5. Sleeping with the enemy
When I was around 20, I had some experiences with lucid dreams, out of body experiences, sleep paralysis, etc. I still get them from time to time, but nothing as severe as before.
Well, this one particular time, I had just woken up in the middle of the night, and couldn’t move. Typical of a sleep paralysis episode. Usually I can snap myself out of it within seconds. But this time I was stuck, and couldn’t move anything except my eyelids.
I was going to stay calm and steady my heartbeat to keep myself from panicking, until I saw a dark outline of a shape right above me.
I was terrified.
You can’t move. You can’t speak. All you can do is look.
It was sort of transparent but had a kind of misty, gray fog inside of it, swirling around.
The only thing I could think to do was to pray. And sure enough, just thinking the name “Jesus Christ” made this apparition disappear.
From then on, anytime I experienced any sort of night terror, sleep paralysis, etc., I just pray, and the situation disappears.