Some native cultures don't distinguish between one type of experience and another. Take Shamanic journeying for example, a journey or trance is considered just as real as waking life, it all occured to them. We make the distinction between waking life and dreams, they don't.
Also demons exist in many cultures around the globe. I have personally had lucid dreams where I have been accosted by malevolent entities. Each time I was in bed, asleep, very lucid and dreaming of being in bed. The entitiy envelopes my point of awareness and tries to draw me away. Often I experience the feeling of being pulled by my feet upsidedown, with my head as the only point of contact with my 'body'. Scares the bejesus out of me! Sometimes there's a feeling of vibration or noise (AP precursor?), but I always sense malevolence from the entity. I fight everytime but feel helpless (can't speak).
Funny thing is I used to dream (less lucid) of malevolent entities who I identified as 'aliens'. I tried fighting them physically in the dream (dismal failure), then felt them reach for my mind. This really scared me till I recalled from somewhere that if you connect with a mind both beings have access to the other. As they came for my mind, I went for theirs, like reaching around their mental grip. Deadlock. I knew I'd stopped them then. It took my fear of them away to know I had the power to resist. Eventually the 'aliens' just didn't appear in my dreams. Course the malevolent fellows may be an escalation of this phenomena, but my 'alien' wars gave me confidence to fight. Still scary though, paralysis with only mental power to work with. Doesn't happen often anymore.
I don't claim to know what this is, my dreams are not proof of demons. They are a very real experience. Much of what I've just written could be explained by Carl Jung's psychology I imagine, but I think AP phenomena are involved, which I believe crosses the bounds of psyche and physical.
Glad i could share.
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