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Originally Posted by Gemini562

Okay, so I've got this freaky tale from when I was in high school. Picture this: middle of the night, I wake up, and I'm totally stuck, can't move anything but my eyes. And it seriously feels like there's someone in the room watching me. I tried to curse at whatever it was, hoping it would scram, but then—get this—I felt this icy cold air just hit me in the face. it felt like someone was literally blowing air right onto my face. No AC, nothing. It was summer. Finally got moving again and kept all the lights on, just waiting for dawn. Next day, I told my buddies, and one suggested it might've been sleep paralysis like your body's asleep but your brain's not, and you hallucinate freaky stuff. But that doesn't explain the cold air, right??

(Before I forget, RIP to everyone's loved ones mentioned ITT.)

Tx for this very interesting thread...and timely too because I just experienced something very similar last mth. I never had any sleep prbs/issues but just this past Mar, I've had THREE (3) such experiences.

Your friend is correct if we wish to go down the scientific route. Supposedly, when we are in REM sleep, our body shuts down but if we experience this sleep paralysis, it's because our brain 'wakes up' too early and faster than the body can so that's why we can usually only move our eyes.

On my third event, I think that I was able to move my finger and forearm a bit, so I was trying to tap my wife's pillow to get her attn but she slept like a log. Tx a lot, wifey LMAO. Luckily, all 3 times lasted only for ~5 seconds and I was more intrigued and just trying to find a solution instead of freaking out/fearful of some evil spirit, etc. It felt like a big forcefield on me and I couldn't move anything at all, not even a mm, save for my arm on my 3rd. Also, on my 3rd, it felt like someone was operating one of those handheld vibrating massagers and running it ontop of my body.

I wish that I could interpret it in the paranormal sense but alas. I guess that I wasn't my usual happy-go-lucky self during that period, but I didn't have any crazy trauma happen to me, so it is kinda perplexing why I suddenly had this concentrated onset when I never had any sleep issues in my whole life.

Besides that, I mentioned before one time I was trying to close a kinda switchknife the *wrong* way, about to press my thumb into the blade when I distinctly heard a thought in my brain of someone saying STOP!!!! It really spared me from some crazy pain.

Originally Posted by Oldgixxer

Ok,I'll bite..
When I was 12 my grandfather had a heart attack at home and passed away. My grandmother was clearly distraught as expected;the following night when she went to bed she woke up shortly after to my grandfather sitting on the bed telling her everything will be ok. She freaked out and ran out of the bedroom crying and ran downstairs. I was at their house w my mom & I was asleep in a bedroom next to hers. I immediately woke up like wtf is going on? She tells my mom what just occurred in graphic detail as I was quietly listening from the other room. That was '83,she never slept in their bedroom again,or would even go in that room unless someone was there w her.

This is where it gets creepy. Two days later I'm sleeping in my own bed and wake up in the middle of the night to a tapping on my window(getting chills as I type this)..our dog starts barking,there's nothing outside the window. Mom gets up to check on me( I didn't mention the tapping),then goes back to bed. I'm just about to fall asleep again and I hear louder tapping on the window...TAP TAP TAP.
Now I'm freaking out as I know what I just heard and the dog is at full alert. 30mins later our phone rings(2am)its my grandma freaking out to my mom saying she just got a call from my uncle in Canada who was also freaking out, My gramps and he were super close. He awoke to a tapping on his bedroom window that continued for a few seconds. He got up and looked out the window and nothing was there. Goes back to bed and wakes up to a louder TAP TAP TAP on the glass. Now he's scared and says "who's there??!" TAP TAP TAP. Nothing there. Tapping starts again and he says out loud "who is it" TAP TAP TAP. He says my gramps name out loud,"Bill?"
The tapping stopped immediately after he said his name and never occurred again for either him or I.

Anyways,my mom told me the next day in depth what the phone convo was about w my grandma at 2am...about what my uncle in Canada experienced and she told me not to be scared that sometimes strange,unexplained things occur after a loved one passes and that it might be grandpa saying goodbye to loved ones that were close.

So,basically just some unexplained tapping on a glass window after gramps passed. Take it FWIW,I know 100% what I heard that night so if y'all don't believe me I'm fine w that.

What an amazing story. So, I guess that you were pretty close to your grandpa in addition to your uncle being close to him?

I'm always curious about how ppl react to their dead relatives. I would want to talk w them instead of running away (unless they came to me all dripping in blood or something lol), but I guess every has their tolerances. How would you all react in similar situation?

Judging by yours and other ppl's accounts here, it really is true that little kids and animals are more in-tune w the paranormal.

Originally Posted by ///MPhatic

First I want to say that I'm not a believer in ghosts, or a soul, or god or anything like that. However, I do believe that there are things that we, as humans, maybe be able to detect but don't quite understand how yet.

A few years ago my mother passed away. We had emptied her house other than the heavy furniture and I had gone over just to check everything one last time and silently say my last goodbyes. I went into the room where she passed, the bed was still there along with the covers and pillow. I was very aware of the quiet in the house. She lived by a busy street so there were almost constant sounds outside, but they were all muffled. It made the quiet in the house seem even more quiet, so perception was pretty high. I have always enjoyed this kind of quiet stillness.

Anyway, I was in the process of kneeling down at the foot of her bed (not even sure exactly why, as I certainly wasn't going to pray), and as I got closer to the bed I got the unmistakable smell of perfume for just a second on the way down, but once I was all the way down there was no smell at all. I guess I had intended to just lay my head on the bed for a few minutes and remember her, but now my thoughts would not leave the perfume.

I instantly reasoned that the smell had to have come from the bedding or the pillow, as it makes perfect sense, but a quick smell of the area, and indeed moving up and down several times as I had just done, trying to recreate the exact circumstances produced no smell at all. I looked around the room, there was nothing, just a chest of drawers, a nightstand, and the bed. No movement, no A/C or heat on, just quiet stillness.

I immediately felt my face flush and felt a bit of fight or flight, so I left. I know her favorite perfume very well, White Shoulders, she had worn it for years, yet I'm not sure that's what it was, it happened so fast. All I know is that it was without a doubt perfume, and there was none around anywhere.

I know that the part of the brain that controls memory and the part of the brain that controls smell are very near to each other, so we can sometimes literally create smells from memory for just an instant when diving deep into a memory, but I wasn't thinking of anything at the time, I was just trying to spend a few more moments there before the house was empty and sold.

I did return a few weeks later, the room was empty, and there was an altogether different feel to the place. It's as if I had felt something more last time, like something else was there, and this last time it clearly was not.

It was probably all in my mind, but it was an experience for sure.

Did you ever try smelling White Shoulders to confirm if it was that perfume? Maybe it could provide you w more insight about that day.

I dread the day when I will need to clear out my parent's house. Time goes by too quickly.

I used to be a 100% scientific, atheist, pure-logic kinda guy, but some things which happened really made me re-evaluate my beliefs. I try to keep an open mind and explore all the possibilities.

Take care, my Caucasian brother from another mother.