Hi everyone, my name is Lauren, I am an empath and believe in all things spiritual, supernatural and paranormal. I have an experience I’d like to share with you all in the hopes that someone may be able to shed a bit of light as to what it may have been.
I decided to have an afternoon nap on the couch and I fell asleep watching a movie. I thought I had woken up but once I started experiencing things, I knew I must have been either dreaming or in some kind of other dimension.
Everything was exactly the same as it had been when I went to sleep - movie still going, cats on the sofa with me, but when I tried to open my eyes I couldn’t. It was like they were stuck closed. I tried to open them using my hands/fingers and still couldn’t. I stumbled around; I remember feeling the pain of walking into the tv cabinet and falling over. The pain of the cat scratching me cos I accidentally rolled on her - I had no scratches when I woke up. I could feel everything, it all felt incredibly real.
When I finally woke up, I became aware of my surroundings and tried to process what had happened. I’m not sure if it was just a very vivid dream, or if perhaps my spiritual being left my body. I want to note that I wasn’t afraid at any point, there didn’t feel like any negative energy was present.
I would love to hear if anyone has experienced anything similar or could shed any light on what this may have been. Thankyou
@lalunawolf Hi Lauren! Thanks for sharing your experience. I have been experiencing something similar for the last 2 months, just slightly different. I was able to open my eyes and talk during my experiences. I was laying on the couch, with my cats, and I felt like I kept falling off the couch and something/somebody was pushing me back on the couch. Nothing malicious, just trying to keep me on the couch. I kept hearing footsteps behind the couch and saw a shadow figure behind the couch. I felt like I was fully aware of my surroundings, and woke up wondering if it actually happened or if it was a dream. Then a few nights ago, I woke up to something playing with my hair and moving my pillow. I then felt something shaking the bed. I was more aware of my surroundings. I looked at my watch, noticed the time (12:42am) and my water bottle was not shaking. I then saw a man in my room, walking by the closet. I sat up and had a conversation with him (I am unclear what the conversation entailed) and then I fell back asleep. It was very strange. It did not feel malicious in nature and I am very in tune to such things. I hope you are able to find some answers. I wish I could be more help.
I've had these types of experiences alot throughout my life. Not with my eyes shut like that, but instead I can see myself laying. The time I realized it might not be just a dream was when I looked at my phone which was on my nightstand and saw it was at 1%. When I woke up I grabbed my phone immediately and saw it was at 1% like I had seen it while on the dream/out-of-body experience. Still trying to figure it out and go about it with a scientific approach, but the experiences happen randomly so its hard to prepare a testing setup.
My family has a history of these types of dreams/out-of-body experiences except they see really scary things. Ive never seen anything scary. Although, I was told that if an entity asks to inhabit my body while in that state to refuse it at all costs. Scary stuff. Their warning tells me there's more to it than just seeing myself sleep or looking around the room trying to test it.
@lalunawolf thank you for sharing this. It's very interesting for sure. It could very well be a vivid dream, but perhaps another listener will have more experience with this. We'll have to wait and see. Welcome to the community!