I study demonic possession dreams. Here’s what we’ve found. | Patrick McNamara

[@bigthink]

Do you get nightmares or other recurring dreams?

[@RapScotty]

Yes!!!! Help

[@KDF54321]

@@RapScottytake Vitamin B1 and magnesium before bed

[@esiahs-life]

Yes, I do. Most of the time I am being followed, or someone's running after me and my feet feel like stone I run/walk slowly. My most recurring dream is that I get pregnant; I either give birth or have miscarriage. Or sometimes my baby is super big.

[@MaiVox]

I do. I have my whole life. I was raised in a cult and the leaders perceived my nightmares as prophetic visions, and my torment by them as proof I had a gift; a special purpose. Because I was raised like this, I had no idea I was in a cult and I also had no concept of anyone else not being like me. The abuse on numerous levels made the nightmares horrendous. And by the time I was in my early 20’s, I had chronic insomnia and somniphobia because of the severity of the nightmare disorder. By my 30’s, I averaged 14 hours of sleep per week. I changed my major in college to psychology and this gave me the opportunity to work weekly with a professor who got her PhD in clinical psychology and dream therapy from somewhere in California. She worked with me and my lucid dreams, vivid dreams, as well as nightmares. And I learned how to infiltrate other people’s recurring nightmares to make them stop. Disabled with severe PTSD, I volunteered with war veterans for over a decade, helping all who I could with their recurring nightmares as well as suicidal ideations. My nightmares have never stopped, though. And no one in 30 years of therapy had any treatments that helped. The darkness I’ve seen and experienced in that realm make anyone who hears of it shutter; some cry. I’ve never met anyone else who dreams like I do. So this video blew my mind. What incredible information to put out there. Thank you for this.

[@cinemusicberlin]

Yes. I have this recurring nightmare of religious organizations in disguise bringing their idiocy into science. It's terrifying.

[@MrHappy3feet]

I use to have nightmares all the time, they were always very similar with something chasing me. One day telling my friend he said “why don’t you just turn around and face whatever is chasing you?” I was dumbfounded but The next time I had the nightmare I did just that and it worked. I never had that dream again

[@jeannined7532]

I used to have dreams of gigantic tornadoes chasing me. This went on for years and while doing inner work, I was intuitively guided to turn around and face the tornadoes in my dreams. The next time I dreamt about running for my life from a huge tornado, I remembered to stop, turn around and face the tornado. What happenned is like the scene of the wicked witch of the west melting in a puddle at my feet. The tornado just dissipated down to a little bit of swirling dust . Never had the dream again.

[@M3l_0N666]

Yeah well that is just how it's done. The cure is to just say Fkit 😂

[@Karne282]

You found the shaman !!!!

[@daviddrayton8312]

same here - monster in my basement, so I ran down in my basement and tried to punch it... I fell into an endless void (the monster itself), but never had the nightmare again

[@thebelligerentbostonian7524]

If you were in Hawkins, Indiana, this would've definitely backfired. 😆😉

[@LoFoSho]

I had a dream once like 4 or 5 years ago where I woke up from a dream and there was a “demon” standing right next to me and I screamed, crazy enough I woke up FOR REAL and it threw me and I will NEVER forget that. It was like inception, a dream within a dream. It was the sweatiest I had ever been when I woke up.

[@shadw4701]

That's a really common type of dream called a false awakening

[@alexandreespejo]

You still dreaming

[@willleslie2745]

You were sweating and having this dream because you werent breathing properly.

[@Themystergamerr]

Sounds like something straight out of a horror movie

[@Fleetstreetbestone]

I had a similar experience, I was around 8-9 years old at the time. I woke up from a dream I was having and realised my room was strangely disfigured and dim and then I look ahead of me at my feet and I see a black head peaking over at me and then out of nowhere it drags me down with extreme violence, like I was a rag doll and I woke up an nearly died of a heart attack that shit was so vivid.

[@rRagnaBR]

I suffered this when I was a kid. Growed up and, over time, I was facing anything that entered my dreams to scare me with pure rage. Since then, no nightmares anymore.

[@renemedina8735]

I've had this experience before. A large bear like creature with 3 eyes would be in my room and I couldn't react to it because of paralysis. After 3-4 months of this it had gotten to a point where the creature was at the foot of my bed. Then one night as it was at the foot of my bed, a man that looked very similar to my late grandfather entered my room. The man then sat at the foot of my bed and looked at the 3 eyed creature. He then spoke to me, "Mio it's ok." I fell back to sleep and since then will occasionally see the 3 eyed creature moving around my home when I'm in my dream state, but stays a good distance away from me.

[@justinbijkersma8541]

I would really see it in a way that that demon getting closer, is a process of slowely getting through your defences until it was able to get to you and it was able to say "its okay" but dont be fooled you can still cast it away "symbolically saying"

[@stairwayscare5205]

Maybe the three eyed bear is your subconscious symbolizing spiritual strength. Third eye is a cultural symbol of the spirit, bear would be a symbol of a strong animal.

[@earlkatotruitt-ee5xk]

Have you tried astral projection

[@Phoenix-tq8lt]

Yea dont trust it they haver shapeshifters in that realm I saw a fake version of my grandma before

[@TheShadowPerson.]

​​​​@@stairwayscare5205ad things come in three usually. Also spirits will shapeshift as a loved one. Imagine how easily a spirit could fool you by how much youre accepting it

[@xXshadow187Xx]

I can control my dreams. I still have the feelings like being scared or nervous but I can now control my dreams and become aware that I'm dreaming making it easier to get over it.

[@gabeiocovozzi1196]

In my experience, I have learned to take control of my dreams so that when I’m having a nightmare, I can change it. Though with this comes facing the negative… standing up and rising above allows you control. You are strong, believe in your ability to face and overcome whatever heavy energy it is. Practicing lucid dreaming can help you shift a nightmare into something more positive or to wake up even. Best to you all, sending good vibes 🌜🌞🌛

[@evryknee4176]

Great comment 😊

[@eyguz19]

I have experienced sleep paralysis and hallucination of entities often enough in my life that at this point I know how to deal with them even in a dreaming state. One of the most profound moments however was many years ago for my 3rd instance of paralysis when I collected myself in face of a perceived demonic threat. I was dreaming I was sitting in my room with some relatives when one of them rushed to shut the door to the room suddenly and the rest threw bedsheets over themselves and laid still. I looked around them confused before the hairs on my body stood up and I felt a cold sensation chill the blood in my body. I think at this point since I had already experienced the familiar onset of sleep paralysis, my subconscious began the process of waking me up because I felt my dream body shift into the prone sleeping position of my real body and my "dream" eyes closed. I saw a shadow presence come over my closed eyelids and heard rasping breathing inches from my face as it stared me down with intensity I'd never felt before. I remained calm and focused on waking up rather than giving into fear or even opening my eyes to meet the entity's gaze. Eventually I woke up in a calm state and spent some time thinking about the experience. A couple of nights ago though I experienced a short paralysis again and dreamt that I saw a shadow entity staring through a window in my house just watching me. I woke up just as a powerful thunderstorm began in my city. I can't really ascribe meaning to these experiences, but they feel vividly real almost to the point of being on the same level as memories. This existence of ours has more than meets the eye.

[@chozinangmo321]

I had sleep paralysis two times, first time I prayed to goddess then I got relieved. Second time I had a nightmare and I was awake but couldn't move and was suffocating, I concentrated on my breath and started breathing normally, I fell asleep again and woke up normally.

[@philthyrich007]

Do you sleep on your back and this some wild shit

[@chozinangmo321]

@@philthyrich007 yes whenever I had sleep paralysis, i was asleep on my back

[@eyguz19]

@@philthyrich007 Yup I sleep on my back every night. Apparently that does make you more prone to sleep paralysis.

[@philthyrich007]

@@eyguz19 definitely does. I haven’t slept on my back in years. Try it for a week or month as a test

[@erikbudrow1255]

I was having regular dreams where some sort of predatory animal was chasing me or stalking me. I'd always wake up when it got really close. But then I started getting very serious about changing my life for the better, exercising, journaling, doing cold therapy, facing things that I hated. Then when those predator dreams happened I started being able to fight back and the predators would run away from me. I haven't had too many of those predator dreams since then. 💪🙏

[@Miguell25]

i just had a dream where 3 lions were in my house chasing me and my family

[@erikbudrow1255]

@@Miguell25 Damn bro sounds like maybe there's some pretty serious stuff going on in the family that needs addressed and you know you gotta be the one to do something about it as the man but feel powerless and don't know how to fix it. Gotta get serious my man and use every tool at your disposal. The good thing about problems that your brain interprets as having feline/ cat energy is that all you gotta do is face the problem and it runs away like a scardey cat. It isn't looking for a fight, it's looking for a victim. Don't be the victim. 💪 I hope that is somewhat helpful to you as I obviously know very little about you and the situation... all the respect and love🙏

[@Miguell25]

@@erikbudrow1255 That actually makes a lot of sense. Me and my brother went out with a few friends last week and at one point we started having this deep conversation about how we should express our love for each other and the rest of our family as well, cause at the end of the day that's all that matters. Our dad died when I was 10 and he was 15, its been 11 years since then, and we realized that we didn't really understand the lesson that his death should've taught us, which is to love those around us intesely while we still can. Let them know they're loved. I have some big issues with our grandma and my brother has some big issues with our mother. We decided that we need to leave that behind and love them while we can, we gotta be the glue for the family, and it really is up to us to bring the family together before it's too late. We're the youngest and the most open minded of our family, so we really have to recognize how much of a privilege it is to be able to see things this way and how we have to be the ones to make it all happen, so that when it's time for people in our family to go, that they feel loved all the way through the end. Thank you for saying this man, I wouldn't have been able to connect that to the dream on my own. I guess it was a reminder to not forget that moment last week. Sending love back to you!

[@ddebberrs]

Pray or be preyed

[@bran7n]

the exact same for me

[@ashes2snow_]

Had the same dreams. After shadow work, my shadow essentially revealed to me that I had an abusive caretaker (mom) that I was afraid of especially when entering the room or finding me in my safe space. Rem cached that trauma until I was an adult in a similar abusive relationship with another broken woman. Rem is dangerous if it's not addressed in a transformative way because we are attracted to "familiar spirits." Good luck!

[@M3l_0N666]

Mhmph, someone who didn't run to the Bible for answers and remedies, don't see that much especially if they've covered a little bit of Jung.

[@ashes2snow_]

@@M3l_0N666 you can't help who you love as a child and one of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing your parents. My caretaker was and still is highly religious (Christian). That's her problem now... Not mine. 😅

[@waywyrdweazel6111]

​@@Yabois_ it's called shadow work. Psychoanalytical reflection working on the darker aspects of your psyche. It was coined by Jung. Not superstition

[@RapScotty]

​@@waywyrdweazel6111I love how people automatically assume it has to do with something else

[@waywyrdweazel6111]

@@RapScotty it just needs to be brought up more in mainstream psychological discussion so people don't assume

[@doolallyshake64]

I used to have vivid nightmares, sometimes I'd confront the monsters but I would feel u comfortable as they stared at me in shock and horror. Then one time I had a nightmare of a monster coming up the stairs towards me. I was so furious with all the nightmares I was having I screamed at it and ran towards it, jumping down the stairs just to hit it. I felt such a great sense of relief after that, I wasn't going to let any monsters get the better of me anymore, I would use my rage and misery against them. My nightmares stopped being regular after that, and now my nightmares consist of being late for a project deadline and boring things like that.

[@SeniorAdrian]

same as me haha

[@abstract5249]

Honestly I hate nightmares about school assignments. I've long graduated college and don't need that anxiety in my life. Just take me to a fantasy world even if it means facing monsters and demons.

[@Allaiya.]

I have not had any nightmares about demons even with suffering sleep paralysis (though did have recurring dreams of the Scream guy breaking into my house as a kid). I did have a dream once where I encountered 'God' though when I was 16. It was in high school after my sister's friends brother, about my age, died from leukemia. I felt horribly guilty about not visiting him in the hospital (my mom discouraged it as she said you 'wouldn't want to remember him' that way). Anyway, I had dreamed that God told me everything was alright. God was represented by a blinding light, basically like the sun. Couldn't look directly, just through the trees branches. Definitely the most peaceful I ever felt in a dream.. and haven't had anything like it since. I have also had dreams a few times where I realize I am dreaming & can control what's happening. It's pretty neat. I don't feel like I remember my dreams these days.

[@denisezi5055]

I hope you get more beautiful dreams like that. I hope God guides you.

[@RAMSEYFPS]

You wouldn't want to remember him that way. Damn, that's fcking hard bro

[@আ.দৃ]

i have personally felt god in my dream too. It was similar. I felt like i was caught in the center of a greenish bright tornado and the feeling that god is holding me up in the air very tightly. Didn't see any shiloutes or shapes.Just bright greenish light

[@luka243]

I suppose after the encounter you didn't feel guilty anymore?

[@vanishedyouth]

I also experienced that light. It was behind me. I couldn't look at it, but it was a peaceful experience. Very bright and warm yellowish white light. Just knew it was God

[@CharlieRagnarok]

I used to constantly get nightmares about vampires and vampire cults.. they were so vivid and terrifying. In hindsight, I think the people I was surrounded by in my waking life were "draining" my energy constantly. But they were people I could not get away from at the time, trapped by the constraints of societal expectations (school, work, home). I think subconsciously, I felt like they were "sabotaging" me. They did not have my best interests in mind. I could not trust them. Then I had a dream where they said I was finally "one of them," which was during the worst mental health crisis of my life to date. A time where I was basically "sabotaging" my own mind. Where I felt like I was giving in to my own fear.

[@AwokenEntertainment]

wow, who knew so much healing processes occurred during REM sleep - this is powerful

[@hornox4life]

I knew😏

[@volstrekt]

​@@hornox4lifehaha

[@kalasatwater2224]

Knowledge of the scriptures make nightmares go away

[@GO-ji1bu]

I've had dozens of sleep paralysis episodes throughout my life. It was at its worse when I was 15-16. I remember one week specifically when it was happening every night and I remained awake throughout much time of the night, just so I would't have to deal with SP. Years later, Im 31 now, after much learning, I've realized (or at least I tell myself) that the hallucinations seen during SP, i.e. the shadow man, come from our collective unconscious (thank you Carl Jung) and can also come from our own individualized unconscious. Once I internalized this, I realized that the hallucinations are more vulnerable than I am during SP. When the usual shadow man appeared again in my room, I "spoke' with him and told him to come closer so I can finally get a good look at him, and I told him to come clean and admit that he, the shadow man, is a part of my unconscious trying to communicate something to me. He laughed and doubled down that he was not part of me. Convinced he is (as I now know better) I told him "I'll slap the sht out of you" if he didn't do as I told him. Ever since then, I haven't had as many episodes. When I do, I can usually handle them. Although now instead of the shadow man talking back to me during SP, I hear sounds like strong waves breaking which is scary but this too doesn't faze me as I still hold frame during my SP episodes. Aside from the scary imagery, there is nothing else to fear from SP.

[@nataliab4417]

"Slap the shit out of him" that's amazing skhgjhdhg

[@Thz333]

I banished a demon as a kid after getting haunted for couple of years. It used to paralyze me and levitate me to it out the window. Once i got so angry i found the courage to fight back and it felt like i got unleashed and then i kicked its face. It turned into smoke and vanished and i woke up. Never seen it again but im sure it is still there trying to do harm.

[@Reeferjedi]

The sound of water rushing could be the blood circulating in your ears if your heart rate is elevated. This happens to me when I get sleep paralysis or wake up from a nightmare or really frustrating dream. I keep my eyes closed during SP because I know what it is and it will pass. I still get a sensation of fear but it passes as soon as the paralysis breaks and I can go back to sleep pretty easily. Try focusing on trying to take deep breaths and accept it's just something your body does and you just gotta ride it out 😅

[@cht2162]

I grew-up in a family with no religious interest or spiritual practice. Nothing was animated. I had one recurring dream that truly terrified me. It was like a cardboard cutout of just the head of a person bobbing up and down and up and down in the waves of a colorless sea. No warmth, just a mechanistic and unfeeling void. The dream no longer troubled me after about age 15 or so. But it was and is still descriptive of my life.

[@stairwayscare5205]

It's interesting that you interpreted the movements like bobbing in the sea because water is commonly a symbol of the subconscious.

[@RavinderSingh-tn7zi]

"No warmth, just a mechanistic and unfeeling void" Sounds like a problem of the irreligious..

[@JacquesduPlessis11]

​@@RavinderSingh-tn7zi 🤦‍♂️

[@RavinderSingh-tn7zi]

@@JacquesduPlessis11 you mentioned it is descriptive of your life thats why I said it mate

[@JacquesduPlessis11]

@@RavinderSingh-tn7zi I didn't mention that... I did not make the original comment. My facepalm was at your reductive strawman.

[@DollfaceKim]

I have had nightmares my entire life. I talk in my sleep to others, it was so interesting to my dad that he recorded them to try to understand dreams more. I had a dream diary that I'd write in every morning until around 20yrs old. Then the dreams became worse, my nightmares were ruling my days, I would get flashbacks throughout the day of my nightmares, it was hell. I absolutely have PTSD from my nightmares but recently I've begun to meditate a lot. I focus on the dreams and even started to do personal vlogs, recording myself talking about the dream to my camera phone. I have gained so much insight about my dreams and my true self now, and in my dreams I am able to say "wait, that can't happen, this is stupid" and it's become pretty amazing, almost enough to call it "cool". What are nightmares if we don't have the ability to fear? Just your brain trying to problem solve while working with the subconscious mind. It's all about experiencing and problem solving the fears that may come along, in my opinion. Your brain has these experiences while you sleep to secrete certain hormones that sometimes we need is what I've heard in order to fully experience and understand how to deal with things in life and to get over a certain traumas and obstacles so that we can focus on what really matters. Which one would hope is to obtain good dreams and happiness. But that's just my thought.

[@CiaoFooTanks4AllTheFish]

Get a Genetics test at 23andme and send it to Genetics Lifehacking, there may be a disease that isn't manifesting during the day, but could be causing these.

[@markcleveland9656]

Is good observation and is valid. Very useful, healing is hard work awake or asleep.

[@PathologicallyPositive]

Yes! I’ve had nightmares since I was young, even sleep paralysis very occasionally. I started keeping a dream journal, and began trying to lucid-dream. Keeping a dream journal helped with dream recall and self-analysis of my subconscious to the point that I became much better at picking up on subtle visceral cues, which is like real intuition. Eventually I got so good at remembering dreams that I would start recalling the dream as I was in it, and then would remember that I had gone to sleep before I somehow ended up wherever I was in the dream. For me, the breakthrough was after walking around in my daily life doing reality checks, and jokingly saying, “this is a dream”, which I think created a neural pathway for me to say, “this is a dream” while I was actually dreaming and realize that it really was a dream! It’s an awesome experience to become so aware of reality, but the dreamscape(subconscious?) will exploit your moral/psychological weaknesses and lull you back into unconscious dreaming. I can not recommend more than anything else to become lucid in a dream, and then choose to meditate in it, it changed my life. Though, entities in the dreamscape can become more aggressive when you become lucid, like in the movie inception if I remember correctly, and also sleep paralysis got worse for me for a bit but the repetitive thematic nightmares ultimately ceased. Sweet dreams and lucid living!

[@aoyien117]

Wow!!! We have experienced and did the same thing🤧🤧 tho I'm still working on🤧🤧dreams are more than just dreams it has a lot to do with our unresolved traumas and changes in life. I always wish I could talk about my same dreams and nightmares to somebody who is knowledgeable on this ground and someone who has experienced the same thing. I'm glad I came across this video and this comment 🤧🤧 thanks for sharing your story

[@mysticalbugzz2744]

I’ve had sleep paralysis a lot. But when I didn’t follow Jesus I only had it once and never really thought much of it. But now that I am older and can make my own adult like decisions, I made the decision to give my life to Jesus. A couple nights after that I had gotten sleep paralysis I think once and then another time, but the second time it was crazy. I woke up and obviously I couldn’t move but the thing is, I could feel the demon sitting on top of me and pushing my head into the pillow, I knew that God was bigger than it and I wasn’t really afraid. So I tried to open my mouth to pray and rebuke it in Jesus name. But I couldn’t, it was like it was holding my lips shut or had glued them shut. So then I closed my eyes and said “Jesus give me strength” and i opened them and it was gone. All glory to the Most High. He is real and love you who’s reading this!! Repent of your sins and turn away from them ask for forgiveness :) God bless you all, and trust in the Lord our God. The one and only true God❤

[@shadw4701]

The reason why religious people tend to dream about demons is because they believe them. Expectations and beliefs effect how you dream and what you dream about. This is also how you can gain influence over the dream and learn to control it

[@johnnyearp52]

Maybe so, I am not religious and I never dreamt of a demon.

[@zoeanaam.6996]

I can give a perspective as i wasn't religious at the time i got first nightmare and i remember being a super naughty child, 2 people suddenly appear in dream who were no way humans, but i do confirm that after being religious they appeared more but mostly a dark energy appeared to scare me, so i fight it off in one of the dream untill i got the last dream that this dark energy was soo weak and i was kicking it and that started to run, i didn't get any such dreams after that... Allahhumdulila.

[@zoeanaam.6996]

​@@johnnyearp52 there is school of thought who believes that thief enters in the house of rich so they claim if you never tried to stand against dark energy you got no threat, the moment you start to read religious books or become alot good in general, this dark energy appears out of no where, you call it demon so yeah... Just wanted to share this school of thought.

[@JP-nw3kn]

The notion of "belief" or "faith" being connected to religion is a protestant idea. A critique of the above video could be that the concept of possession and furthermore of demonic entities is not universal to all cultures and as such not universal to all "religions".

[@stairwayscare5205]

I think that it has to do with the shadow persona of the persons subconscious. If they are religious, it would stand to reason that they have a lot of self repression regarding their beliefs surrounding 'evil'.

[@jan-bean]

I’ve had nightmares my ENTIRE life. I wasn’t necessarily always getting chased down by a scary clown, though I had those as well, but they always had a very eerie creepy vibe, no matter the content. I never had a good dream. Then randomly in the beginning of last year, 2022, I felt horrible. I was having the worst anxiety of my life and had extremely bad mental health and had to take a break from work and school, there was no clear cause. I seemed to be processing a lot of my “traumas” if you will from my childhood that were just now coming up after having distance from my hometown and family after moving out. It was severe and confusing and then suddenly it lifted, and I had the FIRST good dream I’ve ever had, where I was just running around playing with a dog and it didn’t feel creepy and I felt happy. Then all my issues went away and I felt normal again and ever since, my dreams are normal. Not creepy. Not sad. Not weird. Just pretty normal and boring in fact, and I’ve been a lot less neurotic too. Have no idea why this happened or what it means but just wanted to share a personal anecdote.

[@splishsplash3492]

I experience the same (dreams that are always somewhat dark but not always scary scary) I often dream of something following or looking for me with me hiding somewhere. Dreams of nosebleeds, hair or teeth falling out. As a child i used to dream about zombie apocalypses all the time. While it may sound scary and they are stressfull, i dont feel a real sense of danger, i dont even see them as real nightmares any more. I dont dream every night, but when i do its usually some kind of graphic content and i wake up sweaty and cold

[@UrMomGoesToCollege7]

We all must be in the same club because same and SAME! To OP, you described almost exactly what happened to me a few years ago. It’s like our brains buried the trauma until we were safe enough to process it. I’m SO happy for you that you’ve found a place of peace and comfort in life. I can only imagine how long you went without that. So, congrats on doing the work & healing! You should be proud of yourself. I’m just like the video mentions, where the REM cycle has kind of creeped into daily life and I will often “continue” or revisit dreams throughout the day. I still occasionally have full-on night terrors but for the most part I just have nightmares all night, every night (crazy stuff like splishsplash mentioned). Sometimes they mess me up for a bit but for the most part I almost enjoy them lol (I know that sounds insane) but at least there we can fly and have a little bit of fun while we’re being chased lol Do either of you lucid dream? Or do you have dream “towns” or “buildings” you go to frequently enough to actually know your way around? Or ever get the thing where you see one of your dream locations in real life and you don’t know if it’s deja vu or WTH is going on? Lol Sorry for the novel - I’ve never heard anyone else describe dreams so similar to mine.

[@splishsplash3492]

@@UrMomGoesToCollege7 oh my... i started to enjoy them a while ago too, and i felt crazy for it aswell. No i am not able to do lucid dreaming but most of the time i seem to be aware that i am not in the physical world. I do revisit the same locations in different dreams. Theres a city in sunset light i kept revisiting as a child. Theres an old school i kept having chase dreams at. I was able to find some places in real life aswell, some resemble places i visit frequently. However, sometimes i visit these places in my dream first and after a few month(i think it was years once too) i recognize them in the physical realm as if ive been there long ago. The only place i couldnt find is the golden sunset town (this is probably one of the core traumas) Im very glad my rem didnt really swep over to my waking phase to the point that i have hallucinations(as you seem to describe). I only seem to dissociate from time to time It makes me happy that i found people who experience the same. Sometimes i feel waay older than i actually am. I know most of these things didnt really happen, but dreams affect our psyche just as much. Suffering makes us wiser and sometimes i wonder how many times i actually saw the dreams unconcously. If we can remember dreaming it 10 times, the actual number must be much higher.... Would you like to describe your waking rem? Do your dream entities actually creep around your day life aswell?

[@freemancarl]

*FACE YOUR FEARS.. LIVE YOUR DREAMS!*

[@stephaniepink7533]

Thank you for this video @Big Think, Patrick McNamara and team. This helped me immensely, and answered questions I had about my young childhood, my current life path, and even an explanation why my friend with aphantasia (inability to create mental imagery) sleeps so well and is less affected by traumatic things, like responding to a life saving emergency. 🙏

[@chillinJohnny]

I don't get this channel one they they post videos from professors of physics and biology and once in a while they post this kind of shit Why

[@matheuszucchi8254]

I have aphantasia as well, however i can have pretty vivid dreams, i always found it to be weird how i have so many dreams and still suffer from aphantasia, my mind can clearly make up images, since i do when i sleep, but when i'm awake, my imagination is just complete darkness

[@ShadeFC]

I would be extremely curious to see some in depth psychological analysis on quantifying the demonic entity as far as what part of the psyche is being represented especially when it has the ability to literally take over or "possess" the active mind. That is assuming he didn't mean it literally in a supernatural sense.

[@maan100283]

Well, he did say that if the demon gets to close to you, you get possessed and you need an exorcism ritual to get rid of the demon. And therefor it's bet to get help before the demon gets to you... It's sure good to learn demonic possession is a myth, so you can relax more with the knowledge you are demon-proof. But it did sound he believes demons are real.

[@ShadeFC]

@@maan100283 Yeah, his presentation sure sounded contradictory in that aspect, explaining demon sightings through sleep paralysis but then talking about exorcisms being necessary when it's gone too far. Maybe he meant the "ritual" of the exorcism still has grounds in explainable reality, kind of like a placebo for the affected mind, with everyone gathering in their support and validating their fears as so real that it's supernatural. The whole possession angle was new for me, I've seen documentaries on sleep paralysis and the worst I've seen it come to is genuinely scary screaming while in the episode, leading to social dysfunction due to lack of sleep - which do look like the "early stages of possession" as depicted by pop culture, although minus the completely taking over part.

[@iorama]

​@@ShadeFC No, he doesn't believe in supernatural possession. I am sure he was talking about people with religious backgrounds, because they're the most likely to be affected by these demonic agents during their sleep. If these people are particularly vulnerable they may not be able to put up enough barriers to protect themselves, so the demonic agent possesses their consciousness, and then the only way to break the possession would be through exorcism rituals. That's because these people have strong unconscious beliefs about demons, demonic possession, and how they can be freed by a religious individual (like a shaman) so their minds would be truly receptive to these exorcism rituals in order to get rid of the demon and not clinical sessions with the help of a medical specialist.

[@aminecraftaddiction]

There is. Carl Jung a psychologist from the early 20th century would do active imagination exercises which is basically a meditation type state that is similar to dreaming. And he would experience seeing these demonic figures and they would often attack him but he says if you confront them and ask them who they are and why they are apart of or subconscious that they will reveal exactly who they are, what purpose they play in ur mind and how they spawned in your psyche.

[@mannyk7100]

@@iorama So you're saying that every demonic possession is merely a placebo? That may be a plausible hypothesis in a case of the odd religious extremist, but you cannot say that every demonic possession is actually just the result of "strong beliefs". We do not know nearly enough to draw such conclusions

[@jade7372]

I use to suffer from nightmares a ton. I found that if I ask myself to have good dreams before I go to sleep, I don’t have nightmares. Unfortunately, when I forget to ask I end up with nightmares.

[@willleslie2745]

Dreams are meant so you can somewhat experience a traumatic scenario and learn from it before one actually happens to you. Or to wake you up because you're not breathing properly or you are sick and need to wake up

[@warriorgp4640]

No, bad dreams happen because evil spirits impregnate perverted thoughts into your mind in order for you to feel fearful, worried and manic

[@geovannirios7565]

🎉

[@madelynhernandez7453]

What's the proof this is the case?

[@daviawyliefinch3017]

If this is true, then I've been trained to handle basically every apocalyptic scenario you can imagine, lol.

[@billnyethescienceguy553]

According to?

[@DrewKahn]

I have read in dream interpretation that the traumas played out during sleep, are to prepare people for the waking world. "If I can survive these feelings" (being naked in front of a group, failing an exam, failing at some activity), I am better prepared for these feelings in the waking world where it isn't nearly as bad as in the dream. Interesting that he states that it's important to get help before one is totally overwhelmed by the "demon." Before one is overwhelmed by the thoughts that are manifested in the dreams. I think it means that the defense/preparation mechanism of the dreams is overwhelmed by the reality of trauma; perhaps the demon is terrifying, but not more so that what has actually been experienced. So this "defense mechanism" no longer serves that purpose, and instead is adding fuel to the fire.

[@mediaproductionpro]

I had this exact series of dreams happen to me recently (all in one night), despite the fact that when I would fall back to sleep, I was in a completely different dream. The shadowy figure would still somehow always find me. And once it noticed that I was aware of its presence, it would move towards me. The worst part of it all, was that time would slow in direct proportion to how close the entity got to you. Making you feel rather helpless. I’m very surprised to see that others have had such similar experiences. But as a lucid dreamer, it definitely felt much more real than your standard nightmare. Really makes you think about the broader state of human consciousness and where it goes when you sleep.

[@natsuki9656]

I used to have nightmares when I was a child about ghosts and demons. But now, as an adult who no longer believes in such things, my nightmares have shifted from the supernatural to real-life situations. Once, I dreamt that I was in a murder case room, and I found myself unjustly accused by unfamiliar people of committing this heinous act. They whispered with cynical looks while observing me. Although it wasn't a ghost or something physically brutal, it continues to haunt me to this day. From this experience, I conclude that everyone's nightmares are different, but I believe that all people have fears of something. Now i miss a nightmare where i must run from ghost or something.

[@DontStopReeling]

You sure? My buddy had biblical mocking dreams for years after he got possessed when we used a Oujui board. He would be walking through and endless desert and it was raining blood 24/7. Sounds fun lol?

[@ubcroel4022]

NGL, I'm not a believer but whenever I had super natural attacks in my dreams I just simply call out Jesus Christ's name and it went away.

[@ahndeux]

Ghosts and spirits are real, but nightmares are in your head.

[@alteredstate8513]

I literally used to have issues like this. Even entities, not just in my room, but screaming in my ear till I wake; in languages I don't understand. I got into esoteric practices and did something called a "Lesser Banning Ritual". My house went from a haunted psychological nightmare to a gaslight where I felt like nothing ever happened in the first place. Also, the last time I was attacked in my dream I instinctively stopped turned around drew a cross in the air and a circle around it and whatever was messing with me vanished. I never "see" the demon, but you can feel the vacuum in the room, and it would drag me around by my feet in my nightmares or string me up. I know sounds terrifying but as soon as I let go of the ideologies of the church and educated myself of things the church forbids then it actually gave me power and confidence to go against whatever, real or not, was messing with me.

[@brandonjohnson3284]

Bro don't rely on any type of ritual for deliverance. It's like putting a band aid on a gunshot womb. Only Jesus gives us authority over these entities

[@BS-si6pj]

Maybe you should try getting checked for schizoprenia

[@alteredstate8513]

@@BS-si6pj I would but I don’t have issues like that anymore. I thought I was crazy till my son and I saw the same entity run through the house.

[@Sonna-pq2zx]

I believe you. I had a ghost haunting my master bedroom, and before I hired a shaman to get rid of him, he would seriously suck the air out of the upstairs. I’d wake up in the morning nearly suffocating due to the lack of air. Had to start sleeping downstairs. Once the shaman helped the ghost move on, my breathing issues went away. Spirits/demons are real but people won’t believe in them until something awful happens.

[@volstrekt]

​@@alteredstate8513are u being fr what entity did u see if u dont mind me asking

[@tommasogiglia7665]

I'm so glad there's videos like this out there, about real science and facts!

[@yoli5779]

I once had a dream that really stuck with me ever since. It was Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son coming alive before my eyes. It was the scariest but most interesting dream/nightmare. I’m now interested in learning more about Goya and his thought processes.

[@cobrablack2066]

Goya knew a lot , it shows in its paintings

[@cobrablack2066]

The father eating the sons

[@che4840]

he just described my childhood and nothing could save me back then 😭 It was so frightening… 😭

[@levimarinucci4731]

As a dream worker, someone who has helped people understand the messages and integration of the dreams for more than 6 years, I have found and continue to find that nightmares (and most dreams for that matter) are often the unconscious psyche's way of attempting to make us aware of the suppressed and potentially intense emotions that are the source of the dream and are propelling the (usually extreme) dream images. These underlying emotions most usually stem from some traumas in our past that we have not made conscious and integrated, parts of ourselves that we have pushed away and isolated out of our conscious sight, all the while, these isolated emotions and patterns continue to show up in daily life through reactionary prescribed behaviors; external sources are often blamed for feeling some way instead of taking responsibility for what lives within us! The process of healing these dreams is not just to understand their source intellectually and from a bigger picture as to how the dream(s)/nightmares relates to the waking life, it is crucially to accept these emotions that are parts of ourselves and let ourselves feel them fully, now without the story and analytics, to make a relationship on a feeling level with these parts of ourselves and to integrate them into our being and our conscious awareness, that way we feel them coming in our daily life and we respond consciously rather than reacting unconsciously. These repressed parts of our "pasts" (all existing now) and all the emotions therein can be a poison left unaddressed in us, or can become medicine as we draw it out through us. It is when our emotional "past" is integrated that we gain such perspective of our suffering and so too the suffering of others; by developing the capacity to hold our own life and emotions with compassion in all of our darkness, we gain more the capacity to hold that compassionate light to the world. Cultivate light within by making all unconscious psychosomatic contents conscious! Shine the light of awareness on yourself and as a mirror, the world will shine brighter!

[@jessicaoli5035]

Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life! If you are demonically possessed and have bad dreams/nightmares, you have to fast and pray to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Lord will heal you and protect you against all attacks of the enemy. He will cover you with His blood and keep you safe. HAVE FAITH IN HIM! 💛 Ask someone to pray for you because you are not alone! When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. 2 A man with leprosy[a] came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” 3 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy. 4 Then Jesus said to him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” -Matthew 8:2-4

[@zerrezmo]

Hey if your a dream worker could you tell me what you think of this nightmare that has occurred for me multiple times through out the years but never consistently, what you are saying more aligns with my spirituality so I was wondering what you think. This weird experience happens to me sometimes like prob happened like maybe 10+ times ever. When I’m in the middle of a dream sometimes the dream will get super demonic and it’s like I feel like I’m laying in the ground and the area around me gets really dark and it’s literally just happened this evil force was just walking around me and when I bring my awareness to it or like recognize that it’s there it’s crazy cuz it’s the same thing everytime it’s like my mind goes crazy and hear a scary heart beat noise and some demonic laughter. And it’s almost like an astral projection but not. And it’s like the evil energy tries to focus in the middle of my vision. Luckily I’ve gotten really good at not reacting to things and I literally just faced it and didn’t react at all and it was like a 1000 images were just flickering and playing over my visions and it sounded like a ticking noise. This has happened multiple times and it’s like the same thing everytime. I can only guess that it’s like me facing the dark energy that builds up inside. But it’s strange that my mind always flashes images at a insane speed. But this happened to me for first time like 5-6 years ago. If I believed in demonic entities I would say it definitely feels like I’m getting possessed by the evil inside me or trying to be controlled by it

[@themindofjman]

I believe understanding that these things are natural is a great tool in consciously combatting them. I'm lucky enough to be very in control when my dreams turn sour, but it took practice, and learning that these things were just nightmares - no matter how intrusive - was a huge step in repelling attacks. If you are unfortunate enough to face a sleep paralysis entity, I hope that you too are able to neutralise it by confidently saying "Shut up" (or probably something cooler).

[@leonardzeller2585]

I once had a dream of a demon appearing in my room, that took a most interesting turn. I thought I woke up, in the early break of down, and the first sunlight seeped through my blinds. There was some kind of entity standing in my room, it manifested in the shape of a vaguely feminine humanoid with long dark hair and had a demonic or vampiric ~ vibe ~ that made me know it wanted to harm me. So when I moved, it kind of lunged at me, not really physically, but more like its spirit, so I did the same. We wresteled, for a split second, and then I saw the dreamcatcher I had hung on my desktop lamp, and with a swift motion "stuffed" the entity into the dreamcatcher. It was sucked into it, like water into a sink that suddenly gets unplugged. Then I woke up. I was afraid, so I put on my silver bracelet and then went back to sleep. I never dreamt of the entity again. Thanks to my grandma, who gifted the dreamcatcher to me years ago!

[@stairwayscare5205]

I think it is very interesting you saw it go into the dream catcher like water, as water is often a symbol of the subconscious self.

[@landsknecht8654]

Calling out for Jesus works for me. Or saying the Lord's prayer.

[@umustbslow8014]

That dreamcatcher was a portal for the demon to enter into this world and mess with you in the first place, I would get rid of it asap

[@jessicaoli5035]

If you are demonically possessed and have bad dreams/nightmares, you have to fast and pray to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Lord will heal you and protect you against all attacks of the enemy. He will cover you with His blood and keep you safe. HAVE FAITH IN HIM! 💛 Ask someone to pray for you because you are not alone! When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. 2 A man with leprosy[a] came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” 3 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy. 4 Then Jesus said to him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” -Matthew 8:2-4

[@darajabar93]

"Say: 'I seek refuge in the Lord of the daybreak. From the evil of that which He created. And from the evil of darkness when it settles. And from the evil of the blowers in knots. And from the evil of an envier when he envies.'" قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ * مِن شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ * وَمِن شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ * وَمِن شَرِّ النَّفَّاثَاتِ فِي الْعُقَدِ * وَمِن شَرِّ حَاسِدٍ إِذَا حَسَدَ Surah Al-Falaq (Chapter 113), verses 1-5

[@VanillaflavoredSora]

3 weeks ago I lost someone in my family very suddenly and with a lot of unanswered questions. We don’t know how they died and we unfortunately never will. He died in another country on vacation and we were able to get him back for a funeral but that’s it. I didn’t realize how traumatic it has been for me till I told a coworker why I was away this week and they were horrified. I’ve been having terrible nightmares since we found out the news and finding out that rem sleep is the bodies natural way of handling trauma has been very eye opening for me.

[@Smashine]

Keep having these nightmares as it will tell you what really happened it will paint the idea accurate enough seen as though your connected to them you’ll find it yourself with the answer soon don’t shy it away

[@chueikiir]

So sorry for your loss, I wish you well in your healing 💟

[@onewingangel1117]

I’m so sorry you’re going through this. Hoping for deep healing for you and your family. May your family member rest in peace.

[@fred9796]

I have nightmares often, and I used to be terrified by them. At a certain point in my life, when I was really young, I just said "You know what? I have no reason to disproportionally fear what I encounter in my dream. That is my head, my realm, I have full power in there." After that point, I learned how to gain consciousness during nightmares to either turn them into fully lucid dreams that I could control or at least rationalize them while dreaming, getting rid of unnecessary stress and fear while I live the dream cathartically. Later on, I also happened to experience some sleep paralysis, and I handled them the same way, very successfully. So yeah, sometimes I literally beat the shit out of my nightmare demons using my brain's cheat codes.

[@JoshuaFitch]

I had a dream like this one time about ten years ago. I woke up and felt a oppressive evil sensation and a red glow coming from the doorway near my bed. I didn't see anything except the red glow. I was as scared as I have ever been. Illogically scared. I screamed as loud as I could and threw things in that direction. Scared the heck out of my wife and probably half the other people in the building I lived in. I don't dream often, and it is the only dream I can remember after the fact for a prolonged period and I don't think I will ever forget it. Except it really truly felt like I wasn't dreaming and the evil presence was there when I was quite awake and busily throwing things and screaming.

[@Nathania96]

I had one of these nightmares. Started out as if I was waking up in the night looking at my room as if I really was awake but furniture would be moved out of place, plants on shelved would be on the floor, chairs from the kitchen would be in the bedroom. Then I’d go back to sleep (in the dream) then wake up again (in the dream) and different furniture would be rearranged in my bedroom or get dragged across the floor in front of me. I’d wake up scared, it happened a couple of times across a few weeks before it escalated pretty quickly to waking up in the dream and seeing a demon above me on the ceiling saying it wanted to possess me. Freaked me out.

[@helslayerknightclaw1339]

I have had nightmares very few times, but it always involved the sense of being alone...and a figure clad in ashen grey with silver lining offering me a hand that was half visible bone and half of almost mist-like flesh. It was a comforting touch and when I wake up it's usually after my parent entered my room at night to check on me......

[@franciscomiranda6882]

I used to have dreams where some otherworldly presence had it’s aura, for lack of a better word, pervasively engulfing my dream state, upping the intensity of its presence by way of manipulating the environment around me and eventually the people in my dreams. Once it’s presence and, more importantly, it’s origin was ascertained, I did everything I knew in the book to wake up. Pinching myself, throwing myself from tall places, nothing worked. The presence, finding all this funny, laughed a low grumble, driving home the point it thought me a fool for even trying. I’d wake up finally, and my dad was in my bed with me (I’m not a victim of any sexual assault from anyone ever, I say this here as it’s about to get strange). His back was turned to me, and the impression I got was that he was tired. I shook him awake and said “I just had the worst dream.” He’d then say “let’s say a little prayer,” his tone letting on he’s super tired. We’d start praying the our father in Spanish (we’re Latino), and I’d be following along.. until I notice his voice starting to change, taking on the timbre the presence in my dream had. I turned over to look at him, and he stopped praying. I then FINALLY woke up, and knew then the dream was over. I’d have dreams like this on and off over the last few years. I don’t ever know what to think of them. For further context, I was raised catholic, and would even say I was devout in my childhood. But I became an atheist in my early 20s and haven’t looked back. But these dreams still come. I guess the religion is hard wired into me🤷🏻‍♂️

[@mahsammdz9340]

I believe prayers help you get rid of them. I used to have very scary dreams but I don't have anymore. Prayers protect you from evil.

[@brandonjohnson3284]

Bro please listen to me. The same stuff happens to me. Some of my dreams are vivid, and I'll vividly see its mind attempting to merge with mine. I'll always know when it's the entity because it has qualities. Like always bringing me to the water, or showing up as exes, or showing me nudity. I know it's a entity and not my imagination because I fought this thing in multiple types of dreams. I fought it lucid, non lucid, in sleep paralysis, while it was sexually assaulting me and some times it'll manifest physically. Some people even try to invoke these entities on purpose. I use to just let it happened, literally being tormented in my sleep with no escape. Then I started fighting it with proclaiming Jesus as my savior in my dreams and it worked but it didnt stop, it got worse. There was one time bro we were dead serious fist fighting in the dream realm. It manifested as some pale white guy with tattoos, he was flinging me around my room, but I wasn't scared. Jesus was in my heart. And I kept fighting it the same way, proclaiming Jesus as my savior. And eventually it worked.

[@viva_am839]

My brother in law and I had a demon experience 10 years ago at a house I used to rent. I never thought those things were real but that changed one night. Long story short, the encounter happen to me first when i had a weird lucid dream and then months later the same thing happened to my brother in law without him knowing what i had experience. There's another world behind the world we can perceived.

[@jessicaoli5035]

If you are demonically possessed and have bad dreams/nightmares, you have to fast and pray to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Lord will heal you and protect you against all attacks of the enemy. He will cover you with his blood and keep you safe. HAVE FAITH IN HIM! 💛 Ask someone to pray for you because you are not alone! When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. 2 A man with leprosy[a] came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” 3 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy. 4 Then Jesus said to him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” -Matthew 8:2-4

[@ahndeux]

@@jessicaoli5035 Bullcrap.

[@ghostdagger3588]

They need you to be scared and feel helpless, because they are weak and cannot possess you otherwise. That realization plus having a strong positive mindset and thoughts throughout the day has made nightmares vanish completely. I still encounter some type of dark entity maybe once or twice a year but my reaction is to beat the crap out of it lol. Love y’all ❤

[@andrewmiller6272]

The type of sorcery knowledge and rituals I learned while in an apprenticeship with a sorcerer. Involve lucid dreaming. There are lucid dreaming rituals where a sorcerer must pass through what is called the seven gates of dreaming. The first is to be aware you are dreaming by trying to find your hands. Then using the dreaming attention of the astral dreaming body to learn to make objects in the dream change to what ever object the sorcerer wants to change it to. Then learn how to keep the object to stay the same object. The next gate is to have your astral dreaming body to find the physical body then to learn how to dream while awake. When sending out probes into the space that allows dreaming to occur. You may find entities in the dreaming space. Those dark alien entities that once asked to be able to go to their world. You will be catapulted to a labyrinth of geometric fractal hallways that store information of energetic power. There are several different entities that are there to upkeep the information and ones to clean the halls. Then there is the emissary. It is the voice that speaks through silent knowledge. knowing without words. The labyrinth has stored information and knowledge. But overall the dream emissary mainly has the objective of a snake oil salesman. Trying to get you to stay in that world forever in return the access of any information you wish and once you agree to it. You are stuck in that world. Unless another sorcerer pulls you out of that world.

[@paulio10]

To stop a nightmare in its tracks, tell yourself before bed you're going to do this: the next time you see something scary you will face it and say, "you cannot hurt me, you cannot even TOUCH me, because you don't have my permission." Then just stand their and passively watch what happens. Amazingly, whatever it is will not be able to touch you, no matter how large or scary. It's interesting.

[@TheShadowPerson.]

I just threaten to kill it and call upon Jesus. Works for me😂

[@NarayananShiv]

அற்புதமான பதிவு. மேலும் இதுபோன்ற காணொளியை பதிவிடுக. நன்றி

[@prometheus6898]

I used to wake up at night frightened but it stopped by the age of 11. I would feel an evil presence and I'd get out of bed and walk around. I was told it was a sleepwalking nightmare but I remember being awake. I've had many nightmares but this was different. After a nightmare I'd wake up and be relieved that it was just a nightmare. Till this day I look back at whatever that was and question why it felt so real. I also wondered why it only happened at night? When I slept during the day I was fine.

[@johnnyearp52]

Maybe because it was dark at night...

[@zoeanaam.6996]

It feels soo real TBH

[@elysaxT]

Sometimes i get nightmare, but rather i feel scare, i feel it's very interesting to feel it and i like it.. I don't know some people maybe hate nightmares but for me i kinda love it, many experiences from the nightmares.. Fantasies and magic.. Thrill.. And mysteries

[@casualcookin3893]

I have many experiences with dreams and spiritual demons and angels My first experience was when i was like 5-7 years old something like that,i woke up in the middle of the night we were in a bedroom with my grandma and she was sleeping in a bed beside me,i saw a figure which was pitch black with no distinguishable features except its shape,it had a solid hairlike spikes that were spaced evenly and was looking at me sleeping,i remember deciding to turn around in my sleep and pay no mind to it Something so outlandish hasnt happened to me since,but i once had an intercourse with a succubus or Lilith,i was working as a farmer in a country im not from for 2 months so far,and i was healthy and strong,in this dream i was seeing exactly what i would see if i was looking up towards the ceiling,but there was this amazing beautiful woman that i knew was some sort of a Lilith and she was ridding me lol,next thing i remember is waking up covered in my own sperm,i got really sick for the next few months afterwards lost like 30 pounds of healthy weight and had pretty bad stomach ulcers and acid reflux,but i managed to recover in a few months Once i saw a huge spider in the corner of my room during a sleep paralysis,and once i was in a sleep paralysis that i was able to break in seconds after it happened with willpower Once i had a dream of an Angel or the Eye of God,and let me tell you guys,Angels are by far way way way way,like a billion times scarier than any demonic ecounter i have had.The energy i woke up with after this dream was unexplainable,i felt like every cell of my body was vibrating with some sort of a nuclear energy,it was both awesome but soo scary I have to note that i had smoked tons of pot in my teen years,and have been unable to dream anything for like 5+ years,but since i started taking GABA supplements i have been having so much dreams lately Those were not the only spiritual dreams i have had,i had dreamed of family members who have passed away as well,another dream where i saw an Angel (a biblically accurate angel,was in both cases) My advice to everybody who is in similar situations and chosen by God or chosen by angels to fight the spiritual battle is to not be afraid,even if you are afraid at first,repeat to yourself that you in your spiritual form are much much stronger than any demon can ever be,and dont let demons and fear corrupt you I really like this line that i remember from a game i used to play a lot when i was a kid,it goes like " Steel your heart and your soul will shine brighter than a thousand suns. The enemy will falter at the sight of you. They will fall as the light of righteousness envelops them!" Stay strong brothers and sisters!

[@ZAND4TSU]

I don't even know if you are okay at this point man...like ride?

[@casualcookin3893]

@@ZAND4TSU What do you mean by that brother,also what would you mean by okay,is anyone really okay these days?

[@ZAND4TSU]

@@casualcookin3893 idk just curious :|

[@casualcookin3893]

@@ZAND4TSU Thanks for the concern,i have been doing way better mentaly lately

[@ZAND4TSU]

@@casualcookin3893 nice man, hopefully you keep recovering:)

[@alphonsenazario7773]

one day.. i woke up snd my bed was shaking... i just started praying and it finally stopped.. like i had to make sure i was awake and not dreaming... scary stuff

[@joshsinclair539]

Anytime this happens I pray to Jesus and the demon instantly goes away ❤

[@ChristisKing-i6i]

Finally someone mentioned JESUS!!!! So glad to see this

[@CristianoRonaldo-li9gu]

He is a messenger of God. Repent and believe in Allah ​@@ChristisKing-i6i

[@beehungry6190]

Exactly, God is the only one who has the power to take this away! Bless you!

[@kyliejoline13]

I also call for jesus, but the demon usually is in my dream and when I react negatively I can use my voice as normal but when I ask for jesus to help me my voice doesn’t come out and my chest gets incredibly heavy. I’ve had nightmares my whole life.

[@CristianoRonaldo-li9gu]

@@kyliejoline13 call for god not jesus. Jesus is a messenger not god

[@ancientowltarot]

That makes sense I’ve been fighting them off for years. They used to win when I was a kid, now I win 😎

[@NWforager]

i think he's talking about Night terrors , which happen during sleep paralysis . the movie White Noise has a good depiction of it . i find that meditation and awareness training has made my lifelong issue with night terrors mostly benign

[@adrianabonitaaziz]

People wil problably say its a cliché, but sinds i started to believe in the Creator of Heavens and Earth and ,started to serve Him , my nightmares stopped completely . I also dont feel afraid of the devil or demons anymore . I used to be afraid of the darkness , also that is gone . Glory to God .

[@daviawyliefinch3017]

I've had nightmares on a regular basis for many years. I've written down several hundred of them. Many of them involve "ghosts" (evil invisible formerly human entities) or "demons" (like ghosts, only they were never human and sometimes take on the form of possessed objects, like dolls). These dreams can be wildly terrifying and I often become hysterical in the dream and sort of go crazy from the fear. Frequently, they wake me up. Often, I try to exorcise the ghosts and demons by drawing crosses in the air (my arms often don't work) or calling on God and the angels (my voice often doesn't work), just like you see in movies about exorcism. Just last night I had a dream like that. I have on several occasions dreamed about Satan, who is just terrifically scary. Not all of my nightmares are about ghosts or demons, though. I've had a ton of dreams about zombies, aliens, killer robots, giants, enormous spiders and giant owls, bears, lions, mad dogs, and other carnivorous animals, cannibals, serial killers, Nazi soldiers, violent gangs, and dreams about floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes, electrical storms, and other world-ending apocalypses. Also dreams about my limbs rotting and falling off, being eaten alive by parasites inside my body, etc. If it can scare you, I've dreamed about it, lol. I've never met anyone who has anywhere near the number of nightmares I have.

[@JesusSaves194]

Having dreams about the apocalypse over and over is usually a sign you can see in the spirit into the gift from God. I do Christian Deliverance if you want to break free from the demonic oppression, have you accepted Jesus Christ

[@Z781-y2r]

Call on The name of Jesus it has power demons will flee away . As I call him On my Dreams

[@peterb4143]

@@JesusSaves194is that true? I’ve had many apocalyptic dreams but none recently since I’m trying to have a better relationship with the Lord. I distinctly remember one apocalyptic dream where I was stabbed to death and then woke up many years ago. But during Covid soon after being saved my depression became severe due to the circumstances. I eventually gave up on God and stopped praying I think 2 years into Covid. Months after not praying at all and just worsening is when I got hit with the first demonic dream. I had three. I don’t really like trying to describe or remember them for hopefully obvious reasons but the third is the most important. I was being chased around and it was laughing while I was hiding or running since the dream felt like forever. What’s strange is those dreams just shift into other dreams aka what I think is the demon trying different methods and I was now outside in my city just a random spot in town in regular daytime nothing seemingly scary. The demon wasn’t there but I felt it’s presence. After fearfully just running around and getting lost for what felt like hours in the dream I stumbled across and clearly read this sign/billboard on the wall of a building in the dream that just said “the demon is coming to get you” in all capital letters and then I woke up. I cried out to God (this is again not after praying for maybe 6+ months) and they have never returned. What I’ve figured is these demons want one thing and that is for you to die. They want you to kill yourself out of fear. This fear that is experienced is truly unexplainable. It’s like being in the most terrifying horror movie times 100, since you are going through things no human mind is evil enough to come up with since it is a demons concoction. Though I still regrettably sin every day, I can do nothing but praise God for saving and delivering me though I least deserve it, and await the day I can leave this cursed body and flesh and spend eternity with the Jesus who came down from heaven and died for me.

[@JesusSaves194]

@@peterb4143 If you want prayer or deliverance let me know . I am on Isaiah Salvador deliverance map

[@PrestonBurks]

I’m one of those people you speak of. I have nightmares almost nightly, some of them very demonic, but I have no problem controlling the outcome- they can never get close enough to me to do anything. I’m also not very phased. I didn’t know any of that was a “thing” though until I watched this video. I’m here because of last night’s dream. It was a sequel to a dream I’ve had previously, almost like I’m traveling to an alternate universe or something. Where once I was possessed in my dream, this one had me trying to help others. Very specific details as well.

[@ninaaraneta]

I'm glad I found this video. I used to have very vivid dreams, including nightmares, that would bother me for years. Lately I haven't had any episodes and I'm so thankful for that. One of the scariest dream experiences I had was when I essentially "woke up" in a dream within a dream many times that I lost count. My bedroom stayed the same but something was always off and I couldn't tell if I was dreaming or not. Surely enough I'll find out that I was still dreaming. Sometimes the clues would be very minor like my carpet being a different color or my window at a different angle. Other times it was more obvious like a figure appearing to me or sinking into my pillow. Some of my worst panic attacks have happened while in dream state. When I finally wake up in real life, I always seek reassurances and I kind of become paranoid because I'm always making sure I'm really awake.

[@franciscomiranda6882]

Dream within dreams are wildly unsettling. The worst ones are the ones in which you realize you’re still dreaming, but you can’t wake up. You’re stuck in that dream state, until the thing, whatever it is, “studying you” is finished. Then you’re released. I remember experiencing a lucid dream from within a dream I knew to be a dream and it was indescribable. The detail for me that clued me into the dream being a dream was the sky being the wrong shade of night. And then I knew I was being messed with again.

[@Liquid_Alexis]

What you described is EXACTLY word for word that happens to me. I seriously thought I wrote your comment for a second. Insane! It only happens when I'm sleeping on my back, though. Never when I fall asleep any other way, only on my back. I wonder if it was the same for you? And it all started years ago when I would take 5 -HTP and melatonion to help me sleep.

[@adrianmasters250]

I've literally seen that black figure with the red eyes, two of them actually and they sent their hound after me and I fought it off in the dream state. Not the first experience I had like that, but now I've learned that if you're spiritually strong enough you can fight them off and command them to leave and even destroy them or send them back whereever they came from.

[@notmarvelsloki4721]

I had nightmares as a child and then somehow figured out how to control them in this nightmare that continued night after night. It lasted about, and involved me defeating some kind of weird monster. Once it was over I didn't really have nightmares again. It was my first time becoming spontaneously lucid while dreaming. Even as an adult that has stuck with me, I always seem to know when I am dreaming and resolve nightmares before I wake up if possible.

[@skullfox-wl6vh]

happens to me too i can easily turn off the nightmare once i become aware am in the dream and its been happening faster before the fear slips in my subconscious seems to turn if off along with the negative energy

[@Raventooth]

I had night terrors. I was a sleepwalker. Deep sleeper. Used to wet the bed as well. I saw a Minotaur in a very lucid nightmare. I saw my child-self in the mirror connected with this thing. Absolutely the worst encounter in my dreams ever. Any insight? It is my understanding a shaman is connected to the 'other world'. More of a blessing than a curse by modern New Age standards as in, a shaman doesn't choose to be a shaman. The trauma chooses you. Most won't like to hear this but this kind of deep understanding comes with years of suffering and sobriety.

[@1MoreTurn]

I call on the name of Jesus multiple times and the nightmare will end. It always works. Hope it can help you too.

[@tubo1639]

Amen🙏🙏 me too!

[@tubo1639]

Amen 🙏 🙏 me too! Or I also begin to say Hail Marys, then it stop! 🙏🙏

[@fusiflorence8123]

Me too,just call the name and it's gone❤

[@Bestofthe510]

The Lord’s Prayer always works

[@AndreabelievesinJesusChrist]

Same

[@jarias7829]

I never quite feel alone whenever i wake up from a nightmare

[@Coolbeans-fq7zn]

Sleep paralysis has never been scary to me some nights I try to let it grow as strong as I can possibly take before my involuntary muscles wake me up, I feel like if you embrace it there is a gem to find!!!

[@themissydeyo]

I’ve had really terrible nightmares about demons, but particularly when I was a child and younger person, but I also have had nightmares as an adult that are more about murderers

[@isaiahlopez3661]

I never experienced a “demonic” nightmare until I was 18. Sure I’ve had your fair share of hearing unexpected noises and such but nothing like that nightmare. The weird part is , is that somethings in the room I was in moved like they did in my Dream. I remember feeling this immense pressure on my shoulders and I couldn’t move, then as I felt as if weights were on my bed I managed to push against the wall and move the bed. Then I was in my bathroom and was being choked by this giant black “thing”. As I was having. A hard time breathing a blinding warm light came and made the darkness go away. I’ve never felt so relaxed and relieved that I ended up crying while this warm light embraced me. Ever since I have many nightmares were something would grab me or touch me and provoke me while it seemed amused. I also see many shadow figures moving around and have also once saw what I would I believe to be a ghost or a spirit (not sure the difference) of a woman sitting on my parents couch. She had short hair and I could very distinctly make our facial features except she had no eyes. Just black holes I guess? And as I glazed my eyes across the room and did a double take she was gone just as fast. Nothing threatening. As of the last two weeks I have watched a door open right in front of my eyes (my friend was also right in front of me to attest this) and have felt something poke me in my bedroom. Not sure what this all means and exactly what my brain is doing but it makes me feel somewhat relieved that I’m not the only one. I have a hard time telling my closest friends because they don’t believe me or make fun of me. If anyone knows someone I can talk to about this specific “problems” please let me know.

[@GallowglassBLADE]

You have a gift, spirits are getting your attention, just watch out for the shadow people or hatman.

[@cobrablack2066]

Drugs are hell of a drug

[@GallowglassBLADE]

@@cobrablack2066 so is ignorance.

[@landsknecht8654]

Bro, if your friend was there and the door opened by itself that's something. I experienced Supernatural things before few times in my parents house but also a my friend's house and usually my friends house had a lot of friends hanging out maybe like five of us and something crazy will happen no joke and we will all witness it in some people leave. One day there was three of us in his house, and it just feels weird. When it feels weird, usually something weird might happen. I remember it's just so eerie there, than the lights flickering in the upstairs attic with strange noises. That day I brought a full suit of armor and my friends made me put it on and go check it out. Well I had a hockey stick with me and I left my real weapon downstairs just in case didn't want anything bad happening. Yeah I went up there and there was some weird noises so then my friends were behind me and I went upstairs and turned off the light and went back down I didn't see anything but it was weird. I was hoping to God that was an animal, but who knows. One of the weirdest things was guitar floating in inch from the ground and start moving back and forth. Guess what seven people saw that! Everyone kept watching TV until somebody asked if anybody saw that then everybody freaked out and said yes three people left right after!

[@landsknecht8654]

​@@cobrablack2066well here's the funny thing, you know it's not in your head of other people thought too. At my friend's house we had some crazy Supernatural stuff that happens once in awhile and here's the kicker to be 7 people see the same thing, will it be three of us or 9 of us it was nuts.

[@shadeeason4401]

The most effective method I found to get rid of the nightmare beings is remembering the nichiren buddhist mantra during the dream and it interrupts the whole process and pushes away dark entities.

[@diba97-g3d]

I was able to control it and never have nightmares again.

[@M3l_0N666]

Nice 👍 muscle your way out of it.

[@diba97-g3d]

@@M3l_0N666 I punched it in the face while saying an Arabic prayer 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Pandababyy247]

I’ve had recurring nightmares where I’m casting away a demon, calling on Jesus , praying and rebuking it in Jesus name . And always I feel a sharp pain on either my side or lower back like someone’s digging there finger into my torso . Eventually it goes away and I wake up . still feeling residual pain and creeped out ! 😔😣

[@shadw4701]

There's actually plenty of good things about nightmares. For one, it's possible to enjoy nightmares. Have you ever had a dream where you're very scared but still having the time if your life? This is most of my nightmares. I'm fighting the monsters instead of running in most cases. Unless it's an emotional nightmare I tend to enjoy it. Nightmares can also represent a problem in your life or unresolved trauma. You can actually use lucid dreaming to face your nightmare head on to either get rid of it or solve a problem. This is especially helpful for recurring nightmares

[@adil.670]

I don't fight I just run , and mostly real animals that follows me in my dreams , I had this super realistic nightmare where a tiger appeared in front of me and i remember telling myself don't move tigers don't see at night (tigers actually do see perfectly at night but that's what I told myself ) and sure enough the tiger kept on walking next to me without noticing me it's like we're kinda in control of our dreams the same when a bear was entering a room where i knew my mom was inside and i taught well there's nothing I can do then I noticed her cub so I just picked it up and run away to distract her , and as you said I really enjoy these kind of dreams it's like an adventure especially when the dream is super realistic .

[@shadw4701]

@adil.670 I tend to have similar dreams. Just the other night I had one where a bear ran out of the woods. Sometimes these animals will be my pets as well or someone else's pet. I also have parrots in real life and sometimes I'll have dreams where I have more of them that are similar to the ones I already own. On the notion of having control, that's pretty much exactly how you control dreams, beliefs and expectations

[@clixmania]

I'd want you to be my friend! You sound super cool to hang around

[@maan100283]

As a child I used to have dreams where I was being chased by something, but when I started playing first-person-shooter games I begin associating begin chased with strategic withdraw to defend and take back the initiative. My mind was like "okay, there on to me, let's find a good spot to shoot them up." A nightmare isn't a movie, it's interactive. And there are more options than "flight". When having a bad trip with psychoactive substances, it's also best to not be scared but be interested. If you ask yourself "What is this scary thing trying to teach me?" and you approach with curiosity, the result will be much more interesting then when you try to run away from the scary emotions.

[@stevenbaase]

I enjoy nightmare and use them as powerful tools of learning lessons beyond the necessary standards for meta. I pray they keep coming as I must grow and if I want happiness I can wake up or experience darkness.

[@michaeloconnell7274]

There is so much you can learn about yourself through nightmares I think once you confront the things that strike fear in you through your nightmares it is very psychologically changing in a beneficial way. I think IT by Stephen King has a beautiful way of putting it which is that the nightmare feeds off your fear so as you don't fear it and your face up to it, it will not have power over you.

[@hyelish_]

I used to have the same nightmare every few months, it scared the shit out of me cause there was this evil presence of some sort and i could not scream loud enough. By the end of those dreams i ended up realising that the presence was me.

[@KENTUCKYUSA1]

Insightful.

[@swami_]

when I was younger, I used to be afraid of the dark in my dreams, because something always came out of the pitch black to scare me, like an evil presence, idk but everything changed when I had a dream in particular, in which I was in an all-white place, like a subway but more like corridors, and in the only dark shadow cast in a wall, a monster jumped to scare me, and I just decided to wake up, enough, then i never had dreams like this anymore

[@erinelizabeth5465]

I’ve had sleep apnea several times, sheets pulled from my bed, and prophetic dreams that came true years later. Scary stuff

[@npc5z]

When this first started I thought, "Oh man I'm gonna share this with my wife. She'll better understand what I go through..." Then as it went on I firmly changed my mind. I mean holy heck, she'll think that if I fail to fight off the demons in my nightmares I'll wake up possessed!

[@ellioto8708]

SUPER interesting that REM seems to compute trauma in a special way. I’m not smart enough to work out what the implications of this are for things like medical treatment and therapy, but I’ll be looking out for this.

[@danielcaldera6075]

I once experienced a sleep paralysis where a dark fizzy "blob" appeared along side my bed. It seemed as though it was something to be feared (it had no face and no figure) but I stood up to it nonetheless & after a brief moment something come over me & it then transformed its sense of being a figure of fear into a sense of familiarity, I instantly thought of my mother and this "blob" took on that energy and therefore I hugged it in my dream state and all of a sudden that sleep paralysis conventional fear transformed into a calm state of bliss. Its almost as if you stand your ground & confront the fear it really is maybe hurt trauma that used to be love at some point.

[@ghost_of_taliesin]

For some reason lots of people on here thinks this man believes in demonic possession and the supernatural. You guys have got the wrong idea. He’s merely stating the neurological reasons for these so-called possessions and how it may stem from a person’s religious consciousness, rather than a real thing that actually exists.

[@Lapastel37]

Then when people start to even levitate in front of exorcist priests, you try and do a neurological rationale there...

[@billnyethescienceguy553]

Had nightmares every night when i was a kid. Horrible Lucid, vivid nightmares. Sleep paralysis. I was atheist and mocked people who believed in God. Eventually i became religious myself. Christian. I rarely have nightmares now.

[@JaboodyEnthusiast]

I don't dream 🤷🏽‍♂️ haven't for over 10 years now. Sometimes I get the crappy type of sleep where it's dark when I close my eyes, and during the blink, it's the next day. No clue what causes this but would appreciate any replies from folk who've experienced the same thing.

[@Mnicolette130]

Yeah I don’t dream either. I think its because of poor quality sleep but yeah.

[@eduardacardoso2100]

I didn’t dream when I smoked weed for years, when I stopped it gradually came back.

[@selispeks]

"A lot of other sleep medicine specialists say, 'It doesn't need to wake you up. If you have a terrifying dream--that's a nightmare.'" Wow. Who knew that's what nightmares were? I had no idea! Children have nightmares too?! WHAT?! I'm so glad these basics are what scientists are spending their time and money on. We really needed to learn & understand this.

[@ashleyladner7620]

I've had tons of nightmares where I wake up and see different things in my room. Once an alien, 2D moving sideways with no locomotion. Once a young man with shoulder length blonde hair, sort of curly, he was petting my dog and I began to cuss him, he dove under my bed as I got my gun out of the closet. I looked under the bed and he was gone. The dog was under the covers and couldn't have gotten under there the way the blanket and the sheets were up to the top of the bed on that side. Once the devil was on the side of my bed, but he was about 5' tall, he had a similar outfit to Darth Vader's but a duck bill that had a mirror like helmet with the mirror coming down over the face and duck bill. He had a round speaker on his chest about 4 inches in diameter and about half an inch out from his chest. It sounded like a 1940's microphone. I couldn't understand what he was saying, but I jumped up and began saying, "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus! I rebuke you in the name of Jesus!" He disappeared into a puff of orange smoke. My daughter said that I did not say, "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus," but I mumbled several unintelligible words and said "Jesus" right at the end! Last night there was a huge snake in my bed with a head as big as an anaconda and I jumped up cursing and shouting "snake!" Turn the light on, no snake! Thought there was an old woman in my room one night. When I woke up, I thought for a minute, what if this woman died in this room and I can see her in my dreams?! The next day I did not feel that it was anything other than a dream. Once I looked up and saw an old man standing up above me at the head board. His hands were folded in prayer like a saint. He was as see through white and kind of looked like one of those bearded praying saints that some Catholics have in their yards. I thought it was just an old man that broke into my house, so I got up on the bed and grabbed him around the neck and he disappeared and I fell off the bed and scraped my back on a clothes basket. The next day my daughter asked what happened to my back and I told her. She laughed her rear end off. I keep the gun locked up now, so that I really have to wake up to use it. I'm afraid of shooting through a wall and hurting someone. I once saw a puff adder under my bed. I went to the garage and got an old shower curtain rod. My daughter called my phone and asked what I was doing, I told her there was a snake and she said, "there's no snake! Go back to bed!" I could still see the puff adder coiled and ready to strike under the foot of the bed. When I turned the light on, it was a ribbon from an Easter basket that was curved upward. I figure I'll probably be sleeping by myself for the rest of my life. No for regular dreams I dreamed I was in Hell and there were Zombies and Maggots everywhere. They were all over me and I rebuked them in the name of Jesus and they backed up and I kept rebuking them and rebuking them in the name of Jesus and they kept backing up and I saw a dark hall, but wondered if it led out or just deeper into hell. A friend said that he did ayahuasca and he was on the ground and vines began tearing him apart. He said if you fight it, it last longer, so he surrendered. I wish I could have that kind of clarity in my dreams at night to surrender in the regular dreams. The night terrors are different though. I do not believe that there is "demonic" possession. DMT is powerful and can make the dream or night terror surreal, or more real than reality. The two or three best dreams I have ever had was were a person I was in love with told me they loved me, then we lived together in a later dream and both dreams seemed to be very real. I felt in those two dreams that that world was real and this world was a nightmare.

[@Lucridley]

The best thing I have ever watched regarding the truth

[@DoomRulz]

I read H.P. Lovecraft before I go to bed and in some cases, it's literal nightmare fuel. I enjoy that. I think there may be something wrong with me.

[@DimitriMoreira]

Maybe.

[@nialeemaria]

Cheaper than street drugs.

[@MaynesWorld]

I used to work Graveyard shift at a hospital some years back and was cleaning equipment to go up to the floors. One night while in the room alone I kept feeling like someone was standing right behind my left shoulder. I kept turning around to find no one there. I felt a bit uneasy, but continued on with my shift. Days later myself, my wife and our two children were all experiencing nightmares. I knew that something was happening and that whatever was in that room with me at work had followed me home. On the fourth day when everyone left for the morning, I closed the door, locked it and turned around to my living room and said out loud: “I don’t know who you are, or why you’re here. If you have been hurt, and in turn have the intent to return that hurt…I am sorry, but you are no longer welcome here. We don’t deserve what you are doing to us and it ends today.” I then opened the door as if to allow it to leave. The nightmares stopped and had peace in the house thereafter.

[@mightyjames3513]

I had demonic nightmares and experienced sleep paralysis starting when I was 3. They never stopped and followed me into my teenage years. When I was 14 years old, I had a night where I cried out to God and asked for forgiveness for my sin through Jesus’s death on the cross and resurrection. Immediately after I finished praying, I felt a presence enter my room and the power and pressure of it was unbelievable. I felt it fill the room, and then me too. In that moment, all of my fear vanished and afterward my sleep paralysis went away! Occasionally, a demon would appear in my dream but I could tell them to leave in Jesus’s name and they’d get scared and leave. Just my personal experience, but if any of you struggle with demonic nightmares, I truly believe the name of Jesus is the way to freedom!

[@prayerforceone]

Yes!! Jesus set me free from demonic trouble as well.

[@LuisVasDeCamoes]

I used to have nightmares when I was a kid/teenager, they stoped when I gained the courage to face my fears

[@ahmedtariqh]

i expected a delicious neuroscience video with lots of new information , but you sadly let me down !

[@Dragon-yw4xw]

I'm not a religous kid but I had some bad dreams during Childhood. And later on the it's all gone because I grow up. I become a brave person and will fight back. I think that could be the reason.

[@cloudcyclone]

If you wanna see some crazy shit just fall asleep as slowly and calmly as you can in total silence, but when you start to drift off with eyes closed, fight to stay conscious enough to "see" and right when you are falling asleep you will see the most amazing shit. Lots of smart/crazy artist and inventors use this kinda trick or similar to get inspiration. It can help to have something ready to wake you up a little right after you slip away. Its pretty cool and never scared me. I used to have sleep paralysis all the time but i just stopped sleeping on my back and im fine now, but it would always be an all-black figure in my bedroom coming to me and usually not making contact but being super duper close and ofc i cant move or scream or anything no matter how much you try. I still have lots of dreams where I have a "false" wakup moment in the dream still asleep but for some reason my brain tricks me into thinking im in my actual room awake even though im still dreaming, weird af.

[@robertsmiley2207]

I noticed watching scary 😰 things on television 📺 at night time will result in me having a nightmare so I stopped completely

[@alexanderwesley]

I dealt with this quite a bit after moving to London, and worked with an energy healer who assisted me in dealing with this. Part of it, is definitely standing your ground and working through the fear surrounding a dark spirit. If you can stand up to it and show you hold no fear, it'll have no power over you and you can exit the energy from your room. There are a handful of other remedies as well that will help, including showering with rose water, shaking up the energy in your room, feng shui, smudging, salting the entrances of your bedroom & flat, etc.

[@MoJoebrojo]

Every few months I have a reoccurring demon nightmare. I'm usually with family, were in a scary setting (like an old dirty house) and were usually trapped and demons are chasing me. I get separated from them. I'll turn a corner or go through a door and demons appear out if nowhere start stabbing me in the stomach. Always stabbing in the stomach. I wake up after that. The first few scared me terribly. They still do but the relief i get when i wake up is amazing and i genuinely enjoy them now. Unrelated the devil was my imaginary friend from about 4-6. I used to call him "dev".

[@jordanwhitewolf5844]

I just recently had the privilege of seeing the Broadway show "The Book of Mormon", and I feel this is highly relevant to the 'Spooky hell nightmare' bit from the show. Of course kids are going to grow up having nightmares about hell and Satan, it being shown to them from a young age being the number one threat to them and all whom they love. This idea of terror, eternal damnation and torment just waiting around the corner if they slip up in life and are not always devout - those are likely to produce relevant nightmares that will doubly make them superstitiously buy into their given religion, seeing the dreams as meaningful warnings and proof of their theology, when really it's just the manifested stress and worry about what they've been shown.

[@msjay5086]

Early this month I had sleep paralysis, there was a banging noise and felt this overwhelming multiple evil presence creeping towards me even when I can't see them. I was conscious but I felt stuck inside my own body as if it was disconnected, I was panicking and praying in my mind until the presence slowly faded away and I felt this peace. I kept praying until I was able to move my mouth. I had a breakdown when I woke up.

[@dapperwolf6034]

Why can't nightmares be classified as a psychological disturbance? Also I believe your dreams are your unconscious mind telling you about what may be happening in your body for in your conscious mind by using the way of dreams to describing it

[@DimitriMoreira]

Nobody cares about your beliefs nor should they care. Stop putting belief before facts and maybe people will take you seriously. After your question, you should provide arguments for your case. Your beliefs aren't arguments. They're not facts, they're opinions.

[@johnnyearp52]

​@@DimitriMoreira Everything you said to him applies to what you said too, buddy.

[@zoeanaam.6996]

In Islamic tradition dreams are seen as of three types, one is the same as you said comes from a person's own psyche and the second in which a person really hates the context of dream comes from evil energy/Satan and the third by which a human gets happy after seeing it comes from Allah.... So there are different perspectives i guess, it can not be classified with one explanation.

[@OG_Dr.Unicorn]

My nightmares pop up if I feel guilty... Even about the smallest thing. I'm a people pleaser. A very olddd soul, but kid at heart ✨🦄💟

[@jameswalker366]

Is basically just anxiety carried over into sleep. Nothing more. Nothing less.

[@TheShadowPerson.]

That has to be the most generalized and misinformed conclusion. If there's anything you can understand about dreams, is that you don't fully understand them.

[@jameswalker366]

@@TheShadowPerson. I only have anxious dreams when I’m anxious. It’s really quite straight forward. Humans like to try and find meaning, where none exists. It’s bordering on superstition, in my opinion. Humans also like to deny “unacceptable” emotions, that don’t match their identity or what society expects of them. It’s got to come out somewhere.

[@TheShadowPerson.]

@@jameswalker366 Yeah your sudden enlightened understanding of dreams, is really just a large resevoir of ignorance. No offence. I dont think youre comprehending the fact that dreams arent studied well by science. And why? It's not the focus of humanity.

[@jameswalker366]

@@TheShadowPerson. There is nothing sudden about it. Science is the basis for understanding the world. In the absence of this, there is personal experience, logic and reason. I’ve not seen any logical argument in your response, or even an attempt to engage with the specific points I’ve raised. Please attempt if you want to have a sensible discussion.

[@albinondreu7290]

@@TheShadowPerson. what we should understand is that anxiety is not just there, it should be triggered. So if you have anxiety before you sleep something has triggered it. Something from your subconscious that wants to be noticed. If you generalize it you miss the point, if you feel anxiety, the “demon” of your subconsciousness wants something to be told, that’s why the nightmares