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Boy sat on my bed

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justmakemeacuppa · 07/12/2018 21:07

Was a weekend and my daughter came in as usual to ask if she could watch telly while I got some more sleep till smallest dd woke up in my bed. As I was trying to come round I could see a vision of something stood next to the bed and then I clearly saw a small boy sat on my bed. I wasn’t scared at all strangely and asked his name. He was dress but couldn’t tell you in what but was clean and looked well kept. He disappeared and that was that my 1st daughter used to talk to a little boy and was wondering could this be the little boy she used to talk to??? It wasn’t a dream I’m almost sure. I know their are people that don’t believe it could have been a ghost but if not why would I be dreaming about a boy sat on my bed?

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Rosalise · 08/12/2018 00:37

I saw something about this in a documentary once. It's a perfectly normal thing to happen. You can read about it on the NHS website.

Rosalise · 08/12/2018 00:40

This is from the website:

Hallucinations and sleep

It's relatively common for people to experience hallucinations just as they're falling asleep (hypnagogic), or as they start to wake up (hypnopompic).

The hallucination may take the form of sounds, or the person may see things that don't exist, such as moving objects, or a formed image, such as a person (the person may think they've seen a ghost).

Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations are particularly common in people with narcolepsy. However, they can also occur in people without narcolepsy or any disorder. They're essentially like dreams, and in themselves are nothing to worry about.

IWasTrendingThereForAMinute · 08/12/2018 00:41

I've seen a ghost. No question about it.

SnipSnipMrBurgess · 08/12/2018 00:52

Yeah, ghosts aren't real. You dreamt it or hallucinated it.

Pachyderm1 · 08/12/2018 00:54

There’s no such thing as ghosts - but sleep hallucinations are very common and can seem incredibly real. I once hallucinated burning my hand and when I came to it was painful for a few minutes.

Miscible · 08/12/2018 00:57

Why wouldn't you be dreaming about a boy sitting on your bed? We dream about all sorts of things, I can't see any reason whatsoever why you would assume that it's impossible to dream about this.

PolkaDoting · 08/12/2018 01:03

I know their are people that don’t believe it could have been a ghost but if not why would I be dreaming about a boy sat on my bed

You genuinely think that dreaming there is a boy sat on your bed is so knock out strange, that it being a ghost is a more plausible answer?!

Grin
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee · 08/12/2018 01:10

I can have amazingly real dreams and I also get Déjà vu so occasionally can see things. I over it when it happens as it feels 100% even though I know it’s just my mind playing tricks.

I can’t imagine why anyone would think they were immune from Vivid dreams. It’s a million times more plausible than believing in ghosts.

Ghosts do not exist.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee · 08/12/2018 01:11

*I love it when it happens

TheMaddHugger · 08/12/2018 01:12

I'm not usually scared of spiders, but often as I awake I clearly see spiders. Big fat Huntsmen infront of my face. 😒

I do beieve in Ghosts🤷‍♀️

Thedukes · 08/12/2018 01:18

I saw a spider last night on the wall. I know the fucker was real as he's now dead on the bedroom floor and I haven't cleaned the bedroom today. I do have a lot of dreams where I suddenly wake up, and whatever it is that frightened me in the dream isn't there anymore and I'm just in my bed.

Not sure whether I'd put hallucinations as a term on it. Psychiatrists certainly would.
Do I believe in ghosts? No.
Do I believe that other people may be able to see them? Yes, maybe.

Thedukes · 08/12/2018 01:23

I seem to be having a lot of nightmares recently i.e. distressing dreams where I end up sitting bolt up in bed and then just realising it was just a dream.

jessstan2 · 08/12/2018 01:27

Sounds sweet. A lucid dream. I've had a couple, mine were not so nice. I'd have found yours intriguing and pleasant but eventually we wake up properly (even tho' we think we were awake at the time), & everything is as it was. Sometimes we wish we could go back and find out what happened, at other times we're glad we were not really awake even though we thought we were.

Quite normal, nothing supernatural.

Sethis · 08/12/2018 01:29

I woke up from a dream once where I was sat up and raised out of bed, reaching and searching along the shelf above the bed, and I was convinced, utterly and completely convinced, that I was a dragon rider, rode a white dragon, and I was reaching for a key that would unlock the gates of a castle. It honestly took me a few minutes to work out that none of it was in fact real, and I was crushed. I loved that dragon so much.

AutumnEvenings · 08/12/2018 01:32

|I can remember having sleep paralysis very well when my kids were young. I had worked a night duties as a nurse, it was Xmas school holidays and there was no-one who could have the children. I told DH that I would kip on the sofa and watch the kids, then go to bed as soon as he got back from work.

Instead of staying awake to do this, I woke as if from a deep sleep on the sofa. The kids were poking at me and saying "Mum we are hungry, can you make us some lunch". I was wide awake and could hear them but felt felt paralysed and completely unable to move. After a while I woke properly and made them scrambled eggs with toast and gave them each a banana, then went back to sleep.

In the past, from talking to older nurses this was common and was known as "night nurse paralysis", typically when nurses were expected to work night duties for many nights in succession without enough sleep during the day to make up for it.

AutumnEvenings · 08/12/2018 01:37

I totally believe in hospital ghosts.

Lovingbenidorm · 08/12/2018 01:41

I used to believe, but I don’t now.

MrsTerryPratcett · 08/12/2018 01:42

I had a yeti once with concurrent paralysis.

I believe in neither yeti nor ghosts.

I do believe in brains and science though. Which is why it happened.

GretchenFranklin · 08/12/2018 02:06

I don't know OP. I saw a person once right in front of me. And then he wasn't. Was it a ghost? I can't think what else it was.

You have had a mysterious apparition OP. Who can tell what it was?

SpiritedLondon · 08/12/2018 02:10

Just because there is a condition that causes hallucinations doesn’t mean every hallucination results from that condition / situation. No one can say whether ghosts exist we can only say whether we believe in them or not. Believe as you wish OP

recklessruby · 08/12/2018 02:14

Right now my son and I are e experiencing paranormal activity. The stairs are banging like someone s walking on them and we were recording messages from ghosts.
I m being serious

GretchenFranklin · 08/12/2018 02:14

A yeti Mrs TP

Really?

WereYouHareWhenIWasFox · 08/12/2018 02:31

It is a premonition, are you pregnant OP, because it is a boy! I know this because I once dreamt that I was going to get new shoes, guess what? The very next day I bought new shoes. It was amazing. I am pretty sure I am getting a unicorn for Christmas now because I dreamt that too!

MrsTerryPratcett · 08/12/2018 02:38

Full on proper yeti. I kid you not Gretchen. It was particularly weird. Working nights, sleep deprived, strange house... yeti. I was pretty freaked out. Then I realized yeti don't exist. I was perturbed for quite a while though.

MrsTerryPratcett · 08/12/2018 02:38

Kind of blueish, huge and hairy.

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