Step into the strange space between dreaming and waking—where the body is frozen, the mind is alert, and something else seems to move freely.

Sleep paralysis is often explained away as a harmless glitch of the brain, but for those who have experienced it, the encounters feel anything but neutral. Shadow figures. Voices that know your name. Hands on your chest. The sense of being watched, or touched, by something you can’t see.

Tonight, I share several first-person stories of sleep paralysis and “evil dreams,” moments where fear followed people out of sleep and into waking awareness. Some prayed. Some fought back. Some were simply left alone to question what really happened once it was over.

Were these just dreams? Or are there things that meet us when the body can’t move and the mind can’t escape?

After the spooky, stay for a spirit moment with a Message from the Spirits that could be for you!

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