Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

I’ve always experienced sleep paralysis. It started when I was a kid. I’d wake up, paralyzed, hearing unorganized noises, which make me imagine things. Most of the time when this happens, I want to go to my parents’ room. I see myself doing this and then I’m fine. After a while I wake up again paralyzed, realizing I really didn’t go to my parents’ room. This tortured me all throughout my entire schooling years. When I’m studying all night, I take a break at around 2:30, then wake up at 4 am. During 3 am I often feel like I’m being watched, strange noises, shadows moving about in my peripheral. I’d say I was quite delusional caused by my fear of 3 am. Case of the chicken and the egg. Prayer always makes it go away though. Sometimes it’s hard, sometimes it disappears quickly. Other times I feel like I’m fighting for my life that if I don’t pray hard enough, I’d slip away. I never made any noise whatsoever because I knew even a whisper of a prayer would work.

So anyway my first job was a night job, I slept during my break in the clinic. I woke up feeling like the room was closing in on me so I rushed out. Never slept there again. Some night I slept in the other sleeping quarters. Woke up paralyzed, it was really really noisy outside as if there was a party. When I woke up my first reaction was, I overslept! I thought I have slept for 5 hours. I logged in, I was 10 minutes early to log in after a supposed 1 hour break.

After some time everyone was sharing their experiences in the office. Paralysis, women trying to lure them in, kids wanting to play with them. One night we were all in the lobby sleeping. *John was moaning in his sleep. I moved him with my hand. He stopped. We all fell asleep again. Until I woke up, my eyes opened, and I saw the head of a kid with straight bangs and huge eyes looking straight. Next morning they all told me I was making the same sound *John was making.

Before this, we were transferred to another room. That’s where we slept. And we slept perfectly. We were a happy group. The sleep paralysis stopped. When we got transferred again, we couldn’t sleep in that room anymore. The sleep paralysis came back. I theorize it’s the negative energy that’s giving us nightmares. Everyone’s stressed in the office. But our group was a happy group. We were always laughing when we were in our old room. That’s probably why we never had nightmares in that room.

I’m now at my second job. Still nights. In the 5 months that I’ve been here, I haven’t experienced sleep paralysis. This is a home-type office. The family is a family friend and they’re a huge family. A huge happy family.

I don’t mock the idea of ghosts and its entire industry. I am scared of the dark and can’t stand watching scary movies.

Nevertheless, I reside to the sleep paralysis as highly scientific. The scary part of it all, I say they are hallucinations, imaginations, mixed in with our dreams’ ability to make us see and believe things that are unreal. I also believe that negative energy is to blame. Sort of how stress, something purely psychological, when becomes severe, turns into something physical, like cancer. Thoughts?

Sent in by Anna, Copyright 2010 TrueGhostTales.com