I’m single professional lady in my mid-30’s, born and live in South East Asia (so, pardon my English). I have been haunted by the same experience since I was 14 years old.
It started without any warning during my afternoon nap. I studied in boarding school and share the room with few girls. I had just put my head on the pillow, was very tired after school’s activity and I was not in deep sleep yet. I could still hear the other girls’ activity around me when the buzzing noise started, and it got louder, and then I felt I could not move my body or even shouted for help. I didn’t know what it was, I thought I was going to die, so, I recite some Quranic verses (I am a Muslim), and slowly, I was free from it.
From then onwards, it happened on daily basis, few times a day. I was afraid to go sleeping. I was deprived of sleep. It shows in my grades and behaviour. It went on for more than a year and it got worst. No one knew how to help me and said I was just stressed. I even tried swallowing pills so that I could finally slept, forever. Luckily, it didn’t kill me, but it caused me having some medical complications until now.
I learned to control in; sleeping on my right side (it mostly happen when I slept on my back), crossing my legs while sleeping on my side (it was very uncomfortable but I found that it will lessen the experience if I can touch something when, toes with toes, when it happens). I tried to recite the Quranic verses but it didn’t help much because it seems not just my mouth, even my mind was blocked.
It gradually became lesser, from few times a day to once a day to once every few days to once every month and so on. When I entered college at the age of 18, it happened only once every few months. However, when I started to work, I started to experience other phenomenon. I was in my early 20’s, living alone in my 3-bedrooms rented condo in Kuala Lumpur. One night, I woke up from my sleep feeling cold air rushing into my room and then “something” jumping behind me (I slept on my side). I woke up by I didn’t dare to turn around. I just pretended I was sleeping, hoping that “it” didn’t harm me. At the same time, I was sweating like hell. Finally, it stop. That was the first experience with the “jumping thing”.
I got married, moved to few Asian countries to work. The experiences stopped. But, it started again when me and my ex-hubby stayed in one of the apartment in a small expat island in Hong Kong. For few years, I lead a normal life. This new experienced came as sudden… This time, I slept, with my ex next to me, and I thought I was awake, did normal things like going to bathroom, taking shower, preparing breakfast before going to work, and when I returned to my room, I saw my body next to my husband. It gave a hell out of me. I tried to wake up, but the same thing happened again. This experienced lasted few months. I even bite myself in “my dream” to wake myself up. It was very tiring and it affects my career because I was tired all the time. My ex said it was just a dream, he didn’t understand and said I might need some psychiatric help.
I refused to do that and did some research and found out about lucid dream. I tried to get some help from web. The person advised me to accept it and treat it as a blessing, but I just want to have a normal life. He guided me on how to stop the dream.
All these experiences stopped even after I got divorced in 2003 (not because of it). However, starting 2008, a few months after moving to my new rented apartment, I started to felt my bed being shaken by “something”. I had a four poster steel bed. First, I thought it was an earthquake, but then I dismissed the idea because an earthquake that can shake my apartment on the 21st Floor meant a very big one. And I didn’t see lights flickering (I slept with lights on, another method to lessen the chances of getting paralysis in my sleep. It won’t stop it, but can help). Anyway, the shaking didn’t stop. Then, I thought perhaps because I was too tired and my hearts beating so fast which caused my body to shake and as result, the bed shakes. I tried to dismiss any idea on ghost, demon, spirit etc. Anything, but that. Everytime I experienced all these phenomenon, I did some research to find a scientific explanations. Everything must have reasons and explanation. I found explanation on lucid dream but not the others.
Okay, my “bed-shaking” experienced was not caused by earthquake or my body. When it happened again, I started to observe it. I can see the bed posters at my feet shaking. The poster on my head even hits the wall of the room. I was in the middle of it, alone. So, I just jump out from the bed and leave the room. When it first started, it happen few times a week, reduced to once a while. The last one was just last Thursday night, 3 December. I moved temporarily to my mom’s house and slept on the third floor. It happened just before 6 am and I was not in deep sleep because I had just finish some assignment prior to that. I open my eyes, I observed the bed posters and saw it shaking but not as hard as those I experienced in my apartment. I immediately ran to my mom’s room until 6:30 am.
I don’t know what it was and hope to find some scientific explanation on all these experiences and have someone to help me to stop them.
By the way, this is a true story.
Sent in by Anna, Copyright 2009 TrueGhostTales.com
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Dear Anna,
I am so sorry you are having these experiences!
I have had them at times, too.
I wish I could give you advice about how to contol them.
It seems you have done well in the past with contoling them to an extent.
You may want to read all the posts on this site and compare your experience to them.
Good Luck!!
I have had a lot of stuff like this to but I’m christian and so today I’m going to right a true story yah me
DEAR ANNA,
I AM SO SORRY THAT YOU HAVE HAD THOSE EXPERIENCES IN YOUR LIFE. I TRUELEY FEEL SORRY FOR YOU. I HOPE ONE DAY YOU WILL REGAINE A NORMAL LIFE, NOT A PARANORMAL LIFE.
GOOD LUCK,
CHARLOTTE
Hi Anna,, i am so sorry that you have been going through this for so long. I also have the same problem, as many do here… i was amazed when i first came to this site and saw how many others suffered also. I have been told that i have sleep apnea, and am supposed to wear a mask to bed so i can breath properly,, yea right,, that thing just about suffocates me.. cant use it…
I dont know if yours could be a medical condition or not, but in my case, i think its a lot more than a medical thing.. i also hear the loud buzzing, like a lawn mower, i cant move, cant breath, my heart beats fast, i see and hear things… always been this way!!!! since childhood. Even when i nap in my recliner, the same thing happens.. sleep has never been kind to me….
i wish i had your answer!!! please read some of the posts here, that might help a little, knowing your not alone. If i can help in any way, please let me know.. i am 51, and i have had this problem my whole life….. i usually stay up very late and make sure i am tired enough to fall asleep, or i will just toss and turn and go through the h… you are talking about.. i have learned to live with it.
God Bless you honey,,,,, ktm
Look up Sleep Paralysis… I’ve got apnea too but sleep paralysis is a much more close diagnosis of whats going on with you. I experience it as well just the same, buzzing in the ear, waking up a lot at night unable to move etc
well i’ve never been through what you and others have, but i can say that you have really been diligent about finding answers! hopefully these things go away. thanks for telling us about your experiences!!
anna
U r a muslim right? So pray to ALLAH, ask for protection. I had same experience when im 16. When it happened i always see something like the white lady, a hand flying, etc. The last time i saw a burnt head and it’s my head, it’s only 5 inch from my face. I got so angry and yelled. And i never had sleep paralysis anymore
THIS MAY SOUND SHOCKING BUT I AM ONLY 12 AND I HAVE TO EXPERIENCED THIS ONCE TO IT IS VERY COMMEN FOR ME, I SEE VERY SCARY THINGS I AM SO SCARED TO SHOWER BUT I DO IT ANY WAYS I ALMOST DROWNED AT THE LOCAL POOL BECAUSE SOME THING WAS PULLING ME UNDER I BROKE FREE AND VOWED NEVER TO SWIM AGAIN BUT I DO, I AM GONNA ASK YOU ONE SIMPLE PLEAD PLEASE READ MY STORIES I HAVE SOME MORE COMING OUT ONE OF THEM IS NOW OUT CALLED THE UGLY WOMEN WHO WAS REALLY BUTIFUL AND SOME OTHERS PLEASE READ THEM!!
Hi everyone, thanks for your kind words and encouragement.
When I was not plagued by those things, I lead a normal life. Since the bed-shaking experience started, most of the time, I don’t sleep at night. I quit my job last June because I was too tired. I am now a freelancer working from home so that I can chose to sleep during day time when there’s still light, and work at night. If I can’t avoid it and too tired at night, I slept with lights and TV on. Noise from other sources will help lessening sleep paralysis. Btw, I don’t learn all these methods from internet or others but from try-and-tested experiment when the experience were at their peaks.
However, it wont do any good if you have partner. Even my sisters dont dare sleeping in the same room with me alone. Some former friends even accused me of practicising black magic. In college, I used to have a room mate whose also my best friend. One night, she just moved out and stop sharing the room with me. I thought I had done something to hurt her feeling. One day she confessed that she left our room that night because she woke up seeing something big and black standing next to my sleeping body. I took it that she had nightmare. I refused to believe in ghost or spirit, and I try not to believe in it, even now.
Maybe you wonder if my ex was affected by it. I considered we were “lucky” because our jobs involves frequent travelling. And since our divorce 6 years ago, I chose to lead a celibate life, so that I won’t be an inconvenience to others. I also prefer to be on my own, rather than having people accusing me of having some black power. But is this a normal life? Honestly, I at my wits end and just go along with it, hopefully by miracle, I can be like others.
I really want to have a normal life back. And I wont stop searching for answers and help.
Thanks everyone.
Anna
Dear Ana, I have had an out of body experience similar to yours. a few of them. The first one was January 7, 1984 a week before my brother Sean died in a car accident. I posted the story on “True Ghost Tales.com” It’s called ” A Haunting after my brother Sean was killed.” http://www.trueghosttales.com/paranormal/haunting-after-my-brother-was-killed/
The first experience I heard a buzzing noise, I remember this after reading your story. I did not put this in the story because their was too much to type. But I remember falling alsleep in the bedroom with my boyfriend Ken Thomas. I work up. then I was in a semi sleep state. I was consious and awake. but my spirit rose above my body. during this time I recall a buzzing noise. then I was floating above my body for hours. I could see Ken and me sleeping as my spirit floated in the room. I stayed floating for about 4 hours. In the meantime I was screaming someone help me. but my spirit could only scream in this other world. I kept screaming it echoed into another world or dimesion. my spirit voice could not be heard in our physical world. finally floating in total darkness only in my bedroom all night long. I commanded my spirit to go back into my body. my body finally obeyed when the dawn started to break.
My spirit finally returned to my body and I screamed Ken help me. When my body and spirit were together that was the time only someone on this earth could hear me.
Nothing has happened like that untill I was in my 40s. That is when I bought a haunted trailor. My daughter Christina was right by me when I fell asleep. Christina saw the devil standing over me. He then went into my body. she said demons were flying around the trailor. orbs were floating. When I was having the seizure that is when the devil went into my body she said. well anyways its a story I wrote again on the internet. But these are the only way I could tell you that some of the stuff you are dealing with I have also. I feel that there is evil in this world. The enemy tries at every possible way to get at people. so he tried to kill me once. the time in the trailor. the other time I was having an out of body experience tied into somehow my brother’s death. so be careful probly buy a cross or get a catholic priest to help you.
Carri
My Rockford Illinois Trailer Is Haunted
http://www.trueghosttales.com/paranormal/My-Rockford-Illinois-Trailer-Is-Haunted
I had to come back your a brave person
Hi Anna.
Go see a psycologist, not a psychiatrist. see one and tell them all your symptoms. Tell them about everything, all your concerns, what you think is happening and everything. Then go get an opinion from a psychiatrist. see them both symotainiously. Tell them both everything, and if the psychologist tells you that you dont need to see a psychiatrist dont listein to them and see one anyway. Almost everything you have described has a scientific explaination. the bed shaking could be stress. sleep paralysis is something that affects many people. the buzzing noise could b atributed to sleep paralysis as well. you need to get a psychiatrist to look at you seriously, you might have a mental condition, not a crippling one just something that messes with your life a little.
Me personaly, i think you are way too stressed out. you need to make time to go see a psychiatrist and a psycologist. dont let things like this take over your life. Do not believe it is a ghost until you have exhausted every last explaination, and trust me there are always explainations. Also try going to the mosk once in a while and praying, just about random things in your life, just tell Allah whats going on in your life, find a connection with him. Religion is an amazing support structure. You need support right now. and dont shut yourself out from people, go out, go on dates, meet people, change your life.
Ya this story is kinda scary i like it
i have had sleep paralysis my entire life. if you believe the theory that you are deep in r.e.m. and waken during this state it makes alot of sense . you are aware of everything around and unable to move but if you can remain calm and talk yourself back to sleep you will awaken soon without the paralysis. also if you can remain calm and wish to you can go to different plains. this may take alot of practice but who knows what could come out of it. tibetin monks have been doing it for a very long time
I just had a sleep paralysis “problem” last night! I’ve been through this before, but it was years ago….(I’m 48).
I felt as though I had just drifted off to sleep. I had an extremely real sensation of a child laying beside me and we were holding hands. ( No little one’s in the house, and I was alone in bed,) Suddenly, I felt the paralysis, along with a vibrating sensation in my body. It felt like an electric current that was part of me trying to escape. I could actually feel this dull current trying to rise out of me in the shape of my body. I was awake and knew that my boyfriend was in the next room. I was able to make enough noise with my voice that he came in and turned on the light. I wasn’t able to scream, but I could make a high pitched “woooooo” sound. I had a hard time going back to sleep.
I did not see anything unusual in my room….I could see the room clearly, but I did feel the young presence next to me, and distinctly felt the warm little hand in mine.
The most unnerving sensation to me was the feel of myself trying to rise from my body….and it felt as though the part of me trying to escape was electricity. It wasn’t painful…just weird feeling, but I had the sensation if I let that electricity leave me, it might not come back.
Dear Anna,
I too have been dealing with SP for years. Since I was 12, I am 31 today. The most recent was this week. It seems to happen to me more when I am stressed. It’s not as terrifying now as it has been in the past but none the less it is still very frightening. I have learned to deal with it in different ways. First just realize what is happening. I try not to fight it. try not to move. The hardest thing to deal with is the presence feeling. Sometimes I am totally convinced that there is spirits or something around me. The days after an “episode” I feel very weak and tired. I feel weird and abnormal, so I couldn’t imagine what you go through. When it happens to me I try and get my husband to wake me by breathing deep and fast. I can control that. It has worked in the past. This week a really odd thing happened. I was lucid dreaming and I started feeling the presence. To me it’s always been an eletric tinglely feeling. Well I have just gotten a new touch smart computer and it is set up in my bedroom. I swear I think my dreaming and my state made the computer turn on. When it turns on it does the whole computer turn on tune. That woke me and I able to escape the SP. I mention this because maybe you have ultra sensitive eletric/vibrating whatever’s and it is making your bed vibrate. I wish I could give you anwers. Maybe less stress and working out will help you. Atleast you know it won’t kill you..right?
Hi,
Anna here
Thanks fr all the comments and supports fr u guys.
Just to let you know, since my last posting (early Dec), I haven’t experience any new weird episode. Thank God!
However, I started to feel positive energy surrounding me since then. I am sure it is because of my meeting with the imam and also prayer from some of u here, esp. KTM (hope u read my latest comment here
)
In fact, mid-Jan, I found a great job, and will start my training in London for a month or two starting February! I manage to sleep well without the TV on, just a dim light from my table lamp. If I dont hv freelance assignment, I sleep around 11 pm, if not earlier!! I no longer hd to stay up, waiting for dawn to come.
And I wish this will last coz my guts telling me fr now onwards, I m going to lead a normal life, finally.
And to those of u who r still plagued by SP, I pray one day soon it will stop haunting u. Most ppl cant understand us. Some think that we r crazy, or even lazy cos we r always exhausted. And worst, some even think we got it because we r playing arnd with dark forces. The most frustrating part is that it seems to get worst and worst and u dont know how to stop it, and start questioning ur own state of mind. Then u start alienating urself fr others coz u dont want to scare them, or to lose them finally. That’s what happen to me.
I truly hope mine will stop for good this time coz i really want to stay and gv excellent performance on this job (it’s my dream job), and who knows, maybe open my heart to finding love again. I started to think more abt it past few weeks after been closing my heart fr more than 7 yrs. But this is not that important. Most important, I manage to get normal sleep, without bright light and TV on, feel less tired, feel content, and then got my dream job. Like i said earlier, I feel that I m surrounded by positive energy since last Dec.
I thank God and everyone who has been helping me going through this. Also to this portal coz here, I think I finally found the solution.
To SD: no, i dont hv any vibrating thing near my bed, not even alarm clock
, and it’s a heavy four-poster bed. It needs at least 2 to 3 ppl just to shift it, let alone shaking it. But I am just glad it has stopped now. It’s gotten lesser and lesser since my last posting. Anyway, I m going to get a new bed soon, the type that stick to the floor, just in case!
Thanks everyone! Wish me luck!!!
Anna
Anna,
I truly hope that you have found a way to deal with your issue. But I have one piece of advice for you… It may not be the bed itself that is shaking! During periods of astral projection and SP, many people experience a vibrating feeling accompanied with a buzzing sound or sensation mainly in the head and sometimes traveling throughout the whole body. Some believe that this is your dreaming body preparing to exit your physical body while you dream. Every person is the same, every night your dream self exits your physical self while you dream. You hover above your bed while you dream and sometimes when some people awaken they can experience this consciously.
Before you go and spend a lot of money on a new bed, consider the idea that your bed may not be vibrating at all but in fact it may be yourself!
(Note: normally when this happens to me its because I am preparing to exit my body during sleep for astral projection. When properly practiced and understood, astral projection can be one of the most rewarding things to experience! I have flown for miles up in the clouds and met people who I never would have had the chance to meet!)
Dear Grem,
When I had the experience, the bed was shaking when I was wide awake, because sometimes, when I was too scared, I ran to the my mom’s room. I am sure u cannot imagine a 35 year old still running to her mom.
I am okey now, the experience has stopped since I didn’t use bed and just put the mattress on the floor. I believe this is the fastest solution.