Nightmares
The paralysis of sleep and spiritual attacks.

It is very common nowadays to confuse spiritual attacks with sleep paralysis, but there are very clear differences. On one hand, sleep paralysis occurs when we don’t get enough sleep and are subjected to a lot of stress, causing our brain to fail to rest properly. Upon waking, the brain has already awakened, but the rest of the body has not, leaving us aware that we are awake but unable to move for a few seconds. On the other hand, spiritual attacks happen when a spirit disturbs us during sleep. These range from nightmares that wake us up in the middle of the night or at three in the morning (the time when witches perform their rituals, and our guardian angel wakes us to prevent energy theft) to waking up coughing and seeing an animal sucking our breath. There are also cases where we may see a person standing by our bed, feel them pulling our blanket, sense someone next to us, or experience attacks from incubi and succubi-spirits that provoke erotic dreams. In some cases, there can even be psychic attacks where we wake up feeling like someone is attempting to overstep boundaries with us. The point is that spiritual attacks have very distinct forms and purposes, always seeking to drain our energy. It’s not uncommon to wake up the next day feeling tired, depressed, or in a bad mood. Sometimes nightmares reveal elements of the ritual used by the witch, for example: if we dream of being trapped between two glass barriers, it means our name was placed inside a bottle; if we dream of menstrual blood on a doorknob, it means such blood was used in a ritual, and so on. However, spiritual attacks can always be countered with the help of a psychic weapon, thereby preventing malicious entities from approaching us.