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I had a terrifying experience on Sunday morning. I really don't know who to talk to it about as if I do they will think l I've gone mad!! I actually spent the night on the settee curled up watching a DVD with one of my cats cuddled up to me. I fell asleep and didn't wake up until about 9.15 Sunday Morning. I decide that as I was rested that I would do some meditation. I have a chakra hypnosis meditation tape that I wanted to practice. So I went upstairs to my bedroom put my ipod on and played the tape.

I got through most of it but I did fall asleep. I was lying on my back. I do remember having a dream but at some point I was aware of my ipod playing again. The meditation tape had finished [it has 2 x 20 minute chapters to it] and had started 'reading the next book on the list of my ipod. I was just contemplating switching the tape off when I felt something land as if it hand jumped onto my torso. I could feel the weight of this things pressing down on my abdomen and chest. I had my arms folded across my abdomen with my hands interlinked, so this thing was sitting on them trapping them against my abdomen.

I really didn't want to open my eyes and look at it but I took a deep breath and opened my eyes to a squint. What I saw was a grey slightly wavering outline of something. I suppose you could say the outline was vaguely that of a body shape, no detail. I was terrified, I was lucid and convinced I was awake. I told it to go away and leave me very angrily. It wouldn't go at first I shut my eyes again and just tried to calm myself again. I partially opened ,my eyes again and said even more angrily for it to go and leave me. This time I felt the pressure leave me and it was gone. I had difficulty speaking and I felt that I was shouting from my head but through gritted teeth if that makes sense.

Now it could just be a lucid dream and the sensation of feeling that my arms were trapped and being sat on and the inability to speak properly could just be down to the fact that my muscles were still asleep or sleep paralysis.

I used to have this happen every now and again as a child. I always used to sleep under the covers because of this as I never wanted to see what was there. It always terrified me and I would always run into my mums room, but she would always just say I was being silly and wave it off as a dream[maybe it was though] I also twice as a an adult had an experience of a sensation on waking with the sensation of my body rushing towards the ceiling at a great speed , which suddenly stopped and I was back on the bed again with a jolt.

As I said it's really unsettled me and I just don't know who to talk to it about. I have a couple of acquaintances who are light surgeons/reiki masters one who has some psychic abilities and wondered whether it was worth getting them to sort out my energy. It could be the meditative state and perhaps I opened something up. I really don't remember being awake for the crown chakra. Maybe when I tuned into that one I was just in that true meditative state and I opened something up and let something in?

I have been really stressed for the last 2 weeks and feeling a little low I'm wondering if this thing has tuned into that and is trying to use at as a means to get in. I always sleep well and try and meditate using meditation tapes as regularly as I can. In fact the previous night I had put the meditation on a continues loop through part of the night so it wasn't a very focused listening as I drifted in and out of sleep.

Does this all sound like familiar pattern that may facilitate a visitation? Could this thing still be hanging around? If it was an evil entity would it have left so readily could it be a good entity? I recited an angel triple grid just to clear things.
Thanks
Mariainuk

Hello Marianuk,
Sleep paralysis can be very frightening, or so I have been told (I've never experienced it myself). That said and since you have experienced sleep paralysis since childhood, it sounds more likely to have been the cause of your recent event.
Sleep paralysis can also momentarily affect the mind, creating a hypnogogic state.
I've read where meditation is used to actually treat sleep paralysis.

I would, however, consider that meditation could possibly open a person up to more than the 'cosmic consciousness'. It is a firm practice of mine, to say prayers of protection before I begin to meditate, or seek to achieve any sort of metaphysical/psychic/altered state of being. You might consider doing so, as well.

Regards,

Hi Marianuk,
I have had only 1 experience with sleep paralysis, and the sensation that something was sitting on me, pressing me down. It scared the crap out of me. I was in bed at the time, my fiance next to me. There was no change in his breathing; no indication that he felt this thing on me.. which scared me more.
After that, I rolled over and mentally cast a circle about our bedroom, and called in my guides and guardians. Fortunately, I haven't had any further experiences. To help ease your mind, perhaps you could try performing a blessing prayer ceremony in your bedroom to help remove any lingering negative energies.
Mau