Felt like I was being attacked in bed

Just want to tell you what happened to me last night.

This has never happened to me before and I'm over 50.

I realise there are sleep paralysis threads on ATS, but I wanted to start my own thread.

Ok I've not been sleeping soundly for a while now.
Last night me and the missus sat up late watchin a movie.
Went to bed about 2am
She fell asleep, I didn't. I seemed to lie awake for ages.
I don't remember going asleep at all and it seemed to be getting light outside.
So I got up and went to the toilet, then went to another room in the house and got into another bed. It was 07:15 on the clock.
I must have drifted off to sleep.
Next thing I know it's as if something has jumped onto me.
Size wise it was not an adult, either child size or like an animal.
I froze with fear.
I tried to get up to see what it was but I couldn't move.
Was like I was pinned down.
I could feel the creature holding me down and feeling around me.
I tried yelling for my wife, but no noise would come out of my mouth.
I was screaming but no noise.
Then it was as if I woke up, and my immediate thought was ... oh that was a dream.
But then I could feel the thing was still there.
This time I screamed again and I did manage to call out.
At that point the thing took off.
I froze in fear.
The clock was at 07:50
I didn't know what to do.
I didn't want to frighten my wife so I stayed put and calmed myself.
I must have gone off to sleep again, next thing I woke upon hearing my wife moving about.
It was late morning 11am.

I'm a big guy and I'm not easy frightened, but that was pretty scary.

Am I going nuts ?





[edit on 10-1-2010 by bigyin]

I had that exact dream quite often when i was about 17. I have since heard alot of people talk of the same dream, i think there is one theory called the old hag or something to that effect.

I remember the dream well. I would wake up (or think i was awake) and there would be this immense force on my chest, like a presence of some sort but not human or animal, just this invisible force. I would try to move my arms but the force would just push them back to the bed and i couldnt even open my eyes because the same force would push them shut, very strange dream.

I can understand you feeling worried, it scared the hell out of me, to the point my mother took me to see a doctor who just put it down stress.
[edit on 10-1-2010 by Khaotix]

[edit on 10-1-2010 by Khaotix]

you're not nuts. You had a psychic vampire attack(aka old hag, succubus, incubus).





[edit on 10-1-2010 by cmkxlives]

I'm not sure if this is what you had, but I remember when I was a little girl my Dad told me some African Folklore. It was basically about an Old Hag who flies around visiting people in their sleep and taking them for rides at night. According to what my Dad told me the only way you can get rid of it is by putting some kind of curse on it.
Of course that might not be the thing that attacked you because I think what I'm thinking of only appears to Children.

something else that used to happen to me in the dream (which i had forgotten about totally until today) the force would sometimes spin me around the room as if i was in a washing machine. I cant believe i forgot about that because it was the worst part of the dream when it did happen.

just thought i should add that seems your post was what reminded me.

Heres a link regarding sleep paralysis, the old hag theory is mentioned there i believe

en.wikipedia.org...

'Such sleep paralysis was widely considered to be the work of demons and more specifically incubi, which were thought to sit on the chests of sleepers. In Old English the name for these beings was mare or mære (from a proto-Germanic *marōn, cf. Old Norse mara), hence comes the mare part in nightmare.'/i]

learn something new every day hehe