What are your experiences with sleep paralysis? If you've never experienced it, what's the scariest nightmare you can recall?

But it does work, nani_kore. If you never doubt.

When I was a child, I had an "imaginary monster" as my parents liked to call it. At one point, he told me his name was the Koink. He told me lots of things.. like how he would one day kill me and take me with him. He was a shadowy figure, but I remember his ears. They resembled Gremlin ears, but he wasn't small like a Gremlin.. he was very tall. I dreaded bed-time more than anything in the world. I knew he would be there, and I always knew when he was on his way because I could hear the drums (has anyone else ever heard them?).

At this point in my life, my parents were beginning to talk to me more about God. I doubted God. It didn't seem possible for one higher being to create EVERYTHING.. and any way, where did he come from? Right?

Wrong.

I fell ill during this point in my life. A rare illness called Rye-Syndrome. By the time the doctors figured out what was wrong with me, I was pretty far gone. They gave my parents the grim news that I had no more than a 20% chance of survival.. It didn't look good. I was in a coma for 3 days, but I remember it vividly and it only felt like 3 minutes. There I was, back at home standing at the top of the staircase. Down below, was a beautiful man beckoning me to come down. He looked so nice, and I was an ignorant child.. so I began to walk down the stairs toward him. At this moment I heard another voice. I looked back up to the top of the stairs, and there was my dad. He said to me "Honey, if you go down those stairs you will never wake up." And that was it.. and I knew. I knew he was God (in the form of my father), and I ran back up the stairs and into his arms. I could hear the beautiful man at the bottom of the stairs screaming and cursing just before I woke up in a hospital room full of my loved ones. From that day forward, I believed with all of my heart, and I have never seen the Koink again. I know that he was a demon, and I know that the beautiful man at the bottom of the stairs was Satan, and he almost had me.. but God gave me a second chance to live and believe, so that when my time does come I won't be damned.

Call me crazy, I don't mind.

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