Aibu to be really weirded out at what just happened.

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Currently co sleeping with my 3 year old DD as her room is being redecorated. I was fast asleep and all of a sudden woke up hearing her crying. I sat up quickly. Then I convinced myself she had got out the bed and walked over to near the clothing rail and I called out twice and then said ‘DDs name what you doing?’ And went to stand up and get out the bed. Convinced she was sleep walking. I then focused on the clothing rail and it was just one of her jackets hung up. I looked in the bed and she was sleeping soundly and had not moved/woke up at all. It seemed so real that I saw her climb out the bed and walk. I could have sworn it was really happening.

I feel really weirded out. Can something explain this?

Just a strange dream. I used to work with some very heavy machinery I would sometimes dream I was trapped in one it was terrifying and very real but still a dream. It must have been a worry on my mind. With you DD must have been on your mind

If it means you feel any better I once had an episode like this, and long story, but ended up calling the police out. They sent "rapid response" squad out with police with batons and stab vests, because the door was bolted from the inside and therefore "the intruder was still in the property". Once the penny dropped I had to explain, and they were just bewildered by how it got so far, but the lead officer had difficultly keeping a straight face when he said "Well at least no-one got hurt" as he ushered the rest of the officers back into the van. 🙈

I have sleep paralysis but I cannot move, call out, open my eyes etc. It’s like a demon watching me and I can see my surroundings but I see this awful thing and cannot move or cry out, and I get this awful sense of impending doom. It’s horrible. I’ve experienced jt 3 times in my life, last 2 times were a week apart after watching scary TV! I hate sleeping alone because of it.

My anxiety medication causes hallucinations and vivid dreams

My husband woke up to go to the toilet in the middle of the night and I dreamed that he's going to jump through the window and I woke up screaming "what are you doing???!!!!". He was really confused as he was on his way to the bathroom :D It happens.

Lucid dream. I have them and I wake up completely unsure whether it was real or not - I have questioned my DD before because I didn't know whether it had happened yesterday or in my head. Weird thing is, I'm kind of used to them now, although they don't happen often - I usually can tell myself, during the dream, that it's okay and I'm dreaming, and occasionally I can deliberately influence the events in the dream.

I have exactly this too - it's always been in a room that's old or where there has been some sort of sadness or bad event (ancient university buildings; rental property in a run--down part of town). The last I had was when newly pregnant (in a house where the previous family had suffered a stillbirth), and I felt it was trying to reach into my womb to harm the baby.

Every time this has happened, I say the name of Jesus and it instantly goes.

I am on the fence as to whether this is sleep paralysis / dreams (and speaking out loud wakes me up) or genuine demonic activity. Threads like this make me veer towards the more rational explanation but it really doesn't feel that way at the time. Whatever it is, I don't like it!

Are you sleeping well otherwise? When I'm not sleeping well, I wake up randomly thinking I csn here my dog whining, partner talking to me, even someone braking in downstairs etc and get out of bed to see what's happening, go downstairs but its always nothing. This then makes it even more difficult for me to sleep. I notice its been worse over the last few nights as the heat is making it difficult for me to rest properly.

Has anyone ever had this. In the past if i go to a strange room to sleep i used to go over to the window and start feeling around. I think it was checking where i was and checking for the way out.

This hasnt happened for a long time. I dont know whether i was awake or asleep.

I have this when I have a fever

It's your mind playing tricks on you in that strange "not awake but not asleep" stage. I was recently convinced that there was a snake on my bedroom floor! Was terrified! Until I woke up properly.

Are you really exhausted? Cos me and partner have some weird things like this when we’ve been really really done in. The night we brought our eldest home from the hospital he rocked our son cos he made a noise. Except it wasn’t our son, it was a pillow. He was convinced for a good few minutes it was our son despite me going “look he’s in the Moses basket” and it was only when our son made a snuffly noise that he came round to what he was doing. A few hours after that we’d gone to bed and I woke up suddenly, ran around the flat in a panic and woke my other half up going “where’s my step dad??? When did he leave?! He got into bed with us and stayed so he could help with DS!!!” Weird, I’ve never shared a bed with him in my life and he had left our flat hours ago, but took me a few minutes to come round and realise I was being a bit insane. My partner also once woke up in a total panic, flipped the duvet off of us and was searching for “that fucking massive spider that’s crawling in the bed”. There wasn’t one, he’d been dreaming I guess as when he woke up a bit more he had no idea what he was doing and promptly went back to sleep. I however, did not and laid up all night terrified of the imaginary massive spider 🙃

I have this sometimes, very strange experience. I get sleep paralysis at times too, which is terrifying!

For quite a while I would dream that it wasn't my husband sleeping next to me but another random man, I was so convinced that I used to get up and get dressed and then get back into bed and carry on my sleep.

In my scrambled brain I felt it wasn't appropriate to sleep next to anyone else unless fully dressed and used to wake up wearing the weirdest combinations.

Ha yes the spiders thing! I've had this loads of times in my life when waking up, seeing spiders on the ceiling, dangling down, on my pillow etc. They're so real and I jump up and put the lights on and they either fade slowly or vanish.

The weird thing is though, I'm not bothered by spiders at all! They don't scare me so why does my mind see them? Sometimes it's been weird scorpion-like things. Maybe it's something primal, to stop us being stung by venomous things in our caves 😆

I'd guess you dreamed you heard her crying and that woke you up.

I once dreamed I had a newborn (my sons are adults now) and when I woke up I genuinely thought I had a baby for about a minute.

Cats outside can sound just like crying babies / young children.
I see/ hear all kinds of weird shit if I'm " woken" suddenly, as I don't always completely wake up so what I experience bears no resemblance to actually reality.
Just this past sunday I thought that I'd got up around 6 , fed the dogs , then headed back to bed with a book.
In reality I had launched out of bed around 4 ish ( according to DH , he knows not to stop me ) , poured the dog food into the big dogs water bowl, grabbed a placemat and lay down on the couch. 🤷‍♀️

Surely it's just a dream and in poor light whst you were sleepy you thought you saw DD but didn't.

Sleep paralysis or a doppleganger?
My sister was walking in her kitchen and saw her husband clear as day looking into the fridge and she asked what he was wanting to eat and he answered then her "real" husband walked up behind her and asked who she was talking to. Then she turned around and the fridge was still open and her "doppelganger husband" was no longer there. Mid afternoon it happened

I get this too, it's like waking nightmares. I see people coming in through the windows or the walls caving in. I wake up standing looking out the window often and have seen people in the garden and standing on the shed. I walk to my ds's room and check his pulse and check he's breathing!! I hear the doorbell or people knocking on the door but when I check our CCTV there's no one there, it's hallucinations. I used to get this a few times a month as I've always been a sleepwalker but I'm on tons of meds for overactive thyroid at the moment and it's now happening a few times a night. I'm knackered from lack of sleep.

It sounds like the hallucinations I get when I've had sleep paralysis. It can be quite frightening because you're convinced it's real.

I have this. Once I could see ds1 clear as day next to the bed, reached out my hand to him and he melted (best way to describe it) into the darkness. It gave me such a fright! I got up to check him and he was sound asleep tucked up in his bed. I was obviously dreaming but it looked so real! The other night I could hear him crying and calling me, leapt out of bed and he was, again, sound asleep. As was ds2. The mind plays tricks, especially at night.

Weird question but do you currently have a fan on in your room?

I'm conditioned to listen out for DD having a nightmare at the moment and I swear I've felt like I've heard her the last two nights whilst she's been in with me. It's been my mind playing tricks on me, kind of listening out whilst not being able to hear as well in my sleep.

If I were a deeper sleeper I think I could have convinced myself that she was in her room and got up.

My son has had aws Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. When he gets a fever he hallucinates things close/far away or big/small. Fevers are no joke. Only ibuprofen brings his down. Luckily 3 years since our last virus and hospital visit!

As a child, and up until I left home at 19, I shared a room with my younger sister who had epilepsy. If she had a seizure, I would have to fetch our mother, and time the seizure and write it down in a record book.
Several times though, I dreamt (well, I assume it to be a dream now) that she was having a seizure, I'd check her and go to fetch our mum.... but my sister wasn't at home. She was at her respite home for the weekend. It also happened once when I stayed with my aunt, I was so distressed that my sister was having a massive seizure, and disorientated that I couldn't work out where i was or find her, my aunt finally telephoned my parents. My mum wasn't there, she'd gone with my sister to hospital in an ambulance after she'd had a massive seizure....