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Thank God I Found This

by Bill
(Western New York)

I'll write more tomorrow because I'm too exhausted at the moment. I'm petrified to sleep - it's getting worse & worse every single night - harder & harder to "snap myself out of it." I've heard of SP before but last night - i was finally convinced it was something evil. The breathing's getting harder and it literally felt like something was doing this to me.


I was asleep on my parents couch, laying on my right side - and it was as though something or someone was pushing as hard as they could against my back as if to suffocate me with the back cushion of the couch. I'm going to lay down on it right now - and again, as i do nightly, i will pray for God to allow me to wake up alive.

Sometimes i think it happens because i think about it & fear it so much leading up to falling asleep - that maybe i'm the cause of it's onset myself. I'm just glad i'm not alone - i thought i was possessed. i hope to be able to write more tomorrow - but if tonight's any worse than last night - i fear there won't be another night for me. Goodnight all.

Kevin: I'm glad you found us too Bill. And happy to hear from you. I strongly recommend reading the book I talk about here. It's about taking control of your sleep paralysis, written by a guy who's battled it for almost two decades. I hope the strategies within can help you sleep much more peacefully.

Let me know how it goes,
Kevin

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May 17, 2011
 Pray...Nevwr
by: Coco

Don't let it get the best of you cause the more you fear the worse it gets. I've had this experience so many times. It had gotten to the point where I would
Sleep with every light on in the house. I thought it was jus SO but I strongly believe its much more than tat. I started burying myself under a lot of blankets cause I was so scared but that didn't work sleeping with all the lights on didnt work either. I prayed and called on Jesus and I started reading the bible eventhough i didnt understand most of it. I sleep with the bible open under my.pillow and that helped me.
May 17, 2011
 Pray...Never Fear cause when u fear it gets worse
by: Coco

Don't let it get the best of you cause the more you fear the worse it gets. I've had this experience so many times. It had gotten to the point where I would
Sleep with every light on in the house. I thought it was jus SO but I strongly believe its much more than tat. I started burying myself under a lot of blankets cause I was so scared but that didn't work sleeping with all the lights on didnt work either. I prayed and called on Jesus and I started reading the bible eventhough i didnt understand most of it. I sleep with the bible open under my.pillow and that helped me.
Sep 13, 2011
 my poor baby
by: worried MOM

Until today I never even heard of SP. I began searching online for answers to what is happening to my son. He is 14 yrs old, and has been complaining off and on his whole life about having bad dreams about ghosts .This progressed into complaints of waking up feeling as if he was being watched and then he began describing waking up and seeing a dark figure looking down on him.He feels this "man" has intense hatred for him ,he feels very threatened and frightened and worries that noone believes him ,or think he is dreaming ,and I actually considered a psychiatric condition could be effecting my child .The more i read the more I am learning about this condition.This is such a helpless feeling for me as I can see my child is truely terrified and severly affected by what is happening to him.THANK GOD I FOUND THIS!!!
I now have a starting point in which to research and help my son to learn about what is happening to him.
May 24, 2015
 Always sleep with pillow magnetic south to cure yourself of monsters NEW
by: Anonymous

Your sleep posture is making you vulnerable to nefarious entities!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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