Creepy Sleeping Experiences
Creepy Sleeping Experiences
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
Creepy Sleeping Experiences#0
Posted: 2/4/06 at 11:01am
What were some of the creepiest, scariest, or freakiest things that have happened to you while you were sleeping/dreaming or in one of those "half awake" stages:
- Just last night I woke up to someone saying "Lauren" (my name) and no one was there.
- One time I was asleep, or so I thought, but I felt like someone was pushing the bed, almost as if they were jumping on it, and then I felt something brush against my head and I thought it was my mom checking on me, so I woke up but no one was there.
- One time I was half awake and I swore I heard a growl coming from my roommate, so I tried to shift my body to the other side to see my other roommate's reaction, but I could not move...it was like I was paralyzed...finally I shifted over and she was still asleep...most likely I was dreaming. That has happened to me on several occasions where it's almost like you're paralyzed in your sleep, and you can't move, but you're still like half asleep.
- Another time I actually woke up and I got up and ran to the bathroom...I really could not breath. I was able to catch my breath tho...that was weird because I don't have asthma.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#1
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:03pm
Just earlier this week I woke up with a start, thinking something was falling through my ceiling so I jumped out of bed and ran into the hall (I live on the 12th floor my dorm building). I was literally in a panic and un able to go back into my room for like 5 minutes.
Another time, i was sleeping on the couch in my house, back when i was like 15 (we were getting ready to move so my room was all packed up) and i was listening to my headphones when I felt a tapping on my right headphone, but that was the one against the pillow. So i got up and looked around, and I noticed the next door neighbors motion activated light was on, so i stood around until it went off and went back to lay down again, and a few minutes later i again felt the tapping, again fromt he head phone against the pillow. so i got up and again the neighbors motion activated light was on, so i went and slept in a different room.
Finally, I'm not a sleep walker, I've never been seen sleep walking, and I've not had problems with going to sleep in one place and waking up in another. But one time I fell asleep on the couch (the same one as above) and the next morning woke up on a different couch, in our basement.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#2
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:05pmI sleep on my side with one arm on my shoulder. I woke up one morning and thought it was someone else's arm, and tried to fight them off. After that failed, I realized that it was just me.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#3
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:09pm
I have been in a deep sleep before about a vivid story and then the next day a lot of those details of that dream happened.
Even like what people are wearing.
....oooh creepy. hehehe
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re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#4
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:11pmLast week I dreamed I was making out with Kristin Chenoweth. I woke up and freaked out.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#5
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:12pmJersey, I am surprised you did not try to go right back to bed.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#6
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:13pm
The ones I hate are those Serpent and the Rainbow moments when you sleep too deeply--where you wake up, but are still asleep. And you can't move or speak. And you feel like you might suffocate if you don't completely wake up that moment.
Not fun.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#7
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:17pmOh god, yeah, i hate waking up and not being able to breathe for a few seconds.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#8
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:19pm
I have never done anything outside of my bed except this one time this past summer.
I honestly don't remember a thing. But, when I woke up, I found a like a trail of carrots leading to my bed and then the rest of the bag was empty. I had just bought carrots at the supermarket the day before.
Did I eat them in my sleep and make a hansel and gretel path?
I was babysitting recently and I was sleeping over since they didn't get home till late. So, I was sleeping on the couch and I heard the parents come in but I went back to sleep. It must have been like 3am and I felt something rubbing against my feet. I thought it was the 4 year old because he tends to get up at night. So, I look up at I said "What William?" and he wasn't there so I layed back down. As I was falling back to sleep, it was the same feeling on my feet. I looked down and it was this black thing moving.
Then I saw these glowing scary eyes.
It was the new cat they got which they forgot to tell me about.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#9
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:31pm
Millie, sleep paralysis is fairly common. I get it fairly often -- usually when I wake up, do something active then go back to sleep. It's because your consciousness is slowly waking up, but your body is still paralyzed from sleep. This also includes the muscles used for breathing, which is why it often feels like you can't breathe or that someone is choking you.
I had a really terrifying one once. I was in my bed at my parents' house, and my dog came into the room and jumped on the bed, shaking from fear. I was trying to calm him down, and then looked up and saw a man standing over me. And he reached down and throttled my neck. When I woke up completely, neither the man nor my dog were in the room. All hallucinations.
Updated On: 2/4/06 at 01:31 PM
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#10
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:43pmWhen I was younger I used to sleepwalk down the stairs and stand in the doorway to my parent's room. My parents told me that one time my dad said "Emily, can you turn off that light?" and I said "Ok." then turned around and went back upstairs. Another time, I woke up in a different shirt than the one I fell aleep in.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#11
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:55pmA few years ago, I was semi-sleepwalking and just passed out in the middle of the hallway. Then when i woke up i was in the doorway of my parents room. It turns out i had a fever.. and on the way back to my room (about 3 steps away) i ended up in our spare bedroom on the floor. The fever was so bad it made me keep fainting and i was drenched in sweat. I thought i was dying.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#12
Posted: 2/4/06 at 2:25pm
I have two-one when I was a young girl-In my dream, I was flying (which is a common dream to have). this felt real, though, and I woke up on the floor, not near my bed.
the other is a later in life and it happened a few times. I'll be sleeping, but in that half awake stage. My shoulder would be uncovered. I'd be acutely aware of a person in the room, coming slowly near me. I'd just be lying there, so still, unable to move, although I'm scared. Suddenly, I feel a quick tap on my shoulder. I quickly cover myself up totally, and go back to sleep.
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re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#13
Posted: 2/4/06 at 2:52pmMore than once, I've dreamt (for one reason or another) that I was walking. In my dream, I trip, and I wake up flailing and trying to stop my fall. It's so abrupt and weird, because my body reacts to the fall even though I'm asleep.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#14
Posted: 2/4/06 at 2:58pm
I can relate Mythus, what happens to me is I am screaming in my dream (aren't medications a joy).......and I do not know I am asleep.....and I am screaming and no one hears me...and it's like I have no mouth, and then suddenly I REALLY am screaming and I wake with a start....or I wake if my partner smacks me and tells me to shut-up......
I really hate when this happens cause I don't know I'm asleep so it seems real.
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re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#15
Posted: 2/4/06 at 8:44pm
I hate waking up and your abruptly trying to stop your fall...but you never are falling in the first place...weird.
My parents said one time my brother almost slept walked out of the house.
Oh, about the dog story,Calvin, are you sure maybe your dog didnt leave before you really woke up?
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#16
Posted: 2/4/06 at 8:47pm
Here's one:
TV or other loud noises start directing your dream. That's often very creepy.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#17
Posted: 2/4/06 at 8:48pmI dreamed that I was giving blood for someone who had been in an accident. When I woke up, i had a sharp pain exactly where I had been "stuck."
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re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#18
Posted: 2/4/06 at 8:50pm
Who will NOT sleep tonight, after reading this thread? *raises hand*
I've done the same thing that Snowbird described. I rolled over on my arm and saw a hand next to me. I could NOT move, I was so terrified. It took a few moments for me to clue in that it was in fact MY hand.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#19
Posted: 2/4/06 at 8:51pm
One time--apparently--I had an entire phone conversation with someone while I was sleeping. Sounds weird, I know. But my mom's friend called me one time and later said he talked to me for about five minutes. I don't remember ONE bit of it.
Another time I was at a sleepover at my friend's house and I was fast asleep, like everyone else. All of a sudden, something woke me up and I was kind of staring into space. Just then, my friend's Furby's eyes SHOT OPEN (like a Chucky doll) and it said, "Me love you!" It was one of the scariest things imaginable.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#20
Posted: 2/4/06 at 8:54pm
This is so random, but kind of funny...
Last summer, in the middle of the night, my sister knocked on my bedroom door. I answered it, and she told me that I had (and I quote) tied with Napoleon Dynamite for Best Movie at the MTV Movie Awards. Not Best Actor, not Best Newcomer, but BEST MOVIE!!! Now, I know my sister really well. If she was kidding, there was no way she could have kept a straight face. I told her I'd accept the award tomorrow. As she started walking back upstairs, she stopped halfway and mumbled "I don't know what the hell I'm talking about...", then continued.
The next day, I go to work. I'm sitting in piles of files to go through. I stop and I say to myself, "Did that really happen? Nah. It couldn't have." On the ride back home, I realized that it did, in fact, happen. I stormed into my sister's room to find her sitting with some of her friends. I scream, "Can I just tell you all what she said to me last night?!?!"
She then explained to me what happened: She stayed up watching the MTV Awards til the early morning. Her air conditioner, for some reason, had turned off in the middle of the night. She woke up, saw the post-awards interviews, and hallucinated that I had won the Best Movie award.
Updated On: 2/4/06 at 08:54 PM
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re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#21
Posted: 2/4/06 at 8:56pmWow Lamc that would scare the crap out of me, one time I had this dream that everyones throats were getting balloon like and so was mine and then all the sudden our throats were turning blue and when I woke up I couldn't breath for like 2 minutes.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#22
Posted: 2/4/06 at 9:03pmyeah... it was creepy as hell. i still think about it.
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#23
Posted: 2/4/06 at 9:12pm
I remember there being a sharp pain from my dream, and I woke up with my my finger nails deeply embedded in my palm. It wasn't cool, it bruised. 
re: Creepy Sleeping Experiences#24
Posted: 2/4/06 at 9:21pm
Sleep paralysis is, as someone else said, fairly common. Also there are occasionally waking hallucinations that people can have when the dream functions of REM sleep don't turn themselves off when you wake up. These things only lsat a few minutes. Somewhat related to this, some people experience the other parts of REM (unconsciousness, dreaming) without the muscle paralysis part, so that they physically act out their dreams. This is different from sleepwalking, which occurs during deep sleep and usually goes away after childhood. It's a REALLY fascinating subject to me, if you couldn't tell.
As for my experiences... I get that weird sensation of falling sometimes right before I drift off to sleep and jerk awake, but apparently that's pretty common. Recurring dreams are interesting, and I've also had virtually the same dream as someone else on the same night, which is the creepiest thing ever. I'm sure it has to be just a coincidence, but... creepy.
Updated On: 2/4/06 at 09:21 PM
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