Levitation And Strangulation

[The White Belt]

Hey people.

I've suffered from sleep paralysis for as long as I remember.

It comes on more frequently when I start to try lucid dreaming by keeping a dream journal and what not.

Last night I woke paralyzed, and I told myself to not panic, my body was totally light which is normal, but then I realised I was slowly descending from the air, into my bed, and I felt the pressure as I lightly fell into the bed and I realised that I was levitating. In the day I was thinking about angels because of somebody elses post and a ringing in my ear. 

But then I saw the face of a demon, but it seemed more just like a mental image than a figure in my room, and I began to choke as if I was being strangled. 

 

What do I do about this?

How do I take it all? Is it significant, or should it be ignored?

I'm not frightened or anything. Like I said i've had sleep paralysis before, and in the past a headless shadow man touched my foot, but I can't remember levitation happening since I was a child and i've never felt strangulation before.

I'd like a comment from @Emerald here too, if possible.

[Emerald]

3 hours ago, BeginnerActualizer said:

Hey people.

I've suffered from sleep paralysis for as long as I remember.

It comes on more frequently when I start to try lucid dreaming by keeping a dream journal and what not.

Last night I woke paralyzed, and I told myself to not panic, my body was totally light which is normal, but then I realised I was slowly descending from the air, into my bed, and I felt the pressure as I lightly fell into the bed and I realised that I was levitating. In the day I was thinking about angels because of somebody elses post and a ringing in my ear. 

But then I saw the face of a demon, but it seemed more just like a mental image than a figure in my room, and I began to choke as if I was being strangled. 

 

What do I do about this?

How do I take it all? Is it significant, or should it be ignored?

I'm not frightened or anything. Like I said i've had sleep paralysis before, and in the past a headless shadow man touched my foot, but I can't remember levitation happening since I was a child and i've never felt strangulation before.

I'd like a comment from @Emerald here too, if possible.

I've had Sleep Paralysis since I was 13 years old. Though, I had a few out of body experiences as a child that I just attributed to paranormal activity (Once when I was 3 or 4, I woke up with holographic clowns projected all over my walls... It was terrifying). When I was 5, I dreamt that my sister and I were both climbing up a car jack that extended 100s of feet into the sky (my father is a mechanic). It was one of the small ones that normally go up only a foot or so, but in the dream the jack went all the way up to the clouds. I was hundreds of feet off of the ground and began to fall, and I was falling for a long time in the dream. Before I hit the ground in the dream, I woke up in mid-air and fell the remaining 4 or 5 feet onto my bed.

I've had other experiences with floating and levitation too. When I was 15, I woke up with sleep paralysis and successfully got up from my body. I walked over to the mirror to look at myself, but I lost control and started tumbling around in midair. I couldn't get my bearings. I've had similar situations happen many times where I'll disconnect from my body, then just end up floating around next to my bed without being able to move or pick myself up from the ground. What's interesting about those is that I can actually see the underside of my bed. But it's frustrating when I think of all the cool possibilities that I could be experiencing. I feel like I should be better at controlling my experiences by now. Then once when my husband and I were dating, I stayed the night at his house. I woke up with sleep paralysis and was able to make my way out to the street. I stood in the middle of his road, and my legs below my knees were stiff and controlled and began levitating upward without my intention. But the rest of my body was out of control and I felt a little like I was a drunk person on a tiny platform that was slowly rising into the air. Not good for a person who's afraid of heights. 

As far as entities and attacks go, I've had a few experiences. My first time experiencing sleep paralysis, I was staying the night at my mom's house and I always slept in the same bed as her because I didn't have a bed there. I was sleeping on the side of the bed that had the alarm clock, and I woke up around 2 am not being able to sleep. So, I sat there staring at the alarm clock for a few minutes when suddenly, my mom (who was supposed to be sleeping behind me) starts tickling me under the armpits. So, I try telling her to stop but I wasn't able to speak or move very well. And the tickling sensation soon became a stabbing sensation like someone was trying to shove two metal rods into my underarms with the pressure that an adult male could apply. I tried to scream but couldn't, and it went on for a minute or two before it finally subsided. My mom was sleeping the whole time.

I also had an experience where I was laying in bed and suddenly a magnetic force rotated my body 90 degrees in one swift motion, so that my legs were dangling off the side of the bed. Then the force pulled me onto the floor (again one swift motion). I was terrified and couldn't move as the force was pressing me down. Then, one by one, the force lifted up each of my limbs so that each limb was at its full extension and perpendicular to the ground. When I was finally able to get up, I tried to open my bedroom door but my hand couldn't grasp the doorknob and hurt immensely when I tried. I ended up falling through the door into the kitchen eventually.

I had a couple of experiences with dopplegangers too. When I was 17, I lived with my then-boyfriend. He had gone to work, and I decided to take a nap after I got home from school. I woke up to him coming home and telling me that he'd gotten off work early. As we were talking, something was very off about him. It looked like him, but it didn't act like him at all. The mannerisms were off. But I just dismissed it and let him know that I was going to go back to sleep for a little while. The second that I layed back down, I heard the high pitched buzzing noise and he jumped on me and started biting my shoulder as hard as he could. I eventually was able to snap out of it, and everything was the same only the light was off and he was still at work.

The other experience that I had with dopplegangers was when I was 24. I had accidentally fallen asleep on the couch and had already woken up once before with sleep paralysis. Sleeping in strange places tends to set it off for me. But I woke up, to someone unlocking the front door. It was my mom. She was making some casual comments about how work had been tough that evening and how she was tired. So, this immediately keyed me into the fact that something was off. My mom doesn't work and she doesn't live with me either. The second "my mom" saw that I had realized its game, its eyes went dead pan and it floated sidelong into the bed room adjacent to the living room, as it maintained eye contact with me. I walked to the room it had floated into, and my daughter was in the hallway just outside the room. She seemed very sprightly and not scary like the other doppleganger had been. But I stood next to my daughter and looked in the room and there was a couch in there now. And on that couch the dead-eyed versions of my mother, father, sister, and husband were sitting there and looking at me motioning for me to come in. Then, I just walked away and went back to where I was sleeping and laid back down. I wasn't having any of that.  

I also once, stumbled into a man who was made entirely out of long black braided screws. He had no face or distinct features. It was just a huge, man-shaped pile of black braided screws. It was scary to see him in my hallway, and I ran in the other direction. But he didn't pursue me. He just kind of looked (without eyes) in my direction as I ran away. 

I've never been strangled before, but my friend Amelia was strangled by a shadow man with a hat during her first experience. I've heard tell that a lot of people see shadow men with hats and old hags. And strangulation and not being able to breathe is a common occurrence, because the paralysis puts a lot of pressure on the chest. So, in this respect, it may just be a hallucination that the body comes up with to explain the extra pressure on the throat and chest.

But there is also a change that OBE corresponds to a real reality. In this case, it may be the case that these entities have some kind of existence to them. I don't know how much this is true, but a lot of people who talk about the law of attraction with regard to OBE say that you can only attract negative entities if you have negative attraction points within yourself. I'm inclined to believe this is true, because since I've been really working on myself I haven't really had any negative experiences during OBEs. I was really low as a teenager and I had a bunch of negative and scary OBEs. So, if you want to have more positive OBEs, then you can try various things to integrate aspects of yourself that have become unconscious or repressed. 

[The White Belt]

@Emerald Hey thanks for your response! All of your negative experiences sound absolutely horrifying. It was like reading short horror stories . I'm glad mine aren't that bad. Usually they do come on when i'm stressed, but i'm pretty calm lately, so i'll have to dive deep to see what's going on! 

Thanks again. 

[Loreena]

@BeginnerActualizer  it could be due to stress.

I have suffered sleep paralysis a few times. I felt like I was held down by a Dragon. 

In my case, I have realized it's caused by sleep deprivation. 

The days when I get good sleep, its usually doesn't happen. 

But I have to say, whenever it happens, it feels absolutely terrifying. 

[The White Belt]

@Loreena thanks for sharing. It's not the best is it? 

[Martin123]

@BeginnerActualizer I know this might sound like a wacky advice at this point.

so if it does sound wacky, I recommend taking it in faith.

 

Love the entity to bits, unconditionally.

Also try to ground yourself into your body. Practice body-awareness and love towards your emotions.

 

Goos luck. I am absolutely confident that you can learn from this expetience and become amazingly powerful afterwards.

[Martin123]

@Snick-The ThinkTank oh shut the fuck up ur complicating the easiest most effective spiritual practice ever

[Martin123]

@Snick-The ThinkTank ill tell u to shut up when ur being stupid and doing unnecessary harm.

How unspiritual of me.

I just descended 20levels from enlightenment.

[The White Belt]

Valid points from both sides. Chill guys...

[Annie]

@BeginnerActualizer Fortunately I don't have any first hand experiences but I've heard similar "stories" like those of @Emerald They sound like perfect nightmares! But even only dreaming can be really weird. I tend not to remember most of my dreams but when I do I very often dream in episodes. I had this one dream when I had to jump out of my window to escape from someone or something that was hunting me. It was very vivid and the sheer terror I felt in the dream was very real. Over the course of several nights I always had the same beginning of the dream but finally ended up coming up the perfect escape route and once I found it after several different attempts these dreams stopped. 
I believe @Martin123 is right

On 8.5.2017 at 11:58 AM, Martin123 said:

Love the entity to bits, unconditionally.

Sounds crazy and rather difficult to say the least but there are so many strange things out there we can't explain and that seems like the perfect advice!

[Emerald]

7 hours ago, Annie said:

@BeginnerActualizer Fortunately I don't have any first hand experiences but I've heard similar "stories" like those of @Emerald They sound like perfect nightmares! But even only dreaming can be really weird. I tend not to remember most of my dreams but when I do I very often dream in episodes. I had this one dream when I had to jump out of my window to escape from someone or something that was hunting me. It was very vivid and the sheer terror I felt in the dream was very real. Over the course of several nights I always had the same beginning of the dream but finally ended up coming up the perfect escape route and once I found it after several different attempts these dreams stopped. 
I believe @Martin123 is right

Sounds crazy and rather difficult to say the least but there are so many strange things out there we can't explain and that seems like the perfect advice!

These are just the worst of the experiences though. I've had many other experiences that are really interesting and magical and/or boring and uneventful. It's just that you run the risk of occasionally having a negative experience. I focused on the negative ones because 1. They are more memorable. 2. The post was about negative experiences. Otherwise, I can say that you can expect a mixed bag of experiences, should you try it. I've projected to my grandmother's house and floated up through her ceiling. I've walked around on my street and found some mechanics working on a car. I jumped into my door and everything went gray and I was suddenly on a pedestrian walkway with tons of people. I've been through voids. I went looking for Leonardo da Vinci once, when I was in high school. I wanted to see if astral projection had anything to do with time travel. I was unsuccessful. It was still exciting to try though. So, not all the experiences are negative. I really love it because it gives you the ability to have adventures and explore the world without the constraints of having a physical body... and it feels very real.