Sleep paralysis cat dream.

Cool, a "familiar Spirit"!

If you teach an inorganic being to become an animal form, especially a cat, it's the same as a witch's "familiar spirit".

Although the witch of Endor from the Bible could materialize whole people she choose.

And for an audience!

However, this is too much detail about a story that's no big deal. It's tiny in this subreddit.

Hardly worth mentioning.

Sorcery is DAILY FOR HOURS. Not once every few years, so that you have a cool story to tell people.

Our community was nearly destroyed by people with social media pages, listing 4 or 5 "things they did" that they believe are magic.

That's NOT sorcery.

Sorcery is, "the Mastery of Intent".

And mastering intent requires trying to use it many THOUSANDS of times.

It's very very difficult to master intent. And before you can, you need to learn to produce real magic on demand, even if it's just a tiny amount.

Each time you try to use intent, as a beginner, you need to be surrounded by magic even greater than this.

I suppose, you could use Dr. Strange as the example. The movie character.

Darkroom kicks his butt! Eventually you produce magical displays in the air that beat even his movie special effects.

But if you remember, in his first movie he can't make his hands produce the sparks the other sorcerers can.

Just a few burning bits of magic fall off his fingers, while the other sorcerers can form entire shields and weapons, made of burning light.

He had to keep practicing for hours each day, before he could produce real magic.

We have to do that 100 times longer than he did in that movie.

So you need to learn to bring that cat to you every single day, until you can visibly see her, talk to her, and she should begin to teach you magic by speaking to you.

And when she jumps up on the bed you can feel her hit the mattress, then you'll have a spirit helper.

That's worth mentioning in here. But still not much. We have people far past that.

Otherwise if you just keep repeating this story, you'll be like everyone else on the internet, making up stuff to get attention.

Based on a single time experience that you believe gives you a "claim to fame".

In your case, you have an advantage to begin with. A real spirit is trying to become your friend.

Maybe lay off the references to genitals?

No one who talks like that in here, has ever managed to succeed at learning.

I have no idea why, but I'm glad.

They go away when they realize they aren't going to become famous here.

Maybe it's some sex yoga thing. From my experiences (25 years of trying to help people learn), that's also a sign you'll never learn the real thing.

I feel like strange normal dreams are almost guaranteed when you start off on this path. When I was struggling for days in trying to get my IOB to stabilize into a stable static image and then animate, I noticed my normal sleeping dreams became much more vivid. I call my IOB Bonnie and she likes to take the form of a lady with a long face. No clue if she's actually Fairy at this point although I will say that she seems to materialize better doing after Fairy's Pass like 50 times in a row in the darkroom.

So while I was struggling with my IOB in the darkroom, I noticed that the topic of my vivid sleeping dreams all involved personal interaction with a female character. Usually involve female characters of authority such as one of my scolding elementary school teachers, my sister, mother, ex-girlfriend, etc. Usually also end up being embarrassing dreams such as a teacher humiliating me in class or going on a date with my mother (a very strange dream!).

After consistently showing up for days in a row in the darkroom but still rather vague and not animating, I said out loud "I wish you could be a bit more clear. Would love to interact with you better!" Of course nothing happened after that because the issue is always that my silence simply wasn't good enough to perceive her well. That night after darkroom, I had an extremely vivid dream of a sexual encounter with an ex-gf. Those are awesome and welcome because they're so damn rare! Maybe my IOB was frustrated because I was plateauing and she was getting impatient? All I know is be careful of what you wish for because she really did become more interactive! Probably stealing energy so she can project herself better in the darkroom? Who knows, it's useless to ponder these things; maybe just an omen to keep it up in the darkroom.

That said, if you search the sub for previous posts going back years, you'll start to notice an interesting pattern. Pretty much every single person who made posts prioritizing normal sleeping dreams, lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis and astral projection stopped posting. I think it's obvious why that's the case. Unfortunately there seems to be no viable alternative to making real progress in sorcery other than darkroom, at least not in the beginning from what we can see here. There's no getting around the endless struggle with the internal dialogue and forcing silence while awake. There really isn't a good way to make progress quickly if you focus on sleeping dreaming, otherwise we'd have a lot more experts on that by now!

FWIW, I have friends and relatives who suffered from substance abuse (meth, fentanyl, alcohol, etc) whose withdrawal episodes resemble what you described - a cousin of mine, told me of a similar experience except that he saw a demonic face looking up at him from between his legs, his co-dependent gf also reported seeing some black outline standing by the foot of the bed.

Sobriety is a pre-requisite to the success of the tech practiced here.

Focus on your breathing, your tummy going up and down, whenever you find yourself in a sleep paralysis state, and the paralysis state plus any hallucinations dissipate rather quickly.

If you want to avoid it, just don't sleep with your belly up. Sleep on one side. I used to suffer from sleep paralysis because of lack of sleep, overeating and drinking too much alcohol.
One the other hand, sleep paralysis can be a bless if you are trying to reach and pass the first gate of dreaming. Just follow the steps underlined by Dan in the 1st gate of dreaming post of this subreddit.

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