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For those of you that don't know my brother is really big into meth.
He is a lot older than me...
anyway He lived at my grandmas and she would babysit me...
you could take a picture of my brother and there would always be a black orb or black haze around him in the picture. His eyes are always blacked over and his rage is unbelievable.
he would always say that there would be black masses following him and holding him down in his sleep.
They follow him.

One time he came over to my house and stayed a few days, when he left I went to bed and this black mass held me down and shook me like crazy. that happened four different times.

Also when I was little I would hear gibberish in the air when he was around and sometimes when I would fall asleep I would get gashes on the bottom of my feet because of the things that followed him. I couldn't understand the voices it was like they were talking in a different language.

When I was little I remember seeing weird black balls of energy float around him.

Another thing... when I got older I started to watch a lot of horror movies and listen to questionable music.
i would see huge giant dark shadows around me.
I would also see dark shadow people randomly and I would hear my named being called out of nowhere.

A friend came over one night and she woke up coughing her brains out, she said something was strangling her and you could see marks on her neck.

I would also go to a friends house and we would hear scratching on the walls and weird things would happen like one time I was holding a cup of coffee and I set it down on the counter and if then flew off the counter my friend and I didn't mess with it so we didn't make it fly off the counter.

It took a lot of time with God to get this nonsense to stop, my brother and I do not have contact and I do not want him around cause I don't want to deal with his demons.

I know for a fact that demons are real, I have seen them and they are some scary looking things. I have seen them with my eyes and in my dreams.
They exists whether you want to acknowledge them or not.

I will be both honest and fair here.

I admit I lack in capacity (for whatever reason) to perceive such things. I would like to see or witness something that would reveal to me that there is something beyond the material norm. And I would be happy to accept God as something real if I could at least experience something that might suggest it. Along with that, I have been with friends that swore they saw things, sometimes terrible things. They could point right at them, but I didn't see anything. They could hear terrible things I could not hear. And I am faced with the question of 1: Are they having a psychological issue/attack? 2: Are they crazy? 3: Or is something at work that I am incapable of perceiving?

When I have asked this before, I receive an assortment of answers. 1: Because I am not a believer, these entities have no reason to attack me or reveal themselves to me. 2: These people have imagined them to be real to such an extent that their minds play tricks on them. I have seen #2 happen a few times for sure, but because I am not certain of all cases, there is room for #1 to be the case according to trusted friends and religious advisors.

As far as people being effected by demons/possession, etc...

The religious association of demons very closely ties with psychological pathology. There are also other venues in which physchological association can occur. In a nutshell, the symptoms and issues ar parallel with demons being a variant detail.

For example. John is depressed. If you address psychology or the manner in which demons behave, both suggest this is a prime window, or opportunity for John to slip into trouble. If John is depressed and goes to a local bar, we may psychologically deduce that he may be prone to overdoing it. And the doors may be open for him to interact with demons, which may be focused at such a location, as theoretically, other people with demons would be going there as well. I remember a pastor friend of mine who went with me to such a place, and he felt the presence of the devil very strongly there. He explained quite a bit or how demons will follow their hosts to such places where people are weak and vulnerable, and from there, do what demons do best, really.

So then say John drinks excessively, gets intoxicated, starts getting fresh with a woman that doesn't want his attention. For this reason I've also been told that drugs are a means that demons access you, because you are losing control of yourself, and that gives them more room for their suggestions to take root. On a psychological, physical front, the alcohol has impeded his ability and his brain is a bit on the rocks. Now this covers one of many avenues of access to my understanding.

Demons will often deal with avenues of temptation. You could be completely sober of your own conscious will. And you could feel the urge to do something terrible. This is temptation. However, if you feel helplessly compelled to do something, like steal, or rape someone, then we're talking a serious issue here. To this extent, we have the option of a psychological problem, or perhaps a deeper demon issue.

There is the range of problems that include people speaking in wierd tongues, rasping, calling out to demons, or cursing the lord in twisted voices. The difficulty in this is validation. Are these people having problems with real demons? Or are they so engrossed in their beliefs, that they are acting it out in some way? I will say I have tested the latter in a live environment twice. One of which was with someone acting, where the religious parties involved believed it was fact that the person was possessed. The other was with someone whom I couldn't say had a real demon or not. It wasn't staged by my hand, but they were believed to be possessed. When I revealed to the frist group about my deception and what they thought, only some of them were agitated. Others told me I was mistaken. They weren't addressing the demon that was staged, but the very real one that tempted the enactment.

So I'm kind of 50/50 on this. I'm sure that if a demon has to control/influence someone, it will be through their minds somehow. But how much is just a rotten apple of a mind, and how much could be something else? It's an interesting topic.

Demons don't discriminate. They exist to cause chaos. Be it through like you said temptations, or attacking one when they are at their lowest point. It happens through many venues, though one thing is for sure, you are not immune because of disbelief. If disbelief disproved, then you would be safe. However Disbelief is merely that, not believing in the matter. It doesn't disprove that they are there. Please be safe.

I would agree with this to an extent, However one like Rosa who is open to the possibilities, is even more at risk than anyone else. They will do whatever they can to claim them.

I'm sorry your brother is into meth. It's nasty stuff.

What you said is interesting, though, because I have a friend who is also into meth, and he says that when he's been on a several-day bender, he see shadows, hears whispers with words he either can't understand or can't make out, and often feels like there's something following him. Now, I'll admit, I find it a little difficult to take his claims too seriously, because when you've been awake for 3+ days, you do start to just flat-out hallucinate. Also, meth combined with sleep deprivation is famous for causing paranoia and psychosis. So maybe what he sees and feels is real, maybe it isn't. I know that he believes it's real and I certainly don't think he's making it up. I just think there could be a perfectly rational, biological reason for his experiences. And it's also true that mind-altering substances have been used for centuries in cultures all over the world to make one more receptive to the supernatural. So maybe there is something to his claims. Again, I just don't know.

I've never really experienced anything supernatural. I don't rule out the existence of demons or spirits or what have you, I just haven't personally experienced anything that's convinced me beyond a shadow of a doubt that these things are out there.

I'm generally a pretty rational person. I believe in things that I've experienced evidence of. I believe in God because He has touched my life in many very real, tangible ways, but demons...not so much. Again, I'm not saying that they don't exist, I'm just saying that I'd be more sure of their existence if I'd had a personal experience myself to suggest their existence. But then again, it sounds terrifying, so I should probably be happy that I haven't experienced any of that.