wow, took a while to read all of this but this is very interesting stuff.
wrkime asked in the first page why this stuff has to happen at night.
i think from the beleivers point of view it is because the spirits know we feel less secure at night, easier to scare, probably why i have the lights on now
from the skeptics point of view i would say again because we feel less secure at night and thus our senses are hightened. therefore we see, smell and perceive things with alot more imagination.
Ofcourse if some of things you all describe happened to me then i would be quite hard-pressed to justify it as imagination.
I am also very interested in gaurdian angels and animals. Although i have never felt one i sometimes like to think i have one, or imagine my grandparents or father looking over me, perhaps standing right next to me.
The only experience i can recall is when i was dog-sitting my next door neighbours dog, a small white one. anyway myself and the dog were both asleep on my bed in the middle of the night, all the lights off, when suddenly it gets up, and starts barking like mad at the middle of the room. Freaked the shit out of me. I live with cats but nothing like this has ever happened with them.