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Summary of Question:	Re: I'm Lost; Sleep Terror
Category:	General Sikhism
Date Posted:	Saturday, 5/11/2002 11:11 AM MDT

For the person that sees demons in their sleep and believes their soul is being pulled out: You aren't mentally sick!! You suffer (I think) from something called sleep paralysis or night terror. It's a fairly common sleep disorder and doing a search on "sleep paralysis" on any search engine will turn up lots of results. Here's a link to get you started: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/sleepparalysis990411.html

My cousin (who's completely sane) once had this problem. With guru jee's blessings, you'll get over it soon. Make sure to do keertan sohila before sleep too.
(REPLY) Certainly doing Kirtan Sohila before sleep is excellent advice. It is part of our tradition, and was given us for good reason! I don't know about the website mentioned, but the person with the problem can investigate. SP