A few months ago I started waking in the night feeling like someone had tapped me on the leg or arm to wake me. Like my children do if they come in to me in the night and I'm fast asleep. I wake with a jolt but no child is there. The door isn't open so the children haven't been in and then gone again. Doesn't happen every night, maybe once every week or two. But last night it felt like I was really shaken quite firmly and I could hear female voices, I'm the only female in my house. I was really fast asleep and did not want to wake up but then couldn't get back to sleep for ages afterwards.
I don't know whether I believe in ghosts or not, maybe I've never had reason to think about it before! I do believe in an afterlife. It doesn't feel malevolent or bad but I would really like it to stop. If it is ghosts/spirits, any suggestions on how to stop it?
I did post this on the 'other' board and a few people suggested it could be hypnogogic hallucinations. I'm just not sure.