I've suffered sleep paralysis all my life and for me it has always been a negative and extremely distressing experience. I don't know if it comes from spirits or is sif the medical explanation is correct, perhaps both are.
For those who are not familliar with the disorder; Sleep paralysys is something that occours when the body is falling asleep but the midn is still awake. There is a chemical that the body uses to paralysse it while you are asleep so that you don't act out your dreams. When sleep paralysis occours, the sleeper is half way between being asleep and awake, so that the body is asleep but the mind fully alert and the eys can ope and see the surroundings.
The sleeper panics and the brain starts producing hillucinations so that the person see's some really horrible and frightenning things like shadowey figures, possibly demons. If I am alert enough then I can call out to Jesus or the Trinity to help me and it usually goes away if I take authority. Making the sign of the Cross is also effective, thoug this is done mentally rather than physically.
I've been doing some research and it seem sthat you can train your mind to turn the negative experience into a positive one. You can train your mind to lucid dream, so that you have control over the situation and turn the scary image into a nice one and you can even learn how to travel outside your body by astral projection. Some say that you can travel between dimensions and through space and tht your mind, soul or consiosness is actually outsideyour body.
My question is; given that I want to turn a negative experience into a positive one, would it be OK for a Christian to do this. I'm not talking about prctising anything occult or magical, just simply using my own mind. I'm asking this becuase I don't want to try something that might not be appropriate for Christians to do, I won't even read a Horoscope. I used to be into astrology when I was a teenager and I'e since asked God to forgive me.
Anyway, pleae let me know your thoughts on this. I'd espeically like to know if anyone else here suffers Sleep paralysis too.
For those who are not familliar with the disorder; Sleep paralysys is something that occours when the body is falling asleep but the midn is still awake. There is a chemical that the body uses to paralysse it while you are asleep so that you don't act out your dreams. When sleep paralysis occours, the sleeper is half way between being asleep and awake, so that the body is asleep but the mind fully alert and the eys can ope and see the surroundings.
The sleeper panics and the brain starts producing hillucinations so that the person see's some really horrible and frightenning things like shadowey figures, possibly demons. If I am alert enough then I can call out to Jesus or the Trinity to help me and it usually goes away if I take authority. Making the sign of the Cross is also effective, thoug this is done mentally rather than physically.
I've been doing some research and it seem sthat you can train your mind to turn the negative experience into a positive one. You can train your mind to lucid dream, so that you have control over the situation and turn the scary image into a nice one and you can even learn how to travel outside your body by astral projection. Some say that you can travel between dimensions and through space and tht your mind, soul or consiosness is actually outsideyour body.
My question is; given that I want to turn a negative experience into a positive one, would it be OK for a Christian to do this. I'm not talking about prctising anything occult or magical, just simply using my own mind. I'm asking this becuase I don't want to try something that might not be appropriate for Christians to do, I won't even read a Horoscope. I used to be into astrology when I was a teenager and I'e since asked God to forgive me.
Anyway, pleae let me know your thoughts on this. I'd espeically like to know if anyone else here suffers Sleep paralysis too.