Yet Another Strange Dream

[Bluewillow]

I had a wierd experience during the night. Basically, I fell asleep, and dreamt this: I was laying in my bed and suddenly felt that there was someone in the room with me, and that I had to get out. I felt very threatened. I rolled over in bed to try to turn on the bedside lamp, but the lamp wasn't working. I got up out of bed and went to turn on the bedroom light, but that wasn't working either. Then I opened my bedroom door, and there was a big, shadowy something on the other side, so I quickly tried to slam the door on it, but it was pushing the door open as I did so. I felt absolutely terrified. At that moment, I woke up. As I woke, I noticed a strong tingling feeling all over my body, a really strange sensation. I wasn't laying in a wierd position so I can't figure out what that could've been. Anyway, I fell back asleep and all was well.

Just a very wierd dream and wierd sensation to wake up to. Any thoughts?

[Cliona]

Perhaps you have some obstacle in your life that you are trying to overcome right now? Perhaps something you are afraid of? And perhaps it is your subconscious trying to deal with that.

Personally, I believe that when we are asleep our "defenses are down", so to speak. This leaves us more open to supernatural events. Perhaps it was a spirit trying in its own way to get a message across to you.

Since you mentioned the tingling sensation, for which you had no explanation, I tend to believe it is the latter.

I've had similar experiences to the one you mentioned and it can be a little scary at times.

[Bluewillow]

You have a really good point there, Cliona. Thanks for replying!

Yes, there are obstacles in my life right now, and yes, I am afraid of some of them, to a point. So maybe it very well is my subconscious trying to deal with that.

I absolutely agree with you that when we sleep, our defenses our down. I'm a firm believer that when we sleep, we are more open to communications from spirits, because I've had quite a few experiences of that nature while sleeping.

I've had similar experiences to what I described, as far as dreaming that someone is in the room with me, wanting to turn on the light and being confronted by said presence. So maybe, like you said, it is someone trying to get something across to me.

That said, every time I have had an experience like that, I have had more of a paralysis sort of feeling, rather than tingling. I've never felt this wierd tingling apon waking, so that really kind of freaked me out! lol

Thank you again for replying!

[Cliona]

I know exactly what you are talking about with the paralysis! I've never had the tingling feeling myself though. But I have heard that there is a name for sleep paralysis, which of course escapes me at the moment. But when I did experience the paralysis, there were many other factors involved, including seeing a spirit, that told me that this was not just some trickery of my brain.

[Bluewillow]

Same here. I've experienced this paralysis feeling mostly only when I sensed a presence in the room at the same time. It can be really freaky, because it's like I am wide awake, I cannot move, but I sense a definite presence in the room at the same time. Very strange! lol

[Cliona]

Following up on the above post, here is one experience I had . . .

I was 17 and my parents and I had just moved into a house. I had my own bathroom connected to my bedroom. A month or so after we moved in, I was lying in bed trying to fall asleep when I started to see something appear above the bed. It looked like it was made out of the static you see on TV when you lose a channel. I know that sounds so bizarre but thats the only way I can describe it. I suddenly realized that I was paralyzed and could not move. It actually felt more like being trapped in my body because I couldn't even blink my eyes. I saw a face appear right above me and it smiled at me. I could see the wall directly at the end of my bed and there was a window it, which was weird because I shared that wall with my parent's bathroom and there was no window in it normally. The window appeared all warped, almost like a painting that had water spilled on it. At this point, I realize that I can't breathe because of the paralysis and I start to panic. The panic broke me out of the paralysis and I shot straight up in bed and took a deep breath. Felt like when you've been holding your breathe under water for too long. The spirit was gone and so was the window. I freaked out and slept on the couch that night.

On a side note, a few weeks later, I was hanging up pictures on the walls (it always takes me forever to decorate when I move heh), and I saw that there had been a large square portion of the wall at the end of my bed that had been sealed up. It went through to my parent's bathroom. I asked my Mom about it and she said that the house was originally built in the '50's and my portion of the house was an add-on. She said the square I saw was most likely a window. I turned pale. I had not told her about my experience. What does this mean? I have no idea. I didn't have any more sleep paralysis experiences in the house, but lots of other weird stuff happened in that room.

[Bluewillow]

Whoa. lol That's seriously trippy!!

The first experience I ever had was when I was about 5 or 6 years old. The house we lived in always had sort of an eerie feeling to it. Anyway, one evening after being tucked into bed, I lay, wide awake, waiting to get sleepy. All at once, I found that I couldn't move anything or talk. It was very sudden, going one minute from moving to being completely unable to move or speak. In the next few seconds, the room became increasingly dark, and I literally felt myself "fall" (for lack of a better term) into my bed. Everything went black, and I began to dream. While it was happening, I was absolutely terrified. It was truly awful, especially being at that age where I couldn't understand what was going on, and being unable to call out for my mom.

When I was about 12, my family and I were staying with some friends in Oregon. The house was roughly 150 years old, a farmhouse on a few acres of land with an old barn out behind the house.

During the months that we stayed with our friends, I (and members of my family) had some seriously nasty experiences with a presence in the upper level of the house, including me being pushed down some stairs, seeing nasty black shadows, frigid temperatures only in one room of the house, objects being moved and so on.

As I lay sleeping one night, at about 1 or so in the morning I woke to find myself completely unable to move, and felt something directly above my bed, pressing hard against my chest. It literally felt as though something were trying to enter my body, as strange as it sounds! Being a Christian at the time, I prayed and prayed until it finally went away. That was one of the creepiest experiences I've had with the whole paralysis thing.

One of the really trippy experiences I had in this particular house occurred as I lay in bed one evening. It was the middle of the night, everyone was asleep, and I was just laying there, waiting to drift off. On one section of the wall of the room my sister and I slept in, was an area that had once been the entrance to a balcony, and had been boarded up decades ago. (Keep in mind that I didn't know about the balcony until after this happened) I saw a tall, pitch black shadowy figure come out of this section of wall and cross the room and disappear as soon as it reached the other side. I didn't experience the paralysis this time, but man, it scared the living daylights out of me!!!

[Cliona]

Ya know, I am absolutely fascinated with the paranormal, especially because I have had my own personal experiences with it, but every time something happens to me it scares me to death lol. I'm a control freak and the paranormal is something we don't know very much about and can't control.

Do you ever have dreams where deceased loved ones have come back to speak to you?

[Bluewillow]

I'm really fascinated by it too, but yeah, it's very unpredictable and so because of that, it can be scary.

Yes I have. I had a few after my grandfather died, after a friend of the family died, and also about my father-in-law, though we never met.

After my grandpa died, I had a dream where I saw him coming into a really beautiful, pure white place, looking happier than I have ever seen him. He wasn't wearing his glasses, and he was wearing his favorite suit. I always felt like maybe that was me getting a glimpse of him coming into his heaven. (He was a Christian reverend.) I woke with a very definite sense of peace after seeing that.

When my sister was pregnant with my youngest nephew, I had a dream wherein he came to me and said that the baby would be a boy and to hurry, that he would be there soon. She gave birth very soon after.

I dreamt that I saw him standing in his kitchen. Looking directly at me with a very somber look on his face, he told me,"Tell Ma I love her." I woke, and thinking that "Ma" was my mother, I told her about the dream, but as it turned out he had actually called my grandmother "Ma". I told my grandmother about the dream, and while she was skeptical (though hopeful) because of her beliefs, she was comforted.

Another time, I was sleeping soundly when I woke to feel, quite distinctly, someone standing beside my bed and stroking my cheek very gently. It only went on for a few seconds before I felt the presence leave. The night before, I'd been going through some serious stuff, and asked my grandfather to help me. I figured it was his way of bringing comfort.

Since then I've had a few dreams of simply seeing him with my grandma.

Today is his birthday, and just night before last (after not dreaming of him for some time) I had a dream where I saw him sitting in a room with my grandmother, and he gave me money. Figured it was another way of saying hi, perhaps.

After my mom's best friend died (after they hadn't spoken for years), I had a dream wherein my mother and I went to her home. She was sitting a step outside her home, and I knew as I saw her that she was dead. She got up and walked over to me, put her arms around me and hugged me. We went inside her home. Her husband and children were all crying, and none of them could see that she was there with them. She never said a word, just stood with us as her husband and children cried.

I've had a couple dreams about her since where she'd just be there with her husband and kids, but she never says a word.

Before my husband and I were married, I had a dream wherein my father-in-law came to my home in Oregon to bring me back to England to be with my husband. Keep in mind I had never seen a picture of him. Anyway, I saw him walk across my front lawn, come into the house and talk to my family as I packed my bags. Then I went home with him. I told my husband about it, and his mother showed me a photo. It was the man in my dream, down to every detail.

[Cliona]

Wow! That's some pretty amazing stuff! My father died when I was very young and I have had dreams of him coming to me and talking to me, I think his way of still checking in on me and helping to guide me.

I lost both of my grandmothers in the recent years and I was close to both of them. Soon after my son was born, they both started showing up in my dreams almost every night, I think trying to give me advice with my baby. It started driving me crazy though lol, and I made a joke to my Mom about how I couldn't take it anymore and I wanted my dreams back heh. Since then they have calmed down a bit hehe.

[Bluewillow]

Sorry it took me awhile to reply. lol Hubby took over the computer for a bit!

I definately think that our loved ones who've passed tend to come around and give us advice or just let us know they are around, through dreams or just little signs here and there. It seems like a lot of people are more open to that when they're sleeping.

I'm still wondering about this dream I had last night (my original post) because if it was a spirit trying to connect with me somehow, then I wonder who it was, and why I would've felt so threatened. Together with the odd tingling sensation when I woke up, it was a wierd experience, altogether! lol