are evil spirits that she is seeing?

That isn't what I said either.  I said "Brother, I hope you're right that they aren't there...."  Not really declaring an assumption there.

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2 minutes ago, unixknight said:

That isn't what I said.  I said it doesn't sound like you believe they're real when you say "I am pretty sure they are not spirits that she is seeing, but something that her mind is making up."  (And maybe they aren't, but that doesn't sound open minded to me, coming form someone who acknowledges that evil spirits do exist.)

That isn't what I said either.  I said "Brother, I hope you're right that they aren't there...."  Not really declaring an assumption there.

"No one believes her, not ever her own dad."  I am not an English scholar, but I am pretty sure that is what you said...  that I don't believe my daughter.  I never doubted that she was seeing anything.  The question is what is she seeing.  Did the thought occur that it could be spirits?  Yes, it did.  But the more I questioned her the more it didn't sound like spirits.

"I can't imagine anything harder for a child to deal with than to have actually be seeing evil spirits"  That seems like you are assuming that if she is seeing spirits that they are automatically evil spirits.

Anyway, it is a sucky  and scary thing for a young lady to have to go through.   Pretty sucky for the parents as well.

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33 minutes ago, Lost Boy said:

No, I haven't met him, nor do I believe he lifted a rosary from someones neck and hung it on a peg.  Did you see this happen?  Or did you hear it from a relative or someone?

There are substantial prize money out there for those who show proof of the supernatural.  No one has ever claimed the prize money.

@unixknight this one's for you too.

My father, his 3 brothers, and 1 sister lived in that house.  They were all going through college.  The oldest is going through law school, the next is in med school, the girl is in nursing school, and my dad was in Chemical Engineering school and his younger brother was in Civil Engineering.  These are not your "easily led by the nose" type of people.  And this happened in the 60's in the Philippines - we did not have sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll hippies.

The rosary was not the only incident  This entire thing started because Benjamin "fell in love" with the maid.  The maid would ask my uncle (the lawyer owns the 2-story duplex) which afternoons she can take off.  Then one time, she told my uncle she's taking the afternoon off to go out with Benjamin.  So my uncle - being the Patriarch of the household - asked to meet Benjamin to make sure he's in the up and up.  The maid stated that she thought my uncle knows Benjamin because he lives in the 3rd floor.  Well, it's only a 2-story house, so my uncle said, have you been to the 3rd floor?  And the maid said, of course!  So my uncle asked her to take him up to the 3rd floor but that's when the maid realized there is no 3rd floor so she got scared.  My uncle asked her to go home to her family to separate her from the situation and that's when Benjamin got angry.  So, the siblings were sitting around the dinner table eating and there's a big soup bowl in the middle of the table and my uncle apprised his siblings about Benjamin and, of course, the younger siblings laughed at the ridiculousness of the story and a big rock fell from the ceiling right into the soup bowl splitting the bowl in half.  So then every morning when they  leave for school, they have to go through unstuffing every single one of their shoes from hay and mud.  The property has a gate and they can't open the gate unless they promise they're not taking the maid out with them.  The maid refused to leave the bedroom and would scream terrorized if she is left alone. My uncle finally got tired of it so he hired an exorcist.  So Benjamin got even angrier so the dining chairs would fly and stick to the wall... etc. etc.  And so the exorcist came by and tried to exorcise the spirit, so the family gathered around with the maid and knelt down in prayer and the maid said... there's Benjamin!  He's praying with us!  But nobody believed her because nobody can see Benjamin... that's when the rosary flew off  her neck.  Anyway, this went on and on for a week until my uncle decided to end it once and for all by telling Benjamin if he doesn't stop and let the maid go he'll burn the house down.  I guess Benjamin decided he needs the house for his 3rd floor apartment so he immediately stopped everything.  Since then, he's had several manifestations, all friendly.  My dad finally left the house when he graduated.  He got married and had children and then they had to move back into the house - I was around 3 years old then.  My older brother had an imaginary friend and he would play hide and seek behind my mom's skirt.  My mom told my Dad about my brother's imaginary friend named... Benjamin.  Of course, my mom didn't know anything about that eventful week.   Benjamin has saved us from a robbery, from a fire, etc. etc.

Anyway, here's another one where the spirit moves things.  My brother (not the one who was friends with Benjamin) had his very first day in the Residency program at the hospital.  They had 72-hour on-call shifts and they sleep whenever they can.  My brother's first day was a very busy one and he finally found a break to sleep very late at night and he was the only one in the residents' area.  He plunked down on the bottom bunk of one of the beds and the bed immediately started violently shaking.  He thought, earthquake!  So he got up to seek a safe spot but the bed immediately stopped shaking when he got up.  So he sat down on the bed again... then laid down.  The bed started violently shaking again. He looked at the other beds and they were not moving so he told whoever was shaking the bed, "shake the bed all you want, I'm going to sleep."  And it stopped.  And he went to sleep.  He told the nurses and other residents about it and they told him, "Oh good, you've met our invisible resident".  The invisible resident did not scare my brother because, it's not his first encounter with the "unseen".  ;)

 

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1 minute ago, Lost Boy said:

"No one believes her, not ever her own dad."  I am not an English scholar, but I am pretty sure that is what you said...  that I don't believe my daughter.

Has it occurred to you that she may have felt that way?  OBVIOUSLY you believed something was happening with her since you took her to the doctor.  Why would I say you didn't believe her at all?  That doesn't make sense.

1 minute ago, Lost Boy said:

"I can't imagine anything harder for a child to deal with than to have actually be seeing evil spirits"  That seems like you are assuming that if she is seeing spirits that they are automatically evil spirits.

You're mistaken.  I never assumed any such thing.  One can speak hypothetically without making assumptions.

1 minute ago, Lost Boy said:

Anyway, it is a sucky  and scary thing for a young lady to have to go through.   Pretty sucky for the parents as well.

I know it is.  My oldest daughter had a similar experience when her mother first moved her (and her brothers) to a new house.  (She was about 6 years old.)  She was hearing things, sometimes voices.  Naturally, the first thing that came to my mind was "Schizophrenia?"  but I didn't jump to that conclusion.  I also wondered if she was overhearing a TV from her grandparents in the basement, or maybe, just maybe, it could have been something supernatural.  I didn't jump to any conclusions and I didn't rule anything out.  It never seemed serious enough to have a doctor check her out.

In the meantime, I just suggested to her that she keep me posted about when it happened, and pay attention to things like time of day, who else was home, etc.  Eventually it went away.  So looking back, she was either overhearing noise from somewhere else or she was experiencing some kind of funky phenomena that may or may not have been supernatural.    What I didn't do was to be dismissive or tell her it was all in her head. 

Eventually it stopped happening on its own.  To this day I don't know what caused it, and I suppose I never will.

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P.S. @Lost Boy  You might think - with all the smartphones around, you might think the residents at the hospital would be able to take a video or something.  Well, not that easy.  You take a video, it doesn't happen.  Or, even if you try to show-and-tell somebody skeptical - like my mother, for example, who is the biggest skeptic of them all.  You ask somebody like my mother to stay overnight at the resident's area, nothing happens.  These things never happen with her around.  Like, she's never had any experiences with Benjamin.  And neither did I for that matter.  I've never had that experience.  Interestingly, my mom and I are the only ones who doesn't seem to experience any of these things in my immediate family.  So that's another question - why are we "spirit-deprived?".  There are other residents who has never "met" the invisible resident either.

That's why when I get sleep paralysis it never occurs to me - evil spirit.  Because, they just never seem to want to manifest themselves to me.  My mother, on the other hand, just says we're all crazy.

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1 hour ago, unixknight said:

Has it occurred to you that she may have felt that way?  OBVIOUSLY you believed something was happening with her since you took her to the doctor.  Why would I say you didn't believe her at all?  That doesn't make sense.

You're mistaken.  I never assumed any such thing.  One can speak hypothetically without making assumptions.

I know it is.  My oldest daughter had a similar experience when her mother first moved her (and her brothers) to a new house.  (She was about 6 years old.)  She was hearing things, sometimes voices.  Naturally, the first thing that came to my mind was "Schizophrenia?"  but I didn't jump to that conclusion.  I also wondered if she was overhearing a TV from her grandparents in the basement, or maybe, just maybe, it could have been something supernatural.  I didn't jump to any conclusions and I didn't rule anything out.  It never seemed serious enough to have a doctor check her out.

In the meantime, I just suggested to her that she keep me posted about when it happened, and pay attention to things like time of day, who else was home, etc.  Eventually it went away.  So looking back, she was either overhearing noise from somewhere else or she was experiencing some kind of funky phenomena that may or may not have been supernatural.    What I didn't do was to be dismissive or tell her it was all in her head. 

Eventually it stopped happening on its own.  To this day I don't know what caused it, and I suppose I never will.

Yeah, I never told my daughter it was all in her head either basically because I really don't know what is causing it.  But she doesn't believe now that they are spirits.  

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On 1/8/2019 at 4:58 PM, clbent04 said:

1/8/19 - My wife and I feel asleep in separate bedrooms so it was just me sleeping in our master bedroom. I woke up around 3:40am. I was alone in the room except that when I woke up I immediately sensed an evil spirit. It was a negative feeling, and it was as if I could feel its presence in the air. The air all around me felt disturbed with a buzzing, not an audible buzzing but more of a 6th-sense, spiritual buzzing.

I kept my eyes closed out of fear of seeing something I didn’t want to see. I had one of these encounters before and what I saw the first time was pretty freaky. This time I was laying down with my left arm behind my head and my body slightly positioned on its left side where I was mostly laying on my back but slightly on my side as well facing towards the edge of the bed. With my eyes still closed, a few seconds later I noticed I couldn’t move. The spirit was somehow holding me in that position. I wasn’t in any pain, but I did feel bound by some force. I was still too unnerved to open my eyes because I felt this presence strongest right in front of me at the edge of the bed between the bed and the closet.

I laid there immobile for maybe a minute, and I thought I could wait this out, but then the idea came to me to try and grab whatever was in front of me with my left hand that was behind my head. I attempted to do so but as much as I tried moving my arm the more I realized how much I was being held motionless by this presence. Even trying to lift my head slightly to remove my arm from behind me was impossible. I exerted every effort I had several times but found it to be futile.

I then thought I had had enough at that point and was going to cast this evil presence out in the name of Jesus Christ and by the authority of the Melchizedek Priesthood. I tried to speak, but I could barely utter anything. I was only able to utter fragmented words that probably wouldn’t have been intelligible to anyone listening. I then tried a second time but not with much more success. Finally the third time I was able to somewhat break free from this grasp over me. I managed to sit up in bed, raised my right hand to the square, and spoke, “In the name of Jesus Christ and by the authority of the Melchizedek Priesthood, I command all evil spirits to depart and I place you under lock and key until after the Millennial Reign." As soon as I finished saying this a third time in a clear manner, I felt the presence completely leave, and I regained full control of my faculties.

Worried other evil presences might be in other parts of the house, I went to check on our 2-year old daughter, and then went to check on my wife. Our daughter was fine, and when I checked on my wife I actually nudged her awake to make sure she was okay. She was unintentionally startled more than I intended (she was having a bad dream), but when she came to she said she was fine after regaining some of her senses. I went back to bed wondering what would have invited such a spirit. I rededicated myself to God a week ago to live more closely to Him, so I was thinking maybe that was it. If anything this experience brings me closer to God as the very real spiritual battle between good and evil was unfolded so clearly before me (I was going to say before my eyes, but I had them shut the entire time lol).

All these events I described were so real I'm convinced it's not just a case a sleep paralysis unrelated to anything spiritual. I'm sure a lot of people would dismiss this encounter as nothing more than an event of sleep paralysis as explained by the medical community, but not me. It was much more real for me. I felt a palpable, negative force all around me. From the many other similar encounters I have read this morning, it seems Satan and his followers are still busy as they ever have been.  I believe these other encounters I'm reading when they attribute this negative presence to something more than just hallucinating upon waking up.

I've experienced episodes like this on-and-off throughout my life. They've always freaked me out somewhat, but it never occurred to me (until I started reading posts like this) to attribute them to "evil spirits". I dare say evil spirits do exist, but I tend to imagine them tempting people to crime, provoking anger, starting wars etc. .... not spooking out people in bed with silly tricks. But maybe that's just be the way my mind works.

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