I saw a Stick Man in my room

[Schtickman]

I woke up around 2 am recently, and 'saw' the weirdest thing.

It was a stickman (like what you see on public toilets) 'running' through my bedroom. 'He' had no features as his face was a big black circle, but the vibe I got from him was that he saw me seeing him and had a very jolly, jovial and 'oops, ya caught me! What am I like?' kind of expression/energy. He found it all very funny.

It lasted about 2 seconds and afterwards, I lay there very bemused. I assumed it was some kind of dreamlike state, an overlap from being asleep and a sign of over exhaustion. However, when I googled it, lots of other people have had the same experience!

In fact, the general consensus was that these stick men were always 'on the go/innttansit somewhere', and they always reacted strangely when they realised they had been seen. The other interesting thing is that they often have a very jolly and jovial demeanor, just like my guy did.

I'm not coming at this from too much of a woo perspective, as I do think it was slee0 related. However, I do think it's a bit nuts to have seen this and then find out other people did too!

Did any of you ever see the Stickman?????

Here is an image from Google. He looked like this but was going in the opposite direction.

I’ve often had hypnagogic hallucinations but mine are things like spiders on the walls or very occasionally floating skulls.

They are “real” but by the time I’ve jumped out of bed, shouted and turned the lights on they’re gone.

Your Stickman story is shitting me up, tbh.

I see spiders. That's bad enough. Your stick man would have scared me shitless 😂

I had a horrible dream last night, I swallowed a mouse. People were telling me it was ok, I just had to fast for a week so it would die of hunger but then I got worried it would start eating me from the inside. They said if I started getting pains because it was eating me I'd need surgery to remove it. I was so happy to wake up. I wonder what a psychiatrist would make of that?

I once ‘woke up’ to see a headless figure wrapped in rags standing right next to the bed. If I hadn’t realised it was sleep paralysis I would have been terrified. But the stick man sounds freaky!

The interesting bit is that so many other people get this, too, whether it's hypnogogic/pompic, or woo.

I hear the doorbell in these half awake situations, I have to force myself awake to stop being scared about someone ringing the bell at 2am. Never had a jovial stickman though.

I’ve never heard of this before, but I’m interested to hear about so many people experiencing the same thing. A few years ago I had a number of episodes where I woke up to someone entering my bedroom or even getting into the bed, another thing lots of people seem to experience. I’ve read threads on here about it since then, although thankfully it hasn’t happened to me recently.

I once dreamt that I was in work, actually doing my job and talking to colleagues. Nearly lost my job as I arrived very late and so the shop wasn’t open and colleagues were waiting outside 🤦‍♀️

There are usually commonalities with what people see/feel with these things. I have woken up with sleep paralysis still effecting me and had the sensation of being tied up with dark figures looking down at me, this is apparently quite a common one ( and possibly why some alien abduction stories match). Likewise as pp has said. Spiders/bug on the walls. These are all common fears and that moment of near wakefulness is particularly vulnerable to fearful things and that's made worse if you can't move too.

I can only imagine that the stickman has entered the public consciousness in a similar way. Stickmen aren't very threatening as things go so it makes sense that they would be humourous rather then scary I suppose.

I wonder if 'seeing jovial stickmen' is something strange that the brain creates when it is in a particular chemical and electrical state?

A bit like the shared experience people recall when they've been very close to death, of going towards a bright light at the end of a dark tunnel?

I personally am sure these occurrences are more likely to be explained by brain science than metaphysics, but am willing to be convinced otherwise!

There will be some kind of neurological explanation of why so many people have the same hypnagogic hallucination that you did. I've had the sound of a rustling bag which is common.

I have psychosis and am medicated, but this is the sort of thing I see 😬

I hear loud banging on the door. Sometimes it feels like it wakes me up. I googled it and it's called "exploding head syndrome" 😱😱

Must be sleep paralysis surely?

I used to get sleep paralysis it was terrifying. I couldn't move and had the feeling that someone was coming up the stairs and into the room. It felt very real. Quite common though I believe.

I don't have any symptoms of being psychotic so hopefully it's not that! And I have seen spiders when waking up so assumed it was an extension of that. I think sleep paralysis can have a spiritual component as well as neurological, so am not ruling out that my experience wasn't other worldly but would rather seek out a biological cause first!

Is there anything in your life that other people are forcing you to accept, or any way in which someone else is overriding your feelings because it suits them?

I had a yeti once. Pretty extreme exhaustion. S/he was nice though. And calm. Running around figure would have been annoying.

@HauntedBungalow I had the knocking on the door last night!!! I looked at the cat and he wasn’t alert so I knew it couldn’t have been the door x

I actually had an experience recently where I dreamt there was a woman furiously buzzing our intercom trying to get in (I could see her on the camera). I woke up and got up to check the door was locked. Went to bed, straight back to sleep and guess what woke me up??? The intercom!! I went to it and there was nobody on the camera! I didn't imagine it as the camera was on and just comes on when someone buzzes.

Uh huh. Off you go to Creepy Pasta, OP. 😂

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As a teen, still living at home, I used to get sleep paralysis. It'd feel like there was a dark malevolent presence in the room, a huge pressure would pin me to the bed, I'd feel myself and the mattress beneath me being pushed down and I'd hear the mattress springs creaking. I'd try to cry out for help but my voice wouldn't work. Then, like the flick of a switch I'd be awake, able to speak and the pressure and presence gone.

I only found out about sleep paralysis years after though. But during the years these incidents occurred I was terrified I was being haunted by something.

I was also in my room alone one day, during the day and awake, just staring out the window, and the room started to rock from side to side. I had to hold onto the window sill to steady myself.

Sometimes Id hear a mans voice and footsteps upstairs whenever I was alone at home.

When I heard of sleep paralysis it all made sense. Apparently trauma and stress is often the cause it, along with other 'woo' like experiences. I was living with an abusive parent & step parent and felt trapped and constantly stressed. When I moved into a place of my own, these incidents stopped. But then I ended up in another abusive relationship and the sleep paralysis started again. Ended that relationship, and lo and behold it stopped again.

I’ve had the alien one. It was crawling on top of me and trying to get near my face. 😱

Several times I’ve had hallucinations at night. One was a ‘stick man’ figure running across my bed. But I interpreted that as a malevolent devil figure, not jovial. ( I was a child at the time)