I’ve read about people with psychosis claiming to be tormented by devil. Personally I experienced episodes of sleep paralysis, and I remember seeing dark figures “attacking me”
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Sometimes people have visions of nice things that aren’t objectively, externally real. I experience occasional sleep paralysis, but it doesn’t feel like an attack to me. It’s just shadowy figures hanging out with me. “Oh, hey sleep paralysis shadow person. What’s up?” But mental disorders are a lot like alcoholism. One person can have a drink or two every night and be fine. Another person can be an alcoholic with just one drink a night. It depends on whether the alcohol is a problem for them. If someone is having visions of nice things and it isn’t bothering them, then it isn’t likely going to be treated as a mental disorder. It’s likely going to be treated as a religious experience and the person having those visions is likely to join a church and be very well respected in that church.
I don’t talk about it a lot about my own sleep paralysis because I know it would be upsetting to my friends who have traumatizing sleep paralysis.
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