Thread: Night Terrors.

My parents told me I used to have night terrors alot when I was little. I still don't really know anything about them. And what's 'automatic writing'?

"Automatic Writing" is particularly well known in Spiritualist circles. I am not saying I am an advocate but it involves Communicating with one's subconscious or "Spirits" if you believe that. Basically Freeing one's mind and letting the "messages' come through on a blank piece of paper. Like I said, I am not saying it produces Messages from the dead but it produces some interesting results.

by night terrors are you referring to when you become concious at night and open your eyes only to find that your hallucinating an old hag sitting on your chest making you unable to breathe? also this is always accompanied with SP....

and i dont know where you got automatic writing from out of this subject...

Well maybe I am wrong, but I read these apparitions often involve the individual feeling drained of physical energy.

Virtualy any spiritual excercise drains one of energy. It's much the same way physical excercise drains one of energy, just a different kind of energy. Both are physically detectable. As for the Old Hag Phenomenon, I posted about the distinction from SP here. I have experienced both, and they are different things.

Automatic writing is akin to using a ouija board; it's just another method of channeling. Hmm, that answer was kinda all over the place, but then so was the question, I guess.

You sound as if you have had experience in various phenomenon, but as you mentioned there seems to be similarities accross the board. I like to "Dabble' if that is the correct word in things of interest to me. Lucid Dreaming is just one of them. But it often seems that mixing Metaphors does not go down well here. And don't people with Night Terrors become extremely Violent whilst asleep without their knowledge.

Apparently I would just start screaming and crying horribly loud in the middle of the night when I was younger and my parents could not get me to snap out of it...almost like I was still asleep or something? I dunno really. But I know it scared the hell out of them. I don't ever remember it.

With my night terrors, I would just sit up in bed and argue math and philosophy with someone who wasn't there. My parents freaked out and brought me to a neurologist!

Originally posted by dreamboat
Ok, We have had the Incubus and the ever present Old Hag, but what is the 21st Century representation of this manifestation ??. Shouldn't she be claiming her old age pension by now.

She’s prob in line with all the other archetypes asking for her retirement fund to go down the pub for a few beers

Nowadays the new manifestation of the old hag has been replaced by alien abductions (just something I read about Sleep Paralysis and the image of the old hag hanging over your bed).

Its like when 'rednecks' (excuse the stereotype) say they have been abducted by aliens its usually a form of sleep paralysis, but thats another topic

I once read a treatise by one Indian 'Guru' called "Spiritual Cannabalism". It set forth the notion that a Guru can drain the energy out of all the little followers that bow before him. It would have been fine if he were sounding out a General Alarm; however, it was written as something of a "how to" book. Anyway, I took it as a warning... both as to the Ethical Behavior of those in the Spiritual Community, and in regards to my own motives and temptations.

Anyway, don't let the Vampires of Our Comunity suck out your Life Energy. Make sure that your 'Gurus' give more than they take.