Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

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