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Originally posted by Johnkie
Hey SF, sleep paralysis is more commen then u think!
I dont fear paralysis anymore, i dont allow myself to be scared anymore. Its quite a nice change actually.
I keep telling myself im stronger then this, i wont allow them to scare me, and im not gonna waste my attention on them. As a result i kinda consider myself fearless today.
Originally posted by NarcolepticBuddha
reply to post by this_is_who_we_are
Now that you told me a bit about yourself, I suddenly see the courage and strength of Christopher Pike in that avatar! And I loved King of the Hill too haha! Hank Hill was a good man, I tell you what!
Originally posted by NarcolepticBuddha
Excellent post! I always love to hear other peoples' experiences with sleep paralysis.
I told one being, "Go ahead, I dare ya!" taunting it on. And it stuck a screwdriver in my..well, you get the idea. Even though it happens in the paralysis state, it still "feels" painful, doesn't it? You can still feel some kind of sensation that is attached to it--probably just because it's what our brain expects to feel while seeing the imagery.
The one that decided to chow down on my cranium--I tried to stay calm and say my usual mantra. But I almost lost that one and felt like crying. I felt so helpless. I started screaming that mantra with a trembling, inner voice. I almost lost my cool, but the paralysis didn't last much longer, thankfully.
Originally posted by NarcolepticBuddha
reply to post by sled735
Remember, our ancestors from time immemorial were probably scavenging hominids that chewed meat right off the bones of fallen prey.
Now, paranormal and ghosts and hauntings..honestly, that stuff scares me far more! I can't be harmed during sleep paralysis. From what I've heard, people can be physically and psychologically harmed during paranormal phenomena such as poltergeists etc.
Originally posted by CrimsonKnight13
Originally posted by NarcolepticBuddha
Well said--if slightly cryptic. It's really no accident that there were so many revered thunder/ lightning gods in ancient times; many of them sitting at the top of the pantheon such as Zeus (Greek) and Indra (Vedic Hindu). Then there are many, many others (Thor, for example, in the Norse mythos) all over the world. Thunder and lightning was a pretty important, powerful force of nature to a lot of cultures hmmm....I wonder if this could be some sort of metaphor for the human being and spiritual growth hmmm...
You may just be on to something with this "bundles of lightning" within us waiting to unbundle
Due to have strong sensitivity to energy, I generally associate the spiritual with the electricity & lightning. As humans, we have a very strong electromagnetic field that interacts with a lot of objects. Even pure spiritual entities tend to alter the atmosphere in rooms or weather itself. We can do so in the same sense the stronger we grow in spiritual power. My personal belief is that many of these gods were full of great spiritual power but due to lack of understanding of who or what they were, people decided to worship them in fear.
Here are my own associations with what I can sense about certain aspects of life.
Lightning - spiritual/astral. I sense this from people who have strong faith or spiritual "gravity". Does not imply "religiousness" but rather true believers in what they can do in the spirit. Any spiritual entity gives off the same feeling to me. I think a lot of people who experience the paranormal are of a much higher concentration & definitely attract attention of inter/intra/extra-dimensional entities due to it showing like a beacon from afar. Objects that have been imbued/cursed/blessed can have a positive or negative electrical energy. Someone that is highly sensitive to this can sense a good or bad zap (like static electricity but different) when such an object has been touched.
Fire - emotion/ether. When ever I have strong emotions, I can feel them emanating from my own body at varying levels of intensity. Anger will feel like hot fire. Excitement will feel like an electric fire (ties in with spiritual I suspect). Sadness will feel like cold fire (not sure how to describe any other way since it feels like fire that's polar opposite of anger). Joy will feel like sunlight shining from one's face & extending outwards. I'm not sure what certain spiritual beliefs cover but I found that emotional energy seems to really go strong through one's face but can also emanate from the hands & arms.
Water - sleep/dreams. Sometimes when I'm falling asleep, I feel like I'm sinking beneath waves of dreams. I don't have many lucid dreams, so my experience is limited in describing this more.
Overall, I suspect you have a high energy signature (lightning) & attracted the attention of the beings you saw.
Originally posted by LoneCloudHopper2
That is an interesting perspective! I have long felt that I am attracting things to me, almost as if by a magnetic pull. A lot of electronic devices act up around me. Street lights often turn off (sometimes on) when I walk near them, automatic doors sometimes don't work for me (forcing me to leap inside right behind someone as they enter, to avoid being squashed) and various devices (such as vacuum cleaners) have broken down the moment I touch them (and I do mean that literally (just picking it up or hitting a button.)
Your senses of this seem more acute than mine. It'd be interesting to see what you could pick up from me if we ever met in person. I'm not sure if you can pick things up from people online; it sounds like this is when you see them in physically. What you describe sensing in others is much like how I feel about myself.