I went to two local churches with this problem. One told me that this was my fault for not praying hard enough, and the other was very pushy and wanted to tell everyone in the congregation my problem. When I backed off, they started calling my wife and tell her I needed to come back. I thought that a forum wouldn't disrupt my privacy so much.
I am an educated man who believes that God created the world with certain scientific principles in mind, that His creation adheres to these laws unless he otherwise intervenes. What I'm going through can be explained using psychology, medicine, and whatever else, but I truly don't feel that it is a natural thing.
When I was a child I would get bad night terrors. At least once a week I would be plagued by dreams in which I would be attacked by a human-shaped thing in dark clothes without a face. Sometimes it would chase me through fields, sometimes it would be standing by my bed, and sometimes it would try to strangle me. I always felt awake during these dreams, and when they ended I would start screaming.
My parents called in our pastor who prayed over me multiple times. After my third or fourth dream, he convinced my parents that I was faking the dreams for attention, because he had prayed over me and the dreams should have left. After my parents told me to stop making stories up, I suffered in silence for fear of being punished.
The dreams stopped when I was 12. Everything was going fine. I grew up to work at the corporate office of a local bank, I have a good home, I have a powerful and intelligent wife, I have a strong circle of friends from church, and I have a daughter who has just turned 8. I am currently 29 years old and have to say that my life is going very well for the most part.
For the last three months, my dreams have been returning. The first time they happened I thought it was because I ate some bad Indian food and had more wine than I usually do at dinner. But the dreams kept happening. They're never that long, but I have the impression that I'm awake, and that there is a faceless person standing in my room staring at me. One time I dreamt (or actually walked into, I hope not) that I was in my daughter's room and the faceless person was sitting at the foot of her bed. It looked at me and then I woke up in the bathroom.
I've suffered in silence. I didn't tell my wife or my daughter, and I was angry that the church I visited spilled my secret to them. I didn't want to alarm anyone because I know there could be a hundred non-supernatural reasons for this.
Three weeks ago, I had a dream where I was lying on my stomach with my head toward the foot of the bed. I always sleep on my side with my head on a pillow, facing the right way. I could feel the bed dip like someone was sitting on it. I could hear my wife snoring a little. I didn't look back in the dream as I remember thinking that I didn't want to see this thing up close.
I've never heard the thing speak before. It said many things that I can't remember, but one thing stuck out as being somehow important. I'll try to type it up as close as possible to what it is. It said "I'm in between the walls you will never get away from me."
I've been doing some research on what causes these things, starting with the scientific ones. I don't read/watch any horror movies, I'm in good shape, I don't drink too much coffee, and other than a glass of wine every other night, I don't drink. I've read that dreams of faceless people or being attacked by animals sometimes represents an attack by demons, but I'm very skeptic and don't believe that the supernatural world of devils and goblins often interacts with our world to such an extent. But I have this feeling, and I can't shake it.
I hope that someone here can offer me guidance, or at least point me in the right direction of some good literature on the subject. I'm trying to take care of this quietly, between me, God, and a couple close friends. I've been praying and praying, but nothing has happened yet.
Can anyone give me something? It's too the point where I'm afraid to sleep.
I am an educated man who believes that God created the world with certain scientific principles in mind, that His creation adheres to these laws unless he otherwise intervenes. What I'm going through can be explained using psychology, medicine, and whatever else, but I truly don't feel that it is a natural thing.
When I was a child I would get bad night terrors. At least once a week I would be plagued by dreams in which I would be attacked by a human-shaped thing in dark clothes without a face. Sometimes it would chase me through fields, sometimes it would be standing by my bed, and sometimes it would try to strangle me. I always felt awake during these dreams, and when they ended I would start screaming.
My parents called in our pastor who prayed over me multiple times. After my third or fourth dream, he convinced my parents that I was faking the dreams for attention, because he had prayed over me and the dreams should have left. After my parents told me to stop making stories up, I suffered in silence for fear of being punished.
The dreams stopped when I was 12. Everything was going fine. I grew up to work at the corporate office of a local bank, I have a good home, I have a powerful and intelligent wife, I have a strong circle of friends from church, and I have a daughter who has just turned 8. I am currently 29 years old and have to say that my life is going very well for the most part.
For the last three months, my dreams have been returning. The first time they happened I thought it was because I ate some bad Indian food and had more wine than I usually do at dinner. But the dreams kept happening. They're never that long, but I have the impression that I'm awake, and that there is a faceless person standing in my room staring at me. One time I dreamt (or actually walked into, I hope not) that I was in my daughter's room and the faceless person was sitting at the foot of her bed. It looked at me and then I woke up in the bathroom.
I've suffered in silence. I didn't tell my wife or my daughter, and I was angry that the church I visited spilled my secret to them. I didn't want to alarm anyone because I know there could be a hundred non-supernatural reasons for this.
Three weeks ago, I had a dream where I was lying on my stomach with my head toward the foot of the bed. I always sleep on my side with my head on a pillow, facing the right way. I could feel the bed dip like someone was sitting on it. I could hear my wife snoring a little. I didn't look back in the dream as I remember thinking that I didn't want to see this thing up close.
I've never heard the thing speak before. It said many things that I can't remember, but one thing stuck out as being somehow important. I'll try to type it up as close as possible to what it is. It said "I'm in between the walls you will never get away from me."
I've been doing some research on what causes these things, starting with the scientific ones. I don't read/watch any horror movies, I'm in good shape, I don't drink too much coffee, and other than a glass of wine every other night, I don't drink. I've read that dreams of faceless people or being attacked by animals sometimes represents an attack by demons, but I'm very skeptic and don't believe that the supernatural world of devils and goblins often interacts with our world to such an extent. But I have this feeling, and I can't shake it.
I hope that someone here can offer me guidance, or at least point me in the right direction of some good literature on the subject. I'm trying to take care of this quietly, between me, God, and a couple close friends. I've been praying and praying, but nothing has happened yet.
Can anyone give me something? It's too the point where I'm afraid to sleep.
