Im sooo afraid to sleep! Will you please help me?

ahh! you guys! idk what to do :( i just turned 18 and im still afraid of the dark! =[ Every time i overcome my fear a little, something happens that makes me scared all over again! :( like...when i was really young I used to hallucinate ALL THE TIME and get sooo scared that i couldnt breathe or move and i would say hail marys over and over in my head. The full blown hallucinations went away as i got older, but I always have that feeling like someone is watching me. I mean, some nights are fine...but others...I will go to bed then all of the sudden i will be like OH NO...and fill with fear as i rapidly scan the room over and over for moving shadows. I also prefer walking with my back against the wall. On these ';scary nights'; i always think the thing is behind me or somewhere im not looking at the time....BC I cant see it, but I feel it there. =[ Some nights, I will go to bed completely happy and calm and normal, but then as soon as i close my eyes, I hear my name shouted in my ear in an angry, unfamiliar guy voice. ...sometimes it says my name, sometimes it says HEY!...sometimes it says HA!...one time it said wake up! in a whisper. sometimes it doesnt yell, but rather mumbles stuff i cant understand and gets louder and louder until i open my eyes. Its REALLY frightening because its not a dream-voice! You know how ppl talk in your dreams and you can hear them in your mind?? Its not like that! Its from the outside of my head! like...I can feel breath going into my ear....and I NEVER expect it so it scares the crap out of me =( Then i think its in my room 4sure so i get REALLLLLLY freaked out. ALSO, almost every single night for as long as i can remember, I am awakened a few minutes after closing my eyes by a bright flash of light and a camera flashing sound. The first time it happened I was 4yrs old and into acting, so i mentioned it to my parents and they thought paparazzi had broken in or something.....but its been happening over and over, no matter where i sleep. I've lived in 6 different houses and its happened in every one. lol i know this sounds ridiculous, but im sooo freaked out because that happened last night AND last night the voice kept talking and made it impossible for me to fall asleep until 5AM...and for the first time in like 6 years i was soo scared I couldnt breathe or move again. please help me. please dont think im crazy. Im completely normal other than this. lol The weird thing is..nothing else scares me. I'm the one that calms ppl down when they're afraid of horror movies and stuff. OMG I ALMOST FORGOT......this morning i made a connection! =O everytime this stuff happens, there is also I weird, unidentifiable scent in my room! ITS SO WEIRD!....like i will smell this smell...and be like hmmm where is this coming from?! and smell around...then be like oh well and forget about it....but stuff is guaranteed to happen on the nights when i smell that smell. Im sooo afraid to sleep! Will you please help me?
I am so sorry that this is happening to you. That is very scary. It definitely sounds like there is demonic activity around you. The taunting voice, the strange odor, all point to a spiritual presence. Now, wait! Don't be afraid. There is something you can do.



First, it sounds like you are of the Catholic faith. If you have never committed your life to Christ, and asked Jesus to forgive your sins, please do that now. ';If you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, you are saved';. Romans 10:9.

When you ask Jesus into your heart, you receive the indwelling of the Holy Ghost. This offers great spiritual protection. ';He(the Holy Spirit) who is in me is stronger than he(the devil and his demons) who is in the world.'; 1 John 4:4



';For I am convinced that neither death nor life, NEITHER ANGELS NOR DEMONS, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'; Romans 8:38-39



Second, memorize any of these scriptures. They are our God-given weapons in spiritual warfare.



'; Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.'; Ephesians 6:10-18



The devil HATES to hear scripture. And he positively cannot STAND to be in the presence of someone who is praising God, so your third assignment is that when you are afraid, you need to PRAISE GOD! Sing any song that says good things about God, that you remember from Sunday School. Even ';Jesus Loves Me'; is great. Go to a Christian artist's website(i.e. Bebo Norman, Michael W. Smith, Travis Cottrell, Steven Curtis Chapman) and CRANK UP the music! You might even put some Christian music on your mp3 player or iPod if you have one, and listen to some soothing, uplifting music as you try to fall asleep.



Also, you can rebuke any demon by mentioning the blood of Christ. It was when He shed His blood for us that the devil LOST the war, and he cannot BEAR to be reminded of Christ's shed blood. You can say, ';In the Name and the Blood of Jesus, I rebuke you!';



Finally, go speak to your priest or other clergy. Get yourself in a fellowship of believers in Christ who can support you and pray for you!



It's possible that your difficulties are rooted in a psychological/psychiatric problem, but I STRONGLY believe that there is likely a BIG spiritual component, too. And it may be ENTIRELY spiritual.



I wish you peace. You may experience an increase in activity if you do the things I have mentioned. If you do, you can be SURE that it is demonic activity. The devil fights tooth and nail to keep us away from God, and to keep us afraid. I pray that you feel security and comfort in the presence of the Almighty God.

Im sooo afraid to sleep! Will you please help me?
I'd make a doctor appointment. You sound very, very paranoid. Just calm down..



Take some benydryl and lie down, hon.
Maaany people would consider you crazy, but I too have had something like this happen. I think you're just sensitive to having those kind of connections. I sleep with lights on also, and the T.V...I can't sleep in my bed.

I don't know what to recommend because its real. I also am 18.
maybe the smell makes u have bad dreams or maybe with that smell when u were a baby or something something bad happened and so u see stuff and hear things wow but that's scary sometimes that happens to me 2 like someone is watching me but sometimes i hear stuff 2 how about try sleeping with someone else in the room maybe that will help or! go get professionally help lol
well in the real world your schizophrenic you need psych drugs in the religious realm you need to have a priest bless YOU and bless your home and stop doing drugs, satan seeks to devour and destroy all that is good, so you need to ask Jesus for intervention not mary, jesus sent the demons into the SWINE and they fell off a cliff say the 23rd PSALMS and speak to the demons and say flee from me in JESUS NAME , stop messing with ouji boards and darkness , you asked for a sign but not from GOD



sorry but this is what i learned the hard way!
Look I'm real skeptical about crap like this , and believe me i ain't no freak that believes in spiritual ****. but some of us are given a gift . a lot of people say they have it but few really do . Its not something you can gain or learn or acquire by doing spiritual **** its just given some stronger than others . I don't know why its given. But it is. you can't fight it you need to harness it .there is obviously a purpose for all the sh+t u you go through you just need to find it. that's all i know. it probably doesn't help. but maybe you will find someone who can. Its not about god or Demons. or Jesus. Believe me moped MaMa needs more help than you do.







Look i grew up in a religous family. Went to a catholic school. But come on as soon as some one has a, well what do I call it'; an experience you all find it a time to preach about god and demons. I can鈥檛 tell you that it not demons. But I can tell you there more to life and this world than God and demons.

Since I was little I used to wake up to a black figure standing at my door. I couldn't move or yell just lie there **** scared. I used to hear voices. Feel things I couldn't see. Feel the presence of people that weren鈥檛 there. Once I went away with my friend and his parents from church when I was about 11. We went to there friends house this day to swim in a pool. I never went in the house. I was swimming and saw a person a man upstairs I asked if it was the grounds keeper and explained the man I saw. My friend mother looked at me in horror. I was later told that the owner had been murdered and his wife was in an asylum. I鈥檓 now 26 I still see **** .I still feel stuff. Stuff most people would shake in there shoes, I don't know why. But I鈥檓 not demonic .I鈥檓 not possessed. I don't need church healing. But I know if I told people and they said half the stuff these people are saying and I listened, I would be in an asylum now rocking in my chair. You can have your beliefs and make from this what you want, but don't be so closed minded as others when it comes to this. Find out for yourself whats going on don't take other peoples word for it