At age 66 I had my first incident of sleep paralysis. I had never heard of it before… so I blamed the spirits who make themselves known to me every once in awhile. (We have always had a good relationship – they make their presence known, and I acknowledge them, smile and accept it.) When I was finally able to move, I got out of bed and whispered loudly, “Any spirits who are here, follow me.” I went into the room next to my bedroom (I didn’t want to stay in my bedroom because the walls in my apartment are very thin and I didn’t want to awaken any of my neighbors), stood in the dark in front of my computer desk where I had previously heard a voice say “hello,” and very angrily I whispered loudly, “Please feel free to continue to say words to me, to move things around, to make yourselves known to me, but NEVER TOUCH ME AGAIN!” I think I must have had sparks and lightning shooting out of my head I was so upset.
The next day my brother informed me that sleep paralysis is common and is not caused by spirits, but by our own body when the mind is awake but the body has not yet awakened. Well, I felt really bad having blamed the spirits, but said nothing to them. I figured they could read my mind anyway.
About three days later, I fell asleep on the couch, and in my HAHA state (half awake/half asleep), a very angry gravelly male voice yelled in my ear – “BITCH!” Oh no, this was the first time I had ever experienced anything negative from the spirits. This scared me. I woke all the way up, my mind racing. I didn’t know what to do.
I spent the next couple of days waiting for some sort of retaliation, even more bad words, but nothing happened. Thankfully things are back to normal, if you can call it that. I still feel contrite for blaming them for something for which they were not responsible.
Sent in by Sandy Fuersich, Copyright 2010
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well in Hmong culture, sleep paralysis, we dont blame the spirits, cause it is the spirits.
But you shouldn’t have told them to follow you and noises. Its kinda like bothering them i guess. Just leave them alone and maybe they’ll leave you alone. If they dont, tell them nicely to leave…
JuLieeVajs, I rather enjoy having my spirits around. Maybe it is wrong, but I consider them my friends and don’t want them to leave. Having experiences of hearing words and physical knocking and thumps and poltergeist activity for many years, this was the first time anything negative has ever happened, and it was just one word…so I forgive them!
i agree with both of you but if your usto having them around then why not.but they should go were they belong.and sandy you said spirts never hurt you are were mean to you,what happens next time they do something.i dont want to see you get hurt.thanks for the story.
wow… how did u feel afterwards?
this is what i would have done is,
After i found out that it wasn’t the spirts who caused sleep paralysis i would have said sorry and asked them 2 forgive me
Jaycee, you are so right. I should have apologized out loud since I made such a big deal out of what happened out loud. I don’t know why I didn’t…maybe my ego couldn’t admit to them out loud that I had been wrong, but inside I knew it…and I kind of hoped they knew I was sorry without having to say it. But I did learn a lesson. I had always tried to be respectul to them both before and after that incident…and will never let that happen again.
Cristina, I thought my luck had run out and after so many good run-ins with my spirits, I was finally being visited by an evil spirit. However, nothing bad happened after that. I think I was very lucky.
wow! r u ok tho?
has anythinq else happened to u?
am really interest into the supernatural!
Gummi, lots more things have happened to me, but not anything more that was evil. Also, I’ve never seen a shadow or ghost, only experienced hearing voices and thumps and having things move around. Caretaker sent me a note that my story titled “Poltergeist Activity in Ocean Beach” will be on this site tomorrow. I started keeping a log when I got my first computer, and I’ve been going thru it and making sense of my notes and sending in my stories a couple at a time. Believe it or not, I have 35 pages of notes in my computer, so I have lots more material. Some of the things that happened are too mundane to hold anyone’s interest but my own, so I’ll just keep them in my file folder and try to find the good ones to write about.
i cant wait to read your stories.
deff i wud love to hear more(:
am tryinq to get a club in my skool am just hopinq they say yes to it(:
Keep in touch(:
Gummi Ninja, are you trying to get your school to sponsor a paranormal club and let you meet at school? That would certainly be different from the other school clubs. However, I hope they let you do it. Starting young, usually from having a paranormal experience themselves, is how lots of the professional investigators got their start. I hope you find some interesting things so that you can write about them and send them in to this site. I hope to see some postings from you.
Dear Ms. Sandy
is Gummi Ninja giggles thats my nick name, my name is cristina(:
And yeah i have nd am tryinq so hard to get that club, today i went tot see the lady of the student activities and well she was surprise but she said that i have to write an essay explaininq the purpose of the club nd the goal and how will this club help the students nd then have 15 students sign it nd my supervisor which will be my counselour am very happy tho(:
Keep in touch(:
Hey Sandy!
If nothing else has happened, maybe the spirit also feels bad now. As my Dad rest his soul always said, its never too late to apologise.
Love reading your experiences. You’re one tough lady and you have great qualities. Thanks Sandy.
Hugs, Steph xx
Thanks for the kudos! I have just added 2 videos to my page on Paranormal Culture which play spirit recordings I have made recently. They are in addition to 2 others that I added previously. If you are interested in hearing them, please go to http://paranormalculture.com/profile/SandyFenwinkel.