Sleep Paralysis (ghosts 2)

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On ghosthood (from Garuda Purana)

 

 

Garuda said: What do the ghosts do in their ghosthood? When do they speak

sometime? Please tell me, o Lord of gods!

 

The Lord said: I shall tell you about their form, signs and dreams. Being

oppressed by hunger and thirst they enter their former home. Though

possessed of airy forms, they give signs to their sleeping descendants, o

bird. They visit the place where their sons, wives and relatives sleep.

 

If a person dreams of a horse, an elephant, a bull, or a man with deformed

face, if a person awakened from sleep sees himself in the opposite side of

the bed, this is all due to the workings of a ghost. If a man is fastened

with chains in dream, if his dead ancestors demand food in dream, if one

snatches the food from him while he is eating in dream, if thirsty, one

drinks water, if in dream one rides a bull or moves with bulls or if one

springs up in the sky or goes to a holy place hungry, if one speaks aloud

among cows, bulls, brahmanas, horses, elephants, Deities, ghosts and demons

- this is due to the working of a ghosts.

 

Many are the signs of ghosts in dream, o bird. It is due to a ghost if one

sees his wife, relative, son or husband as dead. He who begs in dream

oppressed by hunger or thirst should give pindas to the manes to ward off

coming distress. If one sees in dream his son, cattle, father, brother,

wife, getting out of house, it is due to the working of a ghost.

 

These signs, o bird, call for atonement. One should bathe at home or at a

holy place, give water oblation to a Deity at the root of a fig tree. Or

give black corn, perform worship, offer gifts to a Vedic scholar and do homa

as far as his means can allow. If, in faith, one reads or hears this

discourse, the ghosts disappear immediately from his vicinity.