Its funny how people still think that those people who believe they had demon or other spirit experiences would bring them here, so that they can be belittled, ridiculed, denied that they had the experience that they claim, or are liars...Satanus
LOL Satanus. The experience I mentioned in this thread was one that I shared, in depth not long after I first joined JWN. I was 100% convinced it was a real experience. And I was pretty peeved that people told me it wasn't.
I had believed that I had had a real experience for over 20 years.
I'd never heard of sleep paralysis...and when I started to look into it...I discovered that this experience, I was 100% convinced of, was exactly like sleep paralysis. And the supporting 'evidence' I had, when I really looked at it, could have been interpreted that way by me because I believed it to be true. So all the surrounding events that took place were seen by me, through the eyes of someone that assumed others had experienced it too. I read into it what I wanted to because of preconceived ideas and beliefs.
I denied this for a while, but in the end, I revisited the night in question in my mind (I still remembered it all vividly). And ran through what had happened. And I honestly couldn't make the same conclusion knowing there could be another explanation. I was no longer convinced.
As time has gone on, I do not believe it was demons at all.
I wasn't lying at the time, and I don't believe that people who share their experiences are liars either. But, I do think they need to look at the experience from all possible perspectives. And really question themselves about what they believe about it and why.
