I can tell you from personal experience that painful dreams do happen, but I reckon it wasn't an attack. More likely you were feeling actual pain in your sleep (for me it's anything from lumbar pain to gas that can cause this), and the pain made your dream sharper because you were running on adrenaline released due to the combo of pain and dream of danger.
Long story short, more than likely nothing to worry about unless it starts happening really frequently, then you'll have to sort out the root of the pain :)
Hope this helps :)
There's a dream interpretation that says if you dream of rape that means you feel the opposite sex is taking advantage of you in real life... I would suggest just trying to look into what's been happening to you lately that would cause such a disturbing dream. You could take some time to cleanse your aura and try to calm down.
The Vatican claims that these are the oldest and most common form of Demon attacks,common symptoms are
Feeling of another presence in the room with you
Feeling a weight on your chest,not being able to breath or scream
Actually hearing the voice and feeling the pain
Suggested cures are having a priest come and bless the room and have religious items all over the bedroom.
They aren't what you think. Little hard to explain and took a long time to put the pieces together. They are emotional. They respond to emotions and act upon them. Call it judgement, like facing yourself.
Release your fears for yourself and see beyond. They are like children. The negative vibe and energy you feel is just energy. Sadly your brain makes it feel oppressive or evil. They sense emotions so will act or play upon your response.
They aren't hostile though, but appear that way when confronted with negativity.
The best outlook is to see them as scared lost kids hiding behind scary masks for safety. Keep it in mind and hopefully it'll break for you too.
You dont get it often in most cases. It seems like theres a weak barrier like a veil but there are also the equivalent of police among us.
Has this happened before? This kind of spirit sounds like a sort of hybrid between the mare and the incubus. You don't have to invite these into your space they can just show up and some people have lifetimes of visitations by these kinds of spirits. My mother has had these experiences since she was 18 years old. Many will say oh it's sleep paralysis and your mind creates the entity etc. Which is fine but none of that makes it any less real or vivid for the person experiencing it. Similar to theurgy I suppose. I know a few people who claim to have ongoing positive relationships with these sorts of entities as well as negative or indifferent positions. I'm surprised that parapsychologists give this more attention than supposed "practicing magicians".
Could be an inccubus. Did you feel a force against your chest. Do you feel like your being watched? How do you know it wasn't just a dream? In traditional Stories, s Inccubi (male) or succubi (female) is a demon Who came upon people who were sleeping and tried to seduce them usually through sexual Means.
In my experience, dreams are a way to explore your anxieties and thoughts when you are in a different state of conciousness and your brain produces different brain waves with these activities. Really only you can decide what meaning it has for you, since you hold the key to its mystery--which is your life and your personal self and identity as the context that your experience lies in. Call it what you will, but no matter if it was an incubus, your brain reiterating some concept it has perceived when you were in another state of mind, there is a reason to why you experienced it.
For instance, my dreams usually never have people with coherent or recognizable faces, and rather, the dream never even focuses on the face, but the feeling of the person instead. For me, that is literally my identity still trying to explain itself even when I'm asleep.
Or when I had experiened the old Art Trope of The Grim Reaper and the Maiden, where the reaper whispers to the maiden, "Live now, for I am coming," which speaks to my anxiety and how a part of me is slightly hypochondriac and thinks of my own mortality in terms of how I should actually do something worth it in life, with another argument of mine to just not care and to just let live and go along as the years pass by.
These concepts of Incubi, or tropes and allusions, or symbols and other things such as details like that or the other thing can only really be explained by yourself since you experienced it. Everyone else has different schemas and different ways of perceiving it and providing information that makes most sense or most use of in their life.
I also don't know where I saw this claim at--either on a documentary or a published research journal-- but it states how people who have violent dreams such as these and experience scenarios that do threaten their life and so on, have a reason for it in terms of how the brain is essentially preparing for a real life attack. To your brain, and when you encode such a thing into your memory, that experience is still as real as if it happened when you were awake. Since we only exist due to our ability to survive, this seems to make sense.
Or like the others have said in this thread, you could be suffering from outside influences that bother and harass you, so make a way to destroy or block that.
I hope you have better dreams or find peace within yourself ^u^
