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Originally posted by Oldtimer2
I remember when I was a little kid and the movie "the Hand" came out,I had nightmares of a hand crawling under ,my bed brings back old memorys
Originally posted by xynephadyn
I have a similiar fear, but with no memory attached unfortunately. Due to childhood trauma my brain has a knack of erasing all frightening situations.
I cannot, leave my arm or hand hanging off the side of my bed. When I do, I fear that somebody is going to reach out and grab it. I am certain that this at some point happened in my childhood. Quite frankly Im glad I dont remember it.
Originally posted by Ajax
Wow...you all have unlocked some sinister repressed memories that I had locked away in the recesses of my brain for years - and now they're starting to come back to me clear as day.
I have some eerily similar stories to a few that are described here. One incident happened when I was 5 or 6 years old and in bed. I shared the same room as my brother at the time (he is slightly older), and his bed was across the room. I woke up for some reason in the dead of night and just lay looking at the ceiling for quite a while - maybe even like 15 minutes (so yes, I was awake). My eyes adjusted to the darkness and with the moonlight in the window I could see things very clearly in the room at this point.
I suddenly got an overwhelming uneasy feeling of something happening behind me and to my left, my bed was wedged against the wall on 2 sides but pulled maybe a few inches out on the top and side. Fear gripped me. I finally built up the courage to look back / to the left, and to my horror I saw a hand working its way up near the back corner against the wall. The hand had a tight black glove on and was knuckles out. I was mortified - i literally couldn't move. My brain started racing as I saw the hand and arm coming further and further up against the wall from under the bed. It started feeling around on the wall and reaching around like it was trying to grab something. I thought maybe it was my brother and realized the angle wasn't right and the hand would have been bigger than his. The way it was reaching around would had to have meant the joints were dislocated. I freaked. I scrambled up and ran to the door struggling to open it and find the light switch. I ended up waking both my parents up b/c they heard me, and after they came in I saw that my brother was still asleep in his bed under the covers but groggily waking up. No possible way it was him. It was really bad...
Another incident happened when I was way older, early 20's in college. I was laying in bed and would occasionally have my girlfriend sleep over. I was sleeping and again woke up in the middle of the night, and just laid there for a while on my side staring at my alarm clock. I was really groggy and trying to remember if I had any classes the next day, so then I rolled over onto my back and an arm fell onto my upper torso. I laid my arms overtop of it and smiled thinking I wonder what my girlfriend was dreaming of. Suddenly like a bolt of lightning I realized that it was a Wednesday night - I had classes the next day - and my girlfriend was not over. I pushed the arm off of me and there was not much weight to it, as in it seemed disembodied. It felt what I can only describe as "spongey" as well, like what someone else described. I screamed out and jumped to door and turned the light on, nothing there of course. I clearly felt it, I clearly threw it off of me, and my friends that I awoke throughout the house could tell that I was shaken after they made their way to see what all the fuss was about. I did not go back to sleep and it was like 2:30am or so.
I have other terrifying ones and will get into those if anyone is interested...
[edit on 6-6-2010 by Ajax]
Originally posted by Munji
That first incident sounds horrific. I hate that feeling when you know something isnt right but man after reading these posts hands totally freak me out now.
PS. When me and my friend were at Uni together his room was next door to mine and he used to come sit in my room at 4am because he felt things getting into bed with him.