Dreams of Demons

by Karissa Barker
(Ontario Canada)

My dad is a pastor and I've had many talks about this with him, and a few actual encounters with "demonic forces" I guess you could call them. Anyway, I've always been sort of afraid of the dark, and for the past two years almost, I've become extremely scared of the dark, more specifically of demons trying to take over my body.

I'm so scared that I usually sleep with lights on and music or the TV so I can't hear anything and so I can see everything. A lot of the time when I'm trying to sleep I feel like there's a presence (or presences) lying on me/beside me/in the room with me. And if it's quiet and I try concentrating on sleeping or just clearing my thoughts, I sometimes hear different voices, not specifically saying anything, just thinking the same thoughts I'm thinking, but I just can tell it's not me.

Although the dreams are always somewhat different with the settings and or people involved, the things that always remain the same in these dreams are that I suddenly feel or sense a negative spiritual force coming over me. It begins to take over my body so I can't speak or move. I just start to panic and feel really scared because it just feels really intense.

Because of my religious upbringing, I was taught that if there are demons, I must "rebuke" them in the name of Jesus Christ, to send them away. So in my dreams, when I start to feel like I'm being taken over by a demon, I start trying to say "in the name of Jesus Christ get out and go to the place he sends you."

At first I can never say it though, because I am so filled with fear that I just can't move or speak, so it's like there's a huge lump in my throat and I feel freaked-out because I know this is a bad and negative force.

Whatever it is, I can just sense that it's trying to destroy me or get rid of me, or just something bad, but eventually I do say it (rebuke the presence) but I always wake up saying the rebuke and just feeling like it was all so real and it makes me not want to go back to sleep because I'm scared of sleeping and not being in control of my body where I know they can attack me.

I guess it's because although I do believe in God and the bible 100%, I don't live my life the way it outlines and wouldn't consider myself a Christian. So it's like I feel the demons have power over me because I believe in them but am not a Christian. I don't know, I'm not even sure this is the right section to share all this information but I just wanted to get this out there to see if other people have these types of dreams and advice and things I can do to have more peaceful sleep and not be scared.

Although I'd like to believe my dreams aren't real, I feel that what happens in them are so real, unlike any other dreams, and I really just hate them and want them to stop.