Spooky things...

[robinbloke]

I may have just had a dream, or I may have just seen, shock horror, something supernatural.
Which for me is quite something really, so my bets are hedged on the former at the moment - as usual for me if it was meant to be a nightmare it was utterly unscarey and just annoyed me a little (hence me thinking it's likely the former) but I digress...


I was happily trying to snooze in my comfy bed when something loomed above me, I couldn't really move that well, or my limbs felt heavier at least, and it made a unintelligable moaning/roaring noise at me, I could see two eyes and probably a mouth; it being dark it looked black and sort of two dimensional with ragged edges like tattered curtains around a vaguely classical ghost like shape.
My reaction was probably somewhat disheartening for the aspiring spook. I flicked my eyes at it, thought "Oh, it's a ghost, how annoying." and went back to trying to sleep.
Not entirely miffed by this, it did it again, roary moany screamy.
Again, not much reaction by me, other than getting mildly annoyed that it was stopping me getting to sleep.
Third time lucky it obviously thought, and made the noise again, so this time I moved and looked at it and made a roary noise back, to indicate, no I wasn't scared, it was annoying and I was trying to sleep - thank you very much.
At this point it vanished and I went back to sleep, or trying to sleep as the case may be.

So, for people who do know about spooky things, any idea what it might be?

Comments

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

You were visited by the Ghost of Christmas Conditional.

He gets tired of the more well-known tense-ghosts getting all the action, so decided to come and taunt you.

[faerierhona.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Well, it might have been a rather sad spook trying to scare you, at which point all I can think is "AW! Bless!" Impossible to know unless you have further information that would indicate it was one or the other. Think of what else you saw - is that all in your room? For example, was the wallpaper/ light/ temperature right.

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

Sounds like an episode of sleep paralysis.

[velvetfox.livejournal.com]

You'll probably think I'm strange, but it reminds me of the beginnings of an out of body experience, the part where you stop feeling your body and senses get mixed up.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I'd never heard of that; I could move - just, just my body and limbs felt like lead.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I -think- I've had a few of those minorly, where I start observing myself third person.
Worryingly this happens when I'm driving occasionally.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Bah humbug!

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

Careful...you don't want Christmas Past-Emphatic coming down on you. He's a right nutter.

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

I hear you can now get the first two seasons of Sleep Paralysis on DVD.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

My memory is not the best medium for retaining details in the world; I do remember it seemed to be sharply real and at the time I thought that "I must be asleep because ghosts don't exist" (in my paradigm at least) but everything seemed right for me being awake and afterwards I remember laying back down to rest once again and waiting to fall asleep.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

hypnagogic state

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I hear he's a bit tense.

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

Two snare drums and a set of cymballs fall off a cliff...

[faerierhona.livejournal.com]

well, tonight isn't the best night for this, but perhaps another night, before going to sleep, call the image back into your head, and then keeping it there, bang your head three times on the pillow (SOFTLY!) and say "I want to dream of you again" and see what happens.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Ba-boom tish!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Ah, horah for cynical science ;)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Thank you, oh and have a fantabulous new year :)

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

This happens to me all the time, usually when I'm anxious about not being able to get to sleep.

I'm awake enough to be able to see my alarm clock, but asleep enough to experience dream images, (usually about trying to do something I can't quite do). So I end up in a sort of anxiety feedback-loop, where my anxiousness about not being able to sleep results in dreamlike images that complement it.

Best example of which is possibly "I wish I could sleep, and that I could get all those bloody mice out of my plumbing website!"

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

It's very common, and if yo're good you can actually train yourself to enter it as a mental state, which is great for creativity.

Some fine discoveries can be attributed to Hypnagogia, including the benzine ring.

[faerierhona.livejournal.com]

and you babe

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Oh, I used to get that all the time if I woke up in the middle of the night.

[velvetfox.livejournal.com]

I would have called the "roaring" a buzzing whooshing noise though.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Train yourself? Sounds interesting... although my brain is probably haphazardly wired enough as it is...

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

My phenomena had more bass pickup maybe ;)

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

Personally I think I'd rather just get a good night's sleep.

Still, the prospect of coming up with something to wind up A-Level chemistry students for years to come has a certain appeal.

[akonken.livejournal.com]

Don't be silly; he was being abducted by aliens!

[velvetfox.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you were experiencing Sleep RocknRoll.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

So thats why I can't sit down this morning?

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Well if I'm going to be haunted or hallucinate I want a decent soundtrack :)

[siranui.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a classic sleep paralysis dream.

A lot of folk cuture also has night hags. They come and hold you down in your bed and suck your soul/blood/whatever. There are plenty of wood carvings of depictions et cetera.

[nina321.livejournal.com]

Have you seen The Grudge (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391198/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9dGhlIGdydWRnZXxodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=1;ft=21;fm=1), because your ghotsy thing sounds very much like the one they saw in that. It also did pretty much the same thing to you as it did to them, except it scared her into a state of shock and gave the old lady a heart attack. You more or less told it to piss off. Now if they'd done that in the film, maybe they wouldn't have all died.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Nope, not heard of that. I don't get afraid in nightmares, I just get annoyed. This is possibly not the best defense against the likes of Freddy...

[zotz]

Yes, this has happened to me too, a few times, although it was when I was waking rather than falling asleep - same idea, though. Lots of people get it at least occasionally, and some quite regularly. Weekly, about, in the case of someone else on your friends list.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I've never had anything like this before; it was quite interesting, it's certainly opened up things I'd never known before.

[zotz]

Yes. I found it worrying the first time, and one subsequent one where I couldn't breathe, but it's happened a couple more times that were basically just interesting. One was quite recently, actually, after a gap of several years.

Spooky

[morfessa.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a bad case of negative energy you have there. Pissed anyone off recently? Or pissed WITH anyone? Or just ate too many sweeties over xmas & feeling a bit GUILTY! Be firm & tell it to go away if it comes back. If you have any suspicion that someone sent it then send it back to them! Oh, & no eating cheese at bedtime!

Re: Spooky

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

But I like nightmares, they make sleeping more interesting :)