posted on Mar, 15 2005 @ 11:31 AM
I also have been lurking on these forums for awhile but seeing this thread has compelled me to finally register and post. I posted the following on a
couple of paranormal boards and got nothing in the way of a useful response, it seems like there is actual dialog regarding the subject here so I will
repost it.
I have known about shadow people for some time but have never known how prevalent they are or how similar others experiences have been to mine and
others I know until I started searching on the web after an experience I had recently. I have pretty much figured out that these events are dreams but
they are not like normal dreams in they are incredibly vivid and realistic and occur as they are happening in the exact same location I happen to be
in while I am dreaming them. They all seem to depict one of two different situations neither of which is pleasant and are both actually quite
terrifying as, when I awake, I am often gasping for breath and quite emotionally shaken.
The first scenario is I awaken during the night and feel a presence in the room with me and am gripped with total fear. I am unable to move and
suddenly feel a very heavy weight on my chest coupled with a very intense feeling coming from within. I get the feeling that something is trying to
get inside of me and I am usually able force myself to wake up when this type of event occurs. If I am unable to awaken, I usually find myself rise
off the bed and either start to fly around the room or something grabs me and starts swinging me around the room violently. Eventually I will wake up
very shaken and notice that everything is ok and everything that had been knocked over or damaged as I was flung about in my dream is out of place.
The second scenario involves waking up at night, again, in the exact same location I happen to be sleeping and, after a moment, being violently drug
by my ankles out from under the covers and flung around the room or drug somewhere else in the house and flung around. Usually I will eventually wake
up and be in bed and realize it was a dream but, the last time it happened, I was able to somewhat keep my senses and control what was going on.
Whenever the entity would fling me close to a door jam, I would reach up and hold on to the top so it could swing me around anymore. After doing this
several times, I was able to kick free from its grasp and promptly ran back into bed and hid under the covers. At this pointc it again grabbed my
ankles and tried to drag me back out of the bed but I grabbed onto the headboard preventing it from doing so. I then became angry and started cursing
at whatever it was(it was invisible up to this point and just like some kind of force) telling it to show itself. As soon as I told it to show itself,
a bald charcoal grey apparition appeared with only black holes where its eyes should be and jagged black hole for a mouth. It was semi-transparent but
was incredibly strong and I somehow managed to get one foot free and kick at where its head was. At this point it dematerialized and was gone for the
night(when these events occur they tend to happen over and over on a given night). I have had only one other event since this last one where I kicked
it and it seemed to be stronger as I was, once again, able to do nothing.
I am usually able to pretty much fully control my dreams(I can fly away when in danger for example) and they have always been very lifelike but
usually not memorable. In the case of the dreams involving what I am convinced are these “shadow people,” until recently, I have been at the mercy
of these entities and totally unable to act in any way when these events were occurring. They don’t happen frequently(every 3-6 months about) but
don’t vary in their intensity or realism when they occur.
The event where I was dragged out of bed and was able to fend off the shadow person occurred at our lake cottage last spring. The cottage has been in
the family for over 50 years and was only the second cottage built on the lake. When we were children, my grandmother, father, and other relatives on
my father’s side, would often tell stories about strange things that happened to them at our cottage. Some of these were totally peaceful while
others seemed quite malevolent in nature. Recently, I started remembering having dreams when I was much younger(I’m a 34 year old database
administrator now) of these events occurring while I was at our cottage. In these cases, I would be dreaming about being “attacked” at the lakes
but, in reality, be asleep in my bed at home. I thought long and hard about talking about this with my brothers as they might think I was insane but,
after bolstering myself with some liquid courage, I did so one night at the lakes – relating the story about getting drug out of bed and flung
around the room repeatedly. When I did, my youngest brother got really pale and said that he’d had the exact same thing happen to him a few years
before up there only he was drug from the couch where he was sleeping downstairs, up the stairs, and into the same area I was, and was also flung
around by some invisible force. After reading other peoples accounts of amazingly similar experiences I am becoming convinced that these are more than
dreams in some way. I just wanted to contribute my experiences in case there was anything useful for you to glean in your research of this phenomenon.
I know other people who say they have seen shadow people and, by coincidence or not, all 4 of them have had near death experiences. I think these
occurrences are much more prevalent then people think and that most people just don’t want to talk about them as they are afraid they will be
ridiculed or won’t be taken seriously.
If there is any additional information which you think I might be able to provide that is helpful please let me know and I will do my best to provide
it. Thank you for taking the time to read this as it has made me feel better just being able to relate this information to someone who might be able
to help provide some answers.
[edit on 15-3-2005 by Necrosis]