I just woke up and saw a ghost*

[Connie222]

*Ok so I know it wasn’t a ghost. They don’t exist. I was probably dreaming. But fuck me, I was terrified.

14 weeks pregnant and exhausted. I’m asleep by 7.30pm.

Woke with a a start and I sweat to God there was a man standing by my bed. Solid white but sort of see through. Like a little podgy old man.

I’ve never moved so fast in my life, shit out of bed and screamed for Dh downstairs. He came running and I was shaking for ages.

Sat with with a cup of tea now feeling like a twat.

Shot out of bed, not shit. But you know, that was possible.

Did you eat cheese before bed?

No cheese! It was so vivid though.

There’s a special name for this! It happened to me once too and then years later I read that it’s a known sort of hallucination on waking. Can’t remember what it’s called tho!

I think I might have shit the bed too.

Boris J?

Hypnogogic hallucination?

Or Hypnopompic hallucination.

I've had them, terrifying. It's your brain trying to expell energy.

Is your husband supportive generally?

I had this once it’s very unsettling

Parents had moved into an old pub and was my first time staying there since they’d moved in, I had a cold so gone to bed early woke up in middle of night to find a man in my room we had a full blown conversation his name was George he told me it was his room and I had to find somewhere else to sleep obviously was freaked out so picked up my duvet and off I went to the sofa

Woke up very bemused in the morning almost 20 years later I’m still convincing self was a dream as don’t believe in the alternative

Yes, Dh is great. He was just glad it was that, his
First thought was that I was bleeding or something.

@Figgygal bloody hell!

@Qcng I’ve been under a lot of stress. My brain has been going 100 mph.

Is that what's been happening to me recently? I was wondering what it was. Flipping terrifying.

You've my sympathy Connie. If it's any consolation I got them too when I was pregnant, and then apart from a spell during extreme stress, I've not had it until a few weeks ago.

Last night was horrid.

Once happened to me. Woke up to a teenage boy stood at the end of my bed plain as day. I jumped up in panic and woke up properly and he was gone. I know I was hallucinating but he looked so real and it still freaks me out years later!

Yep hypnopompic hallucinations, they're the ones that happen when you are waking up. Hypnogognic ones are when you are falling asleep. I've had them since I was a child and have seen all sorts of weird things, I'm so used to them now that I recognise when they happen and am not scared (usually! )

Yes, Dh is great it's great you're supported it's very stressful having a new arrival.

The most common ones are black shadow demonic type visions, so to help you feel better, a white ghostly apparition is not as bad as it can get!
I'm not minimizing your terror. I'm sure you were terrified. Don't feel worried about sharing your night visions either with friends family etc, you'll probably find most have had the same thing, you're not alone.

Sorry I spat my Tropical lemonade out laughing when I read Boris J. .
I think you’d rather see a ghost than him in your bloody room.

I wonder though if the people you see are actually people who exist or just a picture your brain builds up.

Sleep paralysis?

Mine isn't a person, it's a spider. A massive one in extreme, lifelike detail. I mean the size of a cat.

I've had it a few times especially as a child and my mother used to run in because once I could move I just started screaming. As an adult I know what it is and can get up and STILL see it until I turn on the light. Wasps on occasion too, big bastards.

I do think that it's helped me with lucid dreaming though. Managed that one twice