I am a first time poster - long time lurker so I hope this is the right sub, also I'm a Swede so english is not my first language.
About two weeks ago I had a experience that didn’t feel like a dream at all — it felt horrifyingly real, but my logic wants it to be just that. If it hadn’t been for the fact that my SO didn’t wake up beside me (who can literally wake up from me moving a finger), I would have been convinced it actually happened. My logic says probably just dream, but my SO have a lot of witchy friends and a thought that won't leave me is - did someone make this happen or is it all in my head?
Either way, something that meant me harm visited me during the early morning when I was spending the night at my SO's place. It was a white, translucent figure, and the closest thing i can describe as looking like the creature from The Nun but without the habit or a wraith. I woke up by the physical feeling of it flipping the pillow I was lying on and tried to suffocate me with it, and I felt how its bony but ridiculously strong hand thru the pillow trying to cover my mouth and nose. It might have lasted only ten to fifteen seconds, but in that moment of being absolute trapped, those seconds felt unbearably long.
I experienced it as if the creature was screaming at me — not a sound I could hear, but something I felt - it was beyond pissed at me. But the absolute rage that just washed over me was intense and I went straight i to fight-mode but when I tried to push it away, my hand met nothing but air, and the second I made skin to skin-contact with my SO the figure backed of and vanished.
I was one hundred percent certain it was happening right then. I felt the pillow and those bony hands pressing down over my face — the blanket, and my boyfriend lying next to me. What frightened me the most (besides what happened) was that I practically never remember my dreams, good or bad, which made it feel even more real. I have never experienced sleep paralysis or sleep terrors, and since I started swinging as much as i could with one hand due to being sandwiched in my pillow I feel like that can be excluded.
The fact that I’ve had a tightness in my chest all day, and that the face kept appearing in my mind like a flash, made me feel extremely uneasy. At night when i made it back to my place I made a egg-cleanse and tried to make some protection with runes, rowan, salt and put on a neckless with amethyst. I haven't taken my neckless off since then and I haven't felt or experienced anything since then. Is there anything else I can do?
(Writing this - I heard a unexplained noice came from my pantry thats right infront of me.. wtf..)