New to board, questions about "evil" in dreams

[misscappy]

I am new to this board and find it really interesting. I have always been a vivid dreamer- I remember my dreams with such great detail and usually remember at least one from each night. It blows my boyfriend away because he never remembers his dreams! Even when I was little, maybe 5 or 6, I could control my dreams (lucid dreams) and I could fly around, which for some reason stopped occuring in my deams about 5 or 6 years ago (the flying not the lucid dreams). I have experienced sleep paralysis a couple of times but thankfully nothing too frightening! My older brother, who is my only sibling, has told me he used to experience terrifying dreams when he was young about the Devil and has also experienced sleep paralysis several times in his adult years. He used to work night shifts as a security guard and would drift asleep in his car and awake to sraching on the top of his car or seeing red glowing eyes in his rear view mirror but he'd be unable to move. I thank the good Lord that I have never experienced such a thing because I would be terrified, it scares me just to think of it! He has also told me of times when he saw apparitions while sleeping at our Grandma's house (many people have told us there is a presence at her home, a cemetary that was near by was moved many years ago) a women levitating in front of him and a strange almost unhuman like thing climbing up her wall. My Grandma (who just passed away last month) was a devout Catholic and had many stories of seeing spirits and angels and would also have prophetic dreams.

For some reason all of this dream stuff is spooky to me now, especially since reading this board. I am a baptised Catholic, though not "practicing", I do pray and believe. I believe in good and evil- but my question is how and why does evil creep in to some of us? Why does my brother have all of these weird things happen to him? He is otherwise a normal man, married with two daughters with a great job- he has his head on straight not wacko or anything.

This brings me to a reacurring theme that I experience in my dreams. It has been happening for years now. It is not always the same setting, sometimes I am in my current bedroom, sometimes I am in the bedroom of my childhood home and sometimes it is in a bedroom that I've never seen before. But it is always dark and I am locked in a bedroom with an evil spirit. I hardley ever see it but I feel it, it tries to pull me under the bed or keep me away from the door but it never fully has me or detains me. I feel frightened of course but I always have the security that God will protect me and I rebuke the spirit. I have the courage to face it in my dreams. It's just weird, why do I have these dreams? What could this possibly mean? Sorry this post is so long, I appreciate you reading this

Often times during this dream I am trying to scream but cannot or can only move very slowly and feel heavy like something is pulling me down- very very frustrating!