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The Grim Reaper
Scarlet:
Hello everyone,
A couple years ago I saw a grim reaper like creature in my bedroom while I awoke from sleeping, but my body remained in a sleep paralysis state. The thing was maybe four feet tall, it wore a black cloak with a pointy hat, and its face was a black void of nothingness. I remember seeing and feeling some sort of an energy transfer, like it was sucking on me in some way.
I was angry that I could not move and at that point my mind began cussing at it. Then I pushed my body up half outside of itself :scared: and pushed my (astral?) arms at it, but they whooshed right through the thing. I immediately became scared of detaching from my body and pushed back down into it ASAP and regained control over it again. However, I was traumatized and the hair on my arms stood up like a cat's and all the lights were on in my apartment shortly after.
One might view this as a bad dream, as I wanted to view it...but days after this happened I told one of my direct blood relatives that I had seen a creature that I could only describe as looking like a grim reaper. This person drew a picture of it for me and it looked EXACTLY like what I had seen. I didn't give this person any information to go off of other than that it looked like a "grim reaper," which would be good clues, but would not necessarily define it as having no face (just a blank shadowy void) and being short. This person then disclosed having experienced "night terrors" and also having seen a short creature with a black pointy hat and no face standing beside this person's bed. I then drew my version for that person and it looked the same, only faced to the right instead of the left. (At that time I slept on the left side of my bed and this person sleeps on the right side of theirs.)
The fact that this person claimed to have seen the same creature has both fascinated and scared me. Has anyone on the Forum ever seen or heard of anyone who has seen something that fits this description? Can you make anything of this? Perhaps it was 4D STS feeding time?
BTW I've read books on sleep paralysis and I've also searched the internet numerous times in an attempt to dig for information about sightings of the grim reaper, which I have found very little of. Since I've had about a dozen sleep paralysis episodes in the last couple days (though haven't seen anything) I've become inspired to share this story, FWIW...
Renaissance:
--- Quote from: Scarlet on September 05, 2011, 06:06:15 PM --- Since I've had about a dozen sleep paralysis episodes in the last couple days (though haven't seen anything) I've become inspired to share this story, FWIW...
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I used to have sleep paralysis, while occasionally sensing some entity near me. However, I never quite saw anything other than a fuzzy dark cloud.
The one thing I wanted to mention was that I would usually have sleep paralysis when I seemed to be opening myself up to such an attack. At the time that these 'attacks' were most frequent, I was experimenting with astral traveling and lucid dreaming. When I quite those activities the sleep paralysis lessened and eventually pretty much went away. I'll still experience it once and a while, but it is very very rare. Just something to consider in case you might be stretching yourself in a particular area which might be creating some undesirable psychic opening.
Nienna:
Scarlet, have you read the Dr. Karla Turner thread? If not, you may want to do so in its entirety. There is some very interesting things there that have happened to her, her family and friends, plus others who have contacted her with their experiences.
Scarlet:
Thank you very much, Shane and Nienna Eluch, for these replies! Shane, I can relate to your experiences, because the times in my early thirties that I saw this and other creatures were times when I was very stressed out. I noticed when I was studying sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming and OBEs that these things would appear to me.
The days earlier this week when I experienced SP were times when I was napping, once in the late morning and the other time in the late afternoon. I didn't mention the dreams I had, but would like to briefly mention them now.
The first one I remember very vaguely. It was the end of the world and the aliens were coming for us. Everyone, including a close loved one, seemed to be making attempts to contact them through computers and the computers signaled them to arrive. The aliens arriving were STS and it was "game over" for the world. I woke up very scared.
The second one was very odd, because I was completely naked and running around with an infant child in my arms. I was trying to get away from something that would harm the baby and I kept missing train rides that would've taken me to safety. I entered a saloon that was filled with psychopathic personalities. I remember one face of a card dealer, a woman, and her face looked like something one would imagine a woman in a Picasso painting to look like. Her face was falling apart, very fragmented. She insisted I join the card game, but I refused and sought refuge in the restroom. I woke up scared again, but intrigued that I had dreamed of being naked (I don't remember ever dreaming that) and of carrying an infant in my arms.
Nienna Eluch, I just read the thread in its entirety and you have no idea how much this has come at the right time for me. Thank you so much for recognizing that it might be good for me to read the entire thread! It has caused my body to react with a heightened sense of anxiety. I have fought tears back and a little hyperventilating, but think I am okay now. I must study this information and I must fight ignorance. There are things the pubic needs to know...But first, I must regain control of my emotions.
RyanX:
--- Quote from: Shane on September 06, 2011, 06:50:34 AM ---The one thing I wanted to mention was that I would usually have sleep paralysis when I seemed to be opening myself up to such an attack. At the time that these 'attacks' were most frequent, I was experimenting with astral traveling and lucid dreaming. When I quite those activities the sleep paralysis lessened and eventually pretty much went away. I'll still experience it once and a while, but it is very very rare. Just something to consider in case you might be stretching yourself in a particular area which might be creating some undesirable psychic opening.
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Fwiw, I agree with Shane's assessment here. I remember back when I was living with my (then) wife, I would get sleep paralysis on occasion. It seems like since she's out of the picture it has only happened a couple of times (once quite recently, actually). Of course, I've made a lot of changes since that time like going off gluten, starting EE, etc. so it could be a combination of things that helped. It seems like if you're engaged in any activities or involved with people that might be draining you energetically, this can potentially happen, osit.
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