HAGRIDDEN

One of my colleagues told me that she experienced the feeling of being 'crushed' or attacked by an unknown force for the past two days. This has happened before and what she does is to pray once she has managed to overcome the unknown force. In Chinese, we call this "bei kwai chaak" or being crushed by a ghost.
I found out that this phenomenon also occurs in the West and is known as the Old Hag Attack. A hag, or "the Old Hag", was a nightmare spirit in British and Anglophone North American folklore. This variety of hag is essentially identical to the Anglo-Saxon mæra — a being with roots in ancient Germanic superstition, and closely related to the Scandinavian mara. According to folklore, the Old Hag sat on a sleeper's chest and sent nightmares to him or her. When the subject awoke, he or she would be unable to breathe or even move for a short period of time. Currently this state is called sleep paralysis, but in the old belief the subject had been "hagridden". It is still frequently discussed as if it were a paranormal state.
A person who has such an experience would feel as if the whole body is paralysed. He or she would be awakened from the sleep and then feel that they could not move or cry out. There is also a feeling of something draining life out of their chest. Usually, the person would be able to open his or her eyes and break out of the paralysis. Some people who have experienced this say that they see a balck cloud above their bed. The Chinese who believe in Feng Shui say that the placment of ones bed is important for a good night's sleep and could solve the problem.
Here are some No No positions for beds:

1. Don't sleep with head facing the bedroom door as your vitality and life force will be drained away. If you sleep in such a position easily invites spirits to enter the room and nighmares or the Old Hag might attack.
2. Do not sleep with your legs facing the door as this is like the corpse being placed in the coffin before the funeral.
3. Do not sleep behind or too close to the bedroom door. This might cause restlessness.
4. Do not sleep with your head facing another person's feet as one would find difficulty in ataining success in whatever undertakings one endeavours to do.
5. Do not sleep facing the toilet. To do so would bring bad luck as the bad energy from the toilet might cause a person to fall sick.
6. Do not have a strong light directly above your head as this might damage your health.
7. Do not sleep on the floor as sleeping on the floor without a proper bed is bad feng shui. Why? It is because the earth contains lots of negative qi which the human body can easily absorb.
8. Do not place books under your bed as this is disrespectful to knowledge.
9. Do not sleep where there is a concrete slab right above ones head. Move the position of the bed as quickly as you can.
10. Do not place the bed in between two high cupboards as this blocks the flow of positive qi.
11. Do not leave a gap between your own bed and the wall as this signifies lack of support in whatever we do.
12. Do not place the head of the bed next to the toilet wall as this would affect ones health.