need explanation

Ok a few nights ago I saw something in my room. I have an air conditioner in my window so nothing can get in or out keep in mind, and I ALWAYS have my door locked. I don't have any pets either. So that in mind, I was having a restless night, and had woken up a few times during the night. I was sleeping facing the wall with the window opposite to me. At about 5am I kinda came to but still a little hazy, and in my haze I felt what I can describe as a small animal like a cat or something jumping up on the head of my bed. At that point I was pretty much awake and I opened my eyes and saw like a dark shadow or whatever over my head area, and it cast a shadow on top of my head shadow on the wall. I turned over quickly, startled, and saw this dark figure, about the size of a cat or something whiz off my bed and towards the wall by the air conditioner and just dissapear. If anybody has an explanation or a similar experience, I'd like to know what the hell it was. Much obliged...

My aunt had the same experience where im living now. She was tryin to go to sleep. And she heard like something small walking around her bed. The she felt it jump up on here bed. She said it felt like an animal cause the way the legs landed. She was freakin out cause now it was no her bed. She called my uncle, who was just down the hall. He came in and and threw the blanket off the bed and my aunt got out of it. When the blanket was on the floor, it has moving like something was under it. They lifted it up, and nuthing was under it. And another night she felt it again. and it knocked on her head. I guess like u might knock on door.

-Sadow

BUMP* I would like to hear more of what other people think so lets get those replies rollin'.

Could it have been a rat?

I have mice in my house right now and they can freak you out at night. They are also very sneaky when it comes to disappearing.

[edit on 21-7-2009 by stevedel0]

Could have been delerium. As you lie restless the line between awake and dreaming is blurred, and you could hear noises and voices, and see any manner of things. In my personal experience the things i saw and experienced were related to something in my recent history. A visual, sound, or idea. hope this helps.

Originally posted by stevedel0
Could it have been a rat?

I have mice in my house right now and they can freak you out at night. They are also very sneaky when it comes to disappearing.

[edit on 21-7-2009 by stevedel0]

No man, it was a shadow, and it was WAY too big to be a rat, it was like half my size almost. It wasn't a "waking dream" btw. I know it was an apparition, I'm just seeing if anyone knows what kind. I've had these dillusional "waking dreams" before, and this wasn't one of those.

[edit on 21-7-2009 by Maj35t1cI2]

BUMP* Is anybody on this site? Seriously, someone must have had a similar experience.

No r experiences myself, however, do you know much about the land you're on? Cause I am thinking Native American totem animal visit or your totem animal made a visit. If you think it was catlike and you feel an affection for cats it could definately be Your gaurdian totem. Or it could be a totem like I said before for a native AMerican culture that lived on teh land before. In that case it was checking your intentions for being there. It must have felt you weren't any threat to the land and so it went away.

Since I was a little girl I've had this thing where I wake up in the middle of the night and see people in my room. I'm not talking shadows or anything, I mean people that I can see fully. Most of the time they look like friends of mine, but one night it was just a little girl in overalls. When I was younger, I would sit up and think that they were really there and I needed to get up. But as I got older I kinda got use to it and now I just see them and lay right back down and go back to sleep. Not really a good thing though because god forbid there really WAS someone standing in my room... Anyway, I'm not quite sure what it is or why it happens. I just wnated you to know that your not alone..

I was just turning out the light and getting into bed when I saw a cat shadow zoom around the side of the bed and called out thinking it was one of my cats that must have had the bell on their collar fall off, but when I called them they both came running from another room with their bells ringing. ? So yes I have seen this and I was fully awake. And it was definitely a cat shape. This was a few years back.

Also when I was younger I was asleep with my back towards the door. I felt a cat jump up on the bed and cozy up next to my back spin around and lay down right next to me. So I reached my hand around to pet my cat and, oops, no cat. That was shortly after our twelve year old cat died. I always thought it was her.

Anyway I am thinking it is nothing bad. No worries.

I've seen cat shadows many times, running in the house.
And once, when I was in bed, I felt a cat jump up onto the bed, paw my legs for a few seconds, and then settle down to sleep. The thing is, I haven't had a cat in years. Still, it was a very nice experience, not scary at all.

Well, I know the past owner of the house died of old age in my room, but why the hell would she be "haunting" me and only that one time in all the years I've been living here. It must have been something else.

Well, I know the past owner of the house died of old age in my room, but why the hell would she be "haunting" me and only that one time in all the years I've been living here. It must have been something else.

No man, it was a shadow, and it was WAY too big to be a rat, it was like half my size almost.

I won't trouble you with trigonometry, but needles to say, an objects shadow can be many times its actual size depending on the light source strength, angle and proximity to the object and the distance from the light absorbing object to the final projection point.

You have experienced a Shadow being - I've been compiling stories for about a year now and the shadows take many shapes - a good website to read similar stories is shadowpeople.org Shadows have appeared as males, females, animals, blobs, dwarf size, etc. This sounds just like them.

I'll throw a guess out here because I have noticed a marked increase in the activity of other energies since spring this year. My guess is that there are just more of these things due to time winding in on itself. Likewise ldyserenity may well be right that your animal spirit guides may be trying to steer you a bit. Mine were very active with me for about three years. I don't see them much anymore though they do let me know they're still around every now and again. Mine are foxes, btw.

I see all manner of movement nowadays and there are frequently accompanying sounds. Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it. Please do not feel fear about this. Time is winding in tightly right now so energies are bound to react. Does anyone else have labored breathing lately? Sometimes I feel like my heart chakra is a vacuum. I can't breathe well. I take long walks in the forest or by the water to try and free things up. Not much help though. And some places are worse than others.

One suggestion is that before you go to bed, you could stand very straight with your eyes closed and the lights on, and calm your heart and mind. Visualize any fears or stresses literally floating off of you, working from your toes up to the ends of your hair, while relaxing all the muscles in sets working upward. Toes, then feet, then calves, then thighs and derriere, then your thorax, fingers, arms, shoulders, neck and pay close attention to your face. Relax the jaw gently, cheeks, back of the head, ears, eyes, scalp and "see" the energies lift right off the ends of your hair. Visualize them sailing out the window. As you do this, visualize your bones in a soft pink and place a true green shell of light on your skin. You may wish to coat that in white light and seal it with gold. It's not hard to do and will do wonders for your sleep and on into the next day. After you do the relaxation bit, visualize your room - eyes still closed as it's easier in the beginning that way - and see your ceiling coated in pink and white light. Then tuck it fully into the corners and continue down the walls. Windows and doors must be well protected with a bulging mass of this pink and white so that whatever enters has to pass through it. Negative energies don't much like white and they really don't like soft pink. The more you believe this to be effective, the more it will be so.

Do this first in your own room and then try to carry it out into the rest of your house and its grounds.