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My 19 year old daughter is having a problem.

I don't get the impression this is a physical problem, but more spiritual or psychic... Here are the symptoms:

For some time, she had had very vivid experiences of alternate – usually BAD realities, before "popping" back to present time. For example, she might be eating at the table, with the family, and suddenly two of the family members will start attacking each other. Then she's "back" and none of it actually happened. These experiences are always so real that they are indistinguishable from reality. Sometimes they are mundane (for example she will go into the hall, put away some books, and then be "back" in her room with the books right next to her. Usually, however, they are BAD realities. She finally became scared enough to tell me when she started experiencing one of her hands "choking" her, for example, and then find herself back to normal with none of it having happened.

Has anyone here ever run across or heard about a symptom like this? It doesn't seem to match schizophrenia or any classic neurosis or psychosis that I'm aware of. It seems more spiritual or psychic like I said.

Things took a rather alarming turn today, so I wanted to post an update. First, I realize I owned several individual responses...

In answer to twstedrage, she has been having these episodes since she was about 7 or so. She has not had any treatment for them, as she only recently confessed to having them. She is 19, and is very adamant about not seeing a doctor about them, so I can't really force her unless there is serious danger.  For this reason, and because I had a strong impression it was spiritual or psychic, I decided to explore that avenue first. Recent events tend to confirm for me the idea that this is a spiritual or psychic problem.

In answer to shedt, they don't seem to be blackouts. She is coherent and functional the whole time. She is homeschooled and while she is very friendly, her circle of friends is fairly small and of excellent quality. I am extremely confident that drug use isn't an issue in this case. Frankly, I think she would have rather confessed drug use than this problem. As for her sleeping patterns, she's always been a night-owl, but that hasn't changed much.

In answer to several of you, and at the suggestion of my spiritual director, I have tried to involve her in activities that focus her attention away from these experiences, such as single-point meditation. She has also always enjoyed art, and finds focusing on art reduces this kind of thing from happening.

I thank EnderWiggin for the kind offer of looking into the energy involved and would be very happy to facilitate that in any way possible.

Here's the update. Today, we came home from a number of errands for lunch. Things have been very difficult with us moving. The house, even though it is new, has always had... problems. Especially in certain places. A friend of ours who looked through the house remotely immediatly saw this. All of us have "seen" things, usually dark shapes of various kinds.

As we have prepared to move, a number of strange things have begun to manifest. We have gotten strange, intense headaches that suddenly disappear when we leave the house. Strange moods of intense depression are felt and also leave when we leave the house. Anyhow, returning to this afternoon...

My daughter was in the pantry getting something to eat, and suddenly announced that something was wrong. I looked at her and something was VERY wrong. Her eyes had crossed. She began crying and saying she couldn't see me. I carried her over to the couch and she still couldn't see. Her eyes and face were rigid. She said "I'm on the roof! It's trying to take me!" I was getting ready to call 911, convinced it was some sort of convulsion, but the things she was saying made me hesitate. The whole family started some rather frantic prayer. She then regained her vision. She asked me "Can't you see it??" and pointed to the roof. I took some holy water and threw it toward the place she indicated, at which point she returned to normal.

In describing the incident, she said a huge, dark being looking something like an octopus had descended through the roof, and with enormous strength had pulled her out of her body. The thing had overpowered her mind with suggestions that she was never going to come back, and it seemed completely fearless and powerful. She had watched from the roof as we had all run around trying to help. She had seen everything from above in great detail. Then she was suddenly back.

If this were only HER I would be hesitant, but I've seen glimpses of something like this myself, and FELT it even when I can't see it. Her and my wife simply seen to be more sensitive to it. We'll be gone from the house very soon. I have no idea how thing thing got in a new house, but I'm hoping it doesn't follow us.

Sorry to take so long to respond to all of you. We are in the process of moving and things have been chaotic and internet availability intermittant. Thank you for all your suggestions, many of which are excellent. Thanks also to the several people who emailed me. I'll be trying to catch up on my correspondence in the next few days.