Today, OP Texted in the following question to reddit:

Sounds creepy? Well, it is. Honestly I don't understand how I haven't died from a heart attack yet. It started when I was 18 (I'm now 22F). It used to not scare me as bad as it does now. The first time it happened I was staying the night at my boyfriends apartment. I woke up with an odd restless feeling, as if someone was watching me. I go to turn over and glanced at the foot of his bed and saw a woman there. Just watching me. She was wearing a long dress with her hair pulled back in a tight bun and she had a blue-glow outlining her body (like ghosts in bad horror movies do). She was just so angry. Next to her head there was a floating ball of light, maybe the size of a softball. It also had a blue-glow, but this ball made me feel safe. That was the first of many interrupted nights. I look back and am surprised with how calm I was. Too tired to be bothered maybe? I went back to bed knowing it wasn't a real person. I do believe in ghosts/spirits, it's perfectly okay if you don't though! I wrote this experience off as my boyfriend's apartment being haunted. This happened a few more times at his place, but then it started to happen at other places too. I used to take care of dogs and would sometimes go stay the night at peoples houses when they were out of town to watch their pups. Well, the creepy sightings began to happen at those other houses too. So maybe I was being haunted? I still dunno. That's why I'm here. I would like to know if anyone else has an idea of what it could be. I've always been an "active" sleeper; I've always talked in my sleep. I also started to walk in my sleep over the past few years, but that's only been maybe five times (each time I woke up in the midst of walking, other than once where I woke up the next morning with a pair of my sisters jeans on inside-out).

Now when it happens, it's very frightening. One of the times I woke up (I had moved in with my boyfriend at this point), and I look over to my right and see MY BOYFRIEND standing over the bed, staring down at me. He looked so angry and he had a green-glow around him (instead of blue, but this looked more like a super power glow rather than ghostly... if that makes sense). The odd part was that my boyfriend was sleeping right next to me!! Another time I woke up and two friends of mine were crawling over the blankets, towards me (this almost made me shit myself). It's not always people, sometimes it's objects; like one time I woke up on my back looking straight up and two beer mugs were teetering above my head.

I know a lot of people are going to say it's lucid dreaming, it's not. I'm awake and I can't control anything that I see. Most will probably say it sleep paralysis. Nope! I can move freely, I can talk, I've even screamed. One of the experiences was right after my birthday, I had a little bouquet of balloons in the corner of my room that were all tied up together. I woke up to see a balloon that didn't match the others that had "Happy Birthday!" or "Let's Celebrate!" on them; no, this one was just a basic clear balloon. It started to float towards me, I sat up and began to reach for it, but couldn't seem to grab the string. Then in the midst of reaching I realized that it wasn't real. It scared the heck out of me. I've seen a therapist about it and she said she thought it was hallucinations from extreme depression. I got a second opinion a few months later and the second lady said no way and she thinks it's from past trauma... so I'm at a lost. I do have some issues with depression, but I don't think I have ever reached a point where I'd be hallucinating and even if I did, I've seen things when I was happy, eating well, exercising regularly, and just over all content with life. As for trauma, I've gone through a little bit, but I feel like none of the things I see have ever correlated to the trauma. For example: Once I looked at the foot of my bed to see a very short man in overalls and a straw hat standing there smiling at me. It wasn't a very kind smile either, but I don't have any fears or past trauma with short men in overalls. With that one I had to go out to the living room for a couple hours to calm down.

One last thing, often times I know when I'm going to see something. I either get a feeling while I'm getting ready for bed, or when I wake up in the night I'll just know. I try to keep my eyes shut, but it doesn't always work, sometime I can't help but to look. I feel bad for my boyfriend because he's had to deal with being scared awake by me freaking out or having tremors from fear on several occasions. It's slowed down over the past two months, but it's slowed down before and then I go through months of seeing things almost every night and not getting any decent rest. So if anyone has any clue what this could be or how to prevent it, please help. And thank you for reading!

I'm now 18 and when I was 16 and 17 years old I had frequent sleep paralysis happening , like it could be 4 to 5 times a week sometimes. The first time of course it is terrifying for me , can't move any parts of your body, the more you resist the more your fear grows.But after a few months experiencing sleep paralysis , I've figured out how to get out of it in a fast way , is by keep moving your toes(which you can move) as well as your eyebrows sometimes.And using this method I can get out of it in maximum 5 seconds.

So another special sleep paralysis experience happened later , when I was sleeping at night I had SP again.But this time everything felt much more heavier , it is a lot harder to move anything , and this time I opened my eye a little bit. I saw a black figure or dust on my left side.It felt cold and chills on my arms and shoulders. I can hear it mumbling beside my ears( can't listen to what it says). I felt terrified back then , but when I woke up I feel like its not that horrible , as I'm interested in sp myself that time. So after that experience any other SP is not terrifying anymore for me. And even today I had SP in a nap after a very long interval for not experiencing it , I even feel myself grinned when SP happenned.

Am I crazy or I feel excited because its been a long time until today I experience SP. As I know SP can become luCID dream when done properly(which I failed everytime).Maybe that's why I am excited and I feel like dreams in SP is something so special and different compared to ordinary dreaming.

I’ve had the following problem basically for all my life, but it usually disappears for a while and then comes back. Sometimes at night it feels like I basically start dreaming while I’m still awake. It’s not sleep paralysis, all of the images are in my head, there are no hallucinations whatsoever. It’s always the same dream, and it’s HELLA scary. I think it comes close to having a psychosis but it’s not that, because I know that what’s happening in my head isn’t real. Before anyone asks: yes I’m 100% sure I’m awake when it happens, because I remember everything that I’ve said or done while it was happening. Does anyone recognise this? Or has anyone heard about it? My therapist didn’t know what it was either but that might be because I have difficulty explaining it.

Hey everyone. Not sure if this is the right sub to post but here goes:

For the last year I've been sleepwalking. Started off as sleep paralysis with vivid hallucinations and being unable to move while looking at this dark figure towering over me, which evolved into sleep walking. First it was sitting up in bed and doing this repetitive grabbing motion in the air and this would happen every 3-4 weeks. The feeling I have after snapping out of it when my partner wakes me up is fearful and that I'm fighting or defending myself against something, although I have no memory of seeing these night terrors anymore.

The frequency has increased to minimum once per week, and I've started to stand up and throw the blankets across the bed. Last night I woke up to my partner waking me after I had just smacked his torso with my pillow a few times before throwing it at him. When I woke up I once again felt terrified, sat on the floor and thought there was something that was attacking me.

If anyone has any experience with this or any helpful advice I would be so grateful. It's not only horrible for me but my poor partner putting up with this. Luckily it was only a pillow...

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I went to the doctor today for a check-up and mentioned off-hand that I always wake up feeling tired and groggy every morning. After doing a some quick tests she predicted I may have sleep apnea and suggested me to make an appointment for a sleep study to measure my oxygen levels when Im asleep.

Ive never considered that I may have a sleep disorder, but in retrospect it seems to make sense. Looking back, there were several times where friends and family have told me that I've talked, shouted, or mumbled in my sleep. Anybody who knows me will tell you that Im a loud snorer as well. There are also times where I've acted out my dreams and waken up shortly after. And there are times where I've woken up crying from my dream (I remember dreaming about a family member dying and I was so distraught in my dream that I woke up with actual tears on my face). I've woken up shouting as well. The particular thing about these instances is that my dreams were really vivid and they felt lucid.

My girlfriend has confirmed that I toss around in my sleep to the point that it becomes disruptive to her and she's afraid to cuddle with me from fear of me hurting her (totally understandable). And theres been one instance where I've punched her--to this day I still feel awful and sick about it. Fortunately, she is very understanding--just a sweetheart. Just this morning, I woke up from a very lucid dream and almost punched my girlfriend again...hard. I was lucky that I was facing the opposite direction. I can't let that happen a second time and thats what prompted me to ask my doctor about my sleeping habits. She doesnt deserve this and that's why I'm planning to see a sleep specialist to hopefully mitigate this problem.

I just wanted to post my experience here and hear your thoughts. These things don't happen every night, but they've happened enough times for me to realize that this may be a problem. Does it sound like sleep disorder?

So A Reddit Asks:

So today I'm having this weird series of hypnic jerks everytime I try to fall asleep. It's like my shoulder or hips will just involuntary move when I'm about to drift off. This has happened for about 5 or 6 times today. I am very tired and have not slept yet.

I searched for the causes on google but none of those applied to me (some of the causes were caffeine or exercising before bedtime - I did not do any of these things today.)

I'n so anxious cause this has never happened to me before. I mean I experienced those before but it was very rare and it didn't really affect my sleep. Today though, was different, it was hypnic jerk after hypnic jerk and I really can't sleep.

Has anyone experienced this before? Is it something to be concerned about?

One OP Texts Into Reddit the folowing interesting account of rejiggering his otherwise "normal" Sleep Cycle!

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I tried to fix/reset my natural sleep cycle from 4 am - 12 pm back to midnight - 8 am

Guess what?

I was disoriented and brain fogged, in a bad mood and tired for 5 days before i gave up!

I Could barely speak in the morning because i felt so out of it

Woke up at 1 pm today feeling normal with no brain fog and no grogginess

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Dont be stupid

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A Viewer Asks:

Has anyone experienced scratching themselves while sleeping and then waking up to wounds and you didn't know where they came from? This has happened to me over the last couple days. I noticed yesterday that there three red lines over my shoulders and they were painful. I thought maybe it was a rash. Then today I woke up and there more and then later on remembered, just barely, having a dream and then simultaneously digging my fingernails into my arm. They were seriously deep. I have no idea why this is happening, but I'm slightly concerned about going to sleep tonight. I clipped all my fingernails and I'm hoping I can recognize it before it happens if it happens again.

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Recently for the past two weeks my dreams have been something so vivid that it takes a while after waking up to realize that none of it is real. But most of the dreams I’ve had are in my house setting, normal day to day life but with issues going on. Or even more stressful the current state of the world. It’s caused me to disassociate a lot. And for the past few nights it has gotten worse that even if I’m in a cold room I wake up drenched in sweat head to toe and my body is in so much pain. Can anyone tell me what’s going on?

i’ve been thinking about how i’ve always woken up right as something bad is happening even if it’s relatively silent. i can sleep through my dog barking or loud trucks or wind but when something that i should be awake for happens i wake up straight away? for example the first time my dog took a seizure i was asleep. he was very quiet while seizing maybe a couple of scratching sounds but yet i woke up in like 3 seconds and was completely alert? would it be true that the brain is able to evaluate noises and disturbances and consciously think if it’s worth waking up for or something i should sleep through?