Do you ever wake up and see a figure standing over you?

[Shipley]

Ive had this for years and always presumed its just a sleep/waking crossover but my friend said its weird!
I lived in my old house for 13 years and this house for 2 and it's happened in both houses. I don't remember it happening as a kid or before I left home. Sometimes I've thought it was my daughter stood about to fall out of her cot and now she's older and sleeps in my bed sometimes I think she's stood up and about to fall. A few nights ago I woke and 'saw a tall male figure stood over me, I gasped and shouted(perhaps only in a dream) my son's name thinking it was him as he is tall.

I never remember the dreams leading up to these moments and as soon as my eyes focus I see nothing and can go back to sleep.

If I thought it was a ghost I may burn my house down!

No other strange goings on and I think it happened before my Grandma passed in 2012 who is the only close relative I have lost as an adult.

So is it just me or is it a known phenomena? Or is it a spirt world sign?!

I'm inclined to think an angel wouldn't frighten me from my sleep!

Your brain paralyzes you when you fall asleep so that you don't act out your dreams.
Sleep paralysis means you woke up in the wrong order, thats all.

The figure is a nightmare that your subconsious conjures up because it believes you are pinned to the bed.

it would be really interesting to see if a medium could pick up any energy around you/see if they could find out more.

How do mediums do this? Do they have some special energy stick? If they were a large would it be easier? Do smalls find it more difficult to find the energy?

It's only happened to me once, but was very frightening at the time. There is a mirrored wardrobe opposite the bed. I "woke up" to see in the mirror a short, dark-haired man with a curled moustache (think Poirot) standing beside me. I tried to scream but nothing came out, tried to move but couldn't move. It lasted for what seemed like ages but may only have been a few seconds. What had happened was that evidently I was dreaming that I had just woken up, then I partially did wake up but was still seeing the dream. Very weird - and I was quite shaken. It happened at least 20 years ago and I still remember it vividly.

Only the morning after I’ve dropped a shitload of acid.

Glitterblue yours sounds like the night hag!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_hag

How do mediums do this? Do they have some special energy stick? If they were a large would it be easier? Do smalls find it more difficult to find the energy?

I'm not sure if you are taking the mick or asking a question. Different mediums work in different ways. The ones that I have seen just have to bring themselves in to a certain mind frame, sometime use candles to help them give a point to focus on etc. Others use objects, smells, whatever. I'm not going to explain it as I do feel like this was a joke and not a real question but apologise if that is not the case.

Recently I've been waking to see a man, army style clothing, watching me. He isn't over me though and is actually usually on the other side of the bed. Don't feel remotely creeper out at the time, instead I feel instantly at ease. It's only now that when I think about it I get creeper out.

I have had sleep paralysis in the past too, that's been fricking awful! Never been so scared.

I had this in my first house - he'd sometimes lie on the bed too. I never said anything but then XH felt & saw it too.
I don't believe in ghosts but it's the only thing I can possibly think of to explain it.
It's never happened anywhere else, ever.

Used to happen frequently as a child. Once it was someone calling my name and they seemed lovely and caring, like they were sat on my bed.

I also used to think it was happening when I had a cat. I’d wake up thinking someone was standing over me only to have a giant purring cat in my face staring at me!

Yes, I had this quite often as a child. Still do on occasion.

The "man in all black", to quote a PP, has gone now, but I once woke up to find myself in the middle of a burning inferno. I was so terrified I couldn't even scream. Then I realised that there wasn't any heat from the fire, so it couldn't be real.

Recently, I woke up to find myself covered in reverse newspaper printing. I spent some time searching under the bedclothes for the newspaper I'd obviously accidentally slept on, before I realised that this was not real.

I have sleep paralysis quite frequently - it's intensely irritating when someone wakes me up to ask me something and all I can do is blink at them. I do worry some day someone will think I'm dead or something...

Ive never had any feelings of paralysis, but I can never be too sure if I've made the noise I think I have.

A few weeks ago I woke my darling daughter up pulling her hair as felt she was falling out of bed, she wasn't! A similar state which therefore reassures me it's jumbled up waking as stated as sometimes I sense it's her stood up then wake to realise she isn't.

The hallucination posted up thread sounds interesting I will have a read. Should also add I rarely drink and have never really dabbled in drugs (maybe 3 joints in my teen years).

I do take Citalopram though I think this predates it.

All. The. Time!!! It’s like a see through figure, a blurry see through I suppose. I usually wake and watch it for a minute but the second I speak it’s gone!!! My DH thinks I’m crazy!! But here’s another story while we’re at it. Once I woke up in the middle of the night to a tall black cloaked figure beside me, with his hood up, he was making a grunting,growling kind of noise so, naturally I freaked out, started screaming and shouting and practically jumped on Dh saying “there’s a man in the room!!” My heart was pounding, I was shaking so much! Dh had to calm me down, make me tea etc etc. it was awful. A week later I had a bit of bleeding (I knew I was pregnant) and when I went for the scan I was told that baby had stopped developing at 8 wks 3 days!! Guess how far along I was the night of my vision!!?? Yep...8wks 3days!! I am CONVINCED to this day that the vision was the grim reaper!!! No joke!! Freaks the shit outa me!!

In my last home I used to sense that something was getting into bed with me. I was always partially asleep and unable to move my body. If I lay on the right side of the bed I felt as if it was lying on top of me if I lay on the other side of the bed I could feel the weight of the bed shift as it got into the bed.

It was a really horrible feeling and I was really scared. I didn't sleep properly for months and slept on the sofa most nights.

Somebody suggested that I move the bed to a different position in the room, I did and all of this stopped.

Yes, it's usually ds1 asking where his clean pants are.

This is a good bedtime read

Yes it's happened to me a few times, sleep paralysis, hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations, REM intrusions, they're all related far as I know

I know people who have this. What I find interesting is that the person's background clearly influences what they see. A Catholic friend used to see a devil crouching on his chest (there are historic paintings of this too) whereas an Atheist friend saw nothing, or a man. My pet theory is that the prevalence of alien abduction from sleep stories in the States are actually accounts of sleep paralysis.

Yes! I get night terrors and wake up screaming thinking someone is stood above me relatively frequently.

I was raped when I was younger, and it dates back to that rather than ghost stuff though.

Since I was a child. It used to be someone coming in the door and casting a net over my bed as I fought against it. And the figure standing silently at the foot of my bed. Happens less now as I approach 60, but probably because I never sleep ...

To reassure others, what I described definitely fits with 'hypnopompic hallucinations' and its good to give it a name. Some of your stories sound much more though! Mostly my figure is the plain black silhouette (or my daughter). Sometimes my teenage son or hisband actually wake me entering or passing the room which has added into the fear.

I'm dreading it developing further having read some of the other things people have shared here!!

I suffer from sleep paralysis and have levitated, been thrown around the room, heard noises, smelt gas (obviously all of these are imagination) and my biggest fear is that I will get it and see someone standing above me. I've suffered for around 15 years and it has never happened and hopefully never will as I think I would die of fear.

Yes I've had hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucination my whole life. I see insects though, really big ones and spiders. My sister sees a man at the foot of her bed when she gets them.

Only once....had bright red eyes...(google shadow people...seen them twice but once learning over me)

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Thrown around the room 😱😱😱

yes though I don't always 'see' them. I can feel or hear them.