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Originally posted by ThinkingCap
reply to post by The Magicians Apprentice
Would you say it's skin was smooth, or rough similar to an avocado?
Originally posted by Spacespider
reply to post by The Magicians Apprentice
Do this as quickly as possible :
* Set up cameras in your house
one in bedroom and one outside pointing up at skies.
save all the DATA on disks, even the DATA where you think nothing is happening
* Get a voice recorder, and set it to record every night you go to bed, and listen to it on your computer next day (Repeat)
* get sensor alarms in your house ( turn them on when you go to bed )
Have this system running for the next year and report back to ATS with your findings
It even gives you a sense of protection having this installed, and perhaps it will keep the entities at bay
time will tell
good luck
This is not a new condition. Sleep paralysis has existed in folklore from many different cultures for centuries - perhaps millennia.
Sleep Paralysis and Lucid DreamsIn Japan, they call it "kanashibar". In Newfoundland, it's known as "the old hag" who visits you in the night. In China, they know it as "ghost oppression". Even artists have depicted this ghoulish night-time disorder: see The Nightmare by John Henry Fuseli.
It's no surprise that native folklore shapes the nature of sleep paralysis hallucinations. In America, it was only after flying saucers were popularized that people reported vivid alien abduction experiences, where aliens paralyzed and probed them in their bed at night.
In Mexico, more than 90% of teenagers know the phrase "a dead body climbed on top of me" to describe the nightmare entity. And in African culture, it's known as "the devil riding your back" where demons have sex with people in their sleep.
This all tells us that sleep paralysis is a common human condition, and the hallucinations can be shaped and molded based on your expectations.
If It's Just a Dream - Why So Real?
If sleep paralysis is just a dream, then why does it feel so real?
Some of the effects ARE real. This state is a very clever merger of waking consciousness with the dream world. It's a bizarre mind trick.
For instance, footsteps thumping towards the bed are often a distortion of the sound of your own heartbeat, pounding in your chest due to all the adrenaline. Hearing your assailant breathing unnaturally is common too - thought to be the sound of your own gasps for breath in this panicked state.
The feeling of your body being paralyzed is real, too. Releasing yourself from the grip of the paralysis is one way to end this terrifying situation (see below).
However, the perceived difficulty to breathe properly is what causes many people to imagine an entity trying to harm them (by stopping them breathing or crushing their chest). It's important to remember here that the effect is psychosomatic.
Thankfully, the evil entities are not real. But for chronic sufferers, this is not always easy to accept. People write to me describing their episodes, believing they have genuinely encountered beings from another realm. Even after learning about the true nature of sleep paralysis and the gateway to lucid dreams, some people remain convinced that this state is really a gateway to hellish dimensions.
Originally posted by NotThat
reply to post by The Magicians Apprentice
I have heard that some aliens "feed" off of strong emotions. Perhaps his fear was meant to set off your fear.
Originally posted by Druscilla
reply to post by The Magicians Apprentice
What you describe is typical Sleep Paralysis.
You can read my own experience with sleep paralysis HERE among feedback from others.
You can also ATS search "sleep paralysis" and find a number of accounts describing seeing 'beings', or feeling a presence.
The buzzing, paralysis, and fear are very common elements to sleep paralysis.
Additionally, there's this interesting paper you may want to read:
Transcultural Psychiatry - Sleep Paralysis, Sexual Abuse, and Space Alien Abduction
You can, of course, ignore the body of material that's examined this phenomenon in favor of a more magical explanation, but, to each their own.