I've read online about people seeing shadowy creatures, goblins, demons, and other things like that. Where any of your experiences scary?
Possibly once I thought the Devil was sitting on my chest. The ones that happened most, I am in bed and I think I am awake. I try to get out of bed and everything is very slow. I head for the stairs and it is an effort to get there. A lot of times it just starts over with me in bed, confused thinking I had already gotten up but it must have been a dream. And this would happen two or three times before I was wide awake in bed and then found I couldn't move.
It happened once when I was in the army and the barracks were two to a room and my roommate was in his half watching TV and I had taken a nap after work and I dreamed I was walking around my section and I went into my locker and everything is exaggerated and it is very dark inside and suddenly I am in my bunk and I can't move. I can hear my roommate in his part of the room and I try to say his name because I know if I can see someone I will be able to move but I can hardly move my mouth.
I hear me say his name very quietly but I don't know if it is loud enough over the TV. Then I become aware of something fluttering above my head and I can move and it is my roommate, kind of freaked out. I told him what was happening and asked if he heard me say his name. He said no but that I was just lying there with my eyes wide open and he was freaked out not knowing if I was asleep or having some kind of stroke or something. He said he was waving his hand over my eyes, which was the fluttering I saw.
Over the years I tried to come to terms with it, accept it and that is when it started the occur less frequently. The last time it happened it was very mild but there was the feeling like there was something in bed with me moving under the covers. The feeling that the covers are moving is also relatively common and I tried to just go with it that time, come what may and I came right out of it.
Sometimes I get a feeling if I go to bed I will have one of these experiences and I either stay up really late or try to sleep in a position other than on my back. I find it very difficult to fall asleep unless I am on my back but once I have been asleep for a while I can fall back to sleep on my side, so I try to break my usually pattern when I suspect it might happen.
