kontextmaschine:

Had the first creepy sleep paralysis experience I can remember waking up. Started out as one of those crappy fitful logistics dreams, this one about coastal shipping, which is kinda the exact opposite - dreaming but aware of bodily control in bed.

But then I maybe fell into a deeper narrative but came out to a sense there was some presence invading my room and tried to yell but couldn’t and my vision started to come in of my room only somehow black-white polarized except a towel hanging on the back of the door was a glowing red demon head?

And interestingly that didn’t “fade” to reality and functionality, it held like that for a bit then “cut out” for me to wake up cleanly like 3 seconds later.

I mean I guess good thing I had idioms to classify that by, after that I was like “oh, huh, sleep paralysis” and even in the not-screaming part I was just like “oh, my body’s just still in sleep lock-out mode, better get it together to yell at this demon”

hey yo since then I’ve dropped an absurd amount of things that have all landed point down and I followed this plaintive meow sound outside and this friendly neighborhood cat I’ve seen for months was fur-up yowling at my house

I lined the thresholds on the first floor with kosher salt cuz that seemed the best I had, I know a bunch of my fave followers are postrationalist mystics or eastern european folky or speak to demons, anyone want to give me some tips?