Overcoming Sleep Paralysis

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Sleep paralysis can be a terrifying experience. I know this because I have suffered from it most of my life. In fact, I experienced it last night, but in my case, there was no terror. It wasn’t always this way, but through the years, I have learned to overcome it. I want to share with you the things that can help you overcome it too.

For many people, sleep paralysis is just a neurological condition. For such people, I want to teach you how to deal with it from that perspective. For others, it is a bad spiritual experience. I have had to explore both realities in my life, and in doing so, I have learned to deal with it in both scientific and religious ways. For this reason, I want to help both religious and non-religious people alike.

When sleep paralysis happens to me, my eyes are still closed. I know some of you experience this after opening your eyes. In whatever way, the first thing that happens is that we become afraid, which is normal because we don’t have control. In this fear, the next thing we do is panic or enter a state of despair. Unfortunately, being somewhat still linked to the dream state, such feelings begin to manifest. Our terror becomes our reality as we begin to hear or see frightening things.

The solution to this, speaking mostly to non-religious people, is dealing with the fear. Not controlling our fear is what leads to a state of terror or despair. Consequently, being near the dream state, we become the source of our own harmful hallucinations. The key to dealing with this is to expect the fear and practice dealing with it. Take control of it and don’t let it bring you into despair. It’s natural to be afraid, but you don’t have to let fear become the source of your own misery.

How I propose to do this comes from how law enforcement is trained. They go through rigorous training to help them deal with the fear mechanism that can be overpowering. For instance, they are taught how to deal with a person pointing a gun at a loved one, demanding that the officer drop their weapon. Fear kicks in, and the natural adrenaline flows through the body, making you want to give in to the demands of fear, which would make you want to drop the weapon. They are trained to understand that what they are experiencing is a natural chemical reaction. This reaction is primal, a product of our evolutionary instinct to survive. If they give in and drop their weapon, things will be worse. As a result, they train themselves to think critically and work through their fear. This is what I have also found helpful in dealing with sleep paralysis.

For religious people, this experience of sleep paralysis might be spiritual. The principles for dealing with it are the same. The demon wants you to feel that you are alone or abandoned by God. Once they get you to believe that, they begin to terrorize you. Like the solution above, you need to deal with your fear. You should be afraid; this is natural, after all, it’s a spiritual being. However, you have been given many things to deal with this fear that they cause. The first is believing that you are not alone. The Bible teaches in Hebrews 13:5 that God never leaves you or abandons you. Most of the time, we just need to believe this, and when we do, the demon becomes powerless in tormenting us. The other and most important is from Luke 10:19, which says that these demons cannot hurt you. If you have given yourself completely to Christ, they can’t touch you. When we start putting these truths into practice, you will find the freedom you seek.

It took me many years to find freedom. Most of my problems came from not taking control of my fear. God helped me to do that. In my case, I believe a being was taking advantage of a neurological condition. It spent years tormenting me, and I felt like the Apostle Paul, who I believe experienced the same thing in 2 Corinthians 12. God’s answer to him was that His grace was sufficient. For me, it took many years to learn this, and now I can say with confidence that I have overcome sleep paralysis. This is my hope for you as well.