Dark, Menacing Presence In The Form Of A Shadowy Man | Monsters Dream Interpretations
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let me start by saying that I have always been on the fence about what I believe when it comes to the existence of ghosts and good/evil spirits, god, etc. if you asked me in public, i would deny it, but ive always felt (wheather i was convinced of it or not) that such things do indeed exist. I was recently prompted to do some research on a reoccoring dream that ive had close to a dozen times (maybe more) in the last 5 years after two seperate events peaked my interest. the 1st being that my mom recently went to a psycic medium, who told her things that made me weak when I heard them on tape. Weather or not i was ever convinced of ghosts and spirits before, I was ALWAYS dead against the idea of a "psycic". I thought they were top drawer scam artists that prey on weak minded folks in search of something out of reach...that is until I heard these tapes...this woman brought up things NO ONE could ever have known. There was nothing said about me that was in any way damning or that i was in any sort of "spiritual" danger, but it definitely left me with a different point of veiw. The 2nd thing that sparked my interest (and dont laugh) was seeing the movie "Insidious". If you havent seen it, its about this kid who is able to step out of his physical body when he sleeps and travel throught the astral (?) dimension. He wanders off too far and becomes "lost" in this astral dimension, rendering his physical body comatose. Meanwhile, evil sprits and demons enter our world in an attempt to secure his physical form with the intent of doing harm unto others. Now, that may ALL be a little far fetched, but when i read the description of the girls dream involvong the "shadow man", I nearly **** a brick because its uncannily similar to the ones i have had over the years. Although i cant remember a lot of the specifcs or particular settings of the dreams, there is always 2 or 3 things in common with every one. A "normal" dream will always take an ominous turn. It will often turn dark and ill feel the presence of this dark sillouhette of what seems like a man. I can never see any definite features, but there is always a man like figure. And its never in contrast to a bright back ground. Im always struggling to make this thing out because its like im seeing a shaddow within the darkness (if that makes any sence). im always scared in my dream when i see this thing, but i always recognize the fact that ive seen it before. I would become parylized with fear, unable to move or speak...but only for the 1st 3 or 4 encounters. after that i started to challenge this presence in my dreams (almost agknowledging that I was aware that i was asleep within the dream). I will walk toward it and demand that it tell me what it wants, then just as i would get close enough to engage it, my body becomes flooded with fear and panic and I wake up breathing hysterically. I will also often find myself parylized in my dreams, unable to move or speak... but without this dark presence. Even though i feel like im awake, i know that im sleeping. Ill try really hard to move my body enough that the physical twitch wakes me up...but that aside, I NEED TO KNOW WHAT THIS DARK FIGURE WANTS!!! why me??? Ill let you know that im 2 years clean of a nasty heroine addiction. It tore my life apart in many ways. Im left with a lot of supressed anger and residual guilt. I have read that these types of deep emotions can manifest themselves in dreams, but for some reason i dont think this is the case. Also, these dreams of the dark figure go back before i was an addict. please tell me what yo know of my story and perhaps shed some insight as to why it would happen to me and how i can get rid of it for good. Im a good person with a kind heart and im trying to move on with my life...but honestly, this scares the **** out of me!!!!
• First of all, you need to understand what you are dealing with. Drugs and alcohol leave the astral body open to invasion. The astral body is also known as the desire or subtle body… learn about it. Next learn about the various planes (dimensions). Then learn about the law of attraction, discarnate entities, earthbound spirits and so on. All this information can be found online. I believe your “Shadow Man” may either be a personification of your dark side (not Jung’s description of the “Shadow”) or as you put it, “suppressed fear and residual guilt” stemming from a childhood experience. It continues to stalk you because it needs to be faced. You wake up paralyzed, meaning you become conscious while in your astral body. This body moves by thought, not physical action, so attempting to move it in the normal way won’t work. If you are not versed in manipulating this vehicle just visualize yourself going back to sleep. Don’t worry about getting lost in some other dimension; you are permanently connected to your physical body as long as you’re alive, and if something frightens you “out there” your reflexes will snap you back into your body at the speed of thought.
Let me tell you a little bit about my experience before i jump to yours. THIS is really hard to explain in short so bear with me. When i was 15 i started seeing these dreams. These dreams NEVER FELT GOOD when I’m in it. it always gave me this terrifying feeling right after i woke up and i don’t remember details what exactly happened in some of the dreams but i see this figure trying to choke me in some of my dreams and chase me in other. He whispers and doesn’t have definitions or details other than having a figure of a man but I don’t recall seeing real definition of him except his hands. When I see that figure I try to wake myself up. All of a sudden I couldn’t breathe or move and I feel like it’s trying to kill me but I will fight so hard to take a breath, get back and gain full consciousness. The funny thing is I see my room, the ceiling, the wall and I know I am almost up but it takes a whole lot of energy and effort to gain full consciousness. By the time am full up, I feel like I just had a fight with a real being, breathing hard, sweating and also terrified and I can feel it throughout my body. And I had these types of dreams for 6 years. I never did drugs, I was a thinker (not religion) and a good heart person. this shadow figure does not target if you have a dark past or not. I was mostly not looking forward to sleep even though am tired. Because I know I will not have a peaceful dream and I know it. I started seeking for solution everywhere. I went to physics, councilors and endless therapy.
ok at that time I stumbled into this conclusion.
Darkness (dictionary Def): “Besides the blackness of night, darkness can represent a lack of understanding, an absence of joy, the threat of danger, instability, vulnerability, and any number of fear inducing circumstances.”
If darkness is the absence of JOY, then where do I find JOY?...
JOY (dictionary Def): “To fill with ecstatic happiness, pleasure, or satisfaction”.
i had a loving mother and father and couldn’t ask for much. I had two lovely brothers and two lovely sisters and could not replace them with anything. They love me and I love them. And I had the perfect childhood a child could ever have. I had everything I wanted and need (love and money was never an issue).
One evening, in college, I was running late to class, I didn’t have time to brush my teeth or use the bathroom. I ran and got 20 minutes late so decided to use the restroom anyway. I went used the building’s restroom. As I was sitting, I read this on the wall. It was a breakthrough for me. It says
"I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!" John 15:11
Then I started reading stuff and stumbled in other similar scriptures. Then I started digging deeper. And I found: 1 John 4:18
“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love”.
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." Psalm 46:1
Solution:
(II Timothy 1:7) 7” For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.”
This actually worked for me. the only way to get rid of this shadow figure is by calling God. I specifically said “in Jesus name” repeatedly with a feeling that am heating him with a baseball bat or something. Then after a while it started going quick as soon as I say that name. then completely stopped showing up in my dreams after I start saying a little prayer before I sleep. And I have been free since then and now am 30.
I can’t tell you what to believe and what not. Hopefully you have a good brain so use it. But weather you believe or not good/evil really exists. i can tell you this for sure. this dark figure you are seeing in your dreams is not there for your pleasure. it feeds off your fear, anger and frustration and the fact that you have no possible way to overcome him it’s even more frustrating. confronting him will not work and i believe you tried and already failed.
So just call “jesus name on it” and please let me know on the results.
Wish you the best and do not fear
It really tripped me out when I read this I even made a username just to tell u this but listen I'm an ex heroin addict also and I had a friend come over and try it he like it but then soon after he appeared scared and to messed up and left we didn't think much about it but I still felt a lil weird I didn't hear from him for three days finally I get a call and he's freaked out and stressed we have a history of seeing weird things like spirts and walked in on a sacfice cermoney and ran so I start asking what's wrong and the day he came over and used with us he was really scared because he saw two shadows behund my boyfriend and I these shadows were of two men so he left scared he said we went home and tried to sleep it off he woke up suddenly and there was a dark shadow of a man starring down on him this all happend being awake while being h addicts a lot of simalities but this was being awake I've seen him too
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