What is the creepiest thing you have ever experienced?

[5Stars]

Woke up one night with the hair standing up on my neck,didn't hear anything,or see anything but on high alert for the longest,finally went back to sleep.
The next time, I was parking with my girlfriend and this feeling came over me,I guess you could call it dread,panic,some one is watching,but I cranked up and threw gravel in whomever it was face. My girlfriend wanted to know why we left,I told her didn't like where we had stopped.

Dude! That was her father!

:laugh2:

 

[tko112204]

I do this pretty regularly. At least when I know I will get a good night's sleep. Once I enter my dream, I have to make sure I am in the dream, so I pull my fingers. Every time, my fingers stretch like I am gumbo or something. It's then where I start dreaming what I want to dream. Doesn't always work, but I have grown better at it. One time, I wanted to dream that I was the QB of the Dallas Cowboys, and I ended up only being the backup QB watching from the sidelines.

These are fantastic. I've tried to describe them to my girlfriend, but I don't know how to articulate what it feels like.

I just tell her I can control what I dream about, I just think about it and it happens, with the same "reality factor" of a dream. It just happens.

The worst part is when you "lose" it. Because once it's gone, it doesn't come back that night. At least for me.

Been working on it for a while, I think it would be AWESOME if I could get to the point where I could do it on command.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Sleep paralysis is a fairly common experience for me. There are periods over which it occurs with greater frequency than others. In the vast majority of cases, I undergo sleep paralysis when I'm home alone. It even happens when I think someone else is in the house but then discover upon awaking that nobody else is there.

I have numerous experiences I could share. For instance, a particularly chilling episode occurred when I was in college.

While I was attending UT, I lived at home with my parents and worked part time at the local grocery store. This arrangement was far cheaper than moving out on my own, and it allowed me to pay as I went and graduate without accruing any debt.

One afternoon, I returned home after class, and decided to take a nap on the couch before work. Shortly after drifting off, I found myself awake but unable to move. It took great effort just to pry my eyes slightly open, and scan the room between two thin slits. I became a little unnerved when I wasn't waking up as quickly as I thought I should be -- this wasn't my first bout with sleep paralysis -- so, thinking my dad might be home, I decided to try to call for help.

I couldn't form actual words, but I was able to generate a sort of grumbling noise in my throat. It seemed inconceivable that someone, even if he or she was in the house, could actually hear me, Nevertheless, a voice replied: "I'll be right there!"

It sounded just like my dad. I remember feeling relieved that help was on its way, and saying silently to myself, "Thanks, dad."

As soon as I spoke the words, the voice came back, "No problem. But there's something you should know: I'm not your dad."

I awoke immediately, completely alone in the house.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Every time, my fingers stretch like I am gumbo or something.

That's easily explained. Your roux's too thick.

 

[danielofthesaints]

That's easily explained. Your roux's too thick.

:laugh2: if only. if anyone wants to try it, it is not that difficult. Take a pen and paper and write 5 times what you want to dream that night. Start small and make it broad. Like, I want to dream I am in a building. Yes, I know its nothing spectacular, but it will really astonish you if it does happen. Just think"about it.....if you can give yourself commands while you are awake, what makes so that you cant do it when you are asleep.

 

[vta]

Sleep paralysis is a fairly common experience for me. There are periods over which it occurs with greater frequency than others. In the vast majority of cases, I undergo sleep paralysis when I'm home alone. It even happens when I think someone else is in the house but then discover upon awaking that nobody else is there.

I have numerous experiences I could share. For instance, a particularly chilling episode occurred when I was in college.

While I was attending UT, I lived at home with my parents and worked part time at the local grocery store. This arrangement was far cheaper than moving out on my own, and it allowed me to pay as I went and graduate without accruing any debt.

One afternoon, I returned home after class, and decided to take a nap on the couch before work. Shortly after drifting off, I found myself awake but unable to move. It took great effort just to pry my eyes slightly open, and scan the room between two thin slits. I became a little unnerved when I wasn't waking up as quickly as I thought I should be -- this wasn't my first bout with sleep paralysis -- so, thinking my dad might be home, I decided to try to call for help.

I couldn't form actual words, but I was able to generate a sort of grumbling noise in my throat. It seemed inconceivable that someone, even if he or she was in the house, could actually hear me, Nevertheless, a voice replied: "I'll be right there!"

It sounded just like my dad. I remember feeling relieved that help was on its way, and saying silently to myself, "Thanks, dad."

As soon as I spoke the words, the voice came back, "No problem. But there's something you should know: I'm not your dad."

I awoke immediately, completely alone in the house.

Damn, yours spoke to you? I would have asked who the hell he was. Mine just stand there mute when I see it. Scary crap. I haven't had it in a while I'm pretty glad of it.

 

[67CowboysFan]

:laugh2: if only. if anyone wants to try it, it is not that difficult. Take a pen and paper and write 5 times what you want to dream that night. Start small and make it broad. Like, I want to dream I am in a building. Yes, I know its nothing spectacular, but it will really astonish you if it does happen. Just think"about it.....if you can give yourself commands while you are awake, what makes so that you cant do it when you are asleep.

I learned a little different way. I was taught to be aware of my dreams before I went to sleep. In a couple of days you can be dreaming and tell yourself, OK this is a dream. With a little more practice you can manipulate your dreams. I've had some awesome ones. Best one was I was stuck in traffic and decided not to wait and just fly. I flew like a bird and the body rush was totally awesome.

 

[WV Cowboy]

Not much weird has happened to me I guess, .. although I think I have had that sleep paralysis thing you guys are talking about from time to time. I never thought much about it, it seemed like it was part of the dream to me.

Anyway, one really weird thing happened to me one time several years ago.

It was Friday evening around 5 or 5:30 and I was driving home after working out of town that day. I traveled each day for my job but was home each night.

Anyway I was in a great mood, driving along on Rt50 right outside of the town I grew up in, singing with my tape deck. The work week was over and my wife and I would be going out with friends that night. (pre-kids)

I was going around a fairly sharp turn and the thought just popped in my mind that our town was going to lose a young person.

I was like, wow, where did that come from? It bummed me out, I hadn't been thinking anything negative, nor did I want to.

It weirded me out for a short while, then I forgot about it.

My wife and I were out with friends that night and all was well.

The next morning one of my buddies called that I had been with the night before and asked, "did you hear about Ricky H.?" I said no, .. what?

He said he was riding his motorcycle out on Rt73, laid it down and got hit by a truck and killed.

I immediately thought back to what had popped into my head and it freaked me out.
I really felt weird.
But it got weirder.

My buddy called me back and told me he didn't wreck on Rt73, but wrecked out on Rt 50.
Turns out it was in the turn exactly where I was driving when that popped into my head the evening before.

I never told anyone about that happening for a long time.

It was almost like death was there waiting for him and I drove through it. I don't know, it made me feel very uncomfortable when I found out on Sat. morning.

 

[notherbob]

WV Cowboy -

That is truly freaky.

My wife and I are living in the house where my beloved father in law grew up and about 10 years ago, a week or so after he died, I was sitting in a lounge chair in the living room after a large noon meal, (The big meal is at noon and is called dinner out here on the ranch, supper is at night and it is a small meal.)

I must have nodded off because I clearly saw him walk out of his old room and walk across the living room and out through the front door without even opening it but walked right through it. I awoke with a start and felt the hair on the back of my neck standing out and I was in a cold sweat.

My father in law was the consumate country gentleman, stong as a bull, tough as leather but with a dry sense of humor and gentle and diplomatic in his dealings with people and utterly respectable. I admired him greatly and hundreds came to his funeral where I played a mournful song on my Indian flute for him. Even the old codgers cried. I have been asked to play at many funerals since.

 

[WV Cowboy]

I must have nodded off because I clearly saw him walk out of his old room and walk across the living room and out through the front door without even opening it but walked right through it. I awoke with a start and felt the hair on the back of my neck standing out and I was in a cold sweat.

Once after my grandmother died, I dreamt I was in a big, old-fashioned ballroom, .. people were dancing in the middle, while others were mingling or sitting on old wooden chairs up against the wall.

It was very crowded.

I looked over and saw my grandmother sitting on one of the old wooden chairs along the wall. I hurried over to see her, she smiled great big and she said, "I saw you over there, I was wondering how long until you came over to see me."

She was wearing a white long-sleeved blouse with big ruffles around the neck and around the cuffs. Just like something she would wear for Christmas dinner at her house.

I held both of her hands in mine and told her how much I missed her and how much I loved her, .. then I woke up sitting on the edge of my bed crying. Actually sobbing out loud, but a happy crying. It seemed real.

I'm choking up a little right now just thinking about it.

That was just a dream. But I loved it.

 

[CanuckCowboysFan]

Sleep paralysis is a fairly common experience for me. There are periods over which it occurs with greater frequency than others. In the vast majority of cases, I undergo sleep paralysis when I'm home alone. It even happens when I think someone else is in the house but then discover upon awaking that nobody else is there.

I have numerous experiences I could share. For instance, a particularly chilling episode occurred when I was in college.

While I was attending UT, I lived at home with my parents and worked part time at the local grocery store. This arrangement was far cheaper than moving out on my own, and it allowed me to pay as I went and graduate without accruing any debt.

One afternoon, I returned home after class, and decided to take a nap on the couch before work. Shortly after drifting off, I found myself awake but unable to move. It took great effort just to pry my eyes slightly open, and scan the room between two thin slits. I became a little unnerved when I wasn't waking up as quickly as I thought I should be -- this wasn't my first bout with sleep paralysis -- so, thinking my dad might be home, I decided to try to call for help.

I couldn't form actual words, but I was able to generate a sort of grumbling noise in my throat. It seemed inconceivable that someone, even if he or she was in the house, could actually hear me, Nevertheless, a voice replied: "I'll be right there!"

It sounded just like my dad. I remember feeling relieved that help was on its way, and saying silently to myself, "Thanks, dad."

As soon as I spoke the words, the voice came back, "No problem. But there's something you should know: I'm not your dad."

I awoke immediately, completely alone in the house.

***. These were thoughts, or words actually being spoken..?

 

[ScipioCowboy]

***. These were thoughts, or words actually being spoken..?

As far as my perception was concerned, they were actual spoken words.

 

[Hostile]

As far as my perception was concerned, they were actual spoken words.

That's chilling.

 

[CanuckCowboysFan]

As far as my perception was concerned, they were actual spoken words.

Omg. I won't be able to sleep tonight. Legit. That is completely messed up dude. :bang2: