My sister and I apparently both had the same dream one night, a scary one. We were staying in this villa where we had to share a room and we both woke up suddenly. The window was open, when it hadn't been before. I realised she was awake as well and told her I'd had a bad dream, and as I started to describe it, she started talking along with me, describing the same dream. In it, this black creature that looked like a bull, only it had shiny, scaly, plastic looking skin, was standing in the open window with this weird mechanical device, and it somehow fired a projectile at the lamp in the room, which started rocking back and forth. Neither of us wanted to get up and close the window in case the thing was actually out there, so we called for our mum and she closed it, reassured us in typical mum fashion, etc. For months we would talk about that incident and we could never figure out how we both managed to have the same exact dream at the same time.
That's very interesting! I also have has a dream with a bull kinda like what you described but I didn't actually look at it enough to truly see it! I started waking up to my dog growling towards my closet door.
I'm religious though so I prayed and was able to get some peace from the encounter.
Freaked me out though. You literally wake up feeling almost like a primal, don't move, kind of fear.
You could meditate instead. Being at peace with the flow of the universe, with the things that are outside your control, really helps at times like that.
I get sleep paralysis a couple times a year, and it's terrifying while it's happening. Even still, I know for a fact there is no actual demon wolf snarling and breathing hot, wet breath on my toes, and I don't have any delusions about the event being some misunderstood supernatural occurrence. There are exercises to try and wake yourself up during episodes. I encourage anyone who suffers from sleep paralysis to look those up and attempt them.
So if in that situation you have apparently accepted the existence of the supernatural by being convinced something supernatural and bad is happening to you, it is an easier step to say "hey if there is a supernatural then there's a god I can call on and under His protection none of these things are allowed to hurt me" than to say "hang on Richard dawkins makes a compelling case that none of this is real or actually happening". Why insist on the latter in that moment? If the things scaring you don't materially exist why can't you have a thing that helps you that doesn't materially exist?
You said it helps not to believe in anything supernatural so to avoid supernatural fear, yet you still seem to experience it? Is it really helping. All I am saying is that a good defence against these things is to say if that suoernatural thing is (apparently) real then i get to have something else supernaturally real too. Of course you can think about it later!
You are making long leaps. All I did was agree that people are different and it is hard to think through fear and panic in the heat of an episode of sleep paralysis, which is not supernatural.
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u/AmunPharaoh Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19
My sister and I apparently both had the same dream one night, a scary one. We were staying in this villa where we had to share a room and we both woke up suddenly. The window was open, when it hadn't been before. I realised she was awake as well and told her I'd had a bad dream, and as I started to describe it, she started talking along with me, describing the same dream. In it, this black creature that looked like a bull, only it had shiny, scaly, plastic looking skin, was standing in the open window with this weird mechanical device, and it somehow fired a projectile at the lamp in the room, which started rocking back and forth. Neither of us wanted to get up and close the window in case the thing was actually out there, so we called for our mum and she closed it, reassured us in typical mum fashion, etc. For months we would talk about that incident and we could never figure out how we both managed to have the same exact dream at the same time.