I am in need of some help. I have a bit of a dilemma and the only place I can turn is here. No one I am friends with can give any real advice. I've been told to sell my mattress, move, burn incense- but nothing or anyone has any real answers so I AM IN NEED OF YOUR EXPERT HELP OR DIRECTION:
A bit of back-story:l grew up in a religious household or so I thought. No one really believed, but I was put into the southern baptist christian school and church from the age of 3 until I was 14. So I'm a believer in God- maybe the only one in my family, a believer in angels so I guess this means I believe in the opposite - the devil and demons. Truthfully nowadays I am not devoutly religious or anything like that. I don't go to church or practice anything.
A couple years ago I began experiencing explainable events around my bed. I would feel as though my cats were jumping/ pouncing around me while I was trying to sleep in my bed, and I would turn on my lights yelling at them only to find them sleeping in their bed in the corner of my room. This still happens quite frequently. It didn't always happen when I was alone. My ex-boyfriend also felt the movements a couple of times. He also thought it was my cats but again they were not in the room and the doors to the room had been closed.
In addition, I would wake or be made aware to the feeling of someone sitting on the side of my bed. Sometimes they would start rubbing me in a non-threatening way, still I would be awake startled by the movements and motions. I'd go still as stone or trembling or they would last for a time and then finally I'd gather the gumption to challenge the feeling and look toward where it came from. A few times I'd see a shadow disperse. I have convensed myself it was a trick of the eye - I questioned my roommates til I was blue in the face and I seemed crazy. Nothing too bizarre has happened. The unexplained touch, rub, movement, shadows all terrifying but simple, spread-out creepy yet they seemed loving and fond in nature UNTIL last night.
I felt the familiar needing. I thought it was my cats again - it had been so long but it wasn't my cats they were sound asleep in my living room. The needing grew stronger and more intense around my body. My bed began to shake. I yelled at my cat Ty because I thought it was him being annoying. It stopped for a minute. I re-settled in the covers and my bed. I felt the thrum near my thigh. It crept up my body up the side of my torso caressing me. It swept chillingly up my body resting on my chin. It was gentle, smooth, and bone-chillingly cold. I was under 3 layers of covers when the force moved itself and my covers up to my chin. I felt a strong chill, but it was still a calm non-violent feeling in itself. I was stone cold frozen. I have never been more aware. A FEW MOMENTS later I felt the clasp of a hand on the back of my neck. I was sure someone had come into my apartment and was there to kill me. I pleaded with the unknown attacker. I begged for my life. The frozen feeling on my neck never moved it thrummed on my neck - the individual fingers thrumming- I was silent and nothing made a sound a breath later MY HEAD WAS VIOLENTLY FORCED FORWARD in a head banging sort of motion. The force leaving a tense grasp feeling on the back of my head. Nothing said. No noises made. My rasping breathing faded a few minutes later. I grew some balls and rolled over to find nothing there to explain the feeling. No covers, no pillows, no animals. My pets were fast asleep in other rooms with very warm beds. My doors were locked and I LIVE ALONE NO ONE ELSE AROUND.
Is this all in my head? Forms of psychosis? Some form of mind tricks?
I have experienced the bed moving and feelings of comforting- bed and covers moving - the cool touch, my clothes and hair being moved, as well as my bed covers. I have seen my covers moved. but just kept it in the middle of the night weird phenomenon but not paranormal ---- or really "nothing" just the things that occurred multiple times before that were innocent mind-tricks BUT I just wrote it off as middle of the night mind confusion. Now I am not so sure. The force and feelings I have had recently is stronger and more violent. any ideas, thoughts, problem solving is much appreciated. - to be noted i live in an early 1900s original apartment but it's full the tenants constant long term and the movements began a few months before I moved here.
what do i do? who is messing with me? is it in my head? is this some sort of middle of the night nerve problem?
What is it that is happening to me? Psychosis? schisophrenia? some other mind or nerve problem? I am not on drugs or do I do any sort of drug. Do you believe in the paranormal? Is God speaking to me? Is it my dead family members trying to knock some sense into my brain hah?
Any ideas. thoughts. etc are warm welcomed.
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