Have you ever had the feeling of being pressed? You are asleep and suddenly you regain your consciousness but by the time you regain your consciousness you are already helpless. You are paralyzed and you can’t move an inch of body and how much you scream the words won’t come out, you struggle hard to breathe easy and it becomes worst you sense some presence near you, something unusual, something strange, something uninvited.
I just had that experience today as I was taking a nap this afternoon. I was having a dream, it was some kind of lucid dream, the dream where I was aware of the dream and aware of the outside world too. I could hear the sound of the children playing outside and at the same time I could feel the dream I was dreaming.
I was dreaming, about a friend who told me that he was haunted while he was sleeping. He said he heard the angry voices of the spirit speaking filthy to him and told me that he was dead afraid. I said, “You should have fought back to that spirit, and scold back filthy”, and boom I was instantly paralyzed, like I was cursed for the words I spoke, or maybe it was karma, I couldn’t understand. It was as if I spoke the words I should have never spoken. And remind you it was the dream where I spoke those words. Now I couldn’t move my body an inch, I couldn’t make any sound, it felt like my words were in mute mode in the TV, my lips were in unusual position but couldn’t move that either, only thing I could move was my eye balls I guess. I had no control over myself, no matter how hard I struggled I couldn’t. I knew there was a presence beside me, unlike in the previous episodes not over my chest but by my side. It was something strange, something uninvited, I knew it was ’Khyaak’ but I was not afraid a bit. After much struggle I was able to turn my side and move my hands, so next thing I did was caught the Khyaak’s hands, again I was paralyzed for the second time. I was holding his hands, hands of some metaphysical being, it felt like human hands anyway. Turned around to see his face but couldn’t see it no way. Then it finally left and I was back to the normal.
People have these experiences and often have it, like once in a year. But this time it was different, I felt those hands of the spirit yet I was not afraid a bit. It sure was an strange experience. I told my encounter with my mate Alensh and he said he had more intense ones where he would see the ‘Khyaak’ haunting him, and my grandfather had same kind encounters too. In most of the cultures around the world they have the same definition “ghost pressing on chest”, no matter what language they speak the meaning around the globe is the same.
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis#Society_and_culture ]