"Shadow People" and Demons

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CHRISTINE77 said:
I’ve never experience the shadow people or sleep paralysis, but often I am awakened at night with the sensation of something jumping on my bed next to me, like the size of a cat. Only I do not have a cat, and it feels like something slightly evil. I always pray my Hail Marys and Our Fathers until I fall asleep again. Anyone experience something like this?
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“Yes” to the sensation of something jumping on the bed while not even yet having fallen asleep. My protection for any of these nightly, disturbing experiences, like: sleep paralysis, trouble breathing, something pressing on my body till it hurts terribly, a sensation of tickling is for me to petition God for these experiences not to happen by mentioning each experience for what they are. God is so good to me, He listens and I end up with very good night sleep.

I found the reciting of the Apostles Creed is a very powerful deterrent for any of these weird things to happen and if they do happen. The sensation will stop practically immediately, especially when I come to the part “I believe in Jesus Christ, the only son of God.” But just declaring “I believe in God,” is also very powerful.

Things that just started to happen to me and also to my husband is the hearing of a voice saying something. The sound of the voice is not frightening. For the past two days I have been awakened by the distinct tone of a doorbell. Yesterday at 8 a.m. it was the single tone of the backdoor bell. This morning at 3:48 a.m. the distinct tone of the front doorbell. This time I got up to see if there would be someone at the frontdoor. Nope - no one.

I will just keep saying my Rosary and before going to sleep bless my bed, bedroom and I sometimes go through the entire house blessing each room, even the bathrooms.
 
Yes yes and YES they are real.

Get your house blessed asap if you are having the sorts of troubles I am reading about in this thread.

And when you are frozen in fear, remember the Jesus prayer. It is enough.
 
My wife and I had an experience a couple years ago with one of these “shadow people.” That was the turning point in our life, that is what caused our conversion to Christ. My wife who grew up without a religion came into the Catholic Church this Easter. At the time it happened I was a lapsed Catholic, now I am as Catholic as they get. There is no doubt that what was in our house was pure evil. Yes it was an angel of God as all angels are, but this was one of the angels that had rejected God. There can be no doubt because the darkness, coldness, and evil that came over us was the worst feeling you could imagine. A good angel would not have tried to keep me from praying. Even though I was a bad Catholic when it happened, I knew the Our Father like the back of my hand. My wife and I now know why I couldn’t finish it. The last words are “deliver us from evil, Amen.” One day soon I will get a website up that tells the whole story. the leading up to, the event, and what has happened since. I will post the link on here when it is up and running, I can promise our situation is very unique and we have documented a good portion of it. God Bless you all and my your hearts be filled with the love of Christ.

Love,
Christopher
 
Christopher1111 said:
My wife and I had an experience a couple years ago with one of these “shadow people.” That was the turning point in our life, that is what caused our conversion to Christ. My wife who grew up without a religion came into the Catholic Church this Easter. At the time it happened I was a lapsed Catholic, now I am as Catholic as they get. There is no doubt that what was in our house was pure evil. Yes it was an angel of God as all angels are, but this was one of the angels that had rejected God. There can be no doubt because the darkness, coldness, and evil that came over us was the worst feeling you could imagine. A good angel would not have tried to keep me from praying. Even though I was a bad Catholic when it happened, I knew the Our Father like the back of my hand. My wife and I now know why I couldn’t finish it. The last words are “deliver us from evil, Amen.” One day soon I will get a website up that tells the whole story. the leading up to, the event, and what has happened since. I will post the link on here when it is up and running, I can promise our situation is very unique and we have documented a good portion of it. God Bless you all and my your hearts be filled with the love of Christ.

Love,
Christopher
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Christopher I’d love to read it when you get it up and running.
 
Yes, the Sleep paralysis is of demonic activity. What you see when you come from the sleep world to the real world with you still being paralysed when you wake up is because you are seeing the demon that is causing the nightmere, and fear. Even Joseph had an angel come into his sleep to tell him to go down to Egypt when he woke up. So what you are seeing is the demon or fallen angel that is attacking you.
 
I’m joining this thread a few years late, but I wanted to share an experience my cousins had when they were younger. (This happened when both sisters were atheists/agnostics). Both girls had been messing around with a ouija board and strange noises, and things could be heard around their house. They thought nothing of it at first, until one day when both girls were sitting at the kitchen table studying. From where the kitchen table is at, you have a pretty good view of their brother’s room. Well, that day, there brother and parents were out, and both girls were studying, when suddenly they felt like they were being watched. When both girls looked up they saw what they described as a 3D shadow sitting on the bed, and it resembled their brother. :eek: It was like the shadow/spirit was trying to materialize into the shape of their brother. It just stared straight ahead and both girls got up and ran and called my mom to go and get them. Now, both girls attend church regularly and pray often. Till this day, they are dead set against messing around with ouija boards, or even talking about them too much. When my younger brother expressed his curiosity over the board, they flipped out and reminded him of the shadow person. Scary stuff! Just pray and remain faithful to the Lord and you should be fine.
 
ChadS said:
I suppose as a phenomenon demonic activity can’t be ruled out all the time, but in 99.9% of cases it’s a trick your mind is playing on you when you are in that state between waking up and not yet fully awake.

I suppose from an iconographic view since icons are meant to draw one’s thoughts towards Christ and heaven and that the way icons are drawn has a distinct theological significance then only painting demons as shadows with no real form or features is a way to signify to us that we shouldn’t be overly focused on them or to let them distract or get between us and Christ. That’s just my guess though.

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ok but lets say when you are only partially awake that your eyes have some of the “scales” off and you can see the spiritual world vaguely…
which i find plausible. everything physical is connect to a spiritual side. the physical is a manifestation of something in the spiritual world.
 
ChadS said:
No, I think in general sleep paralysis is not demonic. In can be explained phsyiologically that your brain is more fully awake and conscious and your body hasn’t quite gotten the signal to wake up yet or move.

I’ve had it happen before and it can be slightly disorienting and it always seems to be at the end of a weird dream or something similar.

I’d wager it’s just a normal reaction that sometimes occurs while trying to wake up.

ChadS
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could be spiritual shock
 
OrdinaryMelkite said:
Yes, shadow people exist. They are a form of demon/unclean spirit/supernatural entity and there have been reports about them from all over the world for a while now.

However, I do agree that one should consider natural/psychological and rule them out before automatically assuming “demonic activity.”
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I have to agree. however how can a spirit be of good if the first feelings and vibes emitted from it are negative?

I do not think there are many out there who are had fuzzy good feelings from a shadow person. I have in the past seen shadow people. gray black and white. the physical seen views are different and the emotions and vibes are interesting too. you also do not have to be partially awake to see them… broad daylight in the middle of a day without naps
 
Sonic said:
I recommend reading this Catholic Encyclopedia article to better understand the influences that are at work with our imaginations.

Discernment of Spirits:

newadvent.org/cathen/05028b.htm

The thing is that our imaginations can be influenced by several factors. So, there can be several explanations for the phenomena of “shadow people” being reported by people. To some degree, stories about “shadow people” have become popularized and have become a sort of urban legend. This popularization amongst people interested in strange phenomena influences people’s interpretation. The explanation for the phenomena can fall into two categories: one of several reasonable explanations is true, all of the explanations apply.

An example how several factors could be at play at the same time… personal interpretation, other people, and demonic activity…

A person experiences sleep paralysis and sees a shadow person. The person has read several stories about such beings in the past and this plays a role in their personal interpretation of the event. A friend, who is into UFO phenomena, interprets the event as being extraterrestrial in origin. Demons, wishing to lead the person away from God try to influence the interpretation by working on the imagination of the person both indirectly and directly.

Edit: Throw in mental illness, and you have a pretty complex mix of explanations… all of which could be correct to varying degrees.
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I have to point out many people experience shadow people even awake(no naps and not laying down) before looking into the topic UFOs and shadow people. even if mental illness there are alot of common people out there in the world experiencing these experiences with therapists claiming they are not mentally ill. Even if mentally ill… what is it in a spiritual term? It’s fruits, anxiety, fear, confusion ect… are definitely not fruits of the Spirit (God). and people in general seem to not be bothered so much by the white ones.
 
ChristIsTheWay said:
That is interesting. The Wikipedia article mentions that stimulating the left temporoparietal junction can create the illusion of a shadow person. It also mentions other possible natural causes of hallucinations, among other things. What interests me most is that I am sure you can stimulate parts of my brain that will bring on hallucinations of my mother, my dog, and the Grand Canyon. Despite this, those things are real. So I don’t see how finding areas of the brain that can produce hallucinations rules out the possibility that shadow people are real.
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This reminds me of visions prophets in the bible have seen… They have been accused of having hallucinations and even some have in their visions described something similar to sleep paralysis…
they were laying down flat on their faces… and could not move because of the power of God. They may have not been asleep but the common person may say they were because they were “hallucinating” of course it was a vision and all very real.
 
Shadow People? Sounds a bit Art Bell-ish to be taken seriously. I’m sure people see or feel something in a sleep-state, I have, both terrifying and benign. I take it as nothing exceptional.
 
Battle_Warrior said:
Is sleep paralysis demonic? I experienced it last year and it was during which time I had a scary dream of my dead Grandpa…plus I woke up and couldn’t move.
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Sleep paralysis is not demonic. It’s just a medical condition that affects people from time to time. It’s harmless.
 
It seems to me that too many people want to put the blame on different disorders. I guess I would have to until it happened to my wife and I. When it goes on for several minutes and you are both wide awake there can be no doubt or mind games. Now we know just how real these evil spirits are.
 
I haven’t studied the topic in depth but my initial impression of the idea of “sleep paralysis”, there’s another more scientific name for it too, I believe, is that this may be science trying to give a rational explanation to something of a preternatural order.

I really do believe that unclean spirits sometimes do bother people while they are sleeping, but usually if a person is in a state of Grace and also has some active prayer life, they are not troubled by these unclean spirits. There may be exceptions, however. I don’t know.
 
Battle_Warrior said:
Is sleep paralysis demonic? I experienced it last year and it was during which time I had a scary dream of my dead Grandpa…plus I woke up and couldn’t move.
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No, sleep paralysis is simply a medical phenomenon, where you mind wakes up before your body’s “pause button” that keeps you still while you sleep is released. Nightmares are simply more likely to wake you prematurely, making this an unpleasant phenomenon.

Sleep paralysis is basically the opposite of sleep walking. If you are experiencing sleep paralysis, your doctor would be the person to speak to, especially if it is distressing.
 
Christopher1111 said:
It seems to me that too many people want to put the blame on different disorders. I guess I would have to until it happened to my wife and I. When it goes on for several minutes and you are both wide awake there can be no doubt or mind games. Now we know just how real these evil spirits are.
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Please register with your doctor and respiratory therapy department for a “sleep study”, this may provide non-supernatural answers and solutions for you.
 
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