'Vampire' attack?

[Sothis*Crowfeather]

Hmm...tell me what you get from this one. I am sure that vampires exisit in some way shape, or form, so I'd like to hear any theories about this strange occurance.

I was asleep the other day, when I entered a strange astral sort of state of wakefullness, but I was sure I was dreaming still. I was dreaming that a vampire was just standing there in my apartment/room, smiling very nicley down at me. I tried to get up and demand what the hell he was doing there, but when I meet his eyes I was to powerless to move. He was very attractive as most vampires seem to be, pale of course, long brown hair and blue eyes...kinda like Louis from Inteview with the Vampire. I kept trying to get up to fight him, but I couldn't move then (probley just sleep paralization, common thing with me.) I suddenly felt that pinprick like senstaions here and there on my body, including on my neck, almost like there were leeches on me. Very quickly I felt completly and utterly weak, like I was suffering a hypolocimic attack from hell. I kept looking at Mr. Vampire and trying to say "stop, don't you see this is hurting me" but he just kept looking at me, smiling, and things went hazy. It was only the feeling that I was going to pass out that woke me fully up...althought I can't say I was sure it was a dream. It sure seemed pretty well. I ran to the fridge and pigged out.

Maybe the whole thing was a bad hypoglaimic epioside / sleep paralization disgused as a vampire dream, it's highly possible as I am fasenated with anything vampire so of course it's in my subconcious. But the weird thing is I havn't been able to recover from the epoiside very weel since it happened, I am faint constantly...like something really was taken from me.

So what is everyones take? Was it just a very vivid dream coupled with unfortatly hypoglacemic attacks, or might this have been an actually case of an astral vampire like creature praying upon me. It wouldn't suprise me really...my obsession would pratically invite them through my door.

[Nox_Mortus]

well I've heard of astral vampire attacks, but when that happens they usually don't seem completely there from what I've heard though it might have appeared more "real" since you where sleeping. I think there is probably a mundane explination, but if it happens again it could very well be ome type of psychic attack.

[Fairy_Princess]

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You fell asleep reading Anne Rice, while LARPING White Wolf and had "The Lost Boys" on repeat in your DVD player?

[Trithemius]

He was very attractive as most vampires seem to be

Only the ones whose knowledge of vampire lore doesn't extend beyond Vampire: The Masquerade and Ann Rice. In other words, roleplayers and vampire wannabes.


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You fell asleep reading Anne Rice, while LARPING White Wolf and had "The Lost Boys" on repeat in your DVD player?

It looks like the other thread's been deleted. Was all that really mentioned?

[puchidevil]

*forum guide mode*

The other thread was deleted as it was an exact replica of this one, but only had the two posts in it.

*FG mode ended*

As for the topic itself - i really have no knowledge of vampires apart from movies and books etc. so i dont think i have anything to contribute.

Loved 'interview with a vampire' though - excellent movie :hahugh:

[Kahlil the Heretic]

I dislike this approach to advice, but since you seem to already have a firm grasp on the situation and know yourself, I'm going to be blunt for your own good.

You know what sleep paralysis is, and even claim to have it from time to time; this is what I thought of instantly. Many poor individuals experience this without knowledge of what sleep paralysis is, yet you know about it and refuse to attribute anything to it. You know you're into vampires, and you even go as far as to know about hypoglysymia. You were experiencing a natural phenomenon, and I suspect that deep down you know this to be true, but you want so deeply for it to be something supernatural that you have to ask us about it when you know its not.

Vampires are frickin' awesome...I'm a Castlevania fan myself. I know what its like to want something like that to exist so badly, but sometimes you just have to realize that its for the movies.

Hope you're not offended, just trying to put some sense into you buddy.

[leaf-shadow]

I disagree with kahlil, sothis, i think you're smart to ask. i hope what you experienced is nothing but a bad dream or something like that, but if it werent and you didnt ask for help caz you thought you were just 'dreaming' then you'd be pretty screwed... lol

as for your problem, i must say that i dont know much about astral vampies, but i know some one who might. i ll be seeing her soon i believe, and I'll ask her for you.
mean while, eat some garlic and stare into some astral mirrors, just to make sure you havent turned into a vampire. rofl :rotfl:

[Fairy_Princess]

I dislike this approach to advice, but since you seem to already have a firm grasp on the situation and know yourself, I'm going to be blunt for your own good.

You know what sleep paralysis is, and even claim to have it from time to time; this is what I thought of instantly. Many poor individuals experience this without knowledge of what sleep paralysis is, yet you know about it and refuse to attribute anything to it. You know you're into vampires, and you even go as far as to know about hypoglysymia. You were experiencing a natural phenomenon, and I suspect that deep down you know this to be true, but you want so deeply for it to be something supernatural that you have to ask us about it when you know its not.

Vampires are frickin' awesome...I'm a Castlevania fan myself. I know what its like to want something like that to exist so badly, but sometimes you just have to realize that its for the movies.

Hope you're not offended, just trying to put some sense into you buddy.


Castlevania Represent! The only good Vampire is a Video Game Vampire!

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[Kahlil the Heretic]

Ack! Why were you banned?

[Janus109]

If your thinking about vampires, and having positive thoughts about them..I can see if you've attracted one of them with your thinking about them. It's like when I am feeling depressed or in fear or grief..I seem to attract these " shadowbeings "..but it's only when I am feeling real low about myself.

So, yeah..it's possiable.

[KageMori]

i highly doubt it was a astral vampire as most if not all dont have such detailed physical forms and normal appear as "shadow figures". Also astral affects of an astral vampire having visited you are as follows:
waking up without the ability to move
feeling an overwhelming since of fear
seeing said "shadowy figures"
and sometimes is accompanied by hearing noises like the sound of the wind blowing or buzzing type noises.

Even if you dont expreince any of the others astral vampire victims ALWAYS claim to wake up unable to move and with an overwhelming since of fear and that the figures dont have real physical form like your "dream vamp"
not to mention within one goodnights sleep all astral vamp sideffects leave unless your constantly visited by one. You claim to still feel faint. I suggest you go to the doctor because your episode might have been something serious. Speically if you really are hypoglacimic. Something could really be wrong with your blood sugar. (i think thats what is anyways. my friend is hypoglacimic to.)

[Lady_Door]

As someone who's had encounters with astral/psychic vampires I can tell you it isn't a pleasant experience. I would put a little bag of white sage under your pillow.
I, personally, wear white sage in a locket around my neck at all times. Since it got so bad, I now have a ward on myself and my home.

[Sequoia]

I'm pretty certain that you were dreaming. Most vampires aren't the Anne Ricean variety. I mean, c'mon - out of the general population, how many people actually look like Louis? (Apart from the Brad Pitt look-alikes, that is.)

If it reminds you strongly of a fictitious situation that you are aware of (such as one of Anne Rice's books), that should probably be a flag to you that it may not be a genuine 'vampire attack'.

I'm guessing that yes, you did indeed have a hypoglycemic attack during your sleep. I'd suggest having a snack just before bed. (Though be careful what you snack on, I've heard that some snacks can give you wacky dreams.)

[HedwigHarfang]

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However, vampires take many different shapes and forms. The former UK Minister of the Interior and recent Conservative Leader, Michael Howard, was for many years caricatured as one, and knowing him fairly well, I would say that although unjustified, the epithet used to kickstart all this off actually made me find him more attractive than otherwise might be the case. However, :), being his soul-mate, I suspect there is more to it than a few shady cartoons.

[Caitlin.ann]

Sorry to say this, but I think it was simply a bad dream. As someone who has spent a few years within the vampire community, I can tell you that as truth. I honeslty don't know of many vampires who "astrally attack", if any at all. And there is absolutely nothing a vampire can do that a non-vampiric can't do. Your experience doesn't sound like a hag attack either. So rest assured, I think you only had a bad dream. :)

[HedwigHarfang]

Sorry to say this, but I think it was simply a bad dream. As someone who has spent a few years within the vampire community, I can tell you that as truth. I honeslty don't know of many vampires who "astrally attack", if any at all. And there is absolutely nothing a vampire can do that a non-vampiric can't do. Your experience doesn't sound like a hag attack either. So rest assured, I think you only had a bad dream. :)

I am intrigued as to your comment about the vampire community...do you have any web-links or other info on it? Drac would like to join...

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[Caitlin.ann]

I am intrigued as to your comment about the vampire community...do you have any web-links or other info on it? Drac would like to join...

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Yes, I'll PM them to you. I have at least three you may want to check out. :)

[Aina]

You could have very well been dreaming. I've had many a dreams that are so vivid I wake up freaking out thinking it's real. I also have hypoglacimia and I know how weird it can be when your blood sugar drops, espcially while sleeping.

I'm very familiar with the astral plane, and I have seen...other people's astral forms. Call me crazy, but do you have someone close to you that astrals (knownlingly or unkownlingly, it doesn't matter) and might have been trying to talk to you for one reason or another? I have had many odd experiances with friends, and my fiancee, who VERY unkownlingy astrals to me...he always comments about weird "dreams'" involving he and I.

Try to astral when it is daytime out. See if this happens again...I'm very curious to see what you find out. But, make sure you eat something, like a spoonfull of peanut butter beforehand. :) No need in passing out due to low bloodsugar.

Blessings

[Glowy]

it sounds like a very disturbing experience either way. I have experienced sleep paralysis twice before and it is terrifying. I read that if you sleep on your side it does not occur. I hope your dreams are far more pleasant

[HedwigHarfang]

it sounds like a very disturbing experience either way. I have experienced sleep paralysis twice before and it is terrifying. I read that if you sleep on your side it does not occur. I hope your dreams are far more pleasant

Try going to sleep on your side and you will be very uncomfortable when you wake up! Sleep paralysis keeps us from wandering off when we fall asleep, and anything that happens while you are asleep doesn't affect your physical body at all, so there is more danger from not having sleep paralysis than having it.

That said, I know the feeling in dreams/conscious sleeping, where you try to get up but can't. It happened to me a long time ago, I thought I saw someone in the room - one of M's friends, it turned out to be, passing over :( completely - and tried to get up to go to him. I felt drowsy and uncomfortable, but sleep paralysis kept me from sleepwalking and shocking the other people in the room at the time (I'd been napping on the couch when I "saw" "Bill" standing in front of me, and all I got from people when I woke up was..."Louise, who's Bill?!" Bizarre, uncomfortable, but safe.

[Phoenix]

Sounds like the old hag to me. Theres a tradition in Newfoundland (not sure where it came from in the beginning) of dreams where you feel that you are awake, but someone or something is holding you in place and you can't move. Sometimes this is the feeling of a weight on your chest and sometimes it is the physical persona of a hag or other being. During one of my folklore courses during my undergrad we studied the phenomenon and there has actually been a scientist (I would have to go searching for the name as it was quite a few years ago) who studied the phenomenon and found it existing in many different cultures under many different names. His theory was that there is a part of the brain that triggers the experience and our culture shapes the "dream" into whatever scary thing we are used to hearing about ie. ghosts, vampires and (for me) the old hag.

Science aside I have experienced the old hag on a couple of occasions and it is petrifying to have something have complete control over you. One recommendation from my culture is to concentrate on moving one part of your body, like your little finger, and when you can move it, that will break the spell and end the "dream".

[tears_of_ashes]

What you are explaining indeed sounds like a vampire attack, yet there is something missing.

Please do not take ANY offecne to the following....

It sounds to me that you have intensly studied on the internet how to describe a perfect vampire attack scene.....and because you know how it 'should' be......maybe you've just had an intense dream due to this knowledge of vampire attacks.

Hope that makes sense!

[HedwigHarfang]

It sounds to me that you have intensly studied on the internet how to describe a perfect vampire attack scene.....and because you know how it 'should' be......maybe you've just had an intense dream due to this knowledge of vampire attacks.

Hope that makes sense!

Or by studying it she has attracted it? Dreams are usually real occurrences blanked or blurred by our subconscious minds - they are often astral projection or scrying elsewhere, but I have had "dreams" where spirits have attacked me in my room or come to me in my hotel room (thanks M ;) for the night in Bournemouth in 2004) - so if she feels she has been attacked she probably has been. Studying or practicing the occult and opening your centres is a good way to attract this kind of thing; it is very rare to imagine anything that is tangible and real enough to generate this kind of dream, still less experience a violent psychic attack in this manner.

[jinx1_2]

When I was a child I used to wake up in the middle of the night to see what looked to me to be a vampire smiling down at me just as you describe (although this one had short hair). I don't ever remember feeling scared though. I would always just go back to sleep. He made me feel safe.
Here's a thought on yours though...maybe it's not a vampire at all but a spirit of some sort.

[Raining_At_sunset]

Maybe it could be some sort of spirit manifesting itself into something you're attracted to to catch your attention? :-)