I used to love these threads on reddit. I’ll go first.
This one is kinda mundane and is most likely a hypnogogic/pompic hallucination but it used to happen A LOT when I was younger and I kinda realised earlier that it’s been a long time since I last noticed it.
So from about the onset of puberty till my early mid twenties, at least a few times a month I’d be falling asleep, drifting in and out of sleep, or even woken up by- my bed shaking.
Usually it was a steady-ish rumble, almost like being on a train, but like 1/10 times I’d wake up to my bed rocking like someone was shaking it.
It scared me a few times when it was particularly violent, but as I freeze up when scared I’d just be lying there terrified, wondering why the fuck this was happening and hoping the bed didn’t start squeaking. Usually when this shaking happened though it was just a thing I noticed, filed away as a curiosity, and tried to go back to sleep.
This happened in probably every place I lived (which was a lot of places as I was moving like 2 or 3 times a year most years from about 11 till 16, then less so as I got older) and mostly around the south east of England. And I very rarely lived on a main road with heavy vehicles on it or by railways either, so it wasn’t environmental. We do get the occasional very minor earthquake here every ten years or so, and it’s a similar feeling!
Hi OP. Can you please tweak your title to make it a question (Rule 2)?
Yeah something kind of similar happens to me occasionally, usually when I am trying to fall back asleep in the early morning. It’s very… violent. It happens just as I’m falling asleep, I call it “passing through”. My eyes are closed but I will see bright flashing lights behind them, I have the sensation of falling, and I will hear a really loud sound like a train horn or sometimes screaming. And I get pins and needles across my whole body.
The cool thing is if I succeed in not freaking out and waking back up I always enter a lucid dream on “the other side” although it usually only lasts for a minute or two.
So I don’t generally believe in the supernatural stuff, but I’ve had a few experiences I can’t explain that still freak me out a bit.
I used to live in a 3 bedroom apartment with a rotation of 2-3 other roommates that worked out being about 7 different people that lived there during the 2 years I lived at the place. Every single one, including myself, had a nightmare experience that only happened while living there.
The nightmare wouldn’t seem different from an average dream. Then you’d notice a presence like someone who wasn’t supposed to be there. Eventually the discomfort of this presence would become overbearing and wake you up. Which is when you’d realize you were in sleep paralysis and hear a woman screaming loudly in your room.
Eventually you’d shake off the paralysis and have to decompress from whatever the hell occurred. But man was it strange that it happened to all 7 roommates the exact same way and was isolated to that random apartment.
Bonus experience - At that same place I once woke up to my computer turning on by itself. The monitor lit up my small room and when I woke up to see what was going on it looked like my room was filled with smoke. There was no smell of smoke, but in my sleepy haze I didn’t care as I thought it was a possible fire. So I carefully touched the door handle to make sure it wasn’t going to burn me. It was fine, I opened the door and it was dark and normal for the middle of the night. I turned back to my room and watched the smoke somewhat slowly disappear. I have no explanation for what I saw that night and have never had a similar experience since then.
Oooh fuck that nightmare shit sounds spooky, maybe it was some kind of subsonic vibration you all were picking up on, like old pipes or tube tunnels under the building or something. Didn’t mythbusters or brainiac or something have an episode on that, I can’t remember if they were all having the same hallucinations?
I was just about to share a similar-ish but funny and not paranormal story, till I realised it was one of those ‘funny stories’ that are only funny to the person telling them and everybody else just looks at you weird and quietly says things like “oh my god” and “I’m so sorry”. Lmao. Proud of myself for catching that.
Yeah I have no clue what could have caused the shared sleep paralysis demon there. Oddly enough I moved back to the same apartment complex, but a different building about 500nfeet away from the original one and never had any weird experiences
I was reading late at night in the living room. Decided to go to bed, so i put the book down in the center of a large coffee table. I went to bed and just after falling asleep, i woke up to a loud bang. Ive dealt with exploding head syndrome my whole life so i thought it was that at first but it sounded different. I got out of bed to make sure all the doors were locked and stuff and saw my book on the floor of the opposite side of the living room. There were no animals in the house, i was completly alone and all the doors were locked. Also, it didn’t sound like the book fell onto the floor. It was a BANG, like it was thrown flat on the floor hard. The book was in an open area about 10 ft from the coffee table. By the way the book was a thick hard cover book, not like a magazine or something light.
You got any theories?
I’ve had stuff like that happen a few times, I mostly put it down to brief psychosis or mice knocking shit off shelves though.
The otherwise inevitable paranoia about being stalked or a home invasion, if they were actually happening, would not have been a fun experience. And like there’s not much I’d have been able to do anyway as police are useless wankers and people who break into houses while the residents are home are psychos best avoided.
Commiserations on the exploding head syndrome btw, that does not sound pleasant.
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I was invited to an Automatic Writing class.
For anyone not familiar: You relax, do a little meditation, and put pen to paper. You think about what you want to ask, and watch as your hand writes the advice or answer your spirit guides need you to see.
That’s the story at least. We could debate the forces involved, but that’s how it was presented to me.
I went in with an open mind and followed the directions. After about a half hour of nothing, I decided to give it a test. I spotted a fruit bowl in the other room, I could see that there was fruit in it, but I couldn’t tell how much, so I asked how many pieces of fruit are in the fruit bowl. My pen slid across the page and down. Clearly, I had drawn a seven. I went over and checked the bowl and there were exactly 7 pieces of fruit in the bowl.
I later also asked if a promotion that I was sure I was going to get, was going to be good for me, and I wrote “nonononononono” which I thought was nonsense at the time. About a week later, I did not get that promotion, but because I didn’t get that job, I was able to take another, better position that opened up at a location much closer to my home.
I can’t explain it, but it’s all true.
The promotion thing is a fun one to ponder on, like you (probably?) could not have known to even make an educated guess about the other job, so unless you’re prone to self sabotage, that was a pretty cool ‘prediction’.
I tried automatic writing a few times in my teens, I think I was doing it wrong though as I was just letting words flow stream of consciousness style in shorthand or typing, and it mostly just produced a bunch of poorly written trauma dumping or half baked ideas for short stories, lmao.
I was walking with a couple of friends at night in Pennsylvania. there was this absolutely GIGANTIC insect that was in the shape of a moth.
it was like 3 feet large and we couldn’t get a clear picture of it since it was so dark, I figured it was a shadow being casted by a light somewhere else.
that was when, all of a sudden, the “shadow” started to fly up! all 3 of us just ran away… that happened like 15 years ago, now I want to research gigantic insects in the shape of a moth lol
Mothman is a famous Pennsylvania cryptid. Congratulations!
This you?
honestly, this is exactly what it looked like lmfao
You saw the Mothman. Or maybe Mothman Jr.
I don’t know if this is spooky, fucked up, or just really funny (in my twisted sense of humor)
In college. I was a workaholic and didn’t sleep a lot, and I lived in a student dorm (layout was like a hotel, each student had their individual room) that was fairly well-liked by upperclassmen. Anyways there’s a random girl I know outside of class with a friend group. Generally a bright and upbeat person, quite well put-together, also an international student, etc…
There was one night when I was just passed out on my dorm bed. And at 3am in the morning, I saw that particular girl standing in front of my dorm room with the door open. Crying, being really sad and all… Later was escorted away by the RA.
What I still couldn’t comprehend is… First of all, why the heck was my door unlocked. Second of all, why was this random person standing in front of my door. Did she want anything from me. Also later I never heard from that girl again, what happened to her
Some sort of sleep paralysis maybe? Some people hear noises and/or experience strange bodily sensations during them, I believe. Quite normal, albeit unpleasant.
This one time when I woke up, my glasses weren’t on my desk where I left them, they were on the nightstand!
I was born. Which has been a very trippy and -one might argue- paranormal experience.
That’s just because your mom and dad had the sexy time. Before that your grandparents had the sexy time. And that process continues all the way back to Mitochondrial Eve.
TLDR a lot of sex was had to eventually produce you. So no pressure, but don’t screw up all that effort that was put in over the ages.
alright this one is clearly fake
You’re saying I should have the sex?
Yes all them other peoples had the sex so you could also have the sex.
unexplained shit that’s happened to you.
I came into existence.
“Why” is a pretty open question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_is_there_anything_at_all%3F
“Why is there anything at all?” or “Why is there something rather than nothing?” is a question about the reason for basic existence which has been raised or commented on by a range of philosophers and physicists, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,[3] Ludwig Wittgenstein,[4] and Martin Heidegger,[5] who called it “the fundamental question of metaphysics”.[6][7][8]
