10-09-2010, 02:30 PM
Biu_Tze, more meditation and less wing chun!
Haha, just kidding!
Seriously, I know exactly what you are describing. I experienced this on a regular basis, maybe once or twice a week, for about a year, and then less often but still fairly often, for about 10 years. I actually dreaded going to sleep!
I tried lots of spiritual practices: cleansing the bedroom, the LBRP, meditation/prayer before bed, even praying for whatever entity was in the room! Regrettably, nothing seemed to really help, in my case.
During this time, I also had many experiences in which I felt detached, or trapped within a void. This was especially creepy!
I learned that the feeling of a presence in the room is actually a common rite of passage, so to speak, for those working on lucid dreaming. There are many techniques for dealing with it, which you can easily find by searching for lucid dreaming presence sleep paralysis and such terms.
The lucid dreaming books seem to imply that this experience is normal and just something to navigate when working on becoming lucid.
But, I started having my experiences way before I ever did any lucid dreaming, so I'm not so sure that's all it is, though it may be that lucid dreamers just tend to become aware of it more than those who aren't aware during their dreams, since it usually happens in that twilight state between waking and dreaming.
In my case, I believe there was a physiological factor. When I resolved some health issues having to do with mineral deficiency, the insomnia I had struggled with for 10 years vanished, and so did the 'evil presence' experiences. It hasn't happened for a couple of years now.
This leads me to speculate that it may just be a physiological cause, in many cases.
My suggestion would be to consider any dietary factors that might be creating a hospitable environment for nightly visitors. You might also consider looking into lucid dreaming techniques, which can be very empowering, and might work for you even though they didn't in my case.
Haha, just kidding!
Seriously, I know exactly what you are describing. I experienced this on a regular basis, maybe once or twice a week, for about a year, and then less often but still fairly often, for about 10 years. I actually dreaded going to sleep!
I tried lots of spiritual practices: cleansing the bedroom, the LBRP, meditation/prayer before bed, even praying for whatever entity was in the room! Regrettably, nothing seemed to really help, in my case.
During this time, I also had many experiences in which I felt detached, or trapped within a void. This was especially creepy!
I learned that the feeling of a presence in the room is actually a common rite of passage, so to speak, for those working on lucid dreaming. There are many techniques for dealing with it, which you can easily find by searching for lucid dreaming presence sleep paralysis and such terms.
The lucid dreaming books seem to imply that this experience is normal and just something to navigate when working on becoming lucid.
But, I started having my experiences way before I ever did any lucid dreaming, so I'm not so sure that's all it is, though it may be that lucid dreamers just tend to become aware of it more than those who aren't aware during their dreams, since it usually happens in that twilight state between waking and dreaming.
In my case, I believe there was a physiological factor. When I resolved some health issues having to do with mineral deficiency, the insomnia I had struggled with for 10 years vanished, and so did the 'evil presence' experiences. It hasn't happened for a couple of years now.
This leads me to speculate that it may just be a physiological cause, in many cases.
My suggestion would be to consider any dietary factors that might be creating a hospitable environment for nightly visitors. You might also consider looking into lucid dreaming techniques, which can be very empowering, and might work for you even though they didn't in my case.