Another thing that has happened to me a lot, is seeing people or other things at night when I'm in bed. Everyone tells me I'm dreaming but I always feel as awake as I am writing this right now. There seems to be plenty online about the hallucinations you experience when you are just about to go to sleep or just woken up but one night I had one that was (unless a very bizarre coincidence) confirmed by a woman a few thousand miles away.
When I was a little younger, I used to wake up and find myself in what looked like a castle tower, sometimes. I don't know why I would dream of them as I don't really have much interest in them. I would wake up in that scenario perhaps a handful of times a year and it always looked the same. Once I even woke up to find I was in the dog den watching my dog. How strange. Thankfully after a few moments these scenes would fade and I would be back in my bedroom in my bed and what a relief that was!! Thankfully (touch wood) I've not woken up to a strange scene for a few years now and I hope I never do. I think it mainly only used to happen in my last house (which I'm sure was haunted due to the rather strange stuff that used to happen).
What seems to have replaced waking up in these un-nerving scenes, is seeing people etc in my room. They tend to appear either whilst I'm trying to get to sleep, or when I have woken up but I usually feel a presence and when I look towards where I feel this, there is often someone standing there. At first I used to scream the house down, waking my poor partner up in the process and getting a telling off for waking him up. Of course switching the light on would show nothing was there and my partner accused me of dreaming. Which I knew I wasn't as it felt so real.
After a time, because I was experiencing it so often, I would just look away when I saw them. Most people just stood there, the odd one would be doing something and one even said something as he ran off. Apart from one, who I recognized as my great grandfather, everyone else is a stranger so I have found it rather bizarre how my mind can make me hallucinate complete strangers. They always look so real as though a real person is stood there and I can make out their clothes quite easily. Most have disappeared by the time I look the other way and look back but the odd ones are still there. The most recent one (this week) I had was of a baby girl which was laid down on top of the bed (as though someone had placed her there) and once I noticed her, she flew off in the same position and faded away as she went towards the wall. I actually hadn't had one of these experiences for many months before the baby one happened.
But the one that got me wondering is one that happened a few years ago. I have an online friend who lives in America who has some abilities (we used to keep in contact via email) but I hadn't heard from her for a while. On that particular night, I was laying in bed as usual when I spotted a black cat the size of a domestic cat, sat in the corner of the room watching me. I thought how weird that I'm seeing an animal. This was the first ever time I had seen an animal in the room as it's always humans. I was watching it for a while and it was still watching me; didn't move its head at all. So after a while I turned over and then looked back expecting it to have disappeared but it was still there, watching me. I watched it for a while longer before going back to sleep. The next morning I looked online about what a black cat symbolizes (wondering if there was any meaning to it) and it symbolized good luck. I hoped it meant I had some good luck coming. I logged in to my email account as I always do every morning and found an email in there from my friend from America, the one with the abilities. I can't remember the exact wording of her email but it basically mentioned that she could sense there was some good luck coming my way. Now how on earth did that happen? After that, it got me wondering about what I really see in my bedroom at night. Or was that some form of telepathy between us both? It's almost as though she confirmed what I had seen that night. Or was it just a major coincidence that I hadn't heard from her in all that time and yet we both mentioned something very similar.
I'd actually forgotten about that experience until I read my notes on it. I'm so glad I decided to start making notes when I have unexplained experiences. I have no idea if I ever did have any good luck after that.
When I was a little younger, I used to wake up and find myself in what looked like a castle tower, sometimes. I don't know why I would dream of them as I don't really have much interest in them. I would wake up in that scenario perhaps a handful of times a year and it always looked the same. Once I even woke up to find I was in the dog den watching my dog. How strange. Thankfully after a few moments these scenes would fade and I would be back in my bedroom in my bed and what a relief that was!! Thankfully (touch wood) I've not woken up to a strange scene for a few years now and I hope I never do. I think it mainly only used to happen in my last house (which I'm sure was haunted due to the rather strange stuff that used to happen).
What seems to have replaced waking up in these un-nerving scenes, is seeing people etc in my room. They tend to appear either whilst I'm trying to get to sleep, or when I have woken up but I usually feel a presence and when I look towards where I feel this, there is often someone standing there. At first I used to scream the house down, waking my poor partner up in the process and getting a telling off for waking him up. Of course switching the light on would show nothing was there and my partner accused me of dreaming. Which I knew I wasn't as it felt so real.
After a time, because I was experiencing it so often, I would just look away when I saw them. Most people just stood there, the odd one would be doing something and one even said something as he ran off. Apart from one, who I recognized as my great grandfather, everyone else is a stranger so I have found it rather bizarre how my mind can make me hallucinate complete strangers. They always look so real as though a real person is stood there and I can make out their clothes quite easily. Most have disappeared by the time I look the other way and look back but the odd ones are still there. The most recent one (this week) I had was of a baby girl which was laid down on top of the bed (as though someone had placed her there) and once I noticed her, she flew off in the same position and faded away as she went towards the wall. I actually hadn't had one of these experiences for many months before the baby one happened.
But the one that got me wondering is one that happened a few years ago. I have an online friend who lives in America who has some abilities (we used to keep in contact via email) but I hadn't heard from her for a while. On that particular night, I was laying in bed as usual when I spotted a black cat the size of a domestic cat, sat in the corner of the room watching me. I thought how weird that I'm seeing an animal. This was the first ever time I had seen an animal in the room as it's always humans. I was watching it for a while and it was still watching me; didn't move its head at all. So after a while I turned over and then looked back expecting it to have disappeared but it was still there, watching me. I watched it for a while longer before going back to sleep. The next morning I looked online about what a black cat symbolizes (wondering if there was any meaning to it) and it symbolized good luck. I hoped it meant I had some good luck coming. I logged in to my email account as I always do every morning and found an email in there from my friend from America, the one with the abilities. I can't remember the exact wording of her email but it basically mentioned that she could sense there was some good luck coming my way. Now how on earth did that happen? After that, it got me wondering about what I really see in my bedroom at night. Or was that some form of telepathy between us both? It's almost as though she confirmed what I had seen that night. Or was it just a major coincidence that I hadn't heard from her in all that time and yet we both mentioned something very similar.
I'd actually forgotten about that experience until I read my notes on it. I'm so glad I decided to start making notes when I have unexplained experiences. I have no idea if I ever did have any good luck after that.
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