Floating heads...
When I was a wee girl I had my own room. I used to like reading my Goosebump and Point Horror books, but I was never easily scared. One night I was happily tucked up, ready for sleep, under my ace moon and sun duvet when I rolled over to get comfy, keeking open my eyes as you do when- HOLY CRAP! There was a young man's head floating right in front of me! I kept my eyes just open and he kept looking at me, looking agitated as if he wanted me to wake up. That was the night I started tucking my head under the duvet cover.

I genuinely believed I had seen a ghost. And amazingly... I saw another. Another floating head. Yes, Abraham Lincoln - in black and white no less - also came to visit me.

It's only now, after suffering night hallucinations for years (mostly involving spiders, sometimes shrimps or even aliens coming through the ceiling) that this makes sense, though the sitting up in bed and having whispered conversations with people who aren't there is still a bit odd. My sister has this too- she sees people at night, sometimes just chilling out on top of her chest of drawers. This may also make sense of the fact my mum sees shadowy figures and my gran on my mum's side also has seen people around her bed at night.

Unless, of course, I am being visited by the vengeful ghosts of arachnids and unhappy sea life.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Fri 14 Sep 2012, 13:14, 4 replies)

Very interesting, just been reading about this
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

How often does it affect you?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 14 Sep 2012, 15:06, closed)

Every so often! I can go a few weeks without (noticing?) it happening.
I've become used to the spiders now. I normally just turn the light on and realise straight away. I call them my spider attacks. Can be a bit annoying if I'm sharing a room though! My sister used to hate it, although she teases me merciless about some of them now.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Wed 19 Sep 2012, 15:33, closed)

(^(^;;^)^) woooooooooo

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 14 Sep 2012, 16:29, closed)

I have this too.
And I get sleep paralysis very often when I'm stressed. Very frightening experience!
(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 15 Sep 2012, 14:32, closed)