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I Couldn't Move Or Yell And I Saw A Black Figure Beside Me

by Kaelon
(Kenel, SD)

Well when I was sleeping in my room I woke up at 3:00 in the morning and my room was dark and all that was on was my TV and I was sleeping then I soon woke up and I couldn't move I couldn't yell.


Then I looked next to me and there was a black figure or I think there was a black figure and I thought someone was in the room with me watching me so I tried to reach for my lamp but I couldn't move anything. Then I tried yelling and I was yelling but it wasn't so loud it was really really quiet and then I didn't know what to do I just laid there. Soon the black figure that was sitting next to me was coming toward me then all of a sudden I woke up the next morning...

And if this was a dream I couldn't have remembered, so I now know this was real and wasn't a dream.

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Oct 27, 2014
 Hallucinations
by: Kevin

Hi Kaelon, Thanks for sharing your story. Because sleep paralysis is caused by REM sleep, the stage of sleep we dream in, many people experience dream imagery during episodes of sleep paralysis. This imagery is also called hypnopompic hallucinations. Because sleep paralysis often occurs with our eyes open, this dream imagery can be projected into the actual room around us, often in the form of something very frightening.

If you would like some tips on how to deal with sleep paralysis, check out Ryan Hurd's book on the subject on our Sleep Paralysis Treatment page.
Nov 23, 2014
 same NEW
by: Anonymous

The exact smart thing happens to me once every 3 weeks a black figure appears at the side of my bed starring at me sometime I get the feeling it's laughing at me . At sometimes I can feel the anger and tension it has towards me. It happens every time that I pray so I stopped praying Idk what it means
Nov 26, 2014
 I Couldn't Move Or Yell And I Saw A Black Figure Beside Me NEW
by: Eric

I been having kinda the same dream, can't move or talk and see a black figure but not sure if I can see it but I can feel its presence.. And its not one time a week or so, I been getting these 3-4 times a week and its really getting frustrating.
Dec 03, 2014
 My story NEW
by: Anonymous

I had a vision like that but it was a lot more vivid and the action of the black figure was more detailed it came over to my bed bent over the bed face to face with me and screamed in my face I prayed then it all went away. The black figure was about 7 feet tall had dark red eyes and fang like teeth it was horrifying
Dec 19, 2014
 Black Figure NEW
by: Divine

Same thing happened to me but it spoke to me saying my real name and he is always with me!
Apr 01, 2015
 PRAY!! NEW
by: Anonymous

Please pray people! The things you are seeing are not "dreams". They are really happening, When you dream, and wake up from a dream, it is impossible to remember everything in that dream but in these visions you remember everything. I hate to say it but the "7ft, dark shadow" you are seeing is a demon trying to take you away (aka kill you) you wake up before it can do anything because God or an angel helps you wake up, trust me. Pray everyday. Pray for any forgiveness from sins you have committed. PRAY! Please don't let it get worse. I had a friend who had these visions and after a while he kept brushing them off like it was nothing, then one day the police found him in his room above his bed hung to death and he was never that kind of person.
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.
Nov 18, 2015
 any ideas NEW
by: Andrew

Last week i woke up and at the end of my bed was a tall dark figure and you could not see his face was all dark , it looked like he had a cloak on and the cloak was over his head , to which when i woke up all the breath was removed out of my body , i suppose i classed it some ones last breath and also my body i had no control over , well thats what happened to me and i would like any ideas , thanks.
Jan 21, 2016
 same NEW
by: Anonymous

I had a dream like this but i walked in my room in my dream and saw a tall dark figure standing there I couldn't move, run, or scream I was being forced to see him and I can't really remember what he was saying I couldn't understand but then I ran to the door but then the dark figure and a women put me on my knees and they did witchcraft on me and everything went black and took me to hell when I woke up I couldn't breathe well and I was running to my moms room in tears with bruises on my body and I fainted
Mar 09, 2016
 What the fuck NEW
by: Konner

This shit wasn't sleep paralysis i had the same fucking thing happen to me it started with my door opening and closing then i saw one at the end of my bed it was tall and realllly dark dark and it looked to have a cloke. That was the first time second time i woke up to 2 of them at the end of my bed and i felt uneasy but for skme reason calm and some words in my head kept telling me to not show fear so i turned over and went to sleep the third time i had it next to my face utter darkness was by my face i saw blacksholders and afull head but no eyes or anything i just looked into it and tried to yell but all i felt was just a numb tingle down my spine i actually closed my eyes then woke up the next day wondering wtf happend and then i moved out of that house and it hasn't happened sense
Mar 23, 2016
 Dreams NEW
by: Anonymous

Last night I woke up after 1 am and couldn't get back to sleep long after. My dream was shutting g louvres and when I moved to shut the other louvres the same ones i shut suddenly opened so i went to the window and this black figur jump at me to scare me I jumped back then as I was going to close this black hand was reaching again to close louvers. Then I woke up.what does that mean
Mar 25, 2016
 black shadow of a man NEW
by: shirley

Hi im 41 now but bk when i was seventine the same thing happened to me, i woke up early in the morning while still dark an was unable to move or yell out as i looked across i could see a tall black figure with what looked like a old style hat i tried to shout out tomy mum but nothing came out all i remember after that wad fallin bk asleep thenwakin up the next day fine but confused.
Mar 25, 2016
 black shadow of a man NEW
by: shirley

Hi im 41 now but bk when i was seventine the same thing happened to me, i woke up early in the morning while still dark an was unable to move or yell out as i looked across i could see a tall black figure with what looked like a old style hat i tried to shout out tomy mum but nothing came out all i remember after that wad fallin bk asleep thenwakin up the next day fine but confused.
May 01, 2016
 sleep paralysis and black figure NEW
by: Anonymous

Every time l have this experience...l fight it by calling Jesus. It disappears immediately. Try it.
You may struggle to say the name but fight to say it. The black figure does not want you to pray. Its evil. Please try it.
Just say ...Jesus...l am covered with the blood of Jesus. It will go.
May 01, 2016
 sleep paralysis and black figure NEW
by: Anonymous

Every time l have this experience...l fight it by calling Jesus. It disappears immediately. Try it.
You may struggle to say the name but fight to say it. The black figure does not want you to pray. Its evil. Please try it.
Just say ...Jesus...l am covered with the blood of Jesus. It will go.
May 02, 2016
 It keeps visiting me too NEW
by: Anonymous

The shadow person keeps visiting me. I keep trying to get out of bed and kill it, but by the time I get up that shadow man is gone. Someday soon I will catch him in my grasp and when that day comes he will stop stalking me forever.
May 22, 2016
 First experience NEW
by: Anonymous

I am so glad I am not alone!! This just happened me today so I ran to the Internet to try and find out what this means. It happened at 8:00am right after my sister left to work. I was laying on my side facing my wall when all of a sudden i feel someone sitting on my bed. I thought it was my sister but she had just left. I felt the pressure on my bed & as soon as I want to turn around and see I felt a heavy feeling on my side, I couldn't get up. My mom walked passed my room and I tried screaming her name. The pressure kept getting harder & harder. I heard so much wind passing by my ears. Like how you feel while driving on the highway with the windows down. All of a sudden I open my eyes and I saw a black cloak floating next to me bed. Didn't see the eyes since I was laying on my side. I closed and opened my eyes and there it was. 5 seconds later I was able to scream my moms name. Worst experience of my life.
Jun 01, 2016
 Similar but different NEW
by: Anonymous

I had something similar happen to me but my experience was a little different. I was going to sleep on my bed facing my wall and it felt like I was only sleeping for like two two minutes but then I was in a dream or something I felt like something was staring at me so I turned to the other side of my bed and I saw this big shadow looking guy and for some reason I was scared and then I woke up taking in a bunch of air like I was holding my breath for a long time it was scary because it felt real and I dident know what it was.
Jun 06, 2016
 The real world NEW
by: Kevin Hall

Honestly if you think science can solve this your wrong. My friend said she had woken up 3 days in a route and felt someone or something was choking her, so i went to her house. I've been shot 10 times so I'm not scared and don't believe her I fall asleep in her bed mind you it's 10 am I wake up not reminding my dream but I open my eyes a little and I see this cloud so I close my eyes not thinking anything. I think to myself the suns out and her curtains are all open. I open my eyes and the shadow expands then falls on me. This wasn't about rem sleep. Cause the cat she had came in and starting hissing and meowing crazy loud. I couldn'tcouldn't yell and her kids are in the next room. I live in Rhode Island and I live in a world of of angels and demons. God is real and if you don't believe you better start fuck science what y'all are experiencing is real and your awake. Goggle look stuff up cause sunday June 5 2016 change how i look at things. Thanks for your time
Jun 30, 2016
 Evil shadows NEW
by: Anonymous

I had the same thing happen to me . My grandmothers house was very haunted . I used to live with her for a bit while I was in college . I was sleeping one time and all of a sudden I woke up and couldn't move . I had so much pressure on my chest I thought I was going to go right through the bed . I was trying to yell for my grandmother , I could barely squeak out help. I saw a very large shadow figure at the end of my bed . I started praying , reciting the our father and it stopped . I turned over to look at my alarm clock and it was 3am . As I was turned over , It felt like someone was sitting on me. I again recited the our father and it stopped . Scared the shit out of me . Over the years I've done lots of research on what it is . I never will believe it's sleep paralysis .
Whatever it is , it's very evil and could kill you !
Jul 05, 2016
 help NEW
by: Anonymous

Doctors tell me i have night terrors. They say my "dreams are not real". How are they not real when i wake up with bruises, and scrapes? Every night they come, and take me away... where too i don't know. All i know is it makes me mad to see people suffering, and being told ,"its just a dream".
Jul 15, 2016
 Terrible experience NEW
by: Anonymous

I had the same dream happen to me.. It was very short I woke up, couldn't move and I saw the black figure at the end of my bed. I closed my eyes and I guess fell back asleep though I was terrified. The next morning I turned to the Internet and was relieved to find out that it's just the figures we see because we're in "REM" sleep or whatever...

Yeah, fine.. Okay. Makes sense, right? Of course, science.

Well get this.. A few nights after that experience , it happened again. I woke up , looked at the clock and it was 3am.. Or around that time.. I fell back asleep and I think I woke up shortly after, I couldn't move.. The figure was right next to me on my left side just standing there, completely still. Cloaked and all.. It felt cold and i really felt like I was dying. The fact that I could not move is what got me the most.. Here's the thing though, my dog, who was sleeping at the foot of my bed, was looking right at the figure too, growling and about to bay at it (he's a hound dog so he bays at unknown figures or animals.) This experience went on for what seems like forever and I don't remember how I fell asleep again.. When I woke up my dog was awake and he was just staring at me in the same place.. He's usually still asleep when I wake up..

One dog in my house is always looking around like he's following something through the house.. His eyes move from the window, to the air vents , to the fan, to the corner and back. And when you ask him what he's seeing he wags his tail in a nervous way .. He's a very nervous dog and randomly he gets scared and goes to hide out in the closet.

I'm wondering if this has anything to do with this shadow guy.. I'm scared to sleep.. I don't want to see him again. This happened a couple nights ago and I haven't slept since. I can't believe this could really be a demon.
Aug 20, 2016
 Dark human figure with white bright eye sockets NEW
by: Calling on God

About 12yrs ago, I was baptized and saved. I started living for God. Meaning, I stopped, cursing, fornicating, going to clubs, taking care of myself. Every morning, I read the Bible before doing anything else.I prayed like 10 times daily. I feel my relationship with the Lord was awesome. One night I fell asleep on the couch one night. I woke up,but was paralyzed. I began to hear loud footsteps and chains coming towards me, but didn't see anything. Then a tall black human like figure appeared before me standing over me. It had my uncle's voice. It called me by my name and started reaching it's hands out at me saying, "you think he can't get your soul!!" I could do anything but bite at it with my mouth.it laughed at me. I called on Jesus Christ and plead the blood of Jesus. It sat down on the other couch, but continued to laugh. Eventually it disappeared and I woke up. I was terrified and scared that I wasn't strong enough to continue to be an obedient Christian. I was afraid to see that black figure again. I began to live like I did before I was saved. I truly regret letting that black figure scare me.
Aug 26, 2016
 Same NEW
by: Anonymous

You know I was watching something on television and a man told his mom about the same experience and she told him it was death coming for him not too long after he was shot and killed. When I was 17 I lived at my moms house and I woke up around 2 something in the morning to a large black shadow in the door way. I thought at first it was my older brother bumping my bed so I told him to quit well then it came to my ear almost laughing and whispering I looked at the clock again and couldn't move I was so scared. I told my mom and brother and my brother said he never wanted to say anything but he had the same thing happen but it was at the basement door and my mom said she woke up one night with something sitting on her back. I do believe demons are out there waiting to take our souls i know my faith in God is what keeps them at bay but I'm so glad to know ppl other than my family goes through what I went through! I was wide awake and remember every detail 9 years later l, so no way it was a dream.
Sep 26, 2016
 dark shadow NEW
by: Anonymous

this just happened to me this morning i felt someone walking over me on the bed i thought it was my wife getting up to go toilet as our bed is hard up on one side on the wall but when i opened my eyes a tall dark figure was stepping over me off the bed i closed my eyes and reopened them to this figure standing right beside me my whole body was paralysed i wanted to get up and defend myself but no chance i had no feeling in my body my lips were trembling and this thing made some sort of resonating sound in my ears it must have knocked me out and i woke up confused, this shit is real scientists saying its sleep paralysis are idiots this was as real as real gets.
Sep 28, 2016
 sleep paralysis NEW
by: alan

sleep paralysis is happening to me now a black shadow figure came flyin through the window and lay on top of me last nite couldnt move for a few seconds...mad
Oct 01, 2016
 True Story I'm so happy I'm not alone. NEW
by: Robio Patton

When I was 6 years old I shared rooms with my sisters, they had bunk beds and I had a mattress on the floor. One night around 12pm I couldn't sleep I looked over at my sisters and they was sleep then I glanced over at my plastic basketball hoop that was in the corner near the door it was a black figure in the corner under the basketball hood standing there. I was so scared I didn't want to blank so I held my eyes open as long as I could but as soon as I blank it appeared closer, after like 10 blacks it was standing right above me. I thought to myself if I blank again it's going to get me but as soon as I blanked my mothers boyfriend walked in the bathroom and turned on the light and it disappeared, that was the last time I seen it until I turned 16. I was living with my auntie I was sharing rooms with my female cousin and one night she stayed a night over her friend house so I slept in the room by myself and when I was sleep I felt sum thing standing above me I opened my eyes JUST ALIL and there it was again on the side of my bed standing above me but the more I opened my eyes the more it disappeared. When I turned 19 I was incarcerated and my celly was huge on the bibble, at that time I already joined a gang and was very active in the streets, well he use to write songs 23 on the wall it was like sum thing out the bibble and he use to tell me on the 23rd day I'm going home and on the 23rd day he went home. Our beds was across from each other and his bed had no light going into it so when he left I moved my things out of my bed into his and one night I was sleep I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't move but my eyes was open starring right at the wall with all the bibble quotes and I started hearing voices asking me do I woman go to hell or heaven OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN then I woke up. When I turned 26 I committed a sin so horrible I don't think god could 4give me. Then one day I was sleeping 3 weeks after I committed that sin and woke up and seen the dark figure standing in my door...I woke up and thought about my age of when it appeared 6, 16 and 26 = 666 and it scared the fuck out of me.
Oct 03, 2016
 Sleep issues NEW
by: Rose

Hey, I know how you feel and what you're going through. Last summer I experienced a quite harsh day. One night when I went to sleep, I encountered sleep paralysis. While I was sleeping there was dark figure (woman) right next to me. She talk, just stared with an angry face. As everyone says, you can't move at all nor try to speak very well, but what I went through was scary in my opinion. Demons are real and bad things do happen....pray. I have had other experiences while being awake,but just pray. I'll help.
Oct 11, 2016
 Dark shadows figures NEW
by: Anonymous

my first experience happened when I was 13 this is Shadow like figure came into my room all I could see was two white eyes and warm breath on the back of my neck I couldn't move I couldn't scream when I finally came out of it I jumped up and ran to tell my grandmother that someone was in my room. she got up and such the wrong with it was no one there and all of the doors was locked. the next experience I had with this when I was in adulthood this time it was 3 dark shadow figures two small ones and one big one the big one stood about 7 feet tall I was sleep or I thought I was sleep and I open my eyes when the two smaller figures pins down my legs and arms I can't move I'm screaming but nothing comes out. The bigger one straddled my body putting pressure on my chest I can feel sweat running down my face as he began to choke me and just as I'm about to pass out I wake up.
Nov 09, 2016
 I didn't know this happened to other people too. NEW
by: Anonymous

I thought i was the only one who experienced this. I decided since it happened again last night to goole it. I cant believe everyones story is exactly the same. Except for the person who saw fags and teeth. Its only happened to me so far 3 times this year. Sometimes the dark shadow comes from the ground somes the walls or from the ceiling most times its just above me. The feeling it puts in my body is is unexplainable. I cant control my body movements successfully or even speak. Its gone on longer than i can remember. It used to scream a horrific sound when i was a child. The name Jesus works but its so hard to get it out. I dont understand its purpouse, what ever it is. Yeah i can understand sleep paralysis, because i can't move and it happens during sleep time but what is that black thing. I dont have to even look at it to feel it. I also niticed the dimmer the light is in the room the more transparent it is. The brighter the room, the darker it gets.
Nov 12, 2016
 I had a dream that I was watching myself dream of two dark shadow figures in my room... NEW
by: Anonymous

I watched myself sit up in bed and I saw two dark shadow figures in my right peripheral. One came right up to the left side of me and bent down to draw closer to my face. Its then I started yelling, or thought I was, anyway. I woke immediately.

If anyone knows what could've been going on, please let me know. It just happened this morning at around 0600am.
Nov 13, 2016
 White figure NEW
by: Anonymous

What does it mean when you see a white figufigure?it happened to me last night. I was sleeping on the couch and when I opened my eyes I see a white figure I was unable to move or speak. In my head I screamed get out and the presence and the feeling went away
Nov 15, 2016
 There is a war . . . NEW
by: Joshua

So I had a couple of dreams that fit together really well with these stories.

I have had several encounters with the paranormal; however, this particular incident occurred about 2 years back.

This house has no concrete haunting incidents; however, during this time I had gotten some complaints from guests about this particular room in question. The complaints ranged from noise, to just uneasy feelings, aka - "the creeps"


The first dream was of myself in the house, but in this very guestroom.

I beheld a strange scene; the room had a very unusual light quality...as if the light were thick...or had some type of substance. Each of these stories include speechlessness, and a feeling of horrible dread.

About that time, the covers and sheets upon the bed began to swirl around the room and I remember backing up towards the door and grasping for the door knob in hopes that I could escape the room. All the while I never took my eyes off of this spectacle, and in fact, it shook me terribly.

The following dream was a little different, but was of the SAME room.

This time; however, I was standing just before the threshold of a second doorway that leads to the guest bathroom. Finding myself here, once again, I took the initiative to shout at the entity that was in the room, but it was there that I experienced the "grip" of terror, as I couldn't speak.

I then backed up through the doorway and suddenly I notice this white figure in the room just beyond the threshold.

** I want to describe this entity because of the uniqueness of the circumstance: it looked Nordic; that is to say that she/he seemed to have blonde hair and crystaline blue eyes. It was short; to the extend that I would compare it to an Swedish adolescent.

What happened next was really intense and causes me to get emotional, but I tapped the figure on the shoulder and asked if it was "ok". It simply turned its head and looked at me blankly.

Mind you that my hand was on the figure's back/shoulder still but we were separated by the threshold; however, I was then able to speak and I shouted a name of the true God THROUGH this white figure into the room with a great force!

I had gotten one of the complaints after these dreams and decided to pray in the room with some frankencense & myrhh for good measure.

I have not had one complaint since and no other dreams to speak of.

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I did want to share one more story due to the relevance of "shadow people":

I have saw a shadow person/thing once when I was young, BUT it was while I was awake and it was during the day!

Even thinking about it brings tears to my eyes. This is the earliest memory that I have and it was 25 years ago.

I was asked by my babysitter to get some gum from the kitchen, so I walk through the house (about 25 feet down a hallway) and I see something in our kitchen about 4 feet tall but round in shape. It was JET BLACK and had no discernible features except 2 protrusions from the top of what seemed to be its head. I cannot say for sure whether it was a pair or horns or ears.

The figure then vacillated side to side and I went bonkers of course and ran screaming. I can only recall that we returned to the room and it wasn't there.

This story was corroborated by that same lady who years later married my uncle. Although she didn't see it herself, she believed that I had.

*note - I later discovered that my father dabbled with quija boards to pick lottery numbers and who knows what else. Also, EVERY bonified haunting I have experienced normally occurred only while living with him.

email me if you have questions or wanna share more
joshuakvc@gmail.com
Dec 01, 2016
 Right now NEW
by: Anonymous

I woke up at 5 and thought I should get more sleep . I remember turning my alarm off at 5:30 . I felt like I finally asleep , but I felt as someone got on my bed and laid right beside me. I could feel them . I couldn't move . I wanted to scream. All I was whispering was mama mama. It felt so real ... when I finally got out that trance . It was 5:32
Dec 01, 2016
 SATAN NEW
by: Oscar Augustin

some backstory: I'm a guy that does not live with my mother or father, my father is dead and my mother takes drugs. for some weeks ago I sould my soul to satan, I keep praying to him as if he was my god. yesterday, I walked in the dark, then I prayed that he would walk with me and my voice changed to a deonical voice sayng "I see, I hear, I'm you" then, I don't remember, I just got into the door to my house. then at 18:38 I got really sleepy somehow so I just closed everything and got to bed. then 21:41 I woke up, it has happen before so I didn't tink so much I just got to sleep again.

it was 1 hour ago that I woke up (03:14), I had my back to the light and my face into the wall, I turned around saw a shadowed figure reaching after me from the dark, I got scared and turned the lights on, then it got quiet for a sec.. I didn't understand, but then I came up with something..I prayed to satan and asked who it was that woke me up. got no answear so I asked what he wanted, imedietly after I asked something took over my body and pointed at my "parents" bedroom door. I got shocked and got back my body, I understanded that it was a deamon, my "parents" are cristians. he wanted my soul to kill them or myself.
Dec 02, 2016
 i encountered black shadow and abnormal figures few times NEW
by: Anonymous

I'm worried about how i started seeing the ghosts.I saw a horrible dark figure on my bed standing beside me.It was glaring at me with his red eyes.I'm so worried about this and I haven't tell anybody about this yet.I saw a ghost of a girl with messy hair at my workplace.It was standing just next to me.I'm worried and afraid about these incidents.
Dec 02, 2016
 sleep paralysis NEW
by: travis

what most of these people saying is not true. they are real. My brother suffers from sleep paralysis and i was sleeping in his room one night. I woke up out of a dead sleep because I felt something was in the room with us. I was not even facing his direction and I knew where it was and where exactly to look. I look up and only the tv was on an something blacker than black was walking from the foot of his bed to the middle of the bed. I heard him trying to talk but barely anything was coming out. I was so scared I did not want to move but I jumped up and hit the light really quick and it was gone just like that. We were in a bad place with our lives at the time but since we have gotten closer with Jesus and never saw the thing again. both the hair on our arms stand up when we talk about that night. They are real, they want your body and I believe if you get closer with God he protects you from things like that. Dont let any one tell you that they are not real because I saw it with my own eyes. Find God people he is your only protection from evil. I would recommend sleeping with music on that speaks Jesus' name and that spirit will get tired of messing with you. IT IS REAL those spirits are in your room when you see them.
Dec 14, 2016
 Sleep Paralysis NEW
by: Anonymous

What you all have experienced is known as sleep paralysis. It occurs when you wake up your mind during sleeping but not your body. So that explains why you can not move or scream. The "demons" you guys begin to see is a figment of your imagination, I should know since these phenomenons always occur to me. If you are scared when you wake up then you eyes will manifest something scary towards you. To deal with this simply don't fight it, let it happen. Once you do that try wiggling your toes and go up from a there. Hope this helps. - Miguel
Dec 14, 2016
 a black scary figure NEW
by: Manisha

Its around 4:45pm and presently i am in my home sleeping ..and then suddenly a black figure resembling a dog ran through the door and jumped over my bed..and just staring at me...i can just feel its presence...and then i realized that we lost our dog recently. .so it was not our dog..then what is it.. ?? I tried very hard to open my eyes..and shout...but i couldn't..i struggled a little to open my eyes and hav a look at that black thing...and then i realised its just coming towards me.. so i tried to speak "om" ..i tried and tried... after a few seconds i am out of my dream...its tooo scary.. as soon as i am out of my dream. I checked internet to find out what has just happened and here i am... i pray to God that no one should ever ever experience like this...
Dec 14, 2016
 Help NEW
by: Anonymous

I need to be sure about this if this is sleep paralysis.I see Dark figures in human form while awakening.Last time I remember I saw a dark figure on the road hiding near the tree.It was hiding in the leaves and when I gave a light to it by torch it moved quickly,it flown away.I see them anywhere suddenly mostly when I'm awake.I also saw a yellow figure in human form in my room.
Dec 14, 2016
 For manisha NEW
by: Anonymous

You mentioned a dog shadow figure being present in your room... I believe this is sleep paralysis. When you awake and are in sleep paralysis you hallucinate and your hallucinations are based on your state of mind at the moment. So if your scared somethings scary will appear and if you don't fight it nothing scary may appear. You mentioned your dog dying so I believe that this is simply your mind manifesting a memory of your dog. - Miguel
Dec 17, 2016
 No damn sleep paralyzed sleep disorder NEW
by: Anonymous

I've been reading everybody's comments on here and all I can say is my heart goes out to you people do not listen about scientists and doctors telling you it's sleep paralyis this is not sleep paralyizes this is real this is demonic believe me honest truth this is been going on with me since I was 4 years old I am now 43 years old and it's still going on I've been through test and I'm fine I have experience most of what you've all been through and what you've experienced most definitely my story is very demonic and very life threating of course the man in black figure no face hes wearing the black hat can't move can't yell can't do nothing as i got older it got worse ivr been biten on my shoulder teeth marks blood ive been tickiled where its left marks on my sides in pain for days even got worse over the past year i feel it inside me haveing sex with me ...feel it breathing in my ear calls my name i even felt its hands human form((( people))) this is real i pray for u all im sure there is a lot of people that have experienced the same as how I've experienced life has been very hard very depressing I deal with anxiety everyday of my life I've been to the church I've had them come in my house ive seeked help over many many years God is the only man that can help me right now I pray to him night and day I deal with this everyday of my life I don't live a normal life I'm paranoid I'm scared having anxiety people this is not normal this is real this black shadow this evil spirit Is real the man
Dec 17, 2016
 No damn sleep paralyzed sleep disorder NEW
by: Anonymous

I've i reading everybody's comments on here and all I can say is my heart goes out to you people do not listen about scientists and doctors telling you it's sleep paralyis this is not sleep paralyizes this is real this is demonic believe me honest truth this is been going on with me since I was 4 years old I am now 43 years old and it's still going on I've been through test and I'm fine I have experience most of what you've all been through and what you've experienced most definitely my story is very demonic and very life threating of course the man in black figure no face hes wearing Ithe black hat can't move can't yell can't do nothing as i got older it got worse ivr been biten on my shoulder teeth marks blood ive been tickiled where its left marks on my sides in pain for days even got worse over the past year i feel it inside me haveing sex with me ...feel it breathing in my ear calls my name i even felt its hands human form((( people))) this is real i pray for u all im sure there is a lot of people that have experienced the same as how I've experienced life has been very hard very depressing I deal with anxiety everyday of my life I've been to the church I've had them come in my house ive seeked help over many many years God is the only man that can help me right now I pray to him night and day I deal with this everyday of my life I don't live a normal life I'm paranoid I'm scared having anxiety people this is not normal this is real this black shadow this evil spirit Is real the man
Dec 25, 2016
 Sleep paralysis and I'm 14 NEW
by: Anonymous

It only happened once a month ago and it happened again I've had frequent bad dreams one of them I felt like I was in my bed looking up I couldn't move or scream and I saw this black figure but then I wake up mine are not as bad but I run to my mom's room but she just takes it as a bad dream but it happened again I woke and saw the dark figure again is this something I should worry about I read it was caused by anxiety and depression I have anxiety but not depression I stress about things and I break down crying this really scares me literally it is turning into a normal talk with my mom

Dec 28, 2016
 Anxiety & talks w/ mom NEW
by: Joyful Praise

If your family is a religious one, I would highly recommend praying in the name of Jesus Christ (English spelling).

If not, you can do it all by yourself. I can't pretend to know everything about the spirit world, but there is a good verse that explains very well the point I would want to make. In the bible @ Ephesians 6:10-18 it talks about wearing the "armor of God". This is a spiritual armor that will protect you from spiritual attack.

Here is a link that you can read if you don't have a bible: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%206:10-18


Include this subject matter in your prayer and it will help.

Also, if you can remember to do so, please respond with the effect that this has.

<3
Dec 30, 2016
 This might help NEW
by: Anonymous

Listen I have had this happen to me a few times over the years, I sleep with my hands together so it's relatively easy for me to make a cross. Sometimes I manage to do it and the dark figure goes away, another time which was the worst I woke up and couldn't move, then i felt it's hands on me and then it started to choke me, I yelled for the Virgin Mary to help me, for my angel, for family members who passed to help me and that time I made a cross (it took all my will power and strength) and I "woke up" and I saw a red head girl running away from me (my family are brunettes)
It started when I was fifteen so it's been happening for three years now, what makes it stop for me is I ask for help,the cross if I can, and I say "take the hand of Virgin Mary and go to the light" it's more think than say really
Jan 06, 2017
 Fear NEW
by: Anonymous

Has anyone else had a awful happen to their close family members or friends 3 weeks after an encounter with shadow man. I have had 3 encounters with shadow man and each time exactly 3 weeks to the day something awful happens to someone I love. The last time this happened to me was yesterday 1-5-17and now I am in utter fear of what could happen on 1-23-17
Jan 06, 2017
 Fear NEW
by: Anonymous

Has anyone else had a awful happen to their close family members or friends 3 weeks after an encounter with shadow man. I have had 3 encounters with shadow man and each time exactly 3 weeks to the day something awful happens to someone I love. The last time this happened to me was yesterday 1-5-17and now I am in utter fear of what could happen on 1-23-17
Jan 06, 2017
 pray NEW
by: Anonymous

I prayed to god to help me through it and I stopped seeing the dark shadows and ghosts.Praying to God,it will protect your heart from the negative energies and ghosts.
Jan 06, 2017
 Black figure with white eye sockets. NEW
by: JR

I had my first experience last night. I had just fallen a sleep when I saw a tall dark figure with white eye sockets.I was trying to scream for my husband who was right next to me but I couldn't talk or move. I finally after a few minutes manage to make a noise that woke him up. I was awake but couldn't talk. He shook me and I sat up in the bed and I told him I couldn't breathe. This happened 3 times. I ask him to go get my grandson that is studding to be a preacher to come pray for me. After he prayed over me I was able to go back to sleep. I don't know what tonight will bring. I will continue to pray and trust in God to get me thru this.
Jan 09, 2017
 Real dream NEW
by: Faith Mohammad

What the hell. Were same guys. My body specially my head... I couldn't move. I try to move my head but i can't then i saw a black behind at my back.. Im not sleeping, i saw it with my two eyes. It was real and not imagination or hallucination... Whats the meaning of ths? I dont understand why i saw that black figure and my head my body couldnt move.. Again im awake wen i was experience ths...
Jan 11, 2017
 Scary ,it's real. NEW
by: Siva

My daughter always complain that she can not sleep on her own in her room for years, I decided
to sleep in the same room with her ,while asleep
I was in a fight with a figure in a dream like , I battled to shout out ,but no one could her me for a while ,until my wife from the other room shouted to me to get up with my daughter & sleep in our room . The time was 11h45 am . While asleep in the other I was trying to figure out what really happen . A dark shadow figure appeared
telling me that it is going to enter my prayer room , I began swearing at it ,got up , saw the time 1h45am . I was frustrated knowing what's going on, wrote notes immediately so that I do not forget. I reached for my prayer chain to wear it , then fell asleep and got up still remembering what happened ,like it was not a dream .I am going to smoke my house to get rid of the evil sprit .I believe it gets to people who are close to god.
Jan 13, 2017
 black shadows NEW
by: Anonymous

Black shadows are true!!! I'm 44 years old now, when I was 42 or43 we were getting ready to go to sleep me and my kids, my middle child he will always tell me that he gets sleep pearlize when he goes to sleep and to tell you the truth I get very mad that I'm not there to help him, but I will always tell him to pray so it will go away. That night I was at my room I was ready asleep then my middle son he came and woke me up saying that he was having sleep pearlize again I told to come and sleep with me on my bed and a soon I told him that I also told him to pray I felt asleep real fast but when I felt asleep I saw a black mist in the very corner on top of the ceiling but I had my eyes close but I can still see it I started feeling numb and it came straight to my face and it was making this bad noises right on my face it was trying to open my eyes but I started praying and it helped me a lot and it went away but it was a very bad experience for me,it was evil. And now that I'm 44 it came back it was 1:00 I felt it in front of me again I pray and it went away but the scary thing is that it won't let you scream and get you not able to move!!! But if you believe in god it won't hurt you god will always protecte you no matter what, believe in him and he will give you the protection you need thank you,always pray at night
Jan 18, 2017
 It is real NEW
by: Anonymous

These visits are not a sign of some kind of hoax hysteria. These experiences have been depicted over centuries in paintings across continents when before established trade or travel connections existed. I have experienced these dark figures who have long black almost purple sharp fingernails. They crouch at the side of my bed. Sometimes I will wake up and they will have broken skin and other times I wake myself up by screaming and crying before physical contact is made. I have tried intensive therapy, sleep medication, sleep studies. I am so tired all of the time because these dream "visits" occur at least 3 times a week regardless of anything I have tried. Doctors have said it is post traumatic stress, but ever since I can remember, I have had these "dreams." The closest thing I have seen that resembles what I have seen in these "visits" is in the 2016 movie Ouija. I have never seen any kind of drawing or depiction of what I have seen during these "visits" before that matches what I see and when I saw this movie, it was like I was vindicated. I have read the others responses about their own personal experiences. I am wondering how long you have also been having these visits? And if anything has worked to make them go away that I have not already described above.
Jan 20, 2017
 Help me NEW
by: Anonymous

It didn't feel like a dream I woke up everything look fine but than I sit up there was a human shape figure and it was black I didn't know what to think or to do and than it just jump on me I couldn't breathe talk yell or move or open my eyes I couldn't tell if I was scared I was in shock it was pressing on me it was heavy couple minutes later I sit all fast nothing was there please help if something like this happen to you? I have alot of ghosts stories that happen to me
Jan 21, 2017
 pray NEW
by: Anonymous

Please I think one should be more careful if this is happening to them.I have been through the same sightings before and I can feel how much horrible it feels.Pray to God,Go to the church,Mazid or temple to which you belong.Keep trying close to God.I keep praying and talking to god when I feel presence of any spirit.Please if you are having these kind of ghost sighting that are feeling terrible.Please don't think too much about finding the answers why that happened.I felt it happens to you more when you think Deeply about this.Please don't think deeply about why something happened but be Careful always.PRAY TO GOD with complete faith you will get over this situation.Trust god he will help you.
Jan 21, 2017
 pray NEW
by: Anonymous

Please I think one should be more careful if this is happening to them.I have been through the same sightings before and I can feel how much horrible it feels.Pray to God,Go to the church,Mazid or temple to which you belong.Keep trying close to God.I keep praying and talking to god when I feel presence of any spirit.Please if you are having these kind of ghost sighting that are feeling terrible.Please don't think too much about finding the answers why that happened.I felt it happens to you more when you think Deeply about this.Please don't think deeply about why something happened but be Careful always.PRAY TO GOD with complete faith you will get over this situation.Trust god he will help you.
Jan 27, 2017
 Same here NEW
by: Anonymous

This has also happened to me. So so scary!! I woke up, black figure at the end of my bed. I couldn't move and I felt intense pressure on my chest. It has not happened in a long time, and hoping that it doesn't now that I relive it.
Feb 03, 2017
 ITS NOT SLEEP PARALYSIS NEW
by: Cynogen

THIS HAPPENS TO ME WHEN OFTEN I PRAY AND ITLL HAPPEN AND SOMETIMES AT RANDOM IT USED TO BE WHERE I WOULD LAY ON MY BACK AND CANT MOVE NOW ITS IN MY DREAMS I HAD A DREAM WHERE I WAS RUNNING I FELL INTO A DARK WHOLE AND I HEARD GIVE ME YOUR SOUL...THATS ONE I REMEMBER ALOT THE OTHER ONE WAS TODAY I FELL ASLEEP I SAW A BIBLE NEXT TO A DARK CLOSET AND A FIGURE SAID TO MY SELF I CAN HANDLE THIS AND WALKED IN TO IT AND I FELT MY WHOLE BODY ENGULF IN SOME WEIRD FEELING AND IT FELT LIKE THE MOMENTS I COULDNT MOVE OR SPEAK BUT JUST SCREAM AND THEN I STARTED FEELING ANGER OR SOMETHING NEVER FELT THAT FEELING BUT BECAUSE I COULDNT SHAKE IT FELT MYSELF STRUGGLING MORE THEN AFTER I CALLED GODS NAME I PRONOUNCE IT YAH OR yahuah you may say jesus or jehovah or something else but. I ASKED FOR HELP AND I FELT MYSELF WAKING UP BUT ITS GETTING TO THE POINT WHERE ITS MORE THAN USUAL LIKE MY DREAMS WILL PLAY OUT THEN ITLL MAKE ITSELF PART OF THAT AND TRAP ME BUT THIS TIME FELT DIFFERENT I SAW THE BIBLE SAW A DARK CLOSET OR DOOR OPEN PITCH BLACK BARLEY CAN MAKE OUT THE FIGURE AND I DECIDED TO WALK INTO IT AND DO THAT I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THESE DREAMS FULLY MEAN OR WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF IT GOT ANY FURTHER
Feb 21, 2017
 Large dark figure (demonic) NEW
by: Anonymous

Hello I have recently converted to Islam and found things little hard like trying to pray and hearing evil whispers, I am married to a Muslim man last night through early morning I awoke to my husband reciting a small piece from the Quran which awoke me I remember looking up over his shoulder towards the right side of the bed where stood this dark figure I remember only the shoulders and short arms in dark form I didn't want to look but coward under my blanket to which I said Allah akbar until I felt tingling sensation through my body then I remember my partner whisper come with me well I thought was him I tried to wake him to ask him come with u to where he said come with me and said my name and slept all I could do was pray, I feel a demon is trying to take my soul so that I don't become religious to God but it will not win I am God's creature please pray and stay strong faith in God is Satan's utmost hate and he wants to take our souls may God our most merciful gracious Lord protect us amen
Feb 23, 2017
 Ghost, demons , or something NEW
by: Reese hale

I didn't have a dream like that but when I moved into my house in Muncie I saw a black figure open the front door and my sister woke up at 3:00 am when she was upstairs alone crying after running down stairs saying she saw a tall black figure staring at her by my bed it was as tall as the roof and put its finger over its mouth tell my sister be quite other scary freaky things have happened to me through out my life if u wanna know just ask
Feb 25, 2017
 It took her away from me NEW
by: Anonymous

When I was in the fifth grade, I met a girl outside of my school and I just didn't like her very much (at first). We eventually became great friends and something about her just made me feel invincible, we called each other sisters from then onward. I never told my parents about her because I didn't want them to stop me from hanging out with what they would call a stranger. But I knew her, I knew everything about her. She had dark hair, short with curved ends, her eyes were bright green and she wore the same dress and ribbons everyday but she always smelt nice so I assumed she washed her dress everyday. She would have unexplained mood swings but then she would tell me right after how much I meant to her and once she made me promise that I would never forget her, I obviously promised her that and I haven't broken it nor will I ever break it. She disappeared for roughly about a month after that and I thought she had left me so I went to our special place one last time and found her standing there looking right at me. We reunited and went for a walk, we walked up to a road, she was right next to me... then she wasn't. By then she had been walking blankly across the double road for a few seconds now. I saw a car come from the opposite side so I ran, I got to her in time but something flashed my eyes and I fell to the ground and the car hit. When I opened my eyes I saw her on one side and the car on the other, it has stopped and I tried my best to remember the number plate but I only got the first four digits. I ran over to her and she said something to me which I will not share because it's personal. After she said what she wanted me to hear she whispered something else to me but I didn't understand her. After she took her last breath in my arms I looked up and that's when I saw it, It was looking right at us, I squeezed my eyes shut and looked again. It was gone. The driver of the car that hit her fled the scene and I haven't seen it since. The figure however, still lurks around in my head and around me.
Feb 25, 2017
 It took her away from me. NEW
by: Anonymous

When I was in the fifth grade, I met a girl outside of my school and I just didn't like her very much (at first). We eventually became great friends and something about her just made me feel invincible, we called each other sisters from then onward. I never told my parents about her because I didn't want them to stop me from hanging out with what they would call a stranger. But I knew her, I knew everything about her. She had dark hair, short with curved ends, her eyes were bright green and she wore the same dress and ribbons everyday but she always smelt nice so I assumed she washed her dress everyday. She would have unexplained mood swings but then she would tell me right after how much I meant to her and once she made me promise that I would never forget her, I obviously promised her that and I haven't broken it nor will I ever break it. She disappeared for roughly about a month after that and I thought she had left me so I went to our special place one last time and found her standing there looking right at me. We reunited and went for a walk, we walked up to a road, she was right next to me... then she wasn't. By then she had been walking blankly across the double road for a few seconds now. I saw a car come from the opposite side so I ran, I got to her in time but something flashed my eyes and I fell to the ground and the car hit. When I opened my eyes I saw her on one side and the car on the other, it has stopped and I tried my best to remember the number plate but I only got the first four digits. I ran over to her and she said something to me which I will not share because it's personal. After she said what she wanted me to hear she whispered something else to me but I didn't understand her. After she took her last breath in my arms I looked up and that's when I saw it, It was looking right at us, I squeezed my eyes shut and looked again. It was gone. The driver of the car that hit her fled the scene and I haven't seen it since. The figure however, still lurks around in my head and around me.
Mar 02, 2017
 entities NEW
by: dark warlock

It happens to me nobody believes me. Until i woke up with red finger prints on my thigh
Mar 06, 2017
 Just recently happened 2 hours ago NEW
by: Anonymous

I wouldn't even express this because, I only confide in myself but it tripped me out to the point where I can't even sleep anymore and it scared tf out of me.

I experienced "Sleep Paralysis" not only that but "Hypnopompic hallucinations" a deep imagery of a nightmare basically.

Went to sleep around 2 and woke up at 3, the imagery that happened was there was a dark figure I didn't exactly see it but something in my mind brought it to my attention to where I was laying in my bed sleep..honestly I woke up twice I awoke in the dream and I awoke in real life. The dark figure started whispering in my ear "I couldn't hear what was said, just a bunch of whispering" I tried many times to wake up, I even tried screaming but nothing I said came out all I could do was move my fingers.
Mar 14, 2017
 ITS NOT A DREAM!!! NEW
by: Anonymous

I'm only 13, in my dream unless it wasn't this black shadow figure was walking towards me. I was in bed I couldn't yell or move. I got dragged off the bed by nothing it didn't touch me it just looked. But then I woke up. 2 weeks later. I was awake I closed my eyes because I was tired but opened them again really fast! I then saw a shadow man above me. But it disappeared like a blink of an eye. I gasped in fear and I know I wasn't asleep.And this shadow I saw in real life was in my dream. They call it a sleeping paralysis. Its not! I'm going to pray tonight.
Mar 15, 2017
 I was wide awake NEW
by: Jobe

Ok I see people saying sleep paralysis no fk that I was awake. I heard noises so I knock the universal knock and it answered back with the two knocks "duh duh." I figured my girlfriend heard the knocks cuz right after the sound she grabs my other hand or what I thought was her. Soon after I look and she's at the mini fridge making a drink. So I look back at who I'm holding like wtf and the hooded figure puts its finger over my mouth " Don't breathe," it says and of course I start trying to scream for my gf then I fake passing out but try even harder to move or yell or breathe then she sits down and it's over and I was awake it was around 3a.m. But it held my hand like someone would at a hospital in passing not like she would it freaked me out and her just from listening to me freak out. All I know is I was awake I feel like she saved me it squeezed my hand hard when I started freaking out. And everything stopped when she sat down. I'm gonna try praying if it comes back but I'm praying that it doesn't.
Mar 29, 2017
 They came again. 3rd time in 5 mo.'s. Experimenting. NEW
by: Anonymous

THEY, came again, last night. This is the third time in the last five months. The figures are short, with no discernible features like eyes, fingers, ears or other protrusions because they are black. But not only black. We have persianas which cover the windows and black out the room, pitch black dark. These beings are blacker than black, that when I see them their darkness against the dark in the room actually has contrast. It seems like they wear a type of suit that looks like a dark empty void. The time before last night when they came, there were at least three. One at my head, one at my side and another at my feet. The one at my feet had something in it's hand that was projecting a dark beam onto my body and paralyzing me. The one at my head had something over my chest that was making my breathing labored. The one at my side appeared to be waiting. They seem to be experimenting on me. They always come in groups of three or four. I am a 54 year old male. Here is what I have learned since their visit last night, as I haven't been able to articulate the experience or recall it well until now. They always come when I am dreaming about something else completely unrelated to them. In that dream, there is no linking context or event leading to the realization of their presence there with me. In other words, whatever they are attempting to do with my body is sufficient to interrupt the dream I was having, waking me to the paralyzed physical state and conscious awareness that they are present, standing over me. Last night they were trying to put something under my body, it was a long horizontal surface, also dark. I recall that I was thinking that I would not be able to verbalize words and that it was necessary to attempt to scream to wake up my partner. Their presence was threatening to me and I couldn't make them stop or go away. I tried to vocalize a scream and I knew that it wasn't effective, that I needed to push harder, try to add sound to what would normally be breathing out air- and I was completely cognizant of this. Finally, I could hear myself making an audible sound but it was too faint. So I focused on making my sound louder so my partner could hear me and see them- they don't want to be seen. FINALLY, my partner moved because I could feel him and he touched my face and chest. After he touched me, the paralysis stopped and I was released, they disappeared. I was so drained and sleepy afterward that all I could say to him was thank you a few times. He asked me about what happened, about the nightmare I was having and I told him as he remembered before that they came back again.
Thank you for writing this article. I was wondering, since there is more than one, if this could be something inter-dimensional? Alien? I know they are not friendly and their approach is covert. They must know when I'm dreaming because they come when I'm distracted by what's happening in the dream. The dream I was having wasn't anything wild or extreme. Compared to this it was boring.
May 04, 2017
 It's Sleep Paralysis NEW
by: Anonymous

What you are describing is sleep paralysis. When your body is falling asleep or waking up you can experience this. To explain it in plain English, anxiety caused by being unable to move can cause vivid hallucinations. You are between being asleep and awake and are imagining the hooded figure. Countless other people experience sleep paralysis in this form during their lifetimes and it can be incredibly scary. The important thing to remember is that it isn't real and if you wait it out it will end within minutes. Some articles report that trying to move can help end sleep paralysis sooner. Try moving some of your fingers, then your whole hand, then your arm, etc.
May 04, 2017
 It's Sleep Paralysis NEW
by: Anonymous

What you are describing is sleep paralysis. When your body is falling asleep or waking up you can experience this. To explain it in plain English, anxiety caused by being unable to move can cause vivid hallucinations. You are between being asleep and awake and are imagining the hooded figure. Countless other people experience sleep paralysis in this form during their lifetimes and it can be incredibly scary. The important thing to remember is that it isn't real and if you wait it out it will end within minutes. Some articles report that trying to move can help end sleep paralysis sooner. Try moving some of your fingers, then your whole hand, then your arm, etc.
May 24, 2017
 Same NEW
by: Brian

When I was young the same thing happened to me. It feels like you can't breathe. I even had it say you are mine. I felt that I was going to die. I was 12.. or so maybe a bit younger. Please email me bmr772006@yahoo.com
May 25, 2017
 Sleep paralysis theory has holes in it. NEW
by: Anonymous

"It's Sleep Paralysis NEW
by: Anonymous

What you are describing is sleep paralysis. When your body is falling asleep or waking up you can experience this. To explain it in plain English, anxiety caused by being unable to move can cause vivid hallucinations. You are between being asleep and awake and are imagining the hooded figure. Countless other people experience sleep paralysis in this form during their lifetimes and it can be incredibly scary. The important thing to remember is that it isn't real and if you wait it out it will end within minutes. Some articles report that trying to move can help end sleep paralysis sooner. Try moving some of your fingers, then your whole hand, then your arm, etc."

Countless other people see hooded dark people? What a coinkidink. Anxiety? I can grasp the principle behind a sleep paralysis label but that's all it is to me, a label. Like something you'd find in the DSM. If paralysis manifests as hooded dark people then maybe the label needs to change. The shadow people who come to me only come when I am "distracted" by another dream I'm having which isn't a nightmare or anything unpleasant. It's banal or pleasant at best. It is only when they come and fuck up whatever they are doing enough to break my distraction from the dream that I realize they are there, attempting to do something. It is in this state between waking and sleeping whereupon I make this discovery and I am experiencing a paralysis. Now, whether or not my brain hasn't sent the necessary impulses to to my muscles, or my muscles haven't had time to receive them, there is a definitive neuro-muscular "block" which is happening that could be due to that part of the brain being shut down during normal sleep cycle. This is the one of a few phenomena, much like pharmacokinetics, when one cannot say "well, everybody is different," in the manner that a drug may affect a human being. I challenge that phrase also, because to say that everybody is different is to say that everybody is indeed the same. If sleep paralysis, which is what we can call it as a simple mechanism, occurs to manifest only dark hooded people in their varieties, then we need to give the the reason for this paralysis a name. And I prefer not to use blanket labels but rather base it on some hermetic science or through a much deeper clinical investigation. Why does paralysis induce this symbolic figure? Why can't it be satyrs or nymphs or angels feeding us sweet meats and wines, for example? See where I'm headed with this?

Jun 02, 2017
 black figure and malicious man in a red robe NEW
by: Anonymous

hi! I also experienced something like this. my family were renting a house back in 2011 and tell u what, this house has it heavy aura since day 1. there are nights when i sleep at the room on the second floor and suddenly woke up with the sound of the door slowly opening, very slowly. i can only here its sound and nothing else.

then there this one night I was sleeping on the room downstairs, I was sleeping next to my little brother on a double deck bed, we were on the top bed and my ilder brother on the lower bed.

i remember i didn't had any dreams then, just plain black. then suddenly my eyes opened as if something commanded them. at first my vision is pitch black but still I saw beside me a black figure! no face! standing closely on my bed, (like someone do when u visit someone in a hospital, it feels like that to me though) I can see his head and shoulders, towering over me, though we were already at the top bed, and I could not speak or move! then it suddenly launches its face on mine and i got hysterical, screaming so badly although none came out. then my little brother with my older brother shook me awake. tears streaming down my face.it took me awhile to calm down.

I remember every details but guess what, it happened for a split second only. that makes it more terrifying and real!

oh hey, anyone of u dreamed of a guy wearing a red robe/cloak with a malicious smile saying something unintelligible? i just dreamt of it just now. huhuhu! i hate it. those figures always inching their faces on mine, disrespecting personal space. 😭
Jun 03, 2017
 My paranormal experience NEW
by: Anonymous

A couple of nights ago , I was watching tv on the couch , I looked over and I seen a shadow figure coming out of my bedroom , it stood there for a bit and disappeared , then I started getting very cold and my eyes started to close , I could not move or yell for my husband sleeping in the bedroom , my eyes could not open , then something whispered in my ear and told me "go away" after I heard that I could open my eyes , where it was no longer cold , I looked over to the hall way and seen a little girl and heard a hissing sound , I've been scared to be alone or wake alone in my house ever since . I've lived in my houses before , but I've never been this scared of paranormal . As I kid I lived in a house that was haunted but the activity there was never that bad , the house we live in I'm scared to go into the laundry room ever since something pulled my hair so hard to the point I felt like I was gonna fall to the ground . I feel watched and tormented ever night by this shadow figure .
Jun 19, 2017
 Strange Sounds, Icy Cold Sensation, Black Small Figure NEW
by: Anonymous

So I was just in my bed. This was 3 days ago. And I woke up at about 3 AM and I go over to look up and out of the corner of my eye, I see a black shadow zoom by. I didn't really think much of it as I thought I was just really tired because I was half asleep. I didn't think much of it until last night when I googled what happened to me and other people had similar things happening. And I've never had sleep paralysis in my life, I have always slept decently. Also, just last night I was woken up at 3-4 AM and I was laying on my side when I saw my lamp light slowly go on and off I could only move my fingers and toes and I tried talking to whatever was there, then a really loud car alarm went off and I went back to sleep. I'm fucking scared now. Guys, this shit if real FUCK SCIENCE.
Jun 19, 2017
 Paranormal activities at my home and one day in office. NEW
by: Anonymous

I have seen the black shadows,vivid human figures and things.I saw that evening black shadow standing and watching me in corner of the road and when it realised I'm watching as it flown away in the sky.I also see things moving in air without any external force where SCIENCE don't work.I'm 20 yr old i never believed such things even exist.I have been studying science and technology so it was hard to believe.Sometimes it happens when i asked myself about what i'm experciencing is true n real I find unusual things happening around like I have been watching by anything or anyone every time.It scares me and makes me curious about this. I was really shocked when the other day when I was working in laptop and suddenly I saw the table before me it start moving very fast like somebody was there I can't see.It wasn't the earthquake as it opened the television to see news if there could be earthquake but i got nothing stuff about this.I saw the dark shadow on my bed now i just can't forget that black face snd red eyes.I'm afraid to sleep alone.That night I was sleeping then I felt the touch of fingers on my skin. when I opened my eyes I found nobody.All these incidents were making me insane.Even in the room I felt the curtain moving the way like somebody crossed through it but I can't really see.Some things happens it makes me think more about this.I was really afraid and I never told anyone my friends family nobody knows about it.I didn't know how to help this.Then I called the lord and he saved me.Only god can do the miracles.I pray and I just prayed for me and everybody who is going through this situation.GOD GOD loves everyone.
Jul 02, 2017
 Avoid shrines and temples NEW
by: Anonymous

I've been having the exact same thing since I was in junior high. It's the same as everyone is saying, the black figure, always the same one, he chokes me and screams at me; when I pray to Jesus, he begins to screech and eventually vanishes. You can usually feel the presence coming on before you see him though, try to break it before the black figure comes. If you can, try to open your eyes in the real world while calling on the blood of Christ. Additionally, avoid occult things and temples if you experience this. Last time I was at a large temple on Tokyo, when I felt the familiar dark presence from the dreams and heard strange wailing sounds that none of my friends could hear. That night I had another night terror. This stuff is real so don't mess with it. They do hate Jesus and his name, so that should be your go to if you're experiencing these.
Jul 11, 2017
 Black figures NEW
by: Anonymous

I had the same thing happen to me mine started when I was in jail my first night out they're going to jail for something that was horrible that it had nothing to do with me and I was doing bad and I fell asleep then I was seeing myself laying there and there was this black figure there really tall look like death like the Reaper and it was standing over me and I was trying to scream for help and nobody could hear me and I just kept screaming and screaming and it came to me every night and every time I will come it would attack me it would bite me scratch me and then another one came when I was home but this time it was different I had wings and it flew and it was coming after me and it got the hold of me and took me and all I can do is pray and when I pray let me go and I feel now I see it when I'm awake it's like they're always around I don't know what to do anymore I feel like I'm going crazy so please somebody tell me I'm not what can I do
Jul 12, 2017
 Update from my previouse attacks cured NEW
by: Anonymous

My attacks were simple. No grim reapers no wings just a black mass hovering with out any form. It would wake me up in the middle of the night and paralize me. I couldnt even speak to pray but i would try and it wouldnt go away until i fought the word jesus out my mouth. Now i annoint my house with oil and bind and rebuke all evil spirits out my house and pray for the Holy spirit to dwell in my home and the attacks has stopped so long as I keep up on it. Living in any type of sin gives the devil certain permissions to attack us, like it or not.
Aug 19, 2017
 help us NEW
by: Anonymous

Me and my family have been going through a lot of things happening in our home one of our kids would wake up trying to yell for help but couldn't she could not move this tall black shadow guy with long arms was holding her down she said she had no body move ment at all we heard little kids laughing in our hallway wind in your ears when going up the stairs and banging on the door only me and my husband heard not even our dogs didn't bark and they bark for everything and I was sleeping and late at night some thing grab me so hard by my ankle and threw me off the bed for days my ankle was sire and brusied we are needing help but this guy is in all black long arms and all white eyes
Sep 09, 2017
 Almost the same NEW
by: Alexander

I also experienced a nightmare like that, but the sorroundings on my nightmare is fading black to red. its really dark.. I saw a human figure, its totally black.. sitting beside me while I can't move my body

and the room was shaking
Sep 21, 2017
 This is happening to me as well NEW
by: Yvette

9/21 I can't be sure of the time but I know it was after 3a.m I couldn't sleep right away. As I laid in my bed I begin to drift off and fall asleep. Shorty after that I woke up only to see that it was a shadowy figure. It looked like a dark figure with wings. I could not see a face only the shape of it. I tried to move but couldn't. I tried to scream but no sound came out. I prayed in my head and shortly after that I heard a loud noise which made me jump. The noise scared me that I jumped out of the stuck state that I was in. At the same time the shadow was fading back into the wall.
Sep 30, 2017
 Dark figure NEW
by: Cassie

Hi I'm I've been really scared to sleep lately why you may ask well when ever I fall asleep I wake in to see a black figure in a black cloak over me and I hear really loud static go threw my head it all lasts at least to minutes before I wake up I tell my family but they say it's not real and it's nothing but I know it's real because it paralizes me I can't talk scream or move I cry cause know on believes my how I've been avoiding it is hiding under my covers and at that I'm only 12 I'm scared I can't do nothing about it and I'm told I'm crazy but I'm not please I need help I just want it to end so if someone can help me please help me
Sep 30, 2017
 To cassey, Pray NEW
by: Anonymous

Please don't believe anyone who says it's unreal and you are going mad. Everything happens for a reason
Keep yourself closer to God to keep you safe from evil spirits and demons. God can help you. Trust god and pray.May be it's happening to you because you are strong enough to handle this.Exactly what happened to me in past days.God knows you and he loves you.keep praying.light n love.
Oct 09, 2017
 Black figure was sitting on my bed NEW
by: Anonymous

It also happened to me once. I woke up on the middle of the night, opened my eyes but could not move or lift myself from the bed, then I have noticed that black figure man in the hoodie was sitting besides me on the bed and pressing my shoulders against the bed, his arms and hands were also black. Fear came upon me and I got terrified and tears started going out of my eyes but I could not even say or scream anything. I started praying in my head and black figure disappeared, and then I jumped out of bed and run into my mother's room terrified and crying. I slept with my mom that night, and I am an adult woman in her early thirties. That was the worst experience ever. My ex husband experienced the same exact thing, but that black figure was sitting on top of my ex husband and trying to choke him. Grown up man was scared t death. This is crazy! I would never want to experience something like this again
Oct 09, 2017
 Black figure was sitting on my bed NEW
by: Anonymous

It also happened to me once. I woke up on the middle of the night, opened my eyes but could not move or lift myself from the bed, then I have noticed that black figure man in the hoodie was sitting besides me on the bed and pressing my shoulders against the bed, his arms and hands were also black. Fear came upon me and I got terrified and tears started going out of my eyes but I could not even say or scream anything. I started praying in my head and black figure disappeared, and then I jumped out of bed and run into my mother's room terrified and crying. I slept with my mom that night, and I am an adult woman in her early thirties. That was the worst experience ever. My ex husband experienced the same exact thing, but that black figure was sitting on top of my ex husband and trying to choke him. Grown up man was scared t death. This is crazy! I would never want to experience something like this again
Oct 23, 2017
 woman dressed in Black watching me sleeping NEW
by: MTG Johannesburg South Africa

On 3 occassions; I woke up to find a woman standing next to my bed.dressed in Black.The first time; this woman had a bowl of clay and was handing it to me.I did not react and she disappeared. The second time a woman was giving me 5x numbers .i remember them but did nothing with them.my colleagues used them for lotto and they all came out.I still regret why I didnt used them for lotyo.
Now early morning of 22/10/2017; 3am; I woke up and Saw a woman stading next to my bed.I got so scared as she was dressed in Black; tall; head covered. She just watch me with no smile.as soon as I get scared she disappeared.
In my case; I was awake not asleep.I think I was awoken by this figure.
Nov 04, 2017
 Couldn't move paralyzes NEW
by: Wayne stibbs

It was around 3am. I remember lying in s hotel bed turned to my right. I remember having good thoughts when all of a sudden my thoughts turned. I visioned an old brown door, my thoughts became fearful and at that time I felt something behind me in my room. I thought maybe someone broke in. It sat down at the bottom of the bed. I felt the bed move with the blankets. I tried to move to attack it. This isn't the first time this paralyzed feeling has happened to me. Happens maybe once every fee years. This lasted about 20 seconds then finally (ever so slowly) I was able to turn, my eyes could see the room (blurry sleep vision). Then I looked a bit more further left and saw something. I have never seen anything before till thus night. I have always fought out the paralyzation and just woke up. But this time it was there. Dark brown old hooded robe, faceless dark shadow standing then I woke up again. This is the first time I have never seen something. It never touched me ju ad t watched me. I don't know what this means. But I wanted to share it. Take care
Nov 23, 2017
 Mom thinks shes going crazy. NEW
by: Anonymous

This isn't about me..its about my mom. I don't know how long this has been going on, a few months i suppose. But She can't sleep. She told me today that shes seeing a black woman/entity( not black as in skin color, but as in color of whole body.) She can't see its face but the attack on my mom is getting worse to the point that she can't sleep. Shes staying up two to three days at a time. Terrified of sleeping cause every time she sleeps she sees this thing. This thing is telling her that she is gonna die before she hits sixty(which is in five years). She said that this thing is telling her she wants her soul. And the thing has a finger and is trying to get inside her head. I know this sounds crazy and as i writing this i still don't know what this means. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Does she need to get blessed? Should she talk to a therapist? Someone please help!
Nov 23, 2017
 Pray for them who are suffering through this. NEW
by: Love

I too have gone through this.Even now I'm facing negative spirits who are just trying to affect me
But through all this fear I need to pray to GOD to love me and save me. I know only God can help you through the worst suffering. It was a time when I started seeing ghosts and evil spirits. I called lord to save me from the dark energy. Then I just stopped seeing this. But I still feel the spirits around me. I feel their negativity in my mind and in heart. THESE EVIL SPIRITS WANTS TO TAKE YOU AWAY FROM GOD. THEY HATE GOD.PLEASE TRY TO BE SOME CLOSER TO GOD. Pray.Pray.Pray. True tears are message to God. His eternal love will save you from evil spirits. I will pray for you. If you just need someone to listen to your problem you can tell me. I will try to help if I could. I will pray for you. God is always there with LOVE.
Nov 29, 2017
 Buzz cut black figure NEW
by: NDE

When I was 12 I was Watching Tv and kept pulling the blakets over my head Messing around and the third time there was something Watching me about couple feet away from me Stairing at me I Couldent yell or move nothing And I Blinked and it was Gone. now 3 Years I still them they say they will find me
Jan 02, 2018
 Glad I'm not alone with this NEW
by: Nicole

I was sick on that day so I didn't go to school.It was about 7 am wenn my mom left to work so I was alone at home(my family is often busy so I'm usually alone at home).I have an hue app on my phone that controls the led lights in my room.
At 8 am I turned on dark red leds lights with my phone.Sudently I couldn't move...i looked around my room and I saw it...the Sadow figure that just standet slightly bent near my doorway about 16 foot away from me.I still had my turned on app on phone in my hand while laying in my bed.So I tryed my best to turn the lights into brighter colour.My eyes just kept closing even if I did my best to keep them open.After 20 minutes struggling I somehow managed to do it brighter with my thumb.The shadow figure moved a bit.And somehow I fell even if it s usually hard for me to fall asleep.I woke up at 12 am.I felt pain on my body but I could move.The phone was still on and the light blue leds(I don t usually use that colour)were on.So it wasn't a dream...A month ago I had a similar experience.When I tryed to fall asleep I saw a verytall,very dark figure with big yellow-green eyes that stared at me.I thought I was imagining things so I turned in other direction.After 5 minutes I turned back bc of the curiosity...It was still there.So I turned again but This time I slapped myself in the cheeks hoping it won't be there....it was there.
Ever since I was small I had many ghosts/shadow figure experience.I'm don t want to tell anybody about it.Them might think im crazy..... (btw English isn t my first language so sry if there are mistakes)
Jan 02, 2018
 IMPORTANT, CURE FOR SLEEP PARALYSIS NEW
by: MIGUEL

So it’s been two years since I’ve commented on this forum. I’ve had sleep paralysis for years, and although people may disagree, it IS caused by anxiety from being immobilized during sleep. Your bad sleep habits mess with your REM sleep, and causes your body to wake up unnaturally causes you to be "paralyzed". I went with a neurology doctor and he recommended I take a 5mg melatonin tablet every night at 8, melatonin is a natural occurring hormone that regulates your body’s natural clock. Since then I’ve slept better, dreamed more, woke up feeling refreshed and I have completely gotten rid of my sleep paralysis.
-Miguel

If you have any questions that you would like to ask or want some advice on handling sleep paralysis sessions, you can contact me at mpatino090101@gmail.com
Jan 12, 2018
 My dreams felt so real NEW
by: M.miller

Ok so when i was younger i think i was 12 i fell asleep in the living room then i thought i had woken up but i guess i was asleeo. It felt cold and i noticed the room was way darker then out of the corner of my eye i. Seen something moving like smoke fogg it was a blackish grey and it felt like it was fulling up the room i couldnt move scream or breath and then i gasped for air and i woke up i had similar expieriences as i got older the worst one was when my sister actually heard me trying to breath and ask for help she was literally shaking me for almost 10 min. As she was crying she said i was freezing cold my eyes had no color and i had no pulse she thought i was dead.
Jan 15, 2018
 A black figure and a dog NEW
by: Abraham

I had a dream with the same black figure I was in like a roller coaster and it stoped at a foggy beach it was probably about 4:00am and all of a sudden a dog just starts barking at me and it just flys up in the air as it’s been hit with a car or something then the dog comes up to me normally and it starts crying like it’s suffering and then a black figure just come out then he like did something and I ended up waking up, I ended up falling asleep with my girlfriend on the phone and I guess I woke her up and she was trying to wake me up cause she said I started like silently screaming and then I started freaking out and making noises and that I was crying./ Does anyone know what this means?
Mar 12, 2018
 Nightmares seem so real advice or feedback NEW
by: Ryan

This has been hapening to me for a year now every time roughly 3am some violent some not so much once I freaked out and rember watching myself sleep looked to my left and saw a horrifying figure I woke myself up sweating heavily I had lost two loved ones around the time of this distinctive nightmare but now still to this day have figures appear in my doorway while I sleep and I have moved house since my dog seems to have nightmares to more now than ever any advice or feedback would be great.
Mar 12, 2018
 Getting closer to god always works for me. NEW
by: Anonymous

There is reason why something happens. I think they have reasons why they appear to you. They have reasons and motives visiting you and your place. You don't need get afraid because you don't the reason. The reason could be anything. I think one should keep patience and know that you're not alone God is working for you. I Read bible pray to God everything is fine. Getting closer to God works for me. I hear God songs Jesus songs when I'm afraid.it helps me feel the faith that God is with me. It works for me hearing God Jesus songs when i asleep. Demons afraid of the name of God Jesus.
Apr 02, 2018
 Dark figured of a man sitting on my chest NEW
by: Susan dingley

I was asleep having a nice dream I dreamt I was receiving messages on my phone .And as I went to read them. I felt this enormous pressure on my chest .And in my dream there was this dark shadow of a man crouched on my chest . It scares me that much I tried to scream .But it would not come out . As I felt like I was suffercating . As I could not breath
Apr 16, 2018
 Its a spirit of some kind or et NEW
by: Candace

I am 37 years old just happened to me as well when I was younger I was about 18 or 19 years old and I had a young son who was about one-and-a-half to two years at the time. I had first begun to have some faith in to study the Bible and had started to pray not long after the first few times I prayed I started having a problem with sleep paralysis ride wake up and I couldn't move. I couldn't move or speak to try to get help from my husband who was sleeping next to me. When I told him about it in the daytime when we were both awake he didn't believe me. We had begun to have some marital issues not getting along and he slept at a friend's house for a few nights and every single night I had to sleep paralysis. I had learned by studying spiritual warfare that I should use the name of Jesus well one night I did I said I command you to leave in the name of Jesus when I could speak but at first I could only say it in my mind. Will immediately after I had set it out loud my son started screaming in the Next Room I said what's wrong he said there's a dark man standing in the corner and he was scared so I went in there with him bravely and started praying as I held my son now tell me if this is only science and it's someone's own brain doing it to them then how can someone else experience it at the same time but the name of Jesus does work on these demons I can attest to that
Apr 18, 2018
 Dark Figure Experience NEW
by: Natalie

One day about 10 years ago I was laying in my bed at my moms house and seemed to be in a state of sleep paralysis. I know until this day that I saw a black, blurry silhouette standing at my doorway, observing me. I was terrified and tried yelling for my mom but I couldn't.
Apr 20, 2018
 That is not a dream NEW
by: Anonymous

In Greece the name of the spirit is Mora. It is not a man it is a woman. Comes as shadow whearing black cloag. You canot move or scream you will hear loud noises and a brigth room will get dark when the spirit demon is in there. Usualy hold you or sitting on you and always you cannot move.scary hapend to me manny times. Try to sleep with lights on and i found out that the room gets dark when visit. Last night hapend again. I was sleepig in my side and she i felt her liing next to me. Her hand hold me tight. Usualy last 10 to 20 seconds. I am awake and when she disapiars i gain contol to my body.
May 06, 2018
 Not sleep paralysis NEW
by: Anonymous

So I know I have sleep paralysis and I’ve been having it for like 2-4 years now. I’m honestly used to it. But these past two experiences were so much different. I woke up and right next to my bed on my night stand is a dark figure squatting reaching for my hand. I don’t know why but I thought it was my brother or something fucking with me. So I just stared at it for a while and it disappeared after a while or I just stopped caring...keep in mind I was extremely tired. A few days later I was laying on my back without the company of either one of my dogs so I felt lonely. Soon after I felt like someone was watching me and my whole body got hot and I got goosebumps. I turn around and I didn’t see anything but I heard this EXTREMELY loud noise of some old dude like moaning/screaming/snorting/snoring/hissing right next to my face. In the moment my whole body shriveled up and was paralyzed by fear, I couldn’t talk but this was different than sleep paralysis because I knew I was AWAKE.
May 11, 2018
 4:50 A.M. Fri, May 11 NEW
by: N/A

Above is the time that this was only submitted, not the time of the occurance . So, I had stayed up for a while 1 a.m. to be exact and I began to get tired so I decided to go to sleep on the couch. I turned off all the lights and I laid down. I immediately got tired, but when I was about to fall asleep I saw the dark figure above me. I could not speak, yell,or move practically in shock.

About two minutes later I got up turned on the light, and began to look for anything that looked like that shadow above me...there was nothing there. There is more to it, but I don't want to get off topic. My advice to you is to remember there is more to the Earth than just people.


May 22, 2018
 this is not a joke its real NEW
by: alliyah

i see the same thig this is not a dream not a sleep disorder this is real demons are real it use to happen to me like every night i use to be scared to go to sleep its like i was paralyzed couldnt move or speak sometimes it will look diffrent each time tall short one time it pretended to be my mom but its head was turned all the way around i couldnt see its face it went away for a couple months and now its back pray to god only god can help everytime it happens i would ask for gods help and i wake up..you cant fight it only god can dont let it get worse prey talk to god because this is real not a dream not no sleep disorder its real..ask for gods help he will help you..because this us not a game or a joke its real life demons are real and they wanna make are lifes horriable prey just because you dont see things dont mean they are not there walk by faith not by sight
Jun 03, 2018
 This is real NEW
by: Yaritza

This happened to me last night. I had been struggling to sleep because I felt uncomfortable. I felt as if I wasn’t alone in the room. Suddenly I begin to feel numb, I was laying on my back. I never lay on my back but it was a coincidence. I couldn’t move I tried so hard to lift myself up, kick and shout. I swear I was screaming but apparently I wasn’t because no one in my house could hear me. I didn’t see a black shadow, I was too scared to look for it while it was happening because I have a lot of family members that have told me their stories. I remember one of my aunts told me praying helped, so I prayed and it was gone instantly. This is real, science is just a way to sugarcoat it.
Jul 15, 2018
 had this weird scary dream NEW
by: Anonymous

When I was sleeping, In the dream I was awoke then went to the bathroom

The door opened by it's self


Then

This weird scary figure appeared out of no WHERE
And I was paralyzed

And felt paralyzed in real life

He was like a shadow figure

Only like Mr. Widemouth (That evil thing that killed many children with BIG eyes and Big SHARP teeth and his whole body was big small)

And it was a infinte loop

And I kept waking up in real life and the dream.
Jul 15, 2018
 had this weird scary dream NEW
by: Anonymous

When I was sleeping, In the dream I was awoke then went to the bathroom

The door opened by it's self


Then

This weird scary figure appeared out of no WHERE
And I was paralyzed

And felt paralyzed in real life

He was like a shadow figure

Only like Mr. Widemouth (That evil thing that killed many children with BIG eyes and Big SHARP teeth and his whole body was big small)

And it was a infinte loop

And I kept waking up in real life and the dream.
Aug 23, 2018
 His eyes NEW
by: Anonymous

At first I was dreaming of me with someone, we were trying to find proof of ghosts, but we were doing it to laugh and in a way, have fun.Until we found this man that said that he needed help, he was being tainted by this spiritual being,as I explained before, we did it for fun.So then we agreed,and went, when we got there as we took pictures of things, terrifying things would appear.At that instant my body felt some type of chill spread throughout my entire body, then I woke up to find there was some type of figure,looked like a person, so I tried to scream,I thought my roommate should be able to help me.I was wrong, the more I tried the weaker I felt,I tried moving as well, but as you may imagine, I couldn't move a single inch.By the time I tried to get up one last time, I blacked out for what felt like ten seconds.As I opened my eyes, I saw the same figure looking at me, but this time I could move, I could finally speak, but by the time I looked back at it the only thing I saw were eyes,and not a figure.


Is there any way you guys can help me out to at least help me know what was really happening, this happened to me before but before I was asleep with my eyes open and saw, spoke to people I have never seen before, by the time I awoke I saw the same eyes and eyes only, nothing else.
Aug 27, 2018
 happened to me too NEW
by: Anonymous

When I was in junior high and high school, living at my parents house and sleeping in one particular bedroom, a dark figure would visit me at night. It was a black silhouette without features-tall with long arms down by its side, I think male. Not solid black but bit translucent. It would stand in the doorway of my closet. I was a stomach sleeper and it would come out and push my shoulders down into the bed to where I couldn't turn my head (when I was on my stomach). It would scare the crap out of me. Then I'd wake up. It never happened when I slept in any of our other bedrooms. When my youngest sister got older and moved into that bedroom when I went off to college, she had the same experiences and it only happened in that one bedroom. What was it? I still get chills thinking about it.
Sep 13, 2018
 Years of this NEW
by: Anonymous

So I'm in the military, currently deployed in the middle east. I have had dreams since I was 12 years old. Seeing shadows fly by my windows as I sleep, something standing in the corner of my room or being chased by some unknown creature. Earliest dream I remember, in middle school. I am asleep in my bed, second floor of the townhouse. my wall across from my bed is lit up from a street light behind our home. I remember waking up and looking at the wall, and seeing a figure whip past the wall. My first thought was it's a bird, but then I realized the light was about 20 feet off the ground and the odds of a bird flying past at the exact moment were very low. Next I was on the second floor of the same townhouse. Basement: first floor. Kitchen and living room: Second floor. Bedrooms and bathrooms: Third floor. We had a cat, all the were off on the bottom two floors. I was starting to walk up the stairs to the third floor to go to bed. I stopped, I don't know why I did, but I did and heard something crunching in the kitchen. Me not being an idiot thought it was the cat eating dry food. I walk up stairs, I then see at the top of the stairs laying down the cat. I was so scared I slept with the lights on. We then moved and I heard noises and talking, when I was the only one home in the new house. Also have had electronics talk to me. Recently since joining the military the shadow figures have started coming in my dreams, first just in my room watching me. Then once in a bad place in my life, religiously, my relationship and health. I had a dream that ended with me physically wrestling with one of these black figures. I was thrown to the ground and the figure crushed my head with it's foot. I began to fall into blackness a void. After a few seconds I felt heat and saw a red glow below me. I woke in a fright. I then was stationed on the west coast of the United States. I had a dream one night in my room, that on the other side in the empty bed of my barracks room was a figure. Sitting and looking at me. Large white eyes. I was scared, once it felt I was scared it started smiling. A giant mouth from corner to corner of it's head. I threw the blanket up and jumped out of bed and it was gone. I looked towards the door of my room, it was standing there, that's when I realized it had arms that were long and bent the wrong direction at the elbow. I flicked on the light and it vanished. Recently while deployed in the middle east I had a dream I was being chased and the being I never saw more than a second of it. It could fly, it was smarter than me, stronger than me and had a horrible screech. I hid in a barn as it slowly hunted me down. Another dream I was at a party, and the same figure attacked the party, wearing a trench coat and hat. All black skin, lightning fast. I ran away driving in a car to a police station, to only be labeled crazy by the police officer. I heard the figure coming, screaming after me. I then went out the back door of the station and the cop saw the figure come through the door. The last thing I remember from that dream was hearing the cop say "Oh my God." as he saw the being. Lastly, I had a dream that I was being chased by again a black figure. This time I was driving to start and I stopped at a old house. Three old ladies were sitting outside it. I told them the thing was chasing me and I couldn't get away. They told me about the creature/being. I went inside to have some form of shelter, that's when I got lost and it found me. I was in a dark room when I saw in a closet a clown. (I'm not scared of clowns at all) This clown was a disguise for the black figure though, he started taking off his mask and gloves. I closed my eyes, a childs natural response to anything scary. I'm almost 23 years old at this point. I try and find a ladder out of the building and I bump into it and the next thing I remember is being outside. Talking to the old ladies again they explain to me that I'll never get away from it, if I hurt it they'll help it and that I was doomed.

These dreams don't follow the traditional I'm stuck in my bed 100% of the time. The idea is this figure is following me for years. Both in dreams and awake. It doesn't matter if I'm in my room in the dream or running, it hunts me. Plays with me. I think whatever it is enjoys the chase. That isn't paralysis, that is bad energy. Something choosing to have fun hurting me, that means it's alive or a entity that has a mind and thoughts. I need help, please.

email: mrjoefrederick@gmail.com
Oct 13, 2018
 Shadow of a man in black NEW
by: Aniel

Same thing happened with me, I opened my eyes seeing a man in front of me watching me, I couldn't see her face it's was like a shadow but full in black, I couldn't move or yell I was so afraid and that wasn't the first time, I thought I was the only one experiencing this kind of stuff
Oct 16, 2018
 Dark shadow with cloak and spikes for head NEW
by: Anonymous

I was 19 and I woke up at 5am just as light was out. I saw a dark shadow going up and down in me I tried to fight it and yell for my brother but could not. It then spoke to me in a evil voice saying "STAY WITH ME" I fought harder. It came out of my body and stood directly in front of me anger and mad for about five seconds the went into the air got smaller and smaller and disappeared into a dark black hole. As soon as the hole disappeared with it. I could then move and talk again..
Don't let the doctors fool you and tell you what it is. I saw it %100 and heard it %100 it's real. It exists no one can explain it. And they want to have the answers for everything. So they will tell you the only thing that they think it could be..
I am now 38 and it has happened one other time 4 years after and not again since.
Nov 29, 2018
 SIMILAR THING HAPPENED TO ME NEW
by: Anonymous

Same thing happened to me last night, omg it was so fucking scary. I was just laying in my bed and then my night light started flickering until suddenly, it completely turned off, it was dark. Then... my blanket was pulled slightly off my chest, I heard a deep voice, almost like moaning, it sounded like croaking kind of too. Then it turned me to my side and I saw a black figure standing on my bedside, I think white eyes too, but dark. I immediately closed my eyes(my heart was beating fast), and when I opened them, my night light was still on like it was before. And my blanket was still in its original spot just like nothing happened. Then I experienced sleep paralysis after that, going on and off(couldn’t move or say anything), it felt like I was in shock almost. Scariest experience of my life.
Dec 30, 2018
 I wrote the one when I was 19 now 38 NEW
by: Anonymous

It's not made up. Or in my mind I am a normal person with four kids now and live a very normal life what ever it was it has not visited me or at least I have not caught it since I was 23 first time I was 19 and I definitely saw it and heard it I would take a ie detector test and I am sure it would show I am telling the truth. I don't do drugs and have good values and morals. I just wish it were better studdied and more people would talk about it. It's part of this universe/ world and I think they should get science truly on it and try and figure it out. Who knows what it could lead to. It was scary when it happened and I am sure it would be again if it happened again but I wish I could go back and talk with whatever it was and conversate with it and ask what it wanted and how can I help. But truly I just think it was evil and probably didn't want anything good. So oh well.
Maybe a agngel will visit me instead and I can feel the complete opposite of what I felt that early morning.
That would be way cooler. :)
Jan 07, 2019
 Been there NEW
by: Anonymous

I've had this throughout my life. The last time I thought I could see a hat in my peripheral. Before that I was actually angry and told whay ever it was to get the hell out. I feel violated when it happens. And don't believe it's a hallucination. It's something else.
Jan 13, 2019
 dark shadow experience
by: Anonymous

This morning at 4am on 1/13/19 I woke up got out of bed to turn the TV off (it was left on by my husband who stays up late after work) I push the on/off button on the TV and it makes a click sound and it turns off. I turned the light off and got back into bed. As soon as I lay back down in bed, I heard the TV click back on. I heard the sound of the on/off button. I look up to see and on my bed is a dark shadow. I got scared and lay back on my side facing my husband and closed my eyes. I started to pray. But it was really hard like something was holding my words. Then I felt the pressure of something sitting on my pillow above my head. I tried to reach my arm out to wake up my husband and the shadow grabbed my wrist. I fought to break free my arm. I tried screaming, but nothing came out. A few moments later it let go. I thought it went away, but then I felt the heaviness sitting on my legs. And then it was gone. I looked at clock, it was 430am. I woke my husband up. Told him what happened. He couldn't make any sense of it.

We've lived in our house 17 years and never ever experienced that before. Holding onto my husband tight, we both fell back to sleep.

I know that was real! I know what I saw. I googled and found this and read all the stories trying to make any sense of what I experienced. There's got to be a better explanation other than sleep paralysis, because I was awake. Dreams are sometimes remembered in bits if at all. This was no dream or hallucination, I remember this event cleary!
Feb 12, 2019
 Demons NEW
by: Richard Davis

Ever since it happened I think about it and never spoke to anyone about this but when I was about 15 I'm 30 now and lived in Utah but this black cloaked "Im assuming a demon" in my nightmare would be in my closet and would start walking towards me and as hard as tried I couldnt move or make a sound just breathe softly and before he got close enough to "I assume" hurt me I woke up and I thought it was just a nightmare so I fell back asleep and had the same exact nightmare as if to show me he/she was still after me and when I woke up the second time I was too scared to fall back asleep so I waited till morning to sleep and never had that nightmare again. A few years later though a friend and I were eating a pizza across where I used to work "Papa John's" and this car drove by and when we both looked there was this demon lady looking at us she clearly was not of this world and we got spooked but didnt think to hard on it that maybe we were imagining things but a few months later I had thoughts of suicide as if they were trying to influence my thoughts to kill myself cause suicide is an unforgivable sin and be cast into hell amongst them. A few years after that I asked my friend if he distinctly remembers her demonic face staring right at us and he said he did and we both to this day cannot make sense of it. There are demons, I'm 100% positive demons live amongst us. Be righteous brothers and sisters take god into your heart if you haven't already and please and pray for his protection as I will for everyone cause the lord is our savior
Feb 19, 2019
 Scared NEW
by: Mari

So I am an atheist. My dreams has always seemed to either repeat one many nights in a row of people in a red setting or just a view of a valley. But tonight was completly different I woke up in a dead sweat and couldnt breath very well. I only had three hour of sleep, but I woke up because I couldn't stand the dream. I am 17 and I am a female, which im still in school and living at home. My dream took place as me in my bed unable to move, speak, and all I could see in the shadowing of my room was complete darkness around my bed. I couldnt move or speack so I just closed my eyes and tried to pretend it wasn't happening. Soon I felt a hand touch the outside of my leg and I freaked but I could not move. I woke up right after the hand had competely been placed on my leg. My sister was coming to my door(I dont even have a sister), but when she opened it she was suched into the darkness and I was left yelling for my mom. She soon came to my door and the last thing I remember before I actually woke up was a voice saying something I do not remember. Please could someone help me to understand what I dreamed about.
Feb 22, 2019
 Shadow figure dream
by: Cam

I had the shadow figure dream as a kid ( I'm pretty sure I was around 10-12 years old). I still think about today and I'm 32. I remember it vividly but also not. I remember the figure, I remember feeling as if it was bad and also had the extreme feeling that it wasn't human. But it just looked like a showdowy figure i couldn't tell any details at all. I remember also truely thinking I was awake. And I remember not moving but it wasn't that I couldn't move... I just didn't want to in hopes that I would fall back asleep or that it would go away. It only happened once. But I still to this day think and wonder about it.
May 14, 2019
 Bro. Thats a Demon. NEW
by: Christ Lives

Demons are real. Spiritual Warfare is what we as humans must face living in this world. Call on the name of Jesus Christ and the dark beings will not be able to harm you.
Jun 17, 2019
 Scared granddaughter
by: Kathy

Hello, can someone please help me with some advice every since my granddaughter came home for a visit she been seeing someone black laying in the bed beside her this in the daytime she is wide awake she can't move, talk or anything intill what ever it is gets up its really starting to scare her. One day she was talking to me on the phone she said mawmaw what is that I said what she said hold still she took a pitcher of a man on my shoulder since she been home things have started picking up. Please someone can you help me.
Jun 20, 2019
 Can't believe this NEW
by: Anonymous

These visions or dreams are psychological, as the brain is acting as if there is a drug or some obstruction causing this. It is usually a hallucination, or in a dream state, or half asleep. People exaggerate these sightings. They are certainly not normal, not just because I never experienced them, but because they are described by people in a very crazy sense. I have met people that had these experiences, and most of them are on drugs or have brain tumors or syndromes. Pray, and wake up to the fact that you are not normal with this.
Jun 20, 2019
 Kathy NEW
by: Anonymous

Well for one my granddaughter is only 14 years old and no she is not on drugs. Sorry I even bother anyone I was just trying to help my scared granddaughter. No everyone that sees stuff is on drugs.
Aug 09, 2019
 Black figure woman NEW
by: Anonymous

Idk wth but I do Kno my best friend was found murdered in a pond after he became missing 7 days from today. The woman idk but she had to shadow figure of my ex and I strongly believe she's a narcissist. Anyway I woke up at 12m tonight because I when I started dozing off it was like my body was sleep but my mind was woke. It's a calm night outside but I started hearing wind outside my window and during that time I felt n seen a dark figure around her height because I'm 5'11 n she's 5'10 and get in bed with me in the same side she use to sleep on and put it's head on my chest, grabbed my hand and place it's left leg over mine. Now I will say I also lost my job earlier that day when I lost my best friend and I was uneasy that whole day but did not know why until the next day. With her I wasn't talking to her but on that same day we spoke a few words on the phone about an hour before I lost my job. It's like I lost 3 that ngs on the same day a week ago from today. Sorry if I'm hard to follow right now but I'm jus trying to paint the picture. Now back to when that figure got in the bed with me it did not feel like a friendly presence and I felt energy draining from me. I was able to move but I didn't until I felt something else on the right side of me brush up against my arm and then I jumped and once I jumped she was gone. I still didn't open my eyes yet because I never felt anything in my bed before but when I did the wind slowly came to a cease. Maybe I'm super stressed idk but I do know this was very disturbing me. I'm 35 and I almost got in my truck to drive to my parents house. Now I'm jus woke and is scared to go back to sleep. I honestly feel like if whatever that was maybe an angel didn't brush against my right side the shadow figure was going to kill me.
Aug 16, 2019
 I couldn't move or yell and I saw a black figure NEW
by: Anonymous

Good To know that I'm not the only one. When I was at a young age a shadow would come in my room, come over to my bed bent over it to face me and then it bit me. It was so vivid, that shadow was tall and had dark red eyes and big,sharp teeth. It was so scary, I couldn't move I couldn't tell, hell I was so scared that I couldn't even breathe. This was happening almost every night for two years straight. I've got chills by even thinking about it.
Aug 22, 2019
 experienced two similar experiences
by: Anonymous

Approx. around two years ago, i remember that i was sleeping and suddenly i felt like someone was holding me down and i couldn't move or speak. My arms were held down on both sides of my bed and on each side there was a cat sphinx with a pentagram on their head. They were speaking in an unknown language and a dark shadow started to form on top of me and was turning into a shape of a dark figure with horns. I started to pray a lot and then they vanished sort of and woke up. Last night i experienced something different. I've put my phone on the night stand next to me, and as soon i put my head on the pillow i felt paralyzed, couldn't move and tried to move my head but couldn't either. Then i felt like hands fondling my breasts while moving towards my pelvis then it stopped. I heard like a beastly, harsh voice (honestly can't actually describe it) and managed to move by holding myself on my elbows and on my right side i saw like a dark shadow without shape but dark i tried to speak but as soon i tried to mention God or the Holy Mother of God, my lips were like glued and couldn't say anything. I could only say the prayers using my inner voice sort of and after awhile it vanished but i didn't wake up as i was awake the whole time...
Sep 20, 2019
 Dark female figure
by: Anonymous

I experienced this early this morning. During my sleep, I opened my eyes to see a dark presence that looked like a young girl sitting next to me on the bed. Even though my eyes were closed, I couldn't take my eyes off of her hollow eyes. Does that even make sense?! I felt paralyzed by gaze. I remember trying to somehow gauge out her hollow eyes to keep her from staring at me but I couldn't move. I couldn't speak. It felt like an eternity and like she was starting to lean into me as if to do something to me. That's when I somehow let out a loud scream! I was still in that dream state and yet I could literally hear myself yell. I startled my husband, he shook me to wake up. I briefly opened my eyes and fell right back asleep as if nothing happened and the dark presence was gone. The crazy thing about this is that earlier this week I saw the same dark figure in my sleep but it wasn't threatening me. Last night/this morning, it obviously was a different scenario. This doesn't happen to me a lot but, it has happened and each terror is about the same, or sometimes worse than the one before.
Very frightening!
Oct 09, 2019
 Dark figure NEW
by: Anonymous

I had a dark figure in a hood and felt like a woman at my bed side. It literally held me down and was trying to suffocate me. I prayed and got super anger at it. As soon as I did I was able to shack free. Told it it didnt belong here and that I'm a child of God. My whole life dreams and attacked in my sleep by demons.im use to it but I continue to fight them. Idk why they do it to me so often.
Mar 05, 2020
 same NEW
by: akio

its 3 am, i also had this kind of dream
in dream i was with my family in room at night, we heard something wisteling outside, as i go nearby the window a dark shadow trying to catch me, as he couldn't do it he blew some heavy air 2-3 times from his nose and disappeared, but i thought he went to get stones to throw at us so i was trying to close the window, then i woke up completely terrified.
Mar 05, 2020
 same NEW
by: akio

its 3 am, i also had this kind of dream
in dream i was with my family in room at night, we heard something wisteling outside, as i go nearby the window a dark shadow trying to catch me, as he couldn't do it he blew some heavy air 2-3 times from his nose and disappeared, but i thought he went to get stones to throw at us so i was trying to close the window, then i woke up completely terrified.
Oct 11, 2020
 Dark shadow NEW
by: Stay prayed up

I was sleeping it was a real tropical storm outside. It was raining so I'm sleep all of a sudden early in the morning maybe in between 1am or 3am I see a dark shadow by the window i kept asking him what or you doing what do you want he stood still like he was in shock.... Then he calmly said making sure it's not raining in the window in a calm voice which happen to be my son voice I said okay in went right back to sleep by the way I was at my son house.when it happen. I ask him he said it wasn't him... But you know kids clown around so much.. It left me ? It.
Oct 11, 2020
 Dark shadow NEW
by: Stay prayed up

I was sleeping it was a real tropical storm outside. It was raining so I'm sleep all of a sudden early in the morning maybe in between 1am or 3am I see a dark shadow by the window i kept asking him what or you doing what do you want he stood still like he was in shock.... Then he calmly said making sure it's not raining in the window in a calm voice which happen to be my son voice I said okay in went right back to sleep as if he said sleep my child. The tv light was so bright behind h by the way I was at my son house.when it happen. I ask him he said it wasn't him the room was only bright behind him only on his side but dark in the corner behind me. So bright like he had a huge flashlight only on him and calming after he spoke... But you know kids clown around so much.. It left me ? It. I did not feel frienghten after he spoke I drifted right back to sleep asap. Woke up the next morning feeling great.
Oct 28, 2020
 :l NEW
by: Anonymous

The same happened to me, except I couldn't see anything. It was pitch black, and when I tried to move I couldn't. When I also tried to scream, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't
Jan 08, 2022
 Same NEW
by: Beate

I was too wake up then i saw black human or that i want too yell but i cant soo i was want to turn light on but i cant move soo i try to sleep and i did it now i stil see him sometimes
Jan 21, 2022
 Moving Shadow NEW
by: Anonymous

The first time I had this happen to me I was terrified. I woke up in the middle of the night to a black shadow figure in the shape of a man. I closed my eyes thinking it was caused by something stupid and it wasn’t really there. I opened my eyes and it was still there. I blinked again and it’s still there but now it’s moving from my closet to my bed. I blinked again it’s still getting closer to me. It reached my bed and I quickly turn on my lamp next to me. As soon as the light when on it was gone. I was absolutely terrified, my girlfriend woke up next to me and asked what was wrong I told her what happened and she became pretty alarmed because I’ve never given her a reason to doubt me before. This happened on a few different occasions. It’s only happened to me in my home never anywhere else. I’m 31 years old and do not believe in ghosts or supernatural but this has me completely questioning whether this is a demon or something like that. I’ve went through every possibility that could cause this but can’t figure it out. I’ve moved things in my room to see if it was the way light reflection that caused this but I really have no idea. One thing I know is if I’m not moving there should be no shadow shaped figures moving either.
Aug 16, 2022
 Pray NEW
by: Anonymous

Hey,
These are spiritual attacks. That was a demon. The best way to address this is to turn to Jesus for help. Next time shout Jesus. Keep shouting Jesus and then you will break free from it. These are real encounters unfortunately many people were tricked to believe it is nothing serious but it is serious. Give your life to Jesus Christ. Only he can protect you. Spirits/demons are real… you can’t fight them with your hands when then attack you but you can fight them through prayer. I beg you to learn about Jesus so that you can know how to keep yourself safe. I wish you the very best.
Sep 02, 2022
 Demonic figure aperance NEW
by: Anonymous

He appears right in the door way looked right at me but I couldn't see his face all dark I mean him he was starting to come towards me and I was trying to get up and yell for help and it took my voice away from me I couldn't talk at all till my girlfriend and her daughter came in to the room he just vanished just like h that she said what happened isaid he heals me down with three long pointy fingers like
Sep 02, 2022
 Demonic figure aperance NEW
by: Big jimmy

He appears right in the door way looked right at me but I couldn't see his face all dark I mean him he was starting to come towards me and I was trying to get up and yell for help and it took my voice away from me I couldn't talk at all till my girlfriend and her daughter came in to the room he just vanished just like h that she said what happened isaid he heals me down with three long pointy fingers like
Sep 02, 2022
 Demonic figure aperance NEW
by: Big jimmy

He appears right in the door way looked right at me but I couldn't see his face all dark I mean him he was starting to come towards me and I was trying to get up and yell for help and it took my voice away from me I couldn't talk at all till my girlfriend and her daughter came in to the room he just vanished just like h that she said what happened isaid he heals me down with three long pointy fingers like
Sep 02, 2022
 Demonic figure aperance NEW
by: Big jimmy

He appears right in the door way looked right at me but I couldn't see his face all dark I mean him he was starting to come towards me and I was trying to get up and yell for help and it took my voice away from me I couldn't talk at all till my girlfriend and her daughter came in to the room he just vanished just like h that she said what happened isaid he heals me down with three long pointy fingers like
Sep 02, 2022
 Demonic figure aperance NEW
by: Big jimmy

He appears right in the door way looked right at me but I couldn't see his face all dark I mean him he was starting to come towards me and I was trying to get up and yell for help and it took my voice away from me I couldn't talk at all till my girlfriend and her daughter came in to the room he just vanished just like h that she said what happened isaid he heals me down with three long pointy fingers like
Nov 10, 2022
 fighting shadows NEW
by: Anonymous

I was in bed facing the wall turned on my side to see the shadow I wasn't scared bit shocked just looking at it for a while the proceded to hit it it tryd dragging me to my window I remember the hole thing I could move but slow n felt heavy some weird stuff fr
Mar 12, 2023
 Black figure, couldn't move or yell NEW
by: Anonymous

I had a dream like that today. I opened my eyes in my dream sleeping next to my man because I heard our flat's door keys chingle(make noise). Like someone was trying to get in. I nudged my man to wake him up wich he did. (we have an automatic light in the entrance) Our light turned on in the entrance. Meaning it picked up movement in the corridor. Next moment we saw a black hooded figure come from the corridor. A few steps into the living room and just stop. It was watching us. I was so scared i tried to ask if my man was seeing it too but my voice just didn't come out. I tried to move and I couldn't. At last i could very slowly take my mans hand and bring it to my chest to hug and ask very cuietly if he is seeing it. He said yes. The figure just stayed there. Looking.
Then I woke up. But the thing is. I know it was sleep paralysis because the figure that I saw was exactly the same shape the tshirt gives that is hanging on my doorway. No demons phahaha
Apr 25, 2023
 WHAT IS THIS ? NEW
by: JON

BIG BLACK MASS WALK STOMP TOWARDS ME YELLING JAWANEE / I FELL AT THE FRONT DOOR HALF WAY INSIDE UNABLE TO MOVE INSIDE TO CLOSE DOOR, HEARING VOICE GET CLOSER. I AWAKE IN FEAR / A REOCCURRING DREAM TWICE THE SAME BLACK MASS

https://www.dreamaboutmeaning.com/dream-about-black-mass-meaning.html#more
Nov 24, 2024
 nightmares NEW
by: Anonymous

My worst nightmare when I was a kid was that I was swimming underwater in our house going from room to room looking for air. I woke up when I couldn't hold my breath any longer and I was gasping for air. That one dream has stuck with me my whole life.

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