Nearly three weeks ago I had a very wierd and scary experience.

I fell asleep like I do every night and was having a very comfortable rest. It was about 2:45a when my experince occured. While sleeping I began to have a dream. It was a very wierd dream because it felt so real, but it wasn't obe or Lucid Dreaming - I know because I have Lucid Dreams on a regular basis (every 2-3 weeks) and it wasn't that real, so I knew I was dreaming.

I started to have a wierd feeling like their was someone in my room. You know how, when your sitting down somewhere - like a restaurant, you can feel someone staring at you, or talking about you. Or when your walking down the street and you can sense some one watching you or following you. This is how I felt in my dream. I said to myself "If your a demon be gone." When you are in a dark room, even if it's your own, and you get a feeling that some one is there, it can be very scary... and it was.

I was horrified when I opened my eyes to discover I was having a severe bout with sleep paralysis. This, as well as the Lucid Dreams, happens to me periodically ( the former happens about 1once a month).

This was one of the more severe cases I have ever had of sleep paralysis. I can say this because it took so long, to move my fingers and left hand at the wrist. It usually only takes a few seconds to overcome the episode and get back to sleep. However, this is not the incredible part of my experience.

When I woke up I couldn't move anything from right below my nose all the way to the end of my feet. Being that I was paralyzed like this I could still move my eyes.

Also, when I awoke, I heard an extremely wierd sound. It sounded like one of those sticks that has been hollowed out and filled with b-bs, when you flip it upside down it makes that crazy bouncing, rain-drop sound. The sound lasted for about 5-6 secs. It wasn't just a quick sound and then nothing. It stayed around for a bit, and then it went silent.

I looked up toward the ceiling when I first awoke, because I was laying on my back. As soon as I woke up I saw a man standing right next to me, at my shoulder position and only a few inches away. This scared the crap out of me.

He was just standing there with his hands clasped in front of his waist. He was tall, the ceiling in my room is 8ft tall, only several inches from brushing his head on the ceiling. He had a robe type garment wrapped around his body. He had what appeared to be light brown to brown hair. He had the appearance of a white man, with a big forehead, and crazy looking eyes. It seemed like they were almost glowing a white/blue color and slightly slanted at the outside corners.

At this point I was freaking out big time. I could only move my eyes and I had this enormous man standing over me and watching. I was afraid that he was a psycho burglar and he was going to hurt me or kill me.

I was paralyzed during this whole experience, close to 45 secs. He was there, staring at me, the entire time. I kept concentrating on moving my hands and arms.

Finally, while still freaking out on the inside, I was finally able to make my left fingers and hand move. As soon as I gained control of the motor skills in my hand I looked to the left at my hand and arm and knocked on the wall to try and get someone's attention so they could come help me (I don't know why I did this because I live alone).

After knocking on the sheet-rock wall I looked back to my right and the man was gone, like he vanished into thin air. Just a few moments after knocking on the wall, and the man's disappearance, I regained motor skills in the rest of my body.

It freaked me out so bad that I went to my living room, turned on the light, and watched T.V. for an hour until I felt like I could go back to my room and sleep.

I was scared when this happened. I wonder if, I kept control of my emotions and remained calm, he would've stayed there longer untill my body woke up. Maybe if I wasn't frightened I could ask him some questions and see what he was doing or try and touch him to see if he was real.

He looked so real, just like I was looking at someone in three-d .

Do you guys have any ideas about this experience. Why would he be in my room? How did he get there? Am I going crazy?

I don't know what to think at this point. My Lucid Dreams are increasing and becoming more vivid too. I wonder what all this could mean?

edit for grammar - again

[edit on 8-5-2009 by esteay812]

Easy...

You were in a pre-OOBE state called "mind awake, body asleep". The man was MOST likely a mental construct, and not a being. In the state of consciousness, you are kinda stripped of your intellect. Intellect is usually used to suppress your fears. So when it is gone, you sometimes face your fears as the really are.

It may also be a test to move on into full blown OOBE's. I have gone through this a few times. It's scary, I know. But get past the fear, engage what you see and ask fearless questions. I'm sure soon your lucid dreams will meet with your OOBE, and you will have some intense growing experiences.

My rules for avoiding "sleep paralysis."

1) Never keep the long side of your bed against a wall.
2) Keep any areas on light coloured or flat coloured walls limited to a maximum of one metre square by applying posters etc. to the wall. The key point being to mix up any constant absorption of light.
3) Try not to sleep in a room next to a large cupboard, store room or other volume that is not disturbed regularly.

In a nutshell....if you have the long side of your bed against a white wall and the room behind the wall is a storeroom, expect "sleep paralysis."

Even if the results of these actions are psychological and help you gain a feeling of control that stops the paralysis; it will benefit you.

My take on what is happening is in the "weird" zone, however I don't get "weird" hunting me anymore.

HTH

I've had a similar experience before, though it wasn't sleep paralysis.

I suffer from hypnopompic hallucinations, or hallucinations that occur upon waking up. I guess they only happen in about 10-12% of people, so whenever I try to explain these things everyone just looks at me like I'm crazy. I promise I'm not!

The one episode I remember similar to yours...I was sleeping with my then-boyfriend. Woke up suddenly to see what looked like someone in a bear costume staring down at me, sort of next to my hip on the side of my bed. Not just any bear costume though, that wouldn't be creepy enough...no, no, this bear costume looked like the cousin of Donnie Darko's rabbit friend. Creepy as hell! I nearly had a heart attack and turned the lights on quickly, and opened my bedroom door a bit. My guy woke up from the commotion and asked what was going on, but it wasn't exactly something I could explain properly at that time.

My heart continued to nearly beat out of my chest for quite a while, but I eventually fell back asleep. Had he not been there, I probably would have gotten up to just watch tv like you did.

But, I've been having these hallucinations since elementary school. Most recently I've been waking up seeing bugs everywhere, which is a bit unsettling. I blame it to my house being invaded with carpenter ants right now...I'm always paranoid that there's going to be bugs in any room I go into! I feel like Ashley Judd in Bug! It's ridiculous. Then of course, the paranoid feelings of finding bugs end up being carried over into sleep...ugh.

Aside from the "bugs," though, most recent weirdness was waking up to a hand coming through the mirror on the back of my bedroom door, waving a note around. I stared at it for a minute, in confusion, til it finally dropped the note and disappeared back through the mirror again. There was no note, but it was definitely a weird moment.

Sleeping is an odd experience for a lot of people. So many sleeping disorders! I'm sure the dude standing over your bed was just a hallucination. You'll be fine.

When I get paralized during that stuff I am able to move my body using my energy while paralized I can levitate to a certain extent. I get paralized a lot and so I decided to experiment around with my energy since I do a lot of energy works. It worked like a charm didnt even not move one muscle, just use my energy to lift my back up from the bed and same thing with my arm.


And also when I was in that state I looked at my door and it was glowing with oozing Glowing red energy and in the middle was a black energy figure face. It didnt really bother me since I see that stuff all the time so I closed my eyes like nothing happened (Even though I should have examined it.)

[edit on 8-5-2009 by KennyRJR]

[edit on 8-5-2009 by KennyRJR]

Yep sounds like normal sleep parylysis to me, it can be VERY scary if you let it be. It's basically a waking dream, dreaming while awake, and your thoughts can affect your surroundings, if you have fear, you will start to see scary things!

Anyway this is how you can have an OBE, by having sleep parylysis then exiting the body, once you overcome the fear, it can be amazing.


[edit on 8-5-2009 by _Phoenix_]

This has happened several times to me, and I always wonder -- what if i kept control of my emotions? What if I somehow trained myself not to panic, since the panic itself is what wakes me up? I wonder what that would result in.

like many i too have had a similar experience, but i was fortunate that at that time i was paranoid about burglars, so i had a nanny cam that recorded my room.

Roughly by the light out side i figure it between 12 and 4am. I awoke staring into the face of what i can only described as an unsettling version of gandalf ( i know i laughed in hindsight). no words just staring. A cars lights passed through a window and i had a kinda short flash wall (like from camera) and he was gone. I did the Tv thing too and the next day i reviewed the tapes. nope just me, so in less it was a high tech tinker job by some one/thing, it was all just me.

But never just pass something off as in your head, ya never know.