Divinorum Psychonauticus Where science fears to tread, art staggereth Monday, August 5, 2013 Demon Sheets: Sleep Paralysis Theories Sleep paralysis. What is it? When we cant move, lying in bed, cant lift our head or move or arms or speak to scream, and we sense some malevolent presence in the room, just out of sight, looming over us, thats sleep paralysis. Shrinks note that is a naturally occurring symptom of deep REM sleep, our body is temporarily paralyzed to stop us from acting out in our dreams, or whatever, so were conscious, awake before our nervous system kicks back in. The reverse being sleep walking.... BUT that doesnt explain the creepy monster/s looming over us. It doesnt seem to make 100% sense either; and when two people dream the same sight in the same room (one waking up to see the monster looming over their partner who is having the dream at that exact same moment) or receiving wounds from the creature (demonic scratches, alien punctures, or other), then the psychological underpinnings of the phenomenon fall short. Like with so much science, they can make a guess how it occurs but never a why.... why this apparition in the room? Is it the very painting of our fear? Or something truly external? My own SP experiences are rare but each one seems profound. As Ive written in earlier posts, Ive seen a demonic creature in the room even after I had awaken from my nightmare, and was shouting at it to go away before it faded, laughing silently at me all the while, into a moonlight reflection. And Ive been lifted out of my bed, ass first, up along the ceiling and out the window, accelerating up and up faster and faster into the sky until shooting up back into my body in the bed, as if a second bed was way up in the sky. In each of these instances I wound up awaking and leaping out of bed as if from an electrical jolt of satori. You can dismiss these as hallucinations, waking nightmares. I wont argue with that. But you know what else are hallucinations and waking nightmares? EVERYTHING ELSE!!! All that we see, hear, and touch is a nervous system illusion, a translation: matter is perceived erroneously as solid (its just vibrating energy) and permanent (like everything in the universe, its always in the process of disintegrating); faces are perceived as unchanging from breath to breath (theyre constantly shedding skin cells and absorbing passing dirt); linear time and 3-D space are perceived as a constant (a necessary illusion for the functioning within it - i.e. you cant be on the look-out for food and bears when youre overwhelmed by the totality of the cosmos). This is all shared hallucination or collective consciousness, distinctive to humans of our current era, the way our senses process stimuli (vs. say, a dog or insects) and the way weve been trained to process, identify, and order the information we decode from that stimuli. If we look at all these pictures of sleep paralysis demons, from different artists, different centuries, how can we dismiss them as less real than normal waking perceptions? For example: A man looks at a picture of the ocean, which is just pixels of color on a flat surface, and from those pixels he sees the ocean. If hes really really tired or possessed of vivid imagination (this happens to me a lot) he might actually smell salt air or hear a distant rush of waves. A dog looking at the same photo wouldnt see anything of interest: he would sniff it and judge it as inedible and inactive and then move on. BUT if we fold that photo into a paper airplane and throw it for him to fetch, he sees it as prey, a quarry). By the same token, we walk our dog past a tree on the sidewalk and our mind says tree - yeah yeah, keep walking - we just perceive the tree and maybe stale dog urine if theres no wind that day. Our dog sees the dogs who have been there from their urine scents, the way we see the ocean in that picture. Dogs urine is like a bulletin board message: whos in heat? whos marking territory? whos new in town? Are these dogs hallucinating just because we cant discern these things? Scientists tend to forget the way our sensorially-decoded paradigm is limited to human perception of self and their myopia makes them paranoid, like fundamentalist Christians seeing heretics in the cobwebs of their attics. If a Christian has sleep paralysis, the being looming above him would be perceived as Satan; if he had being reading David Icke, the being would be a reptilian alien; a gnostic scholar would see an archon; a UFO scholar, a flock of greys come for an abduction. The thing is, though, most humans, even non-scientists or philosophers, agree the stimuli we all perceive differently (according to our nature in this world) are the same in each case. Dismissing this phenomena as mere hallucination conjured from the semi-asleep state by our panic over being unable to move (i.e. in dreams your fear of monsters creates them) is the easy way to get around the uncanny fear it generates. Personally, I believe that there IS a rational psychological interpretation as valid as any esoteric one. BUT it doesnt explain anything, neither from a mythic / collective unconscious standpoint, or a physical, mental, or supernatural one, which in this case I mean as a reinterpretation of the supernatural as human experience that involves a sudden surge of DMT or third eye awakening. In other words, science can describe how DNA might unpack a seed so that it becomes a tree through photosynthesis, soil and water, but it cant explain why, or where it all comes from to begin with. They have no idea which came first, the chicken or the egg, or why they bothered to come at all. They dont know why sleep paralysis occurs in the way it does, only how it occurs, the mind waking up before the body does. Why do we sense this evil presence in the room? We usually sense the presence before we realize we cant move, so which came first? Does the demon wait for the right situation to pounce? Its inadequate to dismiss these apparitions as half-awake nightmares. We still dont quite know how third eye dreams / imaginings work. We can analyze the cones and rods of the eye, the pupil, the optical fluids, but what we sense in nightmares has no correlation to anything we can measure. One of the common names for the being who comes for you in sleep paralysis is called--in old legends--the old hag and sleep paralysis is then old hag syndrome Ive felt in the past that these beings are aliens from alternate dimensions testing our individual frequencies to see if were suitable harvesting candidates, i.e. when we sleep our psychic energy might be up for grabs, the psychic equivalent of stealing your neighbors WiFi. If youre an easy mark they may abduct you wholesale, either physically or psionically. No UFO over your house is needed, just a good strong wireless router. they steal your astral brain and return it by dawn, ideally. But there is no clear line between the astral and physical body according to my theory, therefore the physical being might be moved as well, particularly if, say, the astral body is wedged into the physical form (i.e. you dont have WiFi so they steal your whole modem). I think if you can fight them off successfully, wake up from the sleep paralysis through sheer act of will, then they move on -- youre not worth it. Youre the fish that got away. More power to ya. Plenty of fish in the sea. Another theory is that they are demons, ever-present just outside our worldly perceptions. I got the feeling from that demon that stayed in my room (see link in 3rd paragraph) that he wasnt from some other place on our planet, but was always around, waiting for a chance to do harm in the tangible world, visible only occasionally to psychics, schizophrenics, and people burning up from fever. Another theory is that they are homunculus time travelers from a Possible Earths future wherein gravity has made us squat and a little transparent. What are time travelers if not ghosts? From the past or future they loom up, still dealing from the bottom of the old wounds deck, still clanging their spurs in Jacob Marleyian vengeance, their ætheric tendrils reaching deep into the future to spook later generations, the living equivalent of historical memoirs, or old time cinematic images and photos. I also like the idea that demons can be called into this world either accidentally via Ouija boards, or intentionally via snot-nosed punks, and if they dont know they have to dismiss them out of this world when theyre done, then the demons get to stay forever or until some angel, exorcist or psychic kicks them out. The spirit world conjured by the Rosicrucian mystics, for example, was left masterless when the Jesuits slaughtered them; the dark shadow demons conjured and then never sent back have been surly and hacking their way through underbrush of Protestantism to find the worthy Catholics and reincarnations of Catholics to torture in kind, for they are not grateful to be without the humans who understand them, and modern society still sneers and ostracizes--the civilized mans lame burning at the stake--anyone who sees or hears them. Even the peasants and uneducated who wouldnt be unseated by a radical new paradigm, dutifully throw their rocks of scorn, in an unconscious effort to please their conservative masters! The uneducated shun the educated man who wont talk down to them, they mistrust the man who wont take advantage of their ignorance to rob them in clouds of sanctified incense or finger-pointing. Throwing rocks at a problem is easier than hearing it out like open-minded beings insist. This means that so much of the Gods work has to be hidden from the faithful for whom no miracle not centuries old can occur, lest its vessel be burnt at the stake. ((((Dedicated to Dallas Snyder)))
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