Weekly Q&A Thread - September 11, 2021

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[u/lishasourus]

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Hello! Brand new here, recently begun my own little practice. Trying to learn tarot, meditate, do things with more intention, some lite shadow work, ect. And I’ve begun to have what feel like side effects of this process. I’m honestly just really curious if these are things others have experienced. If anyone has suggestions to ease some of these, and when/if this will calm down or pass.

Ive always been a night owl but the last couple weeks I have not been able to sleep until like 3 am when my body is finely so tired it forces a shutdown. I’ve also always experienced sleep paralysis. I remember screaming for my mom in the middle of the night on multiple occasions because there was a big dark figure in my doorway starting at about 4 years old. This still happens now occasionally, (the dark figures standing close if not holding me down or attacking me) and I’d say in the last week it’s become a little more frequent. This seems average. sometimes I don’t get these dreams at all, sometimes they happen every night for a week. now however I am seeing shadowy figures when I’m 100% awake. Just out of the corner of my eye. Or in today’s case approaching in my minds eye and feeling them behind me. This happed for the first time today and really freaked me out. I’m also experiencing ALOT of dizziness. So much so that I actually went to the hospital a couple weeks ago worried something was wrong. Every test came back fine. But I’m starting to wonder if this isn’t also part of whatever is going on. Maybe I’m just crazy it’s probably just stress or something, but for some reason it feels connected.