I myself experienced major demonic activity (or at least my brain neurons were misfiring for a good couple of months) maybe something like 9 or 10 years ago.
It started off as minor little things that I barely even thought of. They would interest me when they happened, but I would always ascribe them to my imagination or maybe to noises from the neighbors, even when they increased in frequency and severity.
For example, I would be going to sleep and, suddenly, I would hear a shout in my left or right ear. Not a big deal, and there are natural explanations for it. Other times I would hear someone calling my name from downstairs, or from upstairs, so I would look and be totally alone. I assumed someone else in the neighborhood was named Ricardo, since it happened so frequently.
I was also getting “touched” a lot. I would be asleep in the morning and would wake up feeling the blanket being pulled off of me. I assumed that maybe I had knocked the blanket off myself and simply imagined it. Other times I would wake up feeling someone running their fingers through my hair, and I would stay silent with my eyes closed for awhile before opening my eyes to catch them. But, I would be alone, of course. Other times I would feel a hand stroking my leg, or resting on my stomach, and other things of that nature.
All of this “activity,” whether mental or demonic (who knows?), became worse and worse, but I honestly did not think of it at all. It would happen, but I always had an explanation for it, even as it began to happen every night, every morning, and every day.
Finally there was a climax. I found myself in a strange nightmare where I was laying on a stone slab, very hard. Around me was this greenish haze, and in the haze was a silhouette of a man dancing and singing around me. At his feet, which was clearly visible, was a large and dangerous looking snake that he was kicking, and grabbing, and tossing, and slapping, over and over again as they circled me. Eventually the snake broke free and came towards me, but towards my blind spot, and that was when I felt it plunge into my arm.
So I woke up with a fright, only to realize that the dream, or the demon, was still with me. Above me, a little to the right, I heard a loud and horrible combination of a growl and hiss. It is not something that can really be described, only heard for yourself. No movie monster or animal I’ve ever heard on TV could come anywhere close to it. On my left arm, on the point where I had been bitten in the dream, I felt a powerful and numbing grip. My entire arm was not itself numb, just the part where I was being squeezed (just incase you think I was having a heart attack, lol!). It gripped me and pinned me from that one point into the bed as if to keep me from moving, but I was so terrified that I wouldn’t have tried to escape anyway. I did not see anything, only heard and felt it.
I tried to tell myself that I was just dreaming, hoping that once my mind realized it wasn’t real, that the waking-nightmare would disappear. I started trying to speak to myself, “I must not fear,” but because of my terror I found it difficult to speak. It came out something like this: “I...I...I... m..mm..mu..mus..must... nnn... nnoot.... f..ffff.” As soon as I got to the word fear, however, something broke in me and I blurted out smoothly and powerfully ‘The Lord is my shield!”
As soon as I spoke those words, the grip released me and the noise ceased. And after that, I had no further problems for many years.
On one final occasion, years later, I felt someone hovering over me as I slept, which I assumed was my niece. My brother would let himself in back in those days with his kids, and since I was usually sleeping, the kids would come into my room and usually beat me up. And since I didn’t want to be bothered, my custom was to pretend to still be asleep, even as they were jumping on me and punching me. Since if I revealed I was actually not in a coma, I’d be roped into playing with them.
This time was different, though. I felt a warm breath on my face and their hand on my chest (a small hand), and I felt them come in closer and closer, until a warm wet tongue licked my cheek. I decided it was some new horrible tactic on their part, so I did not stir. When they came in for a second lick, I couldn’t take how ticklish it was any more (plus I felt it was a bit inappropriate) and flung my arms out, touching nothing. I opened my eyes and I was totally alone. After prayer, however, this also ceased, and nothing new has happened since then.
Thank you for sharing that. I’ve read many similar stories from people who dabbled with ouija boards.
Glad the story ended well for you.
Good story, well told. You oughta publish it somewhere.
What you are describing sounds a lot like sleep paralysis/waking dreams.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ask-the-brains-sleep-paralysis
It is not uncommon to have auditory and or visual hallucinations; to hear voices and or see or sense the presence of someone or something watching you and or the feeling of being touched, sat on or held down, choked or strangled, suffocating or the feeling of being drug out of bed, having the blankets pulled off of you, of bugs crawling on you, of falling or flying during an episode of sleep paralysis. Sometimes people also experience what seems to be hearing “explosions” or loud bangs very close by or inside their heads. Over the years people of many different religions and cultures have attributed this to a demonic presence or witchcraft and some think this explains the phenomena that some have reported as being “alien abductions”. But it is simply just a disruption of the normal sleep cycle.
I have on a few occasions although not for many years, experienced sleep paralysis and it can be terrifying. You feel like you are fully awake and you are awake but only sort of, as part of your brain is still in REM sleep. During REM sleep your brain is very active (this is the part of the sleep cycle where dreams and sometimes nightmares occur) but your muscles are extremely relaxed. If you go into REM sleep too fast or wake up suddenly during it, you can feel like you are paralyzed, hence the feeling that you are being held down or restrained by some force.
As best as I understand it, if you go into REM sleep too quickly or come out of it suddenly, your conscience brain tries to make sense of that feeling of paralysis, which is not really paralysis per se but an extreme state of muscle relaxation, while the part of your brain that is still in REM sleep tries to fill in the blanks, hence a “waking dream” and the visual and auditory hallucinations.
When I’ve experienced such, I have always been able to attribute it to times when I have been either overly tired, off my normal sleep cycle like when I was working some odd rotating shift work or overly stressed or a combination of or all three and that fits with what is known about occasional bouts of sleep paralysis.
More recently I’ve experienced the loud banging or explosion sound, usually when I am drifting off to sleep. The last time it happened was last week and I was convinced there was a very bad thunderstorm as it sounded like a loud bang such as with a close lightening strike. But there were no thunderstorms nor where there any nearby explosions, it was all quite literally in my head. I also have had more episodes recently of violently jerking when I’m just about to fall asleep. It’s not restless leg syndrome, as it is my whole body violently jerking, sometimes it comes with the feeling that I was falling from a great height.
Over the last year, I find increasing that I feel extremely tired during the day no matter how much sleep I get or think I’m getting or how early I go to bed or how late I sleep, and I find that I wake up often during the night and have many other symptoms associated with sleep apnea including very odd and sometimes extremely disturbing dreams and waking up feeling like I can’t breathe and acid reflux that wakes me up during the night. So I’m seeing my doctor next week and getting a referral for a sleep study. I’m not looking forward to getting fitted for a CPAP but if that is what it takes to get a good night’s sleep, I’m willing to give it a try.
FWIW, I do not own nor have I ever owned or ever played with a Ouija Board nor do I believe in ghosts and goblins or the incubus or the succubus. I did take a few Yoga classes some years and never slept better. : ),