Its been happening and slowly started to get more common. it started when i had sleep paralysis when i saw someone sitting on my keyboard (musical) and he kicked me and disappeared. The next one when i was on a princes trust camp I was on my bunk and i saw a woman walking down the middle of the room and i remember asking who she was which woke up two people in the other bunks. this happened twice while i was there and i had to explain what happened (which was interesting i guess). The most recent one was when i woke up today. i woke up grabbed my phone of my bedside draws and seeing the head of a corpse right next to it which scared the hell out of me and caused me to run to the door and throw my phone at it.

Any idea why this is happening and how i can get rid of this problem? also i would like to hear some interesting story's you all may have

It may interest you to know my mum had the same problem until she passed away. she kept saying she kept seeing ghosts and caused us to move out of a few houses. Which now i think i connected with this problem I'm currently having. Any comments?

If you ever wake up with the old hag on you
and you can not move and you see her evil face

Invoke the name of Jesus and it will stop
instantly.

Might sound crazy but that is how I stopped it.

A few years ago I swore I saw a huge, shiny, black and white striped leg spider quickly descending from the ceiling on his web right between my wife and I as we were going to sleep for the night. I shoved her off the bed out from under it, and then darted away myself, but further inspection of the situation revealed that it was all just my imagination/dream as I was dozing off.

FREAKED
ME
OUT!

This happens to me as well, its the result of waking up into consciousness before your brain has fully joined you. Basically what you see are manifestations of your unconscious or thought forms you have built around yourself. They are not inherently real.

One way I've learned to deal with them is to just expect the unexpected. I can even influence the objects I see with my mind as in a lucid dream, because they are basically on the same level of reality as a dream. I try to stare down anything horrifying and or just look away for a moment. Either way if you stare these things down they will vanish and you will see that they aren't real, or how your brain is creating the image out of the light available in the room.

One way you might deal with it is to become conscious that it might happen and then don't open your eyes right when you wake up, but give your brain a moment to catch up. Whats happening is basically that the transition between sleeping and waking is not smooth, but rather instant. So your brain is still projecting dream-like images even though your senses are now receiving input from your surroundings, and the combination of the two results in a momentary hallucination. The same thing can happen while we are falling asleep too, as the brain transitions into sleep if we open our eyes for a moment the two worlds can mesh in some unpleasant way.

During a time when I was more carefree, I'd undergo these vague visions of between sleep and wakefulness. I actually welcomed them because they were beautiful to me. They could be spooky, yes, but I enjoyed it a lot. They came on for me more during midday naps, maybe on a day that I had to wake up early and do some work, and after it is done, take a nap. But now, being grown up and full of different stresses, they've gone away. I do think there is a correlation.

Originally posted by tjack
A few years ago I swore I saw a huge, shiny, black and white striped leg spider quickly descending from the ceiling on his web right between my wife and I as we were going to sleep for the night. I shoved her off the bed out from under it, and then darted away myself, but further inspection of the situation revealed that it was all just my imagination/dream as I was dozing off.

FREAKED
ME
OUT!

I had something like that happen to me. Except I ran to my parents' room screaming that there were HUGE spiders on my bed. My father came in with a shoe and everything, ready to kill the critters... Except there was nothing there, I had been hallucinating them in that half asleep/half awake stage. Father wasn't pleased

I found that if I sleep in the dark, it's more likely that I'll get sleep paralysis, so now I just leave the television on. Problem solved.

Thanks for the comments and info, I guess its more common than i think. I'll try the things you all mentioned and see what happens. I guess i was just freaked out by everything especially the corpse head :/ and wow all those story's are more freakier than mine XD I'll let time pass and see what happens Thanks. I just hope i don't break my phone in the process :p