reply to post by Alienslayer
Alienslayer I sympathize. I am 45 at the moment. I was haunted by a Shadow Demon (at least that is the name of the phenomena I gave it over a period
of time) for over a decade of my life. It started when I was 15 and ended when I was 32. To save space I will not relate all the incidents, but the
first time I was lying in bed at my parent’s house, looking towards the closet by my bed. I could hear my father clicking through channels on the
television, when all of a sudden I was overcome with the sensation of not being able to move, this quickly made me want to cry out for help but when I
tried no sound came from my mouth. Over the course of the next decade this same incident would occur at random times, the most horrific times is when
I was on my back with my eyes closed, I could feel the presence of this dark force just inches from my face. I finally grew to where my fear grew to a
type of anger; I started sleeping with a Bible either at my bedside or below my pillow. The first triumph I had was when I forced my muscles to
overcome the parallelization, while reaching for my Bible beside my bed, as soon as my fingers touched it, I was released, left completely awake and
in sweat but the entity was gone. This gave me hope and courage. After repeated on and off occurrences throughout my 20s and early 30s, I finally
become under the conviction, the next time it would happen I would face the Shadow Demon. I will never forget that night. I was lying on my back, when
suddenly I felt the presence of the Shadow Demon start pressing down on my back. I immediately turned in bed, and then I saw it, it appeared to be a
Shadow in a shape of a wolf on my wall, it had a long snout with two pointed what appeared to be ears or horns, its eyes were white. The funny thing I
still do not remember exactly the words I said, I know they were not exactly these words, but they had the same type of power and meaning, I had said
something like the power of Christ compels you and you have no power over me, and be gone. Ever since then I have not been bothered by this phenomena,
except for one time, during a time of personal depression, when this occurred I did pretty much the same thing, with the same result. What amazes me,
is both times I expelled it, for the life of me I still can’t remember what I said, but I remember what I felt, it was as if I wasn’t alone in my
heart in expelling this evil entity.
Alienslayer I believe many people here have given you some good ideas. I think having pets is a good idea, I am an academic historian, and there are
many instances in history where people believed cat's extra-sense seems to frighten off evil spirits, maybe it is they don’t like to be seen, and
cats with their acute senses can see them, who knows, there has been many times late at night my cat will run to a door, window or even a place in the
house acting like he can see something, I always tell him he is a good cat, and entertain the possibility that maybe he really is seeing something,
and exclaim something like this, we can see you, you are not wanted or invited here, be gone or anything remotely like this. I think I read another
person say to show no fear, I think this is good advice also, they seem to feed off fear. Most importantly remember this is our reality not theirs,
believe me if they (the evil ones) had the power not to hid in the shadows and use secret and deceiving techniques of power over us, they probably
would, this is no doubt why they hide, they are weaker than us, always remember all you need is the courage to confront them, and then you will scare
the dickens out of them!
[edit on 8-8-2010 by AmosGraber]