Opening Doors (spiritual)

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Does anyone believe in "opening doors" to malicious entities by watching horror movies, listening to tainted music and looking into the "obscure"?, i was raised a Christian (Baptist) and i do believe in "opening doors" hence why i try and not watch too many horror movies or possesion related stuff. I have had sleep paralysis episodes before but...

Well yesterday was a bit different, i was watching videos on YT late at night about unsolved murders, and recordings before people died and just that type of thing. Nothing to macabre or nothing. I went to bed and it was 3 am, i fell asleep and woke up unable to move or speak... i mumbled something and fell asleep again... then i woke up again and the same thing happened fell back asleep, then the third time i was asleep laying on my side and i start feeling somebody grabbing my legs... i feel their hands squeeze my legs and knees as they're bent, i move my legs and try to shoo them away but they just kept trying to grab me. I raise from my waist up to try and make them go away and i see a black figure standing there trying to grab me, so i fell back on my bed and started praying to God. I was finally able to go to sleep, now i will think twice before looking up anything remotely sinister.

Any personal anecdotes or thoughts?, i know that GAF seems to me mainly skeptic but still... i am interested in listening to your two cents.
 
That sounds like a night terror, where you've woken up and been paralyzed. I've had it before where I was certain someone was in my room with me and I couldn't move to look.

You have to remember that when Rob Zombie makes
bad, bad, awful
horror movies or music he's doing it because he finds it to be representative of his art — not because he's possessed by a devil.

Besides, wouldn't it make more sense for a demon to take advantage of say, re-runs of Seinfeld where there are millions more people watching if it wanted to fuck up the living world?
 
Yes, I'll open doors to the fucked up part of my brain, then I'll REALLY freak myself out and be unable to escape.
 
Yes, but I don't think your example here is applicable. It's not a one-time exposure thing but inundation where you might get in trouble, with a few outlying activities.
 
You had sleep paralysis and you just happened to be watching youtube videos before. I would just think of it as a coincidence and think nothing of it. Sleep paralysis is always scary, and it's always something trying to get to you.
 
That's not how that works. Watching a scary movie isn't consenting to possession. You're doing nothing but watching a story be told.
 
Sounds like you had sleep paralysis. Religious/spiritual people tend to call it being attacked by a demon.
 
You're right, there is no explanation for this event except that your YouTube views opened a metaphysical doorway and an incorporeal spirit tried to possess your body.
 
This sounds ridiculous. Not trying to discount your experience OP -- I've never had sleep paralysis and I'm sure it's no doubt terrifying. But in this instance there seems to be a rock-solid naturalistic explanation.

It's unreasonable to immediately jump to the supernatural for an explanation for any given situation. Even if no natural explanation seems to fit, that still doesn't give you permission to invoke the supernatural. "I don't know" is a perfectly reasonable response - much more so than "the Devil did it."

Cue theists running into the thread screaming about how GAF is full of angry Christian-hating atheists
 
It's all psychological, OP. I was raised in a Christian household as well (Evangelical) and I would have high anxiety before bed and "see" shit all the time that wasn't there (I was afraid of the dark until I was 19! Don't you know the devil is everywhere trying to fuck you over and ruin your life at any moment? SPIRITUAL WARFAREEEEE!!). I also used to get sleep paralysis all the time because I convinced myself that whatever it is I did that was wrong would get me possessed or put me under spiritual attack. Smh

As I got older and less religious, the frequency of my "attacks" diminshed until they finally stopped. You don't have to stop being religious, just let go of the unreasonable idea that by watching a movie or sinning you are opening yourself up to be possessed. It takes time but you will be much better off in the long run.
 
No. I was raised by people who did though, and it was awful. Glad to have left that delusional nonsense behind me. Now I enjoy media like an adult. I understand that feelings, sensations, and coincidences aren't signs of some hidden realm that there's absolutely no empirical evidence for.

When your mind is primed to interpret regular things in a superstitious manner, you'll have all sorts of "weird experiences" that reinforce that bias. This is proof of nothing more than the human mind's ability to work itself up and latch onto any sort of pattern, and invent meaning for it.
 
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No. I strongly believe there's a God, but what you're describing seems needlessly superstitious to me.
 
No. I don't believe in "opening doors" in a spiritual sense, but yea you're definitely "opening doors" in that your introducing ideas into your mind that weren't there before.

I'm not religious and I don't really watch scary movies though, because besides the fact that most of them are garbage, I know that these directors love to put images in the movies that are hard to just forget. I've always had a suspicion that people who love scary movies, shock value entertainment and all that, but are extremely superstitious, believing in ghosts/hauntings and all of the trappings of superstition, while at the same time maintaining a low level of religious spirituality(ex. a christian, who doesn't actually read the bible to get the good stuff out of it), that stuff has to compound on you mentally and manifest itself in some way. I know too many grown ass people who loves scary movies but can't even sit in a dark room without a night-lite.
 
Thanks for the replies so far, it also doesn't help that my father and aunts used to play with Ouija boards and do seances and what not. My dad used to see ghosts and my aunt used to be attacked by spiritual forces and even once saw a floating goat face with its skin hanging from its face on the corner of her room laughing at her because she was praying to make him go away.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron

A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another.[1][2][3] Thus, the neuron "mirrors" the behavior of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. Such neurons have been directly observed in primate species.[4] Birds have been shown to have imitative resonance behaviors and neurological evidence suggests the presence of some form of mirroring system.[4][5] In humans, brain activity consistent with that of mirror neurons has been found in the premotor cortex, the supplementary motor area, the primary somatosensory cortex and the inferior parietal cortex.[6]
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Brains are complex things and there's no definite research about this but what you're describing can be interpreted as a biological phenomenon.
 
pixelation said:
Thanks for the replies so far, it also doesn't help that my father and aunts used to play with Ouija boards and do seances and what not. My dad used to see ghosts and my aunt used to be attacked by spiritual forces and even once saw a floating goat face with its skin hanging from its face on the corner of her room laughing at her because she was praying to make him go away.
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It is easy for us to be dismissive. But such beliefs can be hard to shake. I too grew up in a household that feared spirits and evil forces, and convincing friends and relatives that their credulity is harming them has been an unending frustration. I urge you to read this book.
 
Sometimes when i watch ungodly acts like Arial Piper videos it so happens that, when i sleep at night, i am awoken by a creature with porcelain skin, walking on four thin legs and carrying a head with three faces. The Face of Joy, the Face of Judgement and the Face of Terror.

Whenever it happens it uses the Face of Judgement to ask me questions about my believes. Depending on my answer its face changes then either to the Face of Joy or the Face of Terror, telling me that "my countdown" has gone up/down, not sure what that means tho, after all of this happened all three faces together start crying a weird gas that puts me back to sleep.
 
I spend every moment of my life trying to find more fucked up horror entertainment then before. The novels I have read would shake you to your core.

I am still a good moral person, raising two great kids. If there were any truth to this, I would be crawling with demons.
 
One time I did a couple tabs of acid at 3am in the morninh, so the next day I was still gone. I laid on the bed while a friend played Gears of War. The sounds of the chainsaws was physically hurting me and making me sick. It was a weird experience. Also, I have had similar experiences to what you have described. Try to enjoy it. It's scary as fuck, but it's an experience that many others don't ever get to experience. Embrace that.
 
Hektor said:
Sometimes when i watch ungodly acts like Arial Piper videos it so happens that, when i sleep at night, i am awoken by a creature with porcelain skin, walking on four thin legs and carrying a head with three faces. The Face of Joy, the Face of Judgement and the Face of Terror.

Whenever it happens it uses the Face of Judgement to ask me questions about my believes. Depending on my answer its face changes then either to the Face of Joy or the Face of Terror, telling me that "my countdown" has gone up/down, not sure what that means tho, after all of this happened all three faces together start crying a weird gas that puts me back to sleep.
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extremely disappointed with how this all turned out. did not go how I expected it at all.
 
There's too much bad that happens to good people. Period. If there's a God he's a shitty person.
 
You had a nightmare. A figment of your imagination, just like god.
 
I had a secular upbringing by non-believers. I'd describe my hallucinations during sleep paralysis as witnessing a suffocating "demonic presence" looming at the periphery of my vision.

The experience must be quite unnerving for a believer, because during these hallucinations I'm "sensing evil" like I would, say, feel temperature or pressure when awake. What I mean to say is: it's very convincing. Just as convincing as repeatedly thinking you already woke up and are at the edge of falling asleep again which you want to prevent at all costs, crawling out of bed, clawing your eyes open, all in your dream.

My girlfriend once witnessed such an episode. I had previously assumed I had actual trouble breathing during it which was then represented by the "demon" in the dream, but she said I was breathing fine, just talking to myself and twitching, which I did semi-consciously. Even inside of the dream I could hear the movie we had been watching and wanted to get her attention, to end my "possession" by actually waking me up.

It has never been triggered by watching anything horror-themed or "immoral", no. Unless you would classify Les Enfants du Paradis as horror or "immoral".
 
You most likely had sleep paralysis that was influenced by suggestions given by your stress of the fear that something like this would happen.
 
Despite all the chalk and blood, I've failed to open any kind of spiritual portals or doors.

Seriously though, no. What does happen is that late at night a person can become drowsy and tired which makes them susceptible to paranoia and anxiety. This coupled with disturbing or frightening entertainment can cause them to see figures and symbolism where there is none. It's understandable, we're pattern recognizing machines. We do it real well. It's just that sometimes the pattern we perceive has no basis in reality, it's all in our heads.
 
I think you were disturbed by what you were watching and it led to you having bad dreams. I've had bad dreams after watching scary movies. I do not think I invited an evil spirit in.
 
I ate a ten strip of LSD and listened to Boards of Canada's discography in order.

I'm posting this from the set of 3-2-1 Contact in 1980.
 
lol you are on the wrong forum to even pose such a question hahaha. you're better off going to George Noory or Mysterious Universe to pose this question.
 
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