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First Experience with sleep paralysis...terrifying

by James Zamora
(Miami, Florida )

I was having a normal dream and I was talking to someone, I'm not sure who, but I said something about a little girl who's name was Monica but then I realized her name also could have been Michelle. I don't know if it happened immediately or a few minutes after but as I lay belly down, my eyes suddenly opened and were staring to the left side of me without moving, just staring.


My body felt cold and as if it were vibrating to a certain frequency that I could also hear. It sounded like a loud alarm that you could hear with your entire body. Then all at once I heard a voice of a little girl whispering "Monica" extremely loud over and over overtaking my entire body and I couldn't do anything about it.

I tried moving to get out of bed, I tried screaming because of how terrifying this was, but all I could physically do was stare to that one spot to my left. I would say this lasted for about a few seconds, but definitely the scariest seconds of my life.

I found out the medical term for this is 'sleep paralysis' and it is related OBE's and astral projections, which I have tried accomplishing in the past but failed. This was the first time I ever experience this in any way and I was completely unaware that I could of had an OBE. This used to happen quite frequently to my dad in his younger years which is why I decided to write this down so I would never forget.

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Mar 22, 2014
 what to escape NEW
by: Anonymous

I don't dream of demons,it is people I know. Crazy things like someone in their family dieing. Some are I'm running or trying to hide from people, I'm in a car chase. But most of mine are crazy. I want to wake up but I can't. My mom always called them sleepy spells. I don't have them often but when I do it's all night and all day. Thats too abnormal. Don't know what to do.how can you escape it?geno
Mar 22, 2014
 what to escape NEW
by: Anonymous

I don't dream of demons,it is people I know. Crazy things like someone in their family dieing. Some are I'm running or trying to hide from people, I'm in a car chase. But most of mine are crazy. I want to wake up but I can't. My mom always called them sleepy spells. I don't have them often but when I do it's all night and all day. Thats too abnormal. Don't know what to do.how can you escape it?geno
May 24, 2015
 Always sleep with pillow magnetic south to cure yourself of monsters NEW
by: Anonymous

Your sleep posture is making you vulnerable to nefarious entities!

What direction is your pillow/headboard of your bed facing?

I suspect you may be sleeping with the top of your head facing magnetic north or equally bad magnetic west. Magnetic north is called the "death position" because coffins are buried facing north and if you sleep north ghosts appear in your life, says the folklore.

The people of Bali say "sleeping magnetic west means you will have no love, everyone will hate you and you will experience violence" I paraphrased but Google search "Balinese sleep north"

Many cultures recommended that you sleep with the top of your head facing magnetic south and feet facing magnetic north. An alternate position is your head facing magnetic east and feet facing magnetic west. Use an electronic compass, it has to be exactly south, any deviation such as south west of south east makes you open to nefarious entities.

Never sleep with head facing magnetic north cuz you are guaranteed to see ghosts and have nightmares.

Also never ever sleep on your back. Sleeping on the back is the posture of the corpse in a coffin and "vastu" says sleeping on the back ruins the brain. Try to sleep on the left side of your body always to get wealthy. Sleep on the right side is ok but not best and monsters probably attacked you while you slept on the right side of your body of slept on your back. Sleeping on left side is best and you get rich wealthy. Never sleep on the stomach you suffocate, sudden infant death syndrome.

I recommend you read this website, it explains the significance of monsters in sleep. www.revelatorium.com/starrgram19.html

Also Google search "vastu sleep direction" and search also "sleep facing south" to get more information. Sleeping facing south makes you wealthy and healthy, sleeping east makes you intelligent but not wealthy so east is for children still attending school.

The information I wrote was for the northern hemisphere, I dont know about sleep position for the southern hemisphere of earth.

Also, what is your blood type? If you are blood type Rhesus Negative (Rh negative) then this website might be informative

http://www.rhnegativeregistry.com/Rh_Negative_Connection_Forum_Theory_Myth_Facts_Fun.html?fb_9667099_anch=12699366


Best of luck! Feel free to Pass this information on to non-demonic people.

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