Sleep paralysis, night terrors and lucid dreams

[Bujo]

Good morning everyone,

I was hoping to hear from people who have experienced the phenomenon of sleep paralysis and accompanying nightmares during their awakening and the strategies they employed to confront this.

I have had some particularly traumatic dreams usually after ceremony or during the following integration phases. I have been listening to Hanuman mantra's (Ramaskandam) to help. I've also started exploring with incense resin, rapé and I'm doing yoga, saunas, cold plunge pools etc which has assisted in managing some of the negative entity attachment and associated energy.

I've started to look for deeper meaning from these dreams to decrypt them. As a brief summary I've had instances where I am being chased in a labyrinth and getting trapped between extremely narrow passage ways. Within these tight spaces I am unable to move with dark entities hunting me down. I'm left to defend myself with archaic weapons like saws and having to kill these entities in extremely graphic ways. I've been trapped in this scenario where time dilated like crazy and it felt like weeks/months then only being able to jolt myself awake screaming after some time.

My wife was extremely terrified by the sound I made coming out of it, as it was some kind of demonic howling. It really rattled me and it took about a week to recover from the trauma of this particular experience.

It has been about a month since that specific event and my existing coping mechanisms did assist however I have started to feel this energy creeping back in to a degree during my sleep, although it's presenting in a dissimilar way.

I want to front foot it this time so I would really appreciate any feedback from anyone who has had similar challenge's during thier awakening and any strategies utilized that assisted in managing it.

Thank you in advance.