"Shadow People" and Demons

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What is the most commonly seen form which demons appear in? As shadow like portrayed in the church’s iconography?
 
Little_Boy_Lost said:
What is the most commonly seen form which demons appear in? As shadow like portrayed in the church’s iconography?
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From An Exorcist Tells His story by Fr. Gabriele Amorth

pg 123 -

"In reality we often encounter noises such as squeaks or thumps. Many times there is a sensation of being watched by an invisible someone, or stared at, or touched, or assaulted. Fear plays a large part in these feelings, turning shadows into reality.

There are also many and more complex issues. Examples are doors and windows that open and close at a certain hour; steps walking down hallways; objects that move, or disappear to reappear in the unlikeliest places; and animals that are heard but not seen."

pg 124 -

“I am aware of insects, cats, and snakes that suddenly materialized.”

“The presence of evil is manifested by physical discomfort; insomnia, headaches, or stomach aches; or a general malaise that happens in that particular place and nowhere else.”
From my studies, I have heard that demons do appear as dark figures. I have read that this can be manifested as shadowy phantoms or more solid manifestations like men dressed in black to the black bat winged creatures featured in old medieval wood block prints.
 
I have seen dark figvures in my room at night before too. Sometimes it was my mind playing tricks on me and other times I genuinely felt as if I were under attack from demons. It was mostly during the time I was considering entering the Catholic church and afterwards. Satan really wanted to disarm me.
 
crystal_waters said:
i experienced something silmilar but mine didnt happen when awakening…mine happened within a minute of getting in to bed…i felt as though something dropped hard on to my bed and was moving up the blanket pressing it down on me, then i felt my shoulder and chest being pressed so hard that it hurt and i had bruises there the next day…i prayed…but it did happen nightly for a while
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That sounds like a great description of night terrors, all the way down to the pressure on your chest. Most likely NOT demonic. Night terrors can occur at the very early stages of sleep/presleep, upon waking in the morning, or when one is woken during REM sleep. The body is paralyzed and the brain is doing something similar to dreaming, but your eyes are open so you “see” images and can “feel” sensations.

Ancient descriptions of succubi sitting on men’s chests at night were probably from people experiencing night terrors.
 
cecilia97 said:
That sounds like a great description of night terrors, all the way down to the pressure on your chest. Most likely NOT demonic. Night terrors can occur at the very early stages of sleep/presleep, upon waking in the morning, or when one is woken during REM sleep. The body is paralyzed and the brain is doing something similar to dreaming, but your eyes are open so you “see” images and can “feel” sensations.

Ancient descriptions of succubi sitting on men’s chests at night were probably from people experiencing night terrors.
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This is true, but it must be remembered that natural phenomena like sleep paralysis and night terrors can be initiated or used by demons. That is why trained Church exorcists do not make a diagnosis of demonic influence based on one single factor alone. Rather, they base their diagnosis based on many factors.

People tend to underestimate demonic influence… especially since the most common demonic activity is temptation… something everyone experiences.
 
ByzCath said:
Ah. I think I had just such an experience.

I saw a shadowy outline of a person across my room while I was laying in bed. I thought I was waking up. Then this shadow rushed towards me and I felt as if I was being smothered under a pillow. I then came fully awaking sitting up and screaming.

This happened a couple of months ago. Didn’t give it much thought. Thought it was just a nightmare type incident.
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Exact same thing happpened to me. However, I take the opposite viewpoint of most of the posters on this board. I am convinced it was a supernatural occurence. The insane amount of fear I experienced almost caused a heart attack.
 
Yes I do believe the so called shadow people are real. In my experience usually they are seen by those involved in pharmachia… in lay terms they are taking drugs… usually amphetamines or methamphetamines. It is possible for use of this drug or others to open doors to another dimension and make one susceptable to attack from demonic forces. Many methamphetamine users have seen these apparitions… some have even ran from them abandoned thier vehicles and died in inclement weather trying to escape them. Calling 911 for help. Crazy huh? Yes but quite true I assure you. The shadows can not physically touch you but they can scare you to death.

In regard to the sleep paralysis… again yes one cause can be demonic influence during sleep when one is unconscious. Demonic forces can try to interfere with your return to consciousness. I had this trouble for awhile years ago. I was aware of everything just could not move… very scary feeling… trapped part way in sleep. This can also be caused by medication. Sometimes people are not fully knocked out for surgery, they cannot move but are conscious and can even feel pain. If no medical reason is suspected and it is happening to you … if you can call out to Jesus in your mind and keep calling the Lord Almighty to come to your aid… I think you’ll find you will be able to rise without difficulty and regain movement of your limbs.

Just my opinions based on my life experience and those around me. Take what you can use and leave the rest.

God bless and keep you.

Brian
 
I saw things such as you describe. Once I woke up and saw five of them at one time. I sat their and waited rubbed my eyes and they did not go away. I prayed to Jesus Christ and they went away. You can’t dismiss ghost because if you do then why do you believe in god? I always pray to protect me form seen and unseen. I have also saw a being made of light before and demon looking creature I can’t truly describe him as a shadow, he looked like what muslims would call a Jinn. If you ever experience this like I have. Pray to god and have enough faith in god Then Demons and the Ghost are powerless. First thing I did was get a my brain scanned for abnormalities the doctor told me I was normal. I don’t expect anyone to believe but the same reason one would not believe me, is the same reason why people don’t believe in god. how come not all people experience this? How come not all people can acknowledge god? the answer is the same. its not real to them so they dismiss it completely. 😉
 
I experienced similar for a number of weeks at intervals not every night when I was younger. Yes sleep paralysis may explain it but then again it may not :eek:

I wasn’t aware of not being able to move just a horrable terrifying feeling as this Shadowy evil thing approached and I was unable to get out the word Jesus. Once I would get the word out I would “wake” if you mean get back to normal.

Still not had any thing that severe for a long time now but I had a few similar dreams where I see people or hear voices when I think i’m awake in similar circumstances to the earlier phenomenom but they didn’t have that aura of fear inducing evil. 🙂

So I’m happy to believe sleep paralysis and would rather not get any more night terrors to test the theory with; thank you verry much 😃
 
First of all, God Bless to everyone. There are many who believe “shadow people” to be a figment of our imagination, something that happens when the mind is in a half awake, half sleep mode. I can assure you that when this happened at our home, neither me nor my wife were asleep. It was not just a brief moment either, it lasted for minutes. It was bad enough to make my wife so scared she was unable to speak as she buried her head into my chest and dug her nails into my back. I tried so hard to pray because I knew what it was. I was unable to complete any Our Fathers or Hail Mary’s, it would not allow me to do so. Yes, I was scared but not so scared I forgot 2 simple prayers I had known my whole life. This went on for a long time but I was determined not to give up out of love for my wife. After this first round and things calmed down it happened again about 2 hours later. This time my prayers did come out complete along with other Scripture I wasn’t familiar with. At that time there was a sense of peace, unexplainable, the room went from dark and cold feeling to peaceful. That was two years ago, now my wife who knew nothing about religion, and never wanted anything to do with it is in RCIA and on her way to becoming Catholic. I was a fallen away Catholic, lapsed for over 25 yrs, and even when I went in the past I never cared. I will repeat the exact words, the first thing out of the priests mouth, on my first day at mass after this happened, ‘’ YOU BETTER BELIEVE DEMONS ARE REAL!" All of this and the many things that happened right after, and continue to happen to this day were no accident, coincidence, or figments of our imagination. It wasn’t our imagination that made two sinners destined for hell awaken and want to be real saints, defend the Catholic Church, live a life of prayer, and evangelize everyone we know. I love you all, and God Bless.
 
My husband and I both have seen “shadow people”. Some are very small, some the size of a normal human. No we don’t take drugs, were not asleep or in the between waking/sleep stage either. The little ones seem to keep to the walls but the larger ones will move anywhere they please. We have had our home blessed by our parish priest and this seems to have taken care of the problem. We also go through our home nightly saying the prayer to St. Michael and sprinkling holy water.

Evil is real and very evident if you pay attention. I think alot of people see things but dismiss them because we are conditioned in this day in age to not accept the supernatural but the Catholic faith is about the supernatural life isn’t it? Our goal is to attain heaven, this life is temporary.
 
I saw one and it was while I was eating dinner so I was not half awake and this happened once.
 
I’ll never forget the time a friend and I had climbed into an abandoned house when we were younger and both saw the same figure move towards us. As we found out later, some other kids had used a wiji(spelling?) board in there.

I’m pretty sure that occasion was demonic and not a purgatorial spirit though.
 
:knight1:The first time that I heard of “shadow people’” was about ten years ago on a late-night redio program called “Coast to Coast am”. As for ‘shadow people’ themselves, I think that most of them are natrual or have a rational explaintion; rest may have a supernatual causel. :knight2:
 
Sorry, but I haven’t seen any of Shadow people but I guess I had an experience of being a shadow man.On watching a documentary, I came to know it as near death experience. I am diabetic and got a bad cough that day. I had the cough each and everytime when I was going to sleep and during awakening. On that day, I fell asleep. during sleep, i came to experience of wakening.I woke up, felt weightless. Surprising I was able to see my face as sleeping when I turned around. I walked(No I was creeping in the air) towards the next room. From there to dining room which was also served as Holy place. Suddenly when I heard my dog barking I fastly returned back to my body.:confused:
 
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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I was im my 20’s during the one of the war episodes in Yugoslavia. I was at the front, sleeping outside under the camo nets. In the middle of the night and i saw shadow, smoky, grainy figure, the size of human. I felt It was evil energy, entity, the same feeling as evil person, but no body, just information…,floating at the entrance and than obove me. I was under impression i was awake. It was not a dream, my eyes where open. I felt terrible fear when shadow floated next to me and started to speak to me- “i am stronger!!!”. I closed my eyes and this think started to touch my ear. I was declearing my self as christian, but more as a part of tradition of my nation. I had strong fear and only thing i felt can help me is Not my gun, but God! I tried to bless my self but i looked at my hand and was not able to move my hand! and i tried to say “our father”, but my brain was in pure now, and totaly blank. And i was not able to move or speak and call for 2 of my buddies sleeping next to me. I Felt God in my heart, i asked for help, I belived Jesus is Son of God and i started crying, my thumb, index and middle finger connected, i Blessed my self, and Our Father came to my brain as a feelings, not words…i cried…i was gratefull…i felt God can crush me, but he is keeping me here, and all of us… Never happend again, altough i think it did happend before, but I dissmised it as a dream.
 
Talked to my priest and some monks and they said not to feel special or doomed. They told me to thank God if shadow person is maybe Angel and we where blesed to see it, and saying i dont want to see it if its not from God. Im thinking, what if shadows are angels, and evil and bad feelings are our projection, our real not pure, sinful soul. What if my expiriance was not my demon, but my Angel, who helped me to step to the right path towards the God?! Was the fear i felt, fear of my self!? Maybe the words i heard"im stronger" where my words, my ego preventing my soul to connect to God?! Was i just losing my self in order to recive God? And shadow person was…:). What do you think?! Stll got the goose bumps;)
 
What if we have high opinion about our selfs, even tough we are far from God and from that reason we see Angels as something evil? Remember reading somewhere, normal people cant see high ranked Angels and stay alive, yet alone seeng God! So lets say demon visit us and how would we feel?? How about Angel. Do we feel good when somebody pintpoints our flaws? WE would be scared, mad, unconfortible. Would the light of and Angel makes us feel angry, because it shines on our dirt?! Would we feel better if demon gives us compliments? Was not the goal od devil to trick us, and who would trick us better? Thats in our human nature. So if you feel fearfull, think about God, pray…,who realy visited you? Just offering you the view from the East;€
 
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