Moved from the Quest to Lucidity into the Stuff Dreams are made of forum
A few nights ago I had an odd encounter. I woke up from sleep and sat up in my bed. My door was cracked open about 5 inches. From my bed i looked out the crack and saw a short black figure. After a few seconds it started moving! At this point i was somewhat scared. It moved behind my door and i couldnt see it anymore. So i jumped up out of my bed opened my door really fast and turned on the light.
Odd Huh?? I had full control of what i was doing.
Perhaps an hypnopompic (hypnagogic=when you fall asleep, hypnopompic=when you wake up) hallucination? Some strange hallucinations may appear (though very rarely) when you wake up.
I had simmilar situation. I waked up from nightmare, and heard breathing. It was coming from nowhere. That was scary too, i never found a right explanation of it. Basilus West might be right.
I wouldn’t chalk this up to ghosts or anything, it’s happened to me several times. What I’ve found is that upon waking, your eyes begin to refocus and let in light, sometimes certain areas of your vision may not clear up as fast as others. So you may have what looks like a temporary dark area, that moves when your eyes move(like the spot(s) you see after looking at something bright). The other possibility is a hallucination. A couple months ago I awoke suddenly, and while I was falling back asleep I looked at my wastebasket. While I looked at it, it began to move, then stretch. Eventually it stretched into the shape of an elephant( ). That was something of an oddity…
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