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A lot of the replies you have gotten are very lame and look as if they are trying to help you in negative ways. This is my advice I will try to give you advice from a few different standpoints..I know a lot about Psychology & Drugs , I am into studying the occult and spirits and so forth.. I also have a few things that I have exprienced that may be of interest to you as well ... First I will state my opinions clinically --------------------------------------------------------------- - What you are expriencing is a symptom of quite a few disorders such as schizophrenia , is a symptom of a certain Sleep Disorder , .. it almost sounds as if you are hallucenating in the transition between sleeping and falling asleep... almost like the type of Dream you usually remember , the ones while you waking up or coming out of REM. Another thing I could think of similar to what you are going through is a "Flashback" do to post dramatic stress syndrome or use of hallucengens such as LSD or Angel Dust. Have you ever used these ?? IN FINAL seeing as how your kid has this problem I would talk to your mother or grandmother (if possible) and see if any of these problems have occured in your family because it could very well be a mental disorder or disease .. and could be treated with mediations im positive on that. ---------------------------------------------------------------Spiritually , I study the occult .. Such entities are possible to exist though I have never encountered one (at least I think , im skeptical) that plauged me .. The Fact energy cant be created or destroyed can partly proove the exisitence od spirits.. And that Energy could be negative and other energies could attract it such as fear or the "aura" (your body's release of radiation that physically kills germs for instance) which is affected by your wellness , surroundings , temperature/weather , and mental being .... This is a only a suggestion ... But A seriously doubt "Jesus Christ" or the "Holy Cross" will stop this from happening , however research as shown most religions beleive power comes from ones self's faith in an item's power so if you beleive strongly in christ go for it.... And FYI Occult practices such as witchcraft are NOT Evil .. Occult Satanism (not that which was started by Anton Lavey) is .. don't let somone tell you otherwise .. Wiccans and Pagans are often on the Light side and are all about Nature , Love , and The force of good it is against their beleifs to conjure spirits , act as a medium , Hex/curse people , etc... If you beleive there is a "Dark Force" at work such as Magick , A demon , or otherwise .. I suggest you look into Occult defenses against Evil or Oriental techniques for this as well ... Christianity Dispells the fact these creatures exist on the physical plain. My personal remedy for such a thing in an supernatural sense would be to Wear a Black Obsidian Pendant pentacle , cross , stone or sphere as they are beleived to ward off negative energies at work against you and personal exprience would suggest that to be true.. Also wear Silvers instea of Gold if you beleive it is a spirit .. Im not claiming these methods to work however your dealing with something you beleive to be supernatural perhaps you should fight it with that method ... You may once more want to look at your families history to see if this is common in your family OR to see if any of your enemies are into Satan Worshipping/Occult Satanic (not Lavey Satanic) (you may also want to check www.churchofsatan.org for some good education on the difference) .. Or if they are into hexing people etc.. But i seriously doubt that is the case ... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some more advice I have to you stems from a person experience .. I do DXM and have done LSD occasionally to hallucenate and meditate to try to expland my mind and mental awareness and see the all fabled "astral planes" .. One week when expriementing with very high doses of DXM (check www.erowid.com for information) Over 80 15mg pills of it (and only that substance) .. I sae a creature one night that terrified me and I can't remember anything after that moment other than distincly forgetting who i was and if i existed ... (not too good huh) The 2nd night I did this I fell asleep and began to dream eventually after hours of hallucenating vividly concious .. In my dream characters at the end i was battling turned into Large Winged Purple Gargoyle-eque type creatures and I realized I was dreaming in my Dream.. They had wings , skinny bodies , no faces , and leathery dark skin ..they tickled me and i woke up .. The same creature appeared in my head when i closed my eyes (vividly) during a trip the following night .. and then again in my dreams one night when I was sober ... Now I do have insane Dreams as it is and i attempt to record every occurance of them to learn about myself more or less... HOWEVER in these instances I was telling my friend about it .. and she told me to go look into what an H.P. Lovecraft creature called a Nightgaunt was and to find pictures of it of people who painted them ... Sure enough I looked into a Besitary of HP lovecraft and read to see that these creatures though most of his stories were fake and made up were something he actually was plauged by in his dreams as a Child and occasionally in his older ages. So now im telling you to look into them .. you may find it interesting if anything .. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another interesting thing would be an exprience I had as a child .. A nightmare that terrifed me .. I awoke in my house in my dream , went to my parents room and they were replaced by 2 demonic looking masked men i fled from them into my kitchen where i was instantly paralysed at the doorway and I couldnt breathe ... I promptly awoke in my own room of course .. but i still couldnt breathe or move .. It was a very scary exprience that I will never forgot .. Considering it happened when i was about 6 maybe 8 at most .. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As for your sleep paralysis .. I have as well as several of my friends exprienced this (when we were sober of course) .. However I do remember a few times Dreaming things in this state that mixed into what I was seeing with my eyes open in Reality ... I have also had this similar thing happen with sleep walking ... Reality and Dreams exist all at once and it's very hard to wake yourself .. You may want too look into if this is a Disorder if it happens often .. Sleepwalking for me seems to happen when im running from something in a dream. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In light I hope this helps .. Perhaps you should seek help from a professional or a local religious leader But they will probably send you to a shrink ... You would be more wise to seek help from somone who beleives in the supernatural .. or to go to the shrink