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Supernatural / Unexplained phenomenas

Have you ever had something mystical or supernatural happen to you?

I don't know if what I experienced was real, or just my imagination. I was raised in a Christian home, never took drugs or even drank at all. But during my freshman year of college, I was browsing my school's library one lonely friday night, and I stumbled upon the occult section. Although I was raised a Christian, I enjoyed playing RPGs and reading fantasy books. The Occult, and Magic were fascinating areas of interest to me, so that night, I took out a satanic book dealing with black Magic, and for fun, so I thought, I made a small prayer to satan to show me if he was real. About three weeks after that night, I experienced terrifying "visions"; whether they were truly satanic, or just my imagination, I do not know to this day. My mind was flooded with flashes of horrifying images in my mind, like scenes you might find in a horror movie. And these attacks would not cease but would continue on terrifying me, and I heard scary voices, and screams, and moanings. I had thought at the time, I was looking into hell. I never take drugs so I cannot attribute this to any chemical reaction. I do have an active imagination but I couldn't stop or divert my mind away from these images. It was like an attack on my mind. Because of this, I could not sleep for I was terrified. I prayed to God to cast away these attacks if they were satanic. And the more I prayed, the more strongly these attacks came. Until finally, these visions vanished.

The next day, I lost all interest in the Occult, and learned to not mess around with satan or the occult. But for several weeks, I kept having terrifying visions, and each time I had these attacks, I prayed to God to cleanse my mind of these horrifying visions. Then finally, one night, I was sleeping on my bed in my dormitory room. My roommate was fast asleep. And I experienced what is now commonly described as sleep paralysis. I had never heard this term before, and it was only years later when I heard this term that I understood this was exactly what I had experienced. My mind was caught in a semi-conscious state, having awoken from sleep but not fully awake. And I saw a dark person sit on my chest, it's face sucking my breath. He had no detail that I could make out. He was shadowy, and dark. I could not move for the muscles of my body were paralyzed. And time seemed to slowed down. I could not breathe, and with each long second, I panicked. It was only by prayer that I was released from this paralysis and emerged fully into conscious state. But it was no dream because I remember vividly how I tried to scream my closed mouth to my roommate but could not.

Even as I type this, I feel chills go down my spine. The occult is not to be messed around with. Though I still sometimes read a fantasy book, I no longer have any interest in the Occult or satanic activities.

The above is 100% non-Fiction, and not exaggerated in any way.
 
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nope. still not a christian.


A friend of mine has sleep paralysis EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. The whole thing about sleep paralysis being satan sitting on your chest is just an old wives-tale from the middle ages (or earlier) and whatnot.

And to be honest... I envy you. Most people have to pay for something like that.
 
Please do not pm me ( Not directed at Cruelty ) about this subject matter.

Already one person has already creeped me out ( I know not intentionally ) but nevertheless, I really mean it when I say, I have ZERO interest in the Occult or satan. So please, do not offer to do anything for me such as speak to satan for me, or send any evil demons to my door. Maybe you are joking, but I am not joking.
 
god why would you say that? You realize how hard it was not to just post and say, "hey I talk to satan after school all the time you want me to ask him if he messed with you?" It's practically BEGGING someone to say it.

Also complete imagination trip, subconscious thing: repressed emotions, thoughts, whatever. Just because you can't 'will' something away doesn't mean it's not part of your mind.
 
Are you sure your roommate didn't make the brownies special, or spike the punch? :D

Seriously, it sounds like you were just freaked out from what you had read, so your mind decided to freak you out even more, by playing all of those images in your head(I'm no expert, obviously.)

The sleep paralysis was probably caused by your lack of sleep, from the "images".

I can't think of anything particularly strange ever happening to me, though.

I did have sleep paralysis once, but I didn't car, so I went back to sleep!
 
Andy6000;321313 said:
god why would you say that? You realize how hard it was not to just post and say, "hey I talk to satan after school all the time you want me to ask him if he messed with you?" It's practically BEGGING someone to say it.

Also complete imagination trip, subconscious thing: repressed emotions, thoughts, whatever. Just because you can't 'will' something away doesn't mean it's not part of your mind.

Because it's creeping me out that people tell me they believe me, and can speak to the dead. I don't want them to ask satan or the dead about my experiences.

That single PM was very creepy, and I know he didn't do it on purpose but I don't want anyone to pray to satan for me. I don't want to know. No way. So please, don't pray on my behalf, even jokingly.
 
Sleep Paralysis is common among many people. I can say with relative certainty that I personally experience it about 5/7 nights a week. Especially just as I am falling asleep before an important day, or as I am waking up to a day that I, other than work, have no reason to wake up for. I've never experienced images of satan, or figures drawing my breath away, although sometimes my dreams become much more vivid, and the visions of my dream overlap and coincide with what I am actually seeing while I am awake. It's actually a very neat experience, and lends itself to many of my story telling ideas and concepts.
 
This sounds like the common ouija phenomenon. Suspended belief or simply wanting too much tricks the mind. Oh my god, stop moving your hand - no it's not me I'm not moving my hand - ahhhh!.

A case of sleep paralysis - or a trillion other things - on top of a days amount of thought on a subject can really leave a lasting impression. I remember being sleep deprived and I kept working on my rmxp project in hopes of getting tired enough to sleep, I was at that point where my eyes wouldn't stay shut. Guess what? Big massive sleep walking case I was found at the computer, it was one funny momen, and the screen was full of random typing. I actually somehow managed to open up notepad.

I had a dream I was fighting off an evil demon and when I woke up I swore my feet were still on fire. I could feel the heat for several hours. The mind is the greatest hallucinative of them all.

EDIT:
As for speaking to the dead. . .
Hey, wanna buy the Brooklyn Bridge? I'll give you a good offer because you look like an honest man.

Seriously, even if they did all you simply have to do is ignore it. If saying "Satan" or saying how Satan talks to us was bad, then every Preacher, Pastor, Father, Priest - whatever you'd want to call the lot of 'em - would all be condemned to a life hauntings and trapped in a lock of hellfire and salt.
Saying something doesn't equal occurrence.
Superstition is bad luck.
 

Hero

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Meh, though I do believe in paranormal/supernatural things, there's also a limit to how much of it I believe.

My older brother used to have terrible nightmares back when he slept on my other older brother's bed. It happened so much that my mom had to resort to Shamanism to try and stop it. The nightmares eventually ended soon afterwards, but I think that's just a coincidence. I do however, believe that there are ghosts or spirits that can try to harm you though. What got me started was when my older brother got thrown on the floor from his bed.

My older brother was laying in bed for awhile and he said someone dressed in white came into his room while he was trying to sleep and wrestled him. After awhile, he got slammed on the ground and everyone in my family woke up from the loud noise and rushed to his room right away. At first, we thought it was a burglar or someone who broke in but no one entered nor left the house (No sign of broken glass nor opened windows on that night). Also, my brother said the person just disappeared after he got slammed.
 
I hear music and voices at night all the time ... But I think that just might be my paranoid delusions at play. :'O

Or rowdy neighbors.
 

Rare

Member

To be honest, the thread sounds like a cry for attention. Forgive my quick reaction to say that, but it's the first thing that came to my mind when I read some of the events described. :x

Your story does not match some of the affects of sleep paralysis and mental disturbance. 3 weeks later? Not buying that.

I made a small prayer to Satan to show me if he was real.

If you really were raised a Christian, why the fuck would you do that? Sorry, I'm not trying to troll here, but...that seems very hard to believe.

"Oh lookie! A Satan book! I've been raised and told a countless number of times he's real...but...I better just make sure!". Doesn't sound like something a Christian would do.

If these 'visions' were so vivid...why do you describe them as 'something out of a horror movie?'. It sounds like at the least your brain is feeding your imagination.

Nothing really hasn't happened to me in terms of being 'supernatural'...just occasional sounds I think I hear, or things I thought I saw. Again, it's just my mind.

Sort of off topic...I am so amazed at the capabilities of the brain. Like, for example, I remember staying up really late one night trying to memorize a passage from a Shakespeare play. I sat in bed, re-writing the lines over and over on a piece of paper(it helps to memorize, trust me) and eventually I kind of slowly fell asleep without noticing. The next morning, I had the lines scribbled, on my wall. I have no memory of it at all...it's very strange.

Also, sometimes I wake up singing a song in my head; it's always a random song too...like if you were to put your iPod on shuffle. Very very strange, but it's all the brain, and the human body.

Ps. Speaking of iPods and lyrics...if you put a song on loop and play it into your ears all night...the next morning the song will be memorized, or easier to memorize. Try it! It actually works.
 
>> I do that all the time Elias (The wake up singing random songs)

But yeah, I do belive in ghosts and stuff like that. About every house that i have lived in has been haunted. This house i am in now, Last year i used to sleep in the living room because the fireplace was in it and my room would get cold as crap and we had this qween sized fold out bed and i was laying there trying to go to sleep and it felt like something move the bed about an inch or two. The fireplace didnt turn on or anything. Another thing that happend in this house a long time ago is when i was laying on the living room couch (when i wasnt living here) and i thought i seen someone down the hallway and i look again and you can see like a huge mutated dude in the mirror walking twards you but he never makes it to the end. and it was only a black outline cutting off the light from the window.

In one house i was living in you could hear something running up and down the stairs, and this house was about a year old so i doubt it could be the wood creaking really quick. In the same house my mom was in her room and she went to pick up a movie (Spawn) and the Tv fell out of the entertainment center and landed ontop of her.
 
I'm not going to doubt your experiences, because they could as well had happened. I used to be very skeptical about the paranormal, and didn't believe much that had happened to people. That is until I had my own paranormal experience. I went to a local camp in my city, about 2 acres, when I was a kid. Really it was smack dab in the city, and was a day camp 3 times a year with an overnight on Thursdays. When I got older I became a high school volunteer, and became a Day Camp Aid (lame I know, but the ratio of guys to girls was 1 to 22 pretty good if you ask me). Three years past and I became pretty comfortable with the place, and became a youth director. As I was a youth director (senior year of highschool) I saw a young girl in a white dress just standing there. I was alone so no one else saw it, and I turned and looked again and she was gone. Instantly I assumed it was my eyes. Now I work for that camp (though they dont just do camp anymore, I work at a school for them) and I talked to a couple of people about my experience and they told me that someone else they knew had the same experience at this camp. After asking a few people without telling them they all claim to have seen the same girl as me. I now am a firm believer of ghosts and such. Though my experience was not at all that big it was enough to make my mind up.
 
iCheeze;322414 said:
But yeah, I do belive in ghosts and stuff like that. About every house that i have lived in has been haunted. This house i am in now, Last year i used to sleep in the living room because the fireplace was in it and my room would get cold as crap and we had this qween sized fold out bed and i was laying there trying to go to sleep and it felt like something move the bed about an inch or two. The fireplace didnt turn on or anything.
My bed shakes all the time. It gets amazingly cold as well, and there's a strange sound of breathing. It's my radiator being old, probably with a rusted clog, and shaking my pipes out. The paranoia as a child of "WHAT THE HELLS?!" made me see an old woman with a melted face.

iCheeze;322414 said:
In one house i was living in you could hear something running up and down the stairs, and this house was about a year old so i doubt it could be the wood creaking really quick. In the same house my mom was in her room and she went to pick up a movie (Spawn) and the Tv fell out of the entertainment center and landed ontop of her.
House settling. A house that was just built, or one that is starting to sink (like mine) will creak as it settles in the ground, especially if it has a basement and an attic, or merely a basement. The swelling in the earth by the cement after rain or cold weather causes it. And wood does creak no matter how new a house is, because of the weather and humidity factors. Both could explain a TV falling, so could a barely noticed clumsy moment one doesn't even realized they had.

As for running sounds, yep. I have them too. Well, had. We set mouse traps and caught a few, a rat, and almost a cat.

I didn't quote the mutated guy, but reflections can cause this. My friends house had a problem where they thought there was a cat in their house because they had this weird mirror alignment issue with the window. They also had an infestation so... ends up playing around we found out it was when the cars drove by at a certain angle shot threw and made it look like a cat was running threw the porch. Damn bushes.

Point is the most common things in the world cause paranoia or sightings. Our mind is hard wired for it, we see faces in grains of wood and dogs in clouds. We are a species that survived by our imagination, and our brains put shapes and sounds together as recognition. When we can't do it, the only logical answer is the the next best thing to reason. Imagination.
 
sleep paralysis is somewhat common, I've had it like 3 times now, and it's frankly terrifying, the first time I had it I was heading home form a friend's place who had been talking to me about ghosts and that he could sleep because of them, that night at about 5 am I woke up, feeling very scared for no reason at all (that had happened to me before) and I just felt there was someone at my door, again, that feeling had happened to me before, and usualyl just dind't look, until the fear was gone, then I looked t my door and nothing was there... but this time I decided to look at the door while still being afraid, to my horror, i saw a very definded shadow just standing in my door, I tried to scream and move, and then I realized I was paralized, I couldn't believe it, all I could do is move my eyes, and open or close them, I tried to close them hoping that it would go away, but then I started feeling it coming near my bed, I could even hear its breath, I don't think I've ever felt more scared in my whole life... I opened my eyes, and I saw the shadow standing right next to my bed, breathing loudly, I closed my eyes again and tried to scream my lungs out, and after a few secs I managed to make a small sound, and suddenly the paralysis went away. I was sweating, and still couldn't believe what had happened... I slept the rest of the night with the lights on.
The next week, just 7 days after, and almost exaclt the same hour, it happened again, ( I won't tell the same story twice) I got even more scared because it had been at the same time, and I was starting to think that it wasn't just my mind...
then I found out about sleep paralysis and the fear went away, I had lots and lots of dreams about it, not so terrifying though...
and like 2-3 years later, it happened again, the fear, the person at my door, only this time I could see it was a woman, with somewhat long hair, and not happy with that, she jumped from my front door over me, her face just in front of mine, staring at me, I knew that it was my mind playing tricks, but the fear was too big and I couldn't get to open my eyes and stare back to make it go away, once again a few secs later it all went away...
I know it's just my mind playing tricks, but I know that if it happens again, I'll probably get as scared as the other times...
 
Supernatural and paranormal are overused words that have no meaning. If it's not natural or normal then what is it? Is a computer supernatural because it's man made? Or is wearing clothes paranormal because it's not what's supposed to happen (naturally)?

The black shadowy thing you saw is common, and usually occurs with sleep paralysis. I believe it's called the Hag. It's when the mind sees that the room is dark, and then tries to make sense of what's around it. You know what is in your room so you "see" that, but you don't really know what everything in there's like at that time, so it is filled out with shadows and emptiness which your mind tries to then explain, and all it can think of in your dream-like state is that it must be some form of being.

I keep thinking there's a weird mad freakish maniac in my room when I look round and see a mirror. Then I realise there is. :)

As for it being religious, believe what you will, but I personally don't think that has anything to do with it at all. Sleep paralysis / the hag, are just natural sleep phenomina (do do do do do), like wet dreams.
 
i get sleep paralysis a lot, at first i thought i was going insane,seeing faceless people in my room, blinkking and it dissapearing but then i found out what it was and stopped worrying.
 
Cruelty;322492 said:
How fucking tall is your tv stand?! o__O


xD Not really that tall

sixtyandaquarter;322503 said:
I didn't quote the mutated guy, but reflections can cause this. My friends house had a problem where they thought there was a cat in their house because they had this weird mirror alignment issue with the window. They also had an infestation so... ends up playing around we found out it was when the cars drove by at a certain angle shot threw and made it look like a cat was running threw the porch. Damn bushes.

Point is the most common things in the world cause paranoia or sightings. Our mind is hard wired for it, we see faces in grains of wood and dogs in clouds. We are a species that survived by our imagination, and our brains put shapes and sounds together as recognition. When we can't do it, the only logical answer is the the next best thing to reason. Imagination.

We live out in the middle of nowhere, not very many cars come by. I know about Matrixing and that stuff, but it wouldnt cause him to Continue walking for a long time And i doubt a rat is going to make huge shadows of a dude walking down a hallway.
 

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