No offence how about manning up and stop acting like a little bitch, the damn thing ain't real it's just a fragment of your imagination, SP is real and happens to a lot of people but the dark demon is all a hallucination caused by stress and the constant reminder of negative thinking for example like your regrets, I bet you allow them to circulate your thoughts 24/7, always feeling guilty about something, when all that negativity reaches its peak your body is going to need to vent somehow. Your body when it sleeps is recharging itself at the same time tidying up a clutter brain by organizing things and throwing away old memories that it feel it no longer needs. That's how dreams are made, they are meaningless visions we get that our brain unknowingly creates while getting your ready for the morning. I myself had scary SP until I came to a realization that I was scaring myself, so once I understood this the next time I was visited by the "demon" I pretty much embraced it, one night it just stood there in the corner of my room trying its best to scare me out by it creepiness, I was laying on my bed unable to move, I started attacking it with annoying questions, like "don't you have better things to do?" and "what's the matter, you have no friends? What do you expect if you stand there all silent creeping out everyone you meet". Or my favorite "someone needs better social skills". Just like I woke up to my first SP not freaked out. The fallowing one was a bit intense but was fun. This time the demon started aggressive and loud screams filled my room and as I started to talk it came rushing at me and stopped when we came face to face as it parked itself on top of my chest. Trying to intimidate me by shutting me up guess I did the only thing I felt I was able to do and look back at it right in its face and scream back as loud as I can, before I woke up I swear I saw the demon being hit by my scream like a hurricane making it back away. Like I was able to control the things around me like I had powers. But that was the last I was visited. After all my SP is just me all alone in my room unable to move for about a few seconds before waking up. I kinda miss that shadowy bastard.