Incubus/Succubus & Sleep Paralysis

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Last week I was engaged a series of discussions about the incubus/succubus. Experiences were described, and with every explanation from different people there were some common themes. The common themes such as feeling violated, feelings of being paralyzed, and feelings of a presence. Even in my own experience, I can at least have some empathy. There are metaphysical and scientific explanations, which one holds water would depend on what you have experienced. You may question is all this stuff a matter of belief? All I can say is if you have seen felt and experienced; is it a matter of belief or realty? Even if the reality is something that goes against what you were taught is possible. I have spoken about the incubus/succubus before (https://truegeorge.com/2015/02/05/energy-vampires/) however I will go into more depth this time to get an understanding and hopefully one can develop the mindset or repeal these types of intrusion from happening.

What is an incubus/succubus

I have a general description of what is an incubus/succubus (https://truegeorge.com/2015/02/05/energy-vampires/). I want to elaborate on that description. The word succubus means “to lie under.” According to medieval folk lore the succubus is a demon who takes the form of a woman in order to visit men and engage in sexual intercourse while they are asleep. The folk lore also expresses the succubus purpose is to steal the seed from man. The Islamic cultures mention the same type of demon qarinah or karina, and in other cultures from the middle east Lilith is the night demon who temps men at night and kills infants or newborns.

The counterpart to the succubus is the incubus, the word meaning “nightmare” in Latin. Folklore tells us that the incubus is a demon that will lie with unsuspecting women and eventually have intercourse with them. A variation of the incubus is the incubi who are thought to have the ability to impregnate. The offspring is called a cambion. It is said that the legendary Wizard Marlin of the King Arthur stories was the offspring of an incubi which accounted for his supernatural abilities. Other folklore tells us that when the succubus steals the man’s seed it turns into the incubus/incubi and takes the stolen seed and plants into a woman who produces the off spring as a result. Many cultures have similar description of both the succubus/incubus but call the entity different names. In contemporary times society is educated enough to recognize that the folklore and superstitious descriptions that was developed during the medieval times were efforts to explain away a natural phenomenon that occurs during the sleep cycle. Such as nightmares, sexual or wet Dream, sleep paralysis or night terrors.

  Hypnopompic & Hypnagogic stage of sleep

During the hypnopompic (waking up) or hypnagogic (falling asleep) stage of the sleep cycle a person’s body will be in a state of paralysis. The paralysis is present to ensure that the person do not act out in their dreams when they are asleep. However the hypnopompic and hypnagogic stage is when the person is in between being asleep and awake. It has been reported by many people that they feel that there is the presence of someone or something in the room. That feeling coupled with the inability to move because the body is in a state of paralysis causes a state of anxiety and feelings of fear as if the presence in the room is evil and is going to cause the person some type of harm. Also it is during this stage that a lot of people experience their interaction with an incubus/succubus. The scientific community has explained that anything felt, seen or heard are just hallucinations. I suppose what is felt, heard or seen has been relegated to being hallucinations because the phenomenon was also observed in “sleep laboratories” and being that no external presence of an alien or any other figures was observed and did not appear, it is recognized that what is experienced during the hypnopompic or hypnagogic stage is regarded as being a subjective hallucination. The scientific community will only recognize what is observed as long as the observation can be duplicated and no sleep lab has reported any appearance of an alien figure during the hypnopompic or hypnagogic stage.

Is it real

Science does not have the last word. There have been many reports from people having encounters with an incubus/succubus like entities while fully awake. Whether the person knows what type of spirit they are interacting with or are ignorant to these matters. Not all of the intrusions were attacks. Many people speak of giving their consent for the spirit/entity to have intercourse with them and to maintain a relationship. Who and why an incubus/succubus would target someone varies from sexual repressed people, people who are victims of human on human sexual abuse, lonely people, people who are addicted to sex, highly stressed or randomly picked. People who have experienced the intrusion have different descriptions, but whatever is said is not a real indication of what was going on in their lives. Maybe one day someone will collect data on and make an analysis to determine if contact with an incubus/succubus corresponds to the drama or lack of drama in their lives.

 

 

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  3. Hello True George,

    I contacted Akismet about the problem with my comments with links through your contact form not showing up, they said that it was not a problem with them being marked as spam and that the problem is that something with your contact form is not set up properly, and so they said that you could contact them through their contact page (https://akismet.com/contact/) and you can reference my support ticket code (#1519989-zen) so that they can help you set your contact form up properly.

    I would also recommend making a list of any other WordPress.com issues / questions / suggestions that you might have for them after they finish helping you with this, and maybe even consider asking them to check your blog for any other issues and / or any other suggestions that they might have for it.

    Good luck,
    -John Jr

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            • Yes, this was their response:

              Hi George!
              Thanks for following up after your reader John reported having spam problems on your site 🙂
              I had a look at your contact form and it seems being set up correctly. The problem John reported is mainly related with Akismet catching his comment as spam when including two or more links in his comments.

              This happens because of the general comments settings you can find at this page:

              The system is set up to catch any comments with two or more links as spam. To avoid genuine comments being catched as spam because of this you have two options to try out:

              1) Change the settings under Comment Moderation> Hold a comment in the queue if it contains

              2 or more links, and put a higher number than 2;

              2) Keep the 2 links as it is, but be more vigilant on the spam queue, as in either manually comment every comment incoming (Before a comment appears > Comment must be manually approved and/ or Comment author must have a previously approved comment) OR change the spam settings from Strict to Safe (Akismet anti-spam strictness > Safe: always put spam in the Spam folder for review.)

              While I recommend you to keep the number of the links a low as possible, I encourage you to play a bit with the other settings and find out the one the best works for you. A good combination would be to try keeping the number of the links as it now or at max 3, enable the Comment author must have a previously approved comment, and change the Akismet settings from Strict to Safe.

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  4. Pretty interesting blog and blog post. I have had a repeating experience over a period of time (was a few months I think) but I eventually ‘overcame’ it. I wrote a long writeup of it for myself on my computer but didn’t put it out on my own blog in case my readers thought I was nuts! I could e-mail it to you or something if you’re interested…
    Carol.

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        • Hello True George,

          Remember that putting your email address out publicly like this puts you more at risk of spam / hackers et cetera, and it is usually recommended to use a contact form instead which has spam protection.

          I used to have a separate page on my blog called Contact or Contact Page where I had my contact form, but now I have my contact form on my About page; I would recommend adding an About page and / or Contact page to the menu on your blog and adding a contact form on it or them. 😉

          -John Jr

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            • Hello True George,

              Once you create a page you have to add it to your menu(s).

              Currently I think that you have too many things in your menu, I think that the Categories widget is good enough instead of having all of those categories in the menu but you could keep them in the menu under one menu item called Categories as the parent and the others set as child pages under that, and I recommend adding a Home Page and About Page and a Contact Page unless you have your contact form on your About Page like I do.

              https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

              https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

              -John Jr

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              • Yes, I figured it out just before you sent this message. I also have a cat widget that you suggested I put a while back.
                Isn’t the about page the same as the profile side widget?
                Even on the contact page the profile shows at the bottom. So I’m going to leave it has it is for now and see what type of response I get.
                If I add any more cats I probably will remove the menus on the top of the page and go with the cat widget. But the blog as not deviated from the 8 cats. If it does then it will go under the uncat menu.
                Thanks again….

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                • Hello True George,

                  Great, good job.

                  Yep, you do have the category widget, which I think works well enough on its own instead of having all of your categories spread out in the menu.

                  But if you want to continue having all of your categories in your menu it would look better in my opinion if they were listed together to save space and so people know that those are categories, and I might even try that right now to see how it looks on my blog and so that you can see an example of what I am talking about. 😉

                  The About Page is custom, a page that you customize, but the Gravatar Profiel Widget can be a replacement for an About Page if you decide to having that information on your Gravatar Profile instead.

                  Some themes show your Gravatar Profile at the bottom of pages / posts, which I think is good, and so that is good that you currently have a theme like this because not all themes have this.

                  You are welcome, thank you, and well done.

                  -John Jr

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                • Hello True George,

                  It seems that Categories in the menu area are handled differently than pages, so I am not seeing an option to add them together under a parent page or anything, and so I guess I was wrong about that one.

                  You could arrange the items in your menu though, most people have Home listed first in their menu, but if you are happy with it now then that is okay.

                  -John Jr

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                    • Hello True George,

                      That is not good, I should have saved my own copy so that I would not have to type it again, maybe it is in your email and / or WordPress.com spam folder.

                      My message was to let you know that the blog / website link on your Gravatar Profile (http://en.gravatar.com/truegeorge) / WordPress.com Profile (https://wordpress.com/me) is a broken link to an address that no longer exists, and so I recommended removing that link and linking to your current blog / website (https://truegeorge.com/) instead.

                      Thank you,

                      -John Jr

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                    • Hello True George,

                      Oddly I did not get an email letting me know about your reply yesterday or today, fortunately I looked in the WordPress.com Notification area and saw both replies.

                      It worked and I can now see the link to your current blog on your profile, well done, and thank you.

                      -John Jr

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                    • could you do another test run on the contact page. I’ve tested it out accessing the site from my cell phone and sending a test message. The message went through without any problems; so your message should go through…

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                    • Hello True George,

                      Sure, good idea, I just sent two test messages (one with more than 2 links, and one with no links) using your contact form on your contact page.

                      -John Jr

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                    • Hello True George,

                      Besides once again not getting an email alert that you had replied, this time I did not even get a WordPress.com notification, and so I had no idea that you had replied until I manually looked at this page.

                      My two comments with links are probably either in Spam or waiting to be moderated, if they are in Spam you can mark them as not spam, this will help Akismet learn that they are not spam hopefully; otherwise I will have to contact Akismet and let them know so that they can fix this because I think that this just happened when I tried to comment on someone else’s blog today and I had one link in my comment.

                      -John Jr

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                    • Hello True George,

                      It seems to still be enabled for my comments on this post, you can usually check this in the comment box if the blog owner has this setting enabled, it might because we already went over the reply limit (where the reply option disappears after a certain number or replies depending on the settings set by the blog owner) and / or a glitch, but I at least got a WordPress.com notification for your reply this time and an email notification.

                      That still won’t fix my comments with links getting marked as Spam by Akismet though, those will have to be manually unmarked as spam by you, and Akismet will have to fix this if it keeps happening if I report it to them if necessary.

                      -John Jr

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  10. Hello True George,

    If someone resists a succubus (as a dream character or possibly a real entity who has entered the dream world, it does not matter which) in a dream, what do you think is the usual response of the succubus, do you think that person will usually continue to be targeted or will that person usually be left alone from the experiences that you have read and heard about?

    Thank you,
    -John Jr

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    • The succubus will leave if it cannot entice you.
      There is a possibility that a succubus may return. It may be the same one or a different one. The reason why they choose you varies. But usually they are exploiting a void. Believe it or not lots of people have intimacy and sexual issues. Some lack sexual contact and crave for it; while others have so much sexual contact it is unhealthy physically and mentally and there are those in between.
      I’ve heard some stories that people enjoy the sexual gratification while others resent it. The succubus does not ask consent they go and take what they want through seduction. I personally concluded that they are rapists.

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      • I guess it is usually not worth their time focusing too much on people who are more resistant.

        I definitely believe and agree with your assessment of many people having intimacy and sexual issues, and for some of us it is also the lack of sexual contact et cetera.

        Some definitely seem to be rapists in some people’s experiences that I have read and heard.

        Thank you for answering my question True George,
        -John Jr

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  15. I see, not a pleasant experience your Doctor should have known better as to what type of anesthesia to use.
    Are you depressed or have anxiety? There are many ways to relax but one needs to engage in relaxation activity to see which one works for them. What were the approach to therapy that the other Doctor’s practiced? Many factors to what you mentioned.

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  16. I wake up when surgeons don’t sedate me properly, feeling someone cut into your flesh is NO fun! Especially after you have told them you are fully awake. They can not sedate you anymore. It really is not a experience I would recommend unless you are wanting years of repeating nightmares!

    They now know I have to be fully sedated with general anesthesia to keep me asleep and immobile throughout surgery. I am hard to be put to sleep or relaxed. Valium, Xanex, and many others the doctors have tried have absolutely no affect on my consciousness!

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