₦airaland Forum

Welcome, Guest: RegisterLoginWith GoogleTrendingRecentNew

Stats: 3,330,985 members, 8,448,108 topics. Date: Sunday, 19 July 2026 at 06:50 PM

Toggle theme

Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert - Health (2) - Nairaland

Nairaland ForumNairaland GeneralHealthWhy Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert (11526 Views)

1 2 3 4 Reply (Go Down)

Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by jaephoenix(m): 11:39am On May 31
adaxme:
We are actually spiritual beings
So its spiritua.
This one still dey argue say na spiritual. Some people simply cannot be educated
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by jaephoenix(m): 11:40am On May 31
SyrusdeHansome:
Don't worry, when you have the experience first hand you'll know there's nothing like sleep paralysis. Science think everything can be explained on the basis of observation and theory. I've seen someone confess of how he was fun of pressing pple in their sleep and as someone that use to have the experience almost every night nobody can ever tell me I was experiencing sleep paralysis.
So if someone tells you he can transform into a dragon,you'll believe him? Wonderful
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by Gbadebo19(m): 11:42am On May 31
Osgilliat:
No matter how you explained it to them they will still say it’s spiritual attack. Bunch of illiterate people.
It isn't about illiteracy, if you experience it, you would believe it is spiritual. I've personally had this experience two times. It is so real.
You really can't blame those who believe it is spiritual, the scientific explanation too is also vague and complex to the average mind.
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by Iziq(m): 11:43am On May 31
It felt spiritual but the explanation makes sense though. But it's wasn't funny and I had to ask for forgiveness of sins thinking it was time.
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by Originalsly: 11:45am On May 31
Some things just cannot be explained ... and the West will never say they do not know... they always have an explanation. There are things they do figure out and explain . The ones they just can't... they attribute to aliens. The ones Blacks can't... they attribute to the spiritual. This may very well be.

My question to the explanation.... if it is that one becomes conscious during sleep paralysis... but the dream continues to play out " literally "... why is it never a pleasant dream?... like never making out with the woman of your dreams? ...why is it almost always someone who been dead...or wanting to harm you when the person was not even in your dream? I experienced it twice ... within a few days. Both occasions it was the same person... an ex gf who had recently been buried and I did not go to the funeral. I found out she was into "spiritual stuff"... dropped her immediately... tried to get to me spiritually via food offering....did not eat..but said I did... and she kept sending to find out if I had eaten what she sent. Died mysteriously like two weeks later. I stayed clear. Then suddenly ...out of the blue ...." sleep paralysis" ...guess featuring who?
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by dermmy(m):
Nastrademus:
Nothing anyone will tell me, that shit is a spiritual attack, it'll come like a dark shadow pinning you to the ground and once it's done, you'll see it going out through your window
Chai... I experienced this very dark shadow rest on me that night as I was struggling to get myself up. I was choking and shouting and the dark shadow lifted and disappeared through the window. Very scary experience.
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by UncleAyo: 11:45am On May 31
All these fake imported religions have destroyed the normal mental processes of a lot of our people.

If you are following any of the two religion, you should know for fact that:

There is no heaven, there is no hell, there is no God (or god), there is no Allah, there are no angels, there are no demons, there are no spirits, there is no life after death, juju don't work, there is no eternal judgment, there is no karma, there was no historical Jesus. All those are figment of human imaginations and tools use by a very few some to control the very many others. The earlier you understand and accept these facts as facts, the happier and merrier your life and existence will be.

The religion you're currently claiming is the religion of your parents, if you were born into a different family of another religion (say Hinduism), that is the exact religion you will practice.

You were born without a religion in you, your factory reset has no religion in it. If you were to be a phone and they do factory reset on you today being a phone, there will not be anything found related to religion in your settings, files and file systems anymore; you learn religion only after your birth growing up.


Islam is idolatry and paganism, Christianity aswell is idolatry - All the world religion is idolatry, including all the Abrahamic religion. Holy communion is idolatory, bowing for a stone call Kaaba of the Bedouin tribes is also idolatory, killing of rams is idolatory, kissing or licking of a stone at mecca is idolatory, throwing of stone at pilgrimage is idolatory too.

Infact, Illah is what the Arabic call God and not Allah. Allah was one of the diety been worshiped before the invention of Islam. That is why muslims will say something like "la ilah ila huwa" meaning Allah is one Illah (God). Have you ask yourself why Prophet Mohammed's father who was an idol worshiper and who lived before the invention of islam has Allah in is name Abdullai== Abdu Allah? It is because Allah has been an idol worshiped by paganists before the Prophet received his revelations.

Nakedly circumambulations of the Kaaba, annual prigrimage to mecca, kissing of black stone, bowing towards the stone (stone worship) are all preislamic pagan practises by the nomadic Bedouin tribe and the same is what they still practice today.

All Abrahamic religion are idolatory, they only package them well and condemn your heritage as evil, whereas, Nigeria was better in terms of morality, honesty and integrity before they brought the foreign religions.

In peace loving, emotional intelligence, love for neighbors, respect for sanctity of life, we are even better than those who brought those religion with primitive leaders and prophets whose morality and characters are highly questionable.


Release yourself today from the shackles of religion. Stop wasting away your life and existence!

If you like, allow one illiterate alfa, imam or pastor to be telling you "you will go to hell". When you die, your dead experience will be like the same experience you had before your conception (pregnancy) ie. There is nothing like afterlife. Or where were you before your mother gave birth to you?
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by jaephoenix(m): 11:46am On May 31
Boomyvig:
How do you explain this happening to someone consecutively for 3 weeks, every day, and it happens at the same time of the night ,12 AM. Whenever it happened, I would see my room door under a lock, yet someone like a ghost would enter often in the image of a known person, and the torment would start, sometimes from that moment till morning around 5 AM. Until one night which was going to be the last time I had the experience, I cried profusely because It felt like I was going to die that night cos I was tired. I confessed my sins, and read John 3:16 , and that was the last time I experienced this situation, till date. It is almost 20 something years ago now since I last experienced it. This was my personal experience.
So since then have you sinned again?
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by jaephoenix(m): 11:48am On May 31
Originalsly:
Some things just cannot be explained ... and the West will never say they do not know... they always have an explanation. There are things they do figure out and explain . The ones they just can't... they attribute to aliens. The ones Blacks can't... they attribute to the spiritual. This may very well be.

My question to the explanation.... if it is that one becomes conscious during sleep paralysis... but the dream continues to play out " literally "... why is it never a pleasant dream?... like never making out with the woman of your dreams? ...why is it almost always someone who been dead...or wanting to harm you when the person was not even in your dream? I experienced it twice ... within a few days. Both occasions it was the same person... an ex gf who had recently been buried and I did not go to the funeral. I found out she was into "spiritual stuff"... dropped her immediately... tried to get to me spiritually via food offering....did not eat..but said I did... and she kept sending to find out if I had eaten what she sent. Died mysteriously like two weeks later. I stayed clear. Then suddenly ...out of the blue ...." sleep paralysis" ...guess featuring who?
Your subconscious thoughts are on her. You fear her that why she features in any nightmare or sleep paralysis
Yall should think for once
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by Xpol:
Dey play. When I was still in the police, they used to post us to some judges quarters.there were two of these judges quarters most of the officers posted there used to complained they have been pressed down in the night I didn't believe untill the day I was posted to one of the quarters,I had experienced it before but that particular one was spectacular.
The second day I kept that small new testament in my breast pocket,lol the pressing was even harder than the previous day and it led to an out of body experience cos I wasn't sleeping,I just sat on a chair but I got pressed down and while struggling with myself I was able to take the Bible from my pocket I saw some ugly looking creatures standing at the door, I threatened them with the Bible and they gave me way to exit the room, I was praying fervently then I summoned courage that I would go back to that room and face these people,when I entered the room back I was shocked to see only myself, still sitting on the chair.

I then stood from the chair and begin to ask questions: but I stood from this chair and ran outside; how come I came back into this room still seeing myself sitting on this chair;if what ran outside was my spirit , when did I enter the main body back.
In the morning I narrated the part of the story to a senior colleague, he said he also had a similar experience there but in his own case when he came out(midnight) he saw the judge holding a Calabash and making some incantations. This bro told me in this police work it's either you're a fervent praying Christian or a traditional juju man, that there's no sitting on the fence.

Since I wasn't the juju type I took my prayer life more serious,I completed my one week posting there without experiencing "pressing" as we usually called it then.

The time I was posted to the second judge quarter, my senior colleague complained of pressing through the week but I didn't experience it whenever he asked me whether I was having same experience I used to boast that my spirit was too strong for them so they're attacking the weaker person between us.
Osgilliat:
No matter how you explained it to them they will still say it’s spiritual attack. Bunch of illiterate people.
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by Ibehchizzy: 11:52am On May 31
To be honest if even if its a spiritual thing science will still find an explanation for it
So how do we know 🤷‍♂️
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by mrkings84(m): 11:55am On May 31
So you want be to believe that there are no witches abi?

It's just like telling me that Islamic insurgents are not terrorists!
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by Oracleee: 12:01pm On May 31
You're explaining sleep paralysis to people who are praying against bandit and their GO are using police escort and never holding the government to accountability.


Futile explanation
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by CreatedtwoRule: 12:02pm On May 31
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by ThunderFireAgba: 12:06pm On May 31
Switruth:
This is so true.... Someone told me this and I followed it... It works so well.
Sorry is your name. Why not tie it with rope on your forehead?
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by SirIsaacus(m): 12:11pm On May 31
ThorOdinson:
hand movement at night (scratching) unconscious nail scratching on itchy part of the body is most likely the case.. shower before bed although some meds causes one to scratch itchy part of the body during sleep e.g Tramadol has that effect.

you go just wake up with marks overnight
that drug as pain killer is something eles
How can your hands be moving to scratch itchy parts of your body while under "sleep paralysis"huh 🧐🧐🧐
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by Originalsly: 12:13pm On May 31
jaephoenix:
Your subconscious thoughts are on her. You fear her that why she features in any nightmare or sleep paralysis
Yall should think for once
I fear no one ... especially when it comes to "spiritual warfare". I just stay clear of people who are involved with evil. I gave the back story for readers to understand why I do believe "sleep paralysis" can be spiritual as well. If you should

think for once... if she were in my sub conscience ... was she the only one there? ... and what are the chances of she being the one showing up in the two experiences I've had? Help me think for once .
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by SyrusdeHansome(m): 12:16pm On May 31
JuanDeDios:
Don't believe everything someone says. There's nothing spiritual about sleep paralysis.
Have you ever experienced it in reality?
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by femi4: 12:25pm On May 31
judewrites:
Sleep paralysis is definitely a spiritual experience that cannot be completely explained in any other way except spiritually.

In my past experiences, I could sense the presence of beings that sounded very frightening.

But trust modern man to try and redefine the experience scientifically.
Nothing spiritual about it

Its been expained and reproduced
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by yarimo(m): 12:26pm On May 31
Gotocourt:
I experienced this as a teenager, I no longer experience it🤷🏿
where are pictures and videos to back up your claims
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by Lucifyre: 12:31pm On May 31
SyrusdeHansome:
Don't worry, when you have the experience first hand you'll know there's nothing like sleep paralysis. Science think everything can be explained on the basis of observation and theory. I've seen someone confess of how he was fun of pressing pple in their sleep and as someone that use to have the experience almost every night nobody can ever tell me I was experiencing sleep paralysis.
Ignorance is pressing this one 🤣
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by JJBROS(m): 12:33pm On May 31
Nastrademus:
Nothing anyone will tell me, that shit is a spiritual attack, it'll come like a dark shadow pinning you to the ground and once it's done, you'll see it going out through your window
Exactly 💯

What nonsense sleep paralysis?
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by Raf4: 12:35pm On May 31
Some attribute this to spider spreading its cobwebs across your head while you're asleep.
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by Osariemen12: 12:41pm On May 31
It's been long I experienced it.


It is real. Nothing spiritual about it.
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by Jman06(m): 12:43pm On May 31
The minds that wake up before the body during episodes of sleep paralysis actually represent our spiritual components. The mind is immortal and persists in another realm even after one's death.
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by JuanDeDios: 12:51pm On May 31
SyrusdeHansome:
Have you ever experienced it in reality?
SP? Sure.
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by Amarachieze(m): 12:57pm On May 31
Since science does not recognize "spirit" it tries to explain every phenomenon empirically. Believe these explanation to your peril. There are spirits both good and bad. If you like positive and negative energies.
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by Lucifyre: 1:01pm On May 31
Gbadebo19:
It isn't about illiteracy, if you experience it, you would believe it is spiritual.
It is stark illiteracy and ignorance, no offense. I've experienced this mutliple times, at a point in time it became so frequent I was like wtf, did the whole ignorant bible under pillow and pray thing, it was still happening. Decided to do some research around it and with the simple research I did, like what this article highlights I, found the solution.

I was working on a serious project then that left me physically exhausted everyday. On top of the stress I was always thinking anxiously about work, so was finding it difficult to fall asleep coupled with using my phone late into the night. On top of all that even when I managed to fall asleep noise from the next compound always wakes me up in the middle of the night before I struggle to sleep again.

So I wasn't sleeping well at all and I had to wake up as early as 5. When it happened again I just waited patiently for it to pass by being calm instead of struggling. Took a break from work to rest, bought noise cancelling headphones, stopped sleeping on my back and using my phone before bed time. Then made sure I got 8hrs of sleep. This was more than 5yrs ago, till date I haven't had one experience with it.

When they say "ignorance is a disease", there's a reason why we are so backward from the rest of the world. Educate urself, it's is no way vague. Your brain never sleeps, to prevent you from acting out your dreams, it disconnects movement of the body, unfortunately sometimes you wake up before movement is connected back while you're transitioning from sleep to wake ergo sleep paralysis.

The opposite happens too when movement of the body is not disconnected. You see them talking in their sleep or walking while they're sleeping, some even go to the kitchen eat and forget they ever did. You see this in dogs a lot when theyrr dreaming and trying to run as they're asleep. People fear what they don't understand, as of today, the supernatural still has a 100% failure rate.
Re: Why Sleep Paralysis Feels Like A Spiritual Attack — Expert by Walai(m): 1:03pm On May 31
Bro you still get mind to dey type comfortably for nairaland instead of booking a 3 weeks stay inside mfm prayer ground? This life no dey two, that girl wants to take you by all means. Seek spiritual solution immediately, dunno whether you're a Christian though


Originalsly:
Some things just cannot be explained ... and the West will never say they do not know... they always have an explanation. There are things they do figure out and explain . The ones they just can't... they attribute to aliens. The ones Blacks can't... they attribute to the spiritual. This may very well be.

My question to the explanation.... if it is that one becomes conscious during sleep paralysis... but the dream continues to play out " literally "... why is it never a pleasant dream?... like never making out with the woman of your dreams? ...why is it almost always someone who been dead...or wanting to harm you when the person was not even in your dream? I experienced it twice ... within a few days. Both occasions it was the same person... an ex gf who had recently been buried and I did not go to the funeral. I found out she was into "spiritual stuff"... dropped her immediately... tried to get to me spiritually via food offering....did not eat..but said I did... and she kept sending to find out if I had eaten what she sent. Died mysteriously like two weeks later. I stayed clear. Then suddenly ...out of the blue ...." sleep paralysis" ...guess featuring who?
1 2 3 4 Reply

My Experience With Sleep ParalysisSleep Paralysis: Is It Natural Or Spiritual?Share Your Sleep Paralysis Experience Here.234

Iot And Connected Health Are Attractive Opportunities For Life Sciences InvestorHow Long Can You Go Without Food (practical Experience)Help Stomach Ulcer