Paranormal: scratches, scrapes and marks on the skin during the night.

Before getting into this topic, it is important to clarify that if the scratch marks on your body appear to have been made with your fingernails, the most likely explanation is that you unknowingly scratched yourself while you were sleeping. These scratches will likely appear in easy-to-reach places, such as the face, shoulders, or chest. You are more likely to scratch persistently during sleep if you have a pre-existing skin condition; or even a parasomnia, which can cause unusual activity while you sleep. It is redundant to say that this problem can be aggravated by having long or sharp nails.

Before jumping to conclusions that involve some type of paranormal phenomenon, it is essential to rule out dermatological reactions. Even if you keep your nails short, or bite them, they may be slightly raised from the nail bed and leave marks when you scratch. Is there a chance that your arm was dangling while you were sleeping and hurt yourself on the bed frame or a nightstand? Did you by any chance dream about some kind of fight, accident, etc. that night?

However, there are people who experience scratch marks during the day, which appear out of nowhere, and leave an unusual feeling of heat in the affected area, as if burning.

First of all, the natural causes of these marks need to be ruled out. If you share a bed with another person, or even your pet, the marks are likely to be produced naturally, especially if they appear in hard-to-reach places, such as the back. You might also scratch during the day and not notice the marks until the next morning.

Certain strange phenomena occur frequently and affect people around the world, but they are rarely discussed openly, perhaps because there are too many natural causes that could explain them. Waking up with nighttime scratch marks and abrasions, often three scratches somewhere on the body, is one of them.

What do these unexplained scratches mean? The brands that we are interested in analyzing here generally appear in groups of three. They can be parallel, crossed or random. The most common areas where scratches appear are the back, arms, legs, and face. Some people even experience bite marks, bruises, and burns that don’t seem to have a rational explanation.

It is very easy to obtain these marks, for example, with an object left on the bed, a zipper, which is why in 99% of cases nothing strange intervenes. The nocturnal marks that should cause some concern are those that appear in patterns. The most common are three parallel scratches, sometimes vertical, sometimes horizontal, deep enough to be visible, but not so deep that they bleed. These are marks similar to scratches that a cat might leave, which, of course, should be discarded if there is a cat in the home.

Another common mark appears as a horizontal line with two vertical lines crossing it near the center. They always burn at first, but soon heal, only to appear elsewhere on the body before long.

Many people wake up with three scratches without a pet in the house, no sharp objects in the bed, and they even bite their nails, which practically rules out that they are self-inflicted. The marks may also be on the back, especially at a point that the person cannot even reach with their hands. In the worst cases, the person is in the middle of their daily activities, wide awake, when they suddenly experience a burning sensation somewhere in the body. If it is an area accessible to the eye, the subject can even see scratch marks forming, seemingly out of nowhere.

The disturbing thing is that these marks can sometimes appear randomly, identical in shape to those that appear on the skin, somewhere in the house. They are not simply vertical, horizontal and diagonal scratches pierced or carved with a knife or other sharp element; and they are easy to miss if you don’t know what you are looking for. In fact, they are surprisingly common.

It is certainly a terrifying scenario, I mean, waking up with strange marks on your skin and then finding those same shapes somewhere in the house; However, in many cases they are apotropaic marks, that is, symbols of spiritual protection. These are usually common in those homes where ritual magic or some variant of Wicca was practiced. If you happen to discover one of these brands in your home, you will start to find them everywhere.

Typically, protective markings are designed to create a virtual barrier. It is common to find them on door and window frames, especially in the bedroom and around any place that may be vulnerable. The intention here is to thwart the entry of any harmful entities. But what do these marks have to do with scratches and scrapes on the skin? Sometimes, these marks, although painful and capable of causing fear and confusion in the person, are intended to protect you from something. To know if it is a protection mark, of course, it is necessary to analyze the type of symbol or pattern of symbols.

But nocturnal marks sometimes have another explanation. Just as most animals can attack you out of fear; It is likely that the “marked” person, perhaps immersed in a lucid dream or a state of astral projection, has “scared” a non-human entity from the lower astral. These entities do not even have consciousness, but they can react violently. In occult circles there is a common belief that these nocturnal marks on the body always appear on the strongest person in the house, seen from the perspective of these entities as the spiritual guardian of the house.

On the other hand, in some paranormal circles it is believed that these types of bruises, lacerations and scratches are of demonic origin, especially when three marks appear, which are considered a mockery of the Holy Trinity.

For some reason, larvae and worms from the astral plane often leave scratch marks on both sides of the navel. These marks come in groups of three, and although their origin is not demonic, they can definitely make your life worse. What to do in these cases? First of all, have you done any remodeling at home, bought an antique or a new mirror? Have you moved the furniture? Received gifts from someone?

Brands run by someone else are very rare; That being said, in the rare cases where they do occur they occur predominantly in the left leg. They have a very intense red tone, but they do not burn or cause pain. They usually disappear completely during the day, and reappear first thing in the morning, in the same place. As in all previous cases, it is important to rule out obvious causes, such as long nails, sharp objects in the bed, roommates and pets.

During the Poltergeist phenomenon, scrapes and scratches occur all the time, sometimes even on the face. The situation in general is usually so violent that the brands really are the least of worries. In any case, these types of marks not only occur at night, when the person is asleep, but also in broad daylight. The person may suddenly experience an intense burning sensation somewhere on their body, and see what appear to be scratch marks. Both things appear randomly, that is, they do not occur in the same places. The most common sites are back, neck, arms, stomach and thighs.

If the person is being attacked by some conscious entity, it is likely that, in addition to being “scarred”, they will wake up with a feeling of physical exhaustion, as if they have not slept enough. In the Middle Ages it was believed that Incubi and Succubi could mark their victims, but marks from scratches or bruises were the least important. In these cases the person experiences extremely vivid sexual nightmares.

Marks resulting from the invocation of a spirit are common, but people who practice this type of rites know what the consequences can be and how to avoid them. Anyway, it can happen that a weak and random spirit attaches itself to a person for a while, and they can become quite insistent if they believe their soul is related to them in a past life.

Ghosts and residual energies are not aware of themselves or their surroundings, so they do not cause these types of marks. Astral parasites do tend to leave marks of scratches and scratches on the skin. Most of these attachments are not noticed by the person. These beings simply influence and pressure your subconscious to produce certain types of emotions, or activities, on which they feed. There are people who, during sleep, radiate on the astral plane, which allows these entities to become aware of their presence. They are usually as unaware of you as you are of them, but if you become “visible” they can attack. These beings can usually only stay with us for short periods of time.

It is understandable that someone who wakes up with marks on their back, or any other part of their body, and cannot find a physical cause, would experience restlessness, even fear if the phenomenon becomes recurring, but this is not a good idea. In occult, Wiccan and ritualistic circles in general, these types of marks are common. The main recommendation is to be aware of your mood when things happen, and pay attention to anything that seems unusual, such as strange smells and noises in the house. It is not advisable to rage and curse these entities; This only gives them power. Don’t ignore it either. The idea is to regain control, strength, and for your own state of mind to make it clear that nothing can invade you or your space.

In general, when some type of invasion occurs in an inhabited space, the negative energies find a particular place in the house. I’m not talking about an entire room, but rather small spaces where people receive this bad energy. Sometimes it can be something as simple as a closet that you avoid opening whenever you can. The people at home always know these places. A good way to identify them is to imagine that there is a power outage at night, and you have no way to light your way. Where in the house would you NOT like to be at that moment? Your instinct is likely to give you the correct answer.

Children are very sensitive to these energies, which means that they can go through real torment during childhood when the focus is in their rooms. Generally, in these places in the house people feel watched, as if they are not alone.

Now, it is easy to correlate these two issues, and conclude that the marks on the skin are the consequence of any type of strange activity that may be happening in the house, but this is not necessarily the case. Sometimes the marks are there…