I was possessed by a being called Silas

[Sirius]

Does anyone have any idea of who or what was "silas"

Silas or Silvanus (/ˈsaɪləs/; Greek: Σίλας/Σιλουανός; fl. 1st century AD) was a leading member of the Early Christian community, who according to the New Testament accompanied Paul the Apostle on his second missionary journey.

https://www.thejoshuasmen.com/blog/2018/...abas-3359j
Over the time of their ministry together, Paul and Silas experienced a lot. They were incarcerated together in Philippi, thrown out of the city of the Thessalonica and forced out of Berea. Paul and Silas truly did life together. (see Acts 16:19, 25, 29; 17:4, 10, 14, 15; 18:5) They helped each other stay strong and leveraged their individual strengths and weaknesses to be more effective in their ministry.

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans. It was published on 2 April 1861.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_Marner

[Sirius]

[Helperman]

[Helperman]

[Sirius]

[Helperman]

[imitator]

Something you said stuck with me: "I am Silas" and "But I survived" and you wondered if it was the Silas from Transformers...
That made me think of something kind of odd LOL:

If you flip the name Silas, you get Salis... which, in Latin, means salt.
Salt’s all about preserving things... right.
That kind of matches what you or it said: "But I survived."
Like... maybe it wasn’t alive in the normal sense, just preserved somehow.

Transformers version of Silas literally preserves himself by fusing with a machine. Not fully alive, not dead just... lingering.

Anyway, that just popped into my head when I read your post. 

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

One day when I was 11 I felt like my body was taken over by another being. But omly partially, I cluld move my hands and it could move my hands. First I lit it draw what I thought was arandom scribbles on a peice of paper, then I decided to communicate by writing something on paper, and then letting it take control write a reply. First I asked it who it was and it said "I am Silas" assuming in meant the Silas from Transformers: Prime I said "but Silas died" and it said something like "I am alive" or "but i survived". And then it told me to get a Battleship board and put random peoces on it and each red would be abad day and each white a good day. And then once I was done with the battleship thing it left. I only assumed it was transformers prime Silas, it never actually confermed or denyed that so I now think it was some kind of entity calling itself Silas and not the silas I thought it was.

I once (at 34) did a ritual to invoke Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus to find someone capable of a lasting relationship.

Used a framed picture, candles, and random crap I felt symbolic of my hopes. I decided if I kept offering chalky valentines hearts to the altar of Sailor Moon it would happen.

And I only bring this up, because after I did that, I randomly started hearing their Japanese dialog in my head. Like musical earworms only with dialog specific to those characters. And I hadn't watched it in weeks. Literally out of nowhere while I'm  driving, "Watashi o hitori ni shinaide!" (Don't leave me alone!) and it would happen randomly until I entered a new relationship, and it never returned after that. Like it dissolved after its purpose was fulfilled. 

It always made me wonder how much control our unconscious has, how much control we have, does it work like a tulpa, and if it really matters what you use.

[IgnorantGod]

Maybe Dan Brown made a tulpa out of his Silas character from Da Vinci Code?

Quite interesting that the name's appear both in sci-fi story and religious.

But then again, I'm prone to self delusions so its probably pseudo-random coincides.

If it ever comes back, could you ask it which story/movie it read/watched? And if you also read/watch it/them? Thanks.

That is, does it know things that you don't?

[sahgwa]

It's a fine line between projecting and creating entities that are coming from you and your mind, and communicating with something else nonphysical.  We create reality and we can create things, but we can also communicate with nonphysical things.
The proof is in the pudding and you have to test these entities with questions , puzzles, and see how they answer.
Best proof is things that you couldn't consciously know, but they do. 
Also basic banishing rituals and see how they react.