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Hi all,

I have only just registered and this is my first post.
I have, over the last few weeks, been having strange occurances during my bed time.
Initially I thought it was night terrors as the first two times I was unable to move but now I am fully able to move and react.
What happens is this:

I wake up at a random tine and look around the room and see a thing...
Once it was the head of a skinless horse leering at me, another was a naked man on the ceiling with his head on backwards staring down at me.
others have been small children etc.
One one occasion a child grabbed my leg and I physically felt it pulling me.
I close my eyes and say calmly "It isn't real but when I open them the things is now closer to me! soI jump out of bed and throw on the light and it is gone.
Things like this have happended every night for the last 2-3 weeks and it is leaving me very shaken.
I have previously (1 year ago) suffered from work related stress but I never had dreams like this back them.
Can anyone put a name to what I am suffering?
Usually

[Guest]

I don't see any responses to your post, so I'm assuming you haven't rec'd any.

I have some experiences similar to yours - except not as scary. I cannot provide complete explanation, but I have some ideas that I hope will be helpful.

Have you been meditating or contemplating before bedtime? Do you remember feeling as though you were buzzing or vibrating? Were there any sounds you can remember?

The reason I'm asking is because that's what initiated my experiences. The big difference is that I was wanting the experience. I am a spiritual person and was seeking some answers - I was interested in aspect of reincarnation, and wanted to see if I could get answers from my dreams, so I asked to remember my dreams - did some "comtemplation" or "mediatation" and told myself "nothing can hurt me - I will remember everything"

I had experiences where I would feel totally awake and see (for lack of a better term) a slide-show of pictures - some still some with action, in front of my eyes. The scariest was a troll looking creature that came up behind me and wrapped it's arms around me and sucked on my neck - I had been warned by my sister that scary things could happen, and that I could stop them if I could send love - so to stop the creature, I said "I love you". I surprised me that it stopped, because I didn't feel any love for it at all. The experience was so real that I could feel where it sucked on my neck for about an hour. I kept looking in the mirror expecting to find a hickey or something like that on my neck.

The best I can explain the experiences was that I was "out-of-body" or soul traveling. Normally the experiences were pre-empted by vibration - my body would feel as though it was shaking like an earthquake, and I would hear the roar of the sea or a buzzing like electricity in my head.

The best advice I can offer is that if you are still experiencing these "night terrors", First remember that nothing can harm you while you are out-of-body and if you can send it love - or even say "I love you", I believe you can make it stop.

I hope your unwanted experiences are gone, or that anything I said may offer some help.

Cindy
[quote] Hi all,

I have only just registered and this is my first post.
I have, over the last few weeks, been having strange occurances during my bed time... [/quote]

[Guest]

I don't know, I not much the spiritual type, but yeah, I've ecperienced similar things. I'll be just at that point where you're about to doze off and someone will scream really louldy in the room. I've had people in the room with me, I've had furniture move, I've had the bed shake violently, and I've had eyes staring out of my closet. The worst was I kind of cracked my eyes open and there was some huge creature dashing toward me and it reached out at me. Its hands were right by my face. I threw up a karate-block sort of move and it was gone, and I felt stupid for karate-blocking my imagination. No idea how to put an end to it, just letting you know someone else has the same problem.
[quote] I don't see any responses to your post, so I'm assuming you haven't rec'd any.

I have some experiences similar to yours - except not as scary... [/quote]

[Circadiabsurdium]

Wow, that used to happen to me a lot-like almost every night-between age 13 and 20. Weird stuff in the room, sleep paralysis, and this strong buzzing in my stomach. It was terrifying! And that was during my Christian phase (I'm agnostic now), so of course I thought the devil was trying to possess me! After a while, I got better at recognizing that it wasn't real (probably this would qualify as a “lucid dream”), and I could control the hallucinations, such as causing the scary demon to be annihilated in a giant ball of flame. But that only worked when I actually realized that it was a dream. I still experience the sleep paralysis occasionally, and the buzzing even less often. These symptoms have always been in the morning, pretty close to when I would normally have to get up.

I have ALWAYS had similar experiences as I am falling asleep. I'll start to see things in the room, or more often misinterpret things that are in the room. Like once when my cat was behind the window blinds with just its tail sticking out, I though someone was pointing a rifle through the window, and I immediately rolled on the floor so I wouldn't get shot. Or I'll mistake a coat hanging over the door for a giant bird, an angel, or even a demon. Most common is the sensation of falling from a very high place; they say that one happens to lots of people.

I have come to accept these experiences as a normal part of that fuzzy place between sleep and wake, and I no longer fear them. Usually they are pretty mundane; lately I'll be almost asleep and I'll wake up terrified that I forgot to turn in an assignment or fill out some financial aid form for school. I'll be racing to the computer to email the professor or administrative people and then realize that everything is ok and it's just something my brain made up.

I suspect that if this type of thing happens to you a lot that you might also be a sleepwalker (as I am), like maybe all of this has to do with some trouble the body has shifting gears between wake and sleep. But this is just a personal intuition, nothing I can back up with any real scientific information.

It's been ages since you posted, so I hope the problem, or at least your fear, has gone away. Sorry I can't help you find a name for it.