My five year old had a dream 7 nights ago and she woke up screaming. I ran into her room and she said that this thing she calls the "mystery", jumped on her chest and it's eyes glowed and she could feel his nails digging in her neck and it was choking her. She said that she couldn't breathe and at first, couldn't even call my name. This seems very demonic. She cannot even sleep in her room.
My daughter only has these severely demonic dreams when my husband is in our office below her room playing the most popular online game in the world (he works for the company). He won't stop playing it in our house. I do not believe he is a true believer and this game delves into divination, sorcery, shamans, pagan stuff, etc.
Are we to pray directly to Christ to rebuke. I think that is what MacArthur says.
Please let me know too. My daughter is so scared. I used to pray in every room in our house. Is that ok?
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WoW = Satanism?
*speechless*
No, you must not pray in the cellar, or in the little cubbyhole at the top of the stairs next to the pantry. If you do, this will reverse the demonic polarity and allow them to enter your daughter's nightmares via your husband's video games. What you need to do is let the stray cat that's been hanging around your house, into the house. He is really sent by Christ to kill the bogeyman. As far as that goes, do not pray directly to Christ, make a note to your church elders, who will intercede for you. You think he would listen to a nobody like you? And if your husband is not a true believer, but worshipping Satan through videogames, what are you wasting your time for? 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'. But since you're the property of your husband (as is your daughter) you must all burn together. Don't worry. It's what Jesus would have wanted.
Alternately, you could seek psychiatric assistance.
Children have this thing called an imagination. Coupled with bad dreams this can lead to things seeming real which aren't. As adults we are suppose to recognize this, and to tell the young uns that it was just part of their nightmare, but it wasn't real...or if you are a fundy you can prove what a shitty parent you are by convincing your little one that not only is it real, but it is caused by daddy's video games.
morons...
Now I won't disagree that WoW has some soul-devouring traits... buuuut umm... No. (btw, Jewels, think your hubby can get me an in at Blizzard? Surely they could use an extra accountant. Everyone needs extra accountants.)
Hell yeah! Drive them demons out! Then come back in fifteen years and let us know how lil' Jewels turned out.
Now when I say "turned out", I mean "what kind of psychiatric problems she wound up developing", because you're doing nothing but traumatising the poor child.
I bet she ends up living like the character Clear in Final Destination 2, in a padded cell volunteraly, so TEH DEMUNS can't get her.
Who's MacArthur, I don't know, but it sure doesn't sound like some christian authority...
"I used to pray in every room in our house. Is that ok?"
Certainly not you heathen unbeliever. All True Christians know that Jesus told you to pray in a closet with the door closed (Matthew 6:6). Obviously the demon has not only attacked your daughter but possessed your immortal soul also.
Seriously, how stupid can you people get. Have you never heard of a nightmare? Waking dreams? Night Terrors? Sheesh. You don't need Jesus unless that happens to be the name of the nearest psychiatrist.
Well (general) MacArthur said he'd return.
. . . still waiting, are we?
What I said, Jewels, is that "I will return", but I should have added "...but not before I kick your husbands ass again on that video game, just so that your kid has more nightmares and you wig out that it's a demon. "
So, your daughter experiences sleep paralysis, and you blame it on demons conjured up by World of Warcraft... Do you want to call child services, or should I?
she said that this thing she calls the "mystery", jumped on her chest and it's eyes glowed and she could feel his nails digging in her neck and it was choking her.
Try closing her door, or keeping the friggin' cat in YOUR room. And get your husband a set of headphones. Typical fundie, turn a totally normal event into something it's not.
She's playing you - she wants to sleep in the same bed as Mommy and Daddy, and is playing on your irrational, supernatural fears of "demons" and "devils". You're too stupid and caught up in your bizarro world to see it. Moron.
Have you considered she might just be hearing noises from the game through the floor? Kid's have a legendary ability to imagine the most ghastly sources for the most mundane of noises, when heard late at night, in the dark, partially distorted by the building.
Sleep paralysis , as mentioned by two other people. I've only had it once but it was freaky, because I didn't know what it was. However, I didn't encounter any demons. Maybe 'cause I'm not a fundie?
@ Happymealungen LMAO, I've been playing too many RPGs.
Why do only fundies get all these demonic and spirit experiences? Another question is am I the only one not afraid of sleep paralysis? I have it all the time and I've been using it as a way to lucid dream since forever.
Children go through phases in which they have nightmares and irrational fears.
Bedtime fears
Only a really incompetent, lunatic, fundie parent would actually encourage and magnify these fears by suggesting they're caused by demons attracted by playing video games.
I used to pray in every room in our house. Is that ok?
No it's not. How can she expect a five year old to cope when her adult parents are pissing themselves in fear over monsters in the dark? Parents are there to protect their children; not cower in fear with them over imaginary "demons"
"My daughter only has these severely demonic dreams when my husband is in our office below her room playing the most popular online game in the world (he works for the company)." Considering how addictive WoW is, and what an unbelievable Time Sink it can become, I'll bet your husband is playing it all the time, whether your daughter is having a nightmare or not.
BTW, what server does he play on? Our guild could use another healer.
Your five year old is having nightmares and can't get to sleep?
I'll call the fucking press, somebody get Slashdot on the line....
Here's a scientific answer: she probably suffered "sleep paralysis". If you explain this to your daughter, explain that it's entirely normal (i've had it myself, and it was quite frightening at first), and it's not demons (you're still half-dreaming), and basically be rational, then your daughter won't be terrified anymore.
Basically, you should learn to be a parent and teach your daughter.
'Aliens' re-written for fundies:
Newt: My mommy always said there really are monsters - not just imaginary ones - but there aren't any really.
"playing the most popular online game in the world"
A Blizzard employee obviously, playing World of Warcraft.
Sucks to have a fundie wife, no offense. RaptureReady fundies are completely nuts, one of the worst kinds of fundies,
I wonder if your child would still have demonic dreams if you hadn't previously stuffed her head with stupid notions of gods, demons, possession, hell, and all the rest of that claptrap.
"My daughter only has these severely demonic dreams when my husband is in our office below her room playing the most popular online game in the world (he works for the company)."
Latest Vista bug?
"I used to pray in every room in our house. Is that ok?"
Well, I've fornicated in every room in my house and I don't have nightmares. Try that!
Aah, yes I used to have the same problem while I played WoW. Problem is easily solved by giving your child a gun. Handguns are pretty good driving lesser demons out, but if you want get rid of Satan himself, let me suggest you at least a shotgun.
A few suggestions
1. Tracts from the Old Testament do not good bed-time stories make.
Conclusion: You’re traumatizing the poor little blighter, leave the little guy in peace!
1. Buy Lil' Jewels a Playstation.
(I gave a friend's little sister nightmares by deliberately chasing Pyramid Head around in the labyrinth on SH2. I kept telling her he was going to rape the character.)
By five, my daughter was beating me at video games. Being out-boxed by an infant, even on the Wii, is so embarrassing it physically hurts.
(Or perhaps I was just standing too close?)
@Princess Rot
Yeah, that's the key part...as the kid wakes up, make sure you're standing there dressed up as PH.
Still likely less traumatizing than telling the kid about Satan waiting to devour her soul.
dear dumb parent,
instead of praying in every room in the house here's how to exorcise your child:
stop telling her about frickin' demons you're scaring the crap out of her and giving her nightmares.
btw General MacArthur is not a saint.
What was it?
Was it an Imp, Voidwalker, Felhunter, Succubus, Felguard? What was it?
You fundies live in a very scary world, where video games-induced-nightmares are signs of a supernatural presence that want to eat your spirit, and praying is more important that comforting your child that just had a bad dream.
You, lady, should not be allowed around children.
Your daughter has night terrors. It's a fairly common phenomenon. Your body usually becomes paralyzed when you are in dream sleep, so you don't act out your dreams. At times, your conscious mind can wake up fast enough that it becomes semi-cognizant of its surroundings while the body is still paralyzed. You're awake, but you're not awake, and the lingering dream state can also cause hallucinations until you fully 'come awake'.
Symptoms of night terrors are waking up to find you can't move, to sense or 'feel' a weight on your chest making it hard to breathe, and often hallucinating that something is sitting there and/or attacking you.
Explain what is actually happening to your child, and do some actual research into the biologically proven phenomenon that it is, and relax before you do your kid some real psychological harm.
No, no, no! Praying in every room is the very worst thing you can do.
What you need to do, is go downstairs to your husband and fellate him. Slowly and completely.
This will achieve three important things: it will please, and probably amaze, your husband; it will distract the demons and it will keep you away from the damn keyboard.
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