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I've been growing greatly concerned lately about bogeys or "boogeymen". Ive researched them for a while and understand what they do, they influence fear, especially during sleep. I haven't experienced anything like this in years, not even nightmares, but as of late I've had great difficulty sleeping due to the feeling of being watched,and when I do sleep although I don't remember my dreams, I wake up absolutely terrified and have no idea why. When I'm awake though, especially at night, I'll get sudden shivers and an unreal sense of pure dread. I try to ignore it, but I feel that only makes it worse and causes these bogeys/entities, whatever they me be to get upset. Does refusing to acknowledge the fear or refusing to be afraid make these negative entities hostile? What does one do if they become hostile? Some jackass already tried to tell me to hang a horse shoe on my wall and spread salt around but I don't buy into that stuff.