Sleep Paralysis
Reading a post below reminded me of my own experience of sleep paralysis.

I awoke to the feeling of electricity flowing through my head (similar to what I feel on magic mushrooms), like a shock and then a long build up to another shock. I tried to move and turn over but my body wasn't having any of it... I then had a horrible feeling that there was a strange dark figure just out of eyeshot. I tried and tried to move and felt more and more terrified as I 'sensed' this figure getting closer and the room growing darker.

I then heard a really strange noise from behind my radiator (just to the left of my bed in the direction I was facing). For some reason I got it into my head that a frog had become trapped inside the radiator and the sound was its trapped, metallic croaking!

I then think I fell asleep for a bit and woke up paralysed again, but this time saw a bright blue light a few inches in front of my face and got it into my head that it was my housemate shining his mobile phone light into my face...

I then managed to turn over and drifted off into a deep sleep. I even asked my housemate if he was playing tricks on me that night, but he just looked at me strangely.

Sleep Paralysis can be really frightening...

Edit: this is the funniest QOTW for a long while!
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Sat 25 Aug 2007, 15:52, Reply)