Wake up seeing things???

[SAK521]

I have, on SEVERAL occasions, woke up about an hour or so after I dose off (at night) to sleep and I think I see things.  Example:  I woke up one time swearing that there was a spider on the wall.  I woke up my husband and he said there was nothing there.  I feel like I'm totally awake, eyes open, speaking clearly, everything.  I just don't understand why this happens.  Sometimes when it begins, I tell him that it's not like before and I tell him that this time I really do see something.  So...I do realize what I'm doing at the time.  Then I go right back to sleep with no problems.  It's funny when it occurs because it's become a regular thing but I know this can't be normal.  Can someone please explain why this occurs?

[Crashawna]

OK so every time at night time I see people, owls,foxy,in my room like when I wake up I see those things every night it scared me

[Liam_Heffernan2]

It's probably recurring sleep paralysis, try to lay on your side and it might stop.

[Adriana10100]

Im 30 and I have been seeing things in my room since i was little. I remember when i was a kid seing shadows or people in my bedroom and i was paralysed with fear.This night i woke up and there was a person next to my bedroom door. I wanted to turn my light on but because the " thing " was next to it i couldnt get nearer and for some reason i couldnt scream..so i had to "sleep" it off .. Things never really improved. Wherever i used to go and spend the night i would see things . And on several occasions i woke up screaming an woke up the whole house, which was quite embarrasing to be honest. The things I see vary anywhere between insects and people. I seen spiders, huuuge snakes standing at the foot of my bed watching me.. arms crawling from under cupboards, or behind the curtains , or above the bed , persons being in my room, but normally i dont see the faces, just the shadows, scary heads watching me from a black hole in the wall, insects crawling on the bed , or walls, amongst other things crawling and moving . My partner wakes up sometimes with me sitting on the bed and staring at the "thing" and hes trying to get me to sleep saying that is nothing there, but i still see it and then it retracts... Many times i open my eyes knowing theres something there and i tell to myself..is not real..and it goes away but it doesnt mean that it doesnt scare me, and it always comes back. A few months ago my "dream" actually had a go at me.. we booked a night in a hotel and spa for my birthday and there was this corner in the room that after i went to bed just didnt look right.. so i wake up in the middle of the night and i see two men standing there watching me.. and i was watching them knowing they are not real.. but they didnt retract, they advanced on and came closer and i turned away , i just couldnt look at them.. I said to myself "they are not here and they are not real" and i looked back but when i did, they came close and jumped towards me . I did started screaming and as a result, my sister ( who was in another bed with her husband) started screaming too, and my partner woke up screaming too! :D Well it definitely was a night to remember.. we probably woke up alot of people!! These things are scary! And seeing that there are so many of us who experience the same thing calms me down a little bit. They cant touch us! And we have to stay strong and remember that they are not true. I had a funny "dream" once in my life and i wish there were more of those funny ones instead of scary. I will share it with you .. and i hope that it will make you smile : so.. (this happened a few months ago).. i wake up in the middle of the night and there are these pots hanging above the bed tied by red baloons.. and as they reached the ceiling, the baloons would pop and the pots would fall!. So as i take my hand out i had this large tray in it and i started catching all of them but one.. which kept floating lol. So i pull the blanket on my head and my partners head and started telling him: is falling! at this point he woke up and tried to come out from under the blanket but i wouldnt let him because i was worried it will fall on his head! after a while i looked from under the blanket and there was no more pot and i finally let him come out. I realised it was one of my "dreams" and i started giggling by myself. He never remembered the next day but i did . After a bad night ( which i dont recall, but my partner does),he read about it  online and asked me to look it up online. This is how i found this forum.. I am really happy that i did! I hope that you guys are all having a great night. I apologise for any mistakes made. English is not my native language.

[Andrea_31]

This is hilarious!!! And I googled this because everything that you just described perfectly happens to me! Let's be Facebook friends!! Lol - geri_ann55***@****

[Liam_Heffernan2]

The dream about the pots is pretty funny, but about the shadows and figures coming into your room, it's probably recurring sleep paralysis, try laying on your side, if that doesn't help you know how you were reassuring yourself that it's not real, just keep doing that and it will probably stop eventually.

[talkndoc]

This happens almost everytime I wake up during the night.if I let it happen. This started about 3 years ago.  I'm in my seventies. I would wake up but I would keep my eyes closed and just look into the darkness. A screen would appear with images on the screen. It is like a streaming video. I see people talking to one another.  I see there features clearly.  Though I see them talking I never here a sound. I see them laughing or driving motor vehicles. I know I'm awake.  Sometimes I will hold my eye lid closed to keep out the ambient light because I don't want to lose the image. I try to see words to help me identify where the scene is taking place. The image eventually fades after 20 to 30 seconds it seems. They are never threatening. I can not interact with the images. I see writing on store fronts if it is on the outside and street signs. I scenes appear to be n court rooms. I see men dressed in business like suits entering and leaving. The images can last long enough to tell my wife what I see before it fades.

[Alib6154]

Hi I don't know if this is related but last week I had difficulty falling asleep.I eventually drifted off but woke in the darkness and I could see an object hovering above my head. It looked like a light from a surgical lamp and also like a laser or operating machine . It was not physical.,but it was very interactive. I felt that it was obtaining information . I was not scared and turned onto my side and went back to sleep.

[Busterbrown28]

One time when I was younger im 12 now I woke up and I saw like looney tunes on the walls and I was also wide awake I walked to my mom rooms and woke her up told her and she said its just a dream sleep with me so I got in her bed went back to sleep and then later I woke up and I saw all the little looney tunes like Tweety Bird, chip and dale and all these other little tiny  characters and the door was open and  bugs Bunny was on the door eating a carrot and I woke up my mom and she said there is nothing there I was  absolutely terrified, I also had dreams of what I thought was Bloody Mary were I would wake up and not be able to move or talk and sometimes I would wake up and would be coking myself and my arms were red that happend like 3 times. I told my mom years later and she said it might have been the old hag but idk. But I learned that you have control of your dreams wich I didnt know before so i remembered that and the next time I had one I told myself in the dream while I was sleep and I said to myself I have control and I lifted my feet of the bed and woke myself up, and I wasnt scared I was actually really proud of my self lol.

[Busterbrown28]

One time when I was younger im 12 now I woke up and I saw like looney tunes on the walls and I was also wide awake I walked to my mom rooms and woke her up told her and she said its just a dream sleep with me so I got in her bed went back to sleep and then later I woke up and I saw all the little looney tunes like Tweety Bird, chip and dale and all these other little tiny  characters and the door was open and  bugs Bunny was on the door eating a carrot and I woke up my mom and she said there is nothing there I was  absolutely terrified, I also had dreams of what I thought was Bloody Mary were I would wake up and not be able to move or talk and sometimes I would wake up and would be coking myself and my arms were red that happend like 3 times. I told my mom years later and she said it might have been the old hag but idk. But I learned that you have control of your dreams wich I didnt know before so i remembered that and the next time I had one I told myself in the dream while I was sleep and I said to myself I have control and I lifted my feet of the bed and woke myself up, and I wasnt scared I was actually really proud of my self lol.

[Liam_Heffernan2]

Good job Busterbrown28 about seeing Bloody Mary and not being able to move or speak it was probably sleep paralysis, it's strange for someone like yourself to have it so young if you want to avoid it try lying on your side, that should help