The evil spirits are back

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As a kid I used to dream that evil spirits were coming up from the basement. I could feel them coming and would look at the closed door to the basement and start to run. Everything would switch to slow motion and the door would slowly swing open before my slowed legs could escape the kitchen. They (invisible) would get my legs and drag me down the stairs but I always would close my dream eyes and not see much at that point.

I had an episode of sleep paralysis once as a young adult where I imagined that something (an evil force, something bad) was approaching my bed. I felt like I was half-awake and trapped in sleep. At some point I managed to get my hand up and feel for the light switch but it wasnt there. I was dreaming that my hand was moving. It was the freakiest thing ever and I woke up in a sweat. Never had it again.

IIRC sleep paralysis stuff is where you feel somewhat awake and a force is coming to get you. It can be simulated in a lab by hitting the brain with something (electrodes? magnets? cant remember). They think this might be the source of "alien abduction" stories.

There's no need to argue about your religion, you guys, you all have your own beliefs.

I'm sure the spirits were all in my head, but they are now gone because of the Native American thing. Placebo effect or not, I can now sleep at night, and that's all that really matters.

This thread appears to have accomplished it's purpose, and I don't think it's the right place to argue about all this. If anyone still wants to argue about this, I'd be more than happy to join you and prove you wrong, but not here.

It's just your "memory" of them that is so scary. You just created them in your head the first time around which made them real.

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I've had some interesting experiences with this kind of thing; two years in a row working at a music festival held on an old prison farm, I was walking through a specific area as the sun went down and had an overwhelming feeling of dread and the sensation of being watched by something with very ill intent, from exactly the same spot in a field. I got the impression that horrible things had happened there.
I used to live near a lighthouse and used it as my safe place when things got too much at home, and had the same feeling whilst sitting on the rocks looking out into the ocean. That said, I was smoking pot at the time so I think I can put that one down to paranoia.
Working on a property in Northern New South Wales, Australia when I was 18, I had the strangest feeling of being watched by an indigenous Australian, ceremonially painted, from a break in the treeline. This was again as the sun was going down, and the only time I've ever had any physical sensation from one of these encounters. Something kept flicking past my ear, like I was being shot at with a pea shooter. It made no sound whatsoever, ie it wasn't a bug, and it was quite firm. After the third time I dropped tools and ran back to the house, where the owner laughed and explained that the Min Min (playful spirits,) come out around sundown and like to mess with white people trespassing on their land.

I am 90% sure that all of these experiences can be explained by physical/neurological means, but I'm still open to the idea that there are energies and forces out there which we simply can't measure with our primitive scientific means. To believe otherwise is foolish in my opinion.

I think my avatar might scare people but *shrug* to me, religion's superstition... But there's something significant to it otherwise it simply wouldn't exist.

As a child I used to have similar experiences, like I was being watched. After a while I got over it, I made the conclusion to myself that the supernatural doesn't exist and quite honestly I'm the most dangerous thing in the room.

I've read that night terrors like these can be caused by a sensitivity to salicylate acids. It could be caused by the foods you eat.

I counter SA's by using an epsom salt lotion on my skin to absorb the salts that allow the body to detox the acids out through urine.