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vkm91941:
Actually I believe alot of what we preceive as supernatural is actually preternatural(\pree-tuhr-NACH-uhr-uhl; -NACH-ruhl\, adjective:Beyond or outside ordinary experience; inexplicable by ordinary means) and is just outside our knowlege and ability to understand at this time.

David In Indy:
I still say what ever it was that attacked me that night was an evil spirit or a demon.

ednbarby:

--- Quote from: David925 on July 07, 2006, 03:07:15 am ---I still say what ever it was that attacked me that night was an evil spirit or a demon.
--- End quote ---

It's entirely possible.  I voted that I'm open to the possibility because I think anything is possible, and who am I to say what isn't?  Science hasn't isolated a gene or determined the trigger(s), so who knows?

Scott, my most recent experiences sound eerily similar to your mother's.  I have the sensation of some malevolent entity being in my room with me, staring at me (sometimes I remember a face, and it's male, but non-descript, and sometimes it's just a shadow or a sense that someone or something is there that shouldn't be) and the overwhelming desire to move - to get out of there.  It takes literally falling out of bed or running into something to jar me awake.  That's what's so freaky about it - the thought that I could really hurt myself or worse because of one of these episodes.  The ones earlier in my life were predominantly sleep-paralysis - I was definitely consciously trying to move and felt powerless to do so - it felt like my eyelids were weighted and glued down, and if I...could...just...get...them...open...  And once I did, everything was OK, and I'd fall immediately back to sleep.  Occasionally, the sensation would keep recurring over and over to the point that I would have to turn the light on, get up, and walk around before going back to sleep just to make it stop.

Fun times...  Like you, Scott, I'm knocking on wood but it hasn't happened now in about 2 years.

starboardlight:
sleep paralysis is actually quite common. when we sleep, normally what happens is the body sends out a chemical to paralyze the body, because when we dream, the brain actually sends out signal as if the body's awake. So when we dream about running, the brain actually thinks the body is running, and tells our leg muscles to move. The chemical keeps us from actually moving. With sleep walkers, this chemical is insufficient, and they actually get up and walk around as in their dreams. With night terror, we snap out of our dreams too suddenly, even though the paralyzing chemical is still at work, so our minds are awake but the body is still "asleep". So we feel that desperate struggle to move.

The times I've experience that, mine were just as scary but not in the supernatural way. I'd wake up feeling like I'm smothered under my pillow, and I have to struggle with my body just to move the pillow off me, or I'd die of suffocation.

Rayn:
There is far too much experience in this area to doubt completely and say, "Case closed."; so when it come to supernatural anything, I keep a clear mind, ask questions, listen carefully, apply a sense of reason to what I've heard, stay open to possibilities, make no commitments.

Rayn

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