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THE WITCH RIDING YOUR BACK
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Tony Healey is the author of the bestselling Harper & Lane Series, consisting of Hope’s Peak, Storm’s Edge and Blue Ruin, published by Thomas and Mercer. He is also the author of westerns in the Ralph Compton Western Series, including The Devil’s Snare, Blood On The Prairie, and Die Trying. He has several works published independently, including the crime novel Not For Us. Tony Healey lives and works in Brighton, on the Sussex coast. He is married, has four daughters and a chorkie called Freddy. Tony is represented by his agent, Sharon Pelletier of Dystel, Goderich & Bourrett LLC. The Harper & Lane Series: https://amzn.to/3hCmqoJ Ralph Compton Westerns: Tony Healey | Penguin Random House Not For Us: https://amzn.to/3hEimo0 View all posts by Tony
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always happens to me right after i have layed down and on my way to falling to sleep .i feel a weard feeling and then i am traped .like something is pulling me ” my sprit or sole ” and i can’t speak , move ,or stop what is going on .i pray to god and ask for gods help . finely i will make some tipe if noise and my wife will shake me and it is over . my hole body will tingle like pins and needles . after it’s over i lay for awhile and shake off the fear cuz that s–t is very scary and not of our world . never has it happened to me after i was asleep aways right before . used to happen alot but has slowed down now to every few mo. been happening to me from around the age of 20 that i can rembere ,but as a kid i would never sleep with out a light on .never had it happen when it is day light or when lights are on . but with a night light it will happen . wife will not let me sleep wiyh lights on so it still happens now and then .i think it is dark , bad , evil , and not of our world . and if it has happened to you , you feel the same way . IT IS VERY SCARY and i can’t sleep for a day or two after ward . scince can’t explane this one away .
these dreams happens to me almost everyday. i can never go back to sleep after i wake in the middle of the night. sometimes i cry because the s–t is so scary . i wouldnt wish these dreams on anyone. it mostly happens when i am falling asleep and when i am awake. i cant move , talk , and nothing else. i can only speak in my mind and move my eyes. i try to scream but nothing comes out. these dreams happens so much that i am not afraid anymore like i use to be. and i am only 15 years old and i am a female also.
True, this use to happen to me alot I change my lifestyle I onlybskeep in the mourning time. In I always sleep on one side, and lastly I never sleep on my back. It all happen to mh brother but ihlt don’t fade me the only thing is that when you want to wake up you can’t wake up if you fight then when you do fight tlyou wake tired like your hear droppedand in sweats
Im 28 now i’ve been getting rode since i was a child, in fact i was rode recently before writing this response after all these years i’ve become quite used to it happening but it still scares me i sleep alone so no one can wake me up. If i think back only twice i been waked up during an episode i was told that i’ve been talking in my sleep i was very grateful to be interrupted. I find myself screaming for help but no one can hear me. it feels like im always dreaming i always think someone is around but no one is. I rarely talk to anyone about it because i didn’t think anyone else went through what i was going through.i thought i was being punished by demons for living my life the way that i have.but i really dont know im glad to see that im not the only one hopefully someone will find a better understanding.at first i experienced it for seconds then minutes then hours at a time. I haven’t had a peacful sleep in years. for years i have worked overnight to avoid going to sleep at night hoping that i could avoid being rode,but it happens doing the day too.
David I HATE THE EXPERIENCE AND I HATE IF ANYBODY GOES THRU IT IT JUST HAPPEN TO ME RIGHT BEFORE THE POST I WAS DREAMING I WAS SMELLING GAS AND A VOICE SAID I SMELL GAS ALSO, NO LATER AFTER THAT IT SEEMED LIKE SOMETHING BLOWED UP AND THE FIRE COVERED ME I DIED THATS HOW REAL IT SEEMED..I WOKE UP OR THOUGHT I DID ONLY TO BE NOT BE ABLE TO MOVE SCREAM OR ANYTHING ELSE I FINALLY WAS ABLE SEEM LIKE IT TO JERK MYSELF AWAKE TO LOOK IT UP IVE ALWAYS HAD THE EXPERIENCE BUT NOTHING LIKE THIS RECENT ONE…
Man that sound horrible I’m sorry you have to go through that. It’s like a dream sometimes but it seems so real. Scary.
I just pray im scared of it .
Three nights ago my husband calls out to me while i was sleeping I got up to see what he needed and he was screaming for me to help him up after a few minutes he said he could move, like someone or something was holding him down, he was really scared and what Im wondering is if this is an evil thing or what because it was freaky mercy flores
Guys my boyfriend has these same dreams. Hes been having them for a while nw but last night he had told me some type of short creature like as tall as are bed was grabbing hus fingure. It made me really sczrd but he also told me it only happens when hes facin the end of the bed bbb ut never when ge facing the wall I dnt know about all thus its super freaky
This happen to me every so oten its so scary to me ive had experience to where it seem like some people were really in the room with me,, I dont know what to believe is it a dream or what it nothing fun i know that..
I’ve felt that too like someone was with me i would call to them but they would not answer. I sometimes feel im not fully asleep a few times i can hear my family in the next room or the tv i left on. after i wake up i would ask anyone if they heard me screaming they would say no. It happened to me in front of my neice the other day when i fell asleep on the couch it was like i was watching her the whole time but i couldn’t move i tried to call her hoping she would pull me out but she didn’t notice i was out for a good half an hour before i came to she said it looked like i was just sleeping i didn’t say anything to her cause i didn’t want to scare her for a little while i thought i could avoid it by sleeping on my back it helped for a few weeks but came right back it’s like when im going to sleep i know right when it’s going to happen so i try to prepare myself mentally but it doesn’t help it’s scary as hell i feel so much fear i think im going to die.
It’s about 5:45 am and this just happened a few minutes ago. It hasn’t happened in a while now. I’m 17, I’ll be 18 next month and this has been going on since I was about 11 years old. Well I’m in my room sound asleep and all of a sudden I can feel that I’m awake because I can see my room and my brother laying down facing the other way because we were watching a movie. I could feel pressure on my chest and not being able to move or make a sound to wake up my brother. I started to hear loud noise,deep voices,and someone talking. All I could see was shadows and dark figures but I couldn’t make them out. This lasted a little longer than it usually does. But it only happens when I sleep on my back.
It just happened to me like 4 or 5 minutes ago…. it is scary and I’m. only 13 This is the second time it happened to me… it was dark and I started to shake and going side to side like I was some kind of ride. My mom told me that’s a witch riding on my back. So the second time it happened I tried my best to move and it work… it to me like 10 seconds to do it because it was so strong. I do fear this kind of thing and I pray to god it wouldn’t happened again.
It just happened to me today i remember when i was little my aunts and uncles would talk about being rode by the witch in their old house but i never thought anything of it then today in the middle of the day around like three pm i went to my room and laid on my bed in the corner on my stomach I dont even know how long I was asleep but i (was home alone) felt the bed go down as if someone had put their knee in it and then i felt it go down again as if they had place their other knee in it but still i paid no attention to it because i was home alone and i really dont believe in that type of stuff but after it happened i went to wake up and get out of bed and all i could was open one eye half way and then i went to get up and could not do anything but lay there i tried as hard as i possibly could and i could not see anythign because my head was pushed down into a pillow when i tried to scream i could not get anything besides moans out of my mouth and then i attempted to say JESUS JESUS JESUS and on the thrid JEsus i was interupted by my tongue being pushed to the top of my mouth and i could not even breathe out of it so when i attempted to say JESUS 3x again i did and then it was over i hopped out of bed scared out of my life and looked around the room and nothing was there!!!
ive been fortunate enough to fall asleep with people around during my experiences. with all my might i try to scream “help” and the last 2 times ive been successful of getting someones attention. no need to try to explain to them what you just experienced because they dont understand but definitely thank them for waking you bc its such a relief. im really starting to believe its the way i position my neck when im asleep. my experiences are not as dark, demon-like as some of you have posted. ive actually grown to laugh but sure i would love for it to cease
I have never experienced this myself, but find it fascinating, All the comments as well. Great info.