people/presences standing over your bed
When I was with my ex-girlfriend and we were sleeping together, there would sometimes be this strange feeling of someone standing in the corner (tall man, skinny, dark) watching us, or just simply being a presence in the room.
We would both be laying there, half asleep or asleep or awake, sense it, take a deep breath, talk about it, turn on the light or close our eyes tight and wait for it to go away.
We would both also have dreams about things trying to grab us. In fact, the only times she would ever have nightmares was when she was laying next to me. She was quite upset about this, and would never let me forget this ...
One day, I had a dream - more like a series of lucid dreams, where this one woman, this old gypsy like folk woman, kept on coming in and smiling and interrupting whatever was going on. She just kind of smiled and was THERE. In my last dream, I confronted her, and her face became simultaneously a bottomless black pit, and the face of my girlfriend.
I asked her who she was, and she said "YOU KNOW WHO I AM."
I woke up with a start with sleep paralysis, in my room when I was ten years old. I was actually IN that room, startled, with my eyes closed, and feeling this woman lay on top of me. I attempted to scream, but nothing came out (as is typical of sleep paralysis). Eventually, I burst through the paralysis and couldn't go to sleep for the rest of the night.
There are other things that happened between us, too. Like phonecalls with heavy static that would come at five in the morning, tell us about satan, and mail that she would get delivered to her (i.e. bills) that were not meant for her, but were pertinent to the messages on the phone. etc.
I'm not a paranoid billy, and these things only happened with her. I don't know if there is a corrolary, or if there is any folklore associated with this ...
any ideas? any thoughts?
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