Ghostly experiences (ooohh scarrrryyyy)

[Renodox]

Well...  There were a few nights when I woke up in the middle of the night and saw things that weren't there:

One night, I saw an arm sticking out of the floor holding a golden, bejeweled chalice.  I watched it for a while and it sank into the ground.

The next night, I saw a gun pointed at me.  I waved my hand at it and when my hand went through the gun, it faded away.

The third night, I saw a person wearing blue jeans and a white t-shirt standing in my room.  When I noticed him, he started to advance on me.  I sat up and he backed away and disappeared when he touched a chair.

But I'd say the strangest thing that ever happened to me was several years ago:

I was asleep in my bed and I was awoken by a loud sound of electricity.  Suddenly, a jolt started to run up through my toes into my feet.  The jolt rose up through my body only effecting one section of my body at a time (my legs were electrocuted but not my arms, then my arms were electrocuted but not my legs) until it passed through my head.  The sound went on for a little while and then faded away.  No one else in the house felt or heard it.  Needless to say, no one believed me either.

[Stupot]

That sounds similar to a phenomenon that happens to me sometimes.
Everyone gets those 'jolt awake' moments once in a while, but sometimes for me it's accompanied by what feels/seems like a kind of electric shock in my ears/brain.  Not in a painful way, but it's like a weird buzzing that kind of zaps me awake.  And I don't feel it in my toes or anywhere apart from in my head.
Not really ghostly, but wierd, hehe.

[Mouth for war]

Allow me: BY READING THIS you have a ghostly experience.

HAHAHA yeah

[Wyz]

Not in a painful way, but it's like a weird buzzing that kind of zaps me awake.

Yeah, I get that almost  every morning, but then I hit the snooze button. 

[Noctambulo]

Well...  There were a few nights when I woke up in the middle of the night and saw things that weren't there:

One night, I saw an arm sticking out of the floor holding a golden, bejeweled chalice.  I watched it for a while and it sank into the ground.

The next night, I saw a gun pointed at me.  I waved my hand at it and when my hand went through the gun, it faded away.

The third night, I saw a person wearing blue jeans and a white t-shirt standing in my room.  When I noticed him, he started to advance on me.  I sat up and he backed away and disappeared when he touched a chair.

But I'd say the strangest thing that ever happened to me was several years ago:

I was asleep in my bed and I was awoken by a loud sound of electricity.  Suddenly, a jolt started to run up through my toes into my feet.  The jolt rose up through my body only effecting one section of my body at a time (my legs were electrocuted but not my arms, then my arms were electrocuted but not my legs) until it passed through my head.  The sound went on for a little while and then faded away.  No one else in the house felt or heard it.  Needless to say, no one believed me either.

What do you think about that? I notice that you say "saw things that weren't there".

[MMMorshew]

Something super creepy I experienced:
Half a year ago, I had one of these weird moments when you wake up, but can`t move and your brain is still creating hallucinations. It is some kind of weird stage between dreaming and being awake.
In my case, I saw the door to my door slowly open and heard footsteps from the living room, even though nobody was in the house at that time. I noticed that the footsteps were getting faster and faster, to the point where it sounded like some super insane step dance. The footsteps were getting louder as they progressed to my room. Trough the door that had slightly opened, I saw a black being jiggle towards my room trough the hallway. It didn`t even look like it was walking or running, it jiggled left and right incredibly fast and moved forward that way for some reason. As it entered my room it started to jump left and right in front of the bed and made noises that sounded like a whirlwind. It moved faster and faster and soon I could only barely see it any more because of its speed. I remember that I felt the wind it made in my face.
It stayed like that for maybe 15 seconds, and after that it suddenly disappeared and I could finally move again.
But it still freaked me out pretty bad.

The funny thing is - I knew about experiences like this because I read it on the Internet at some point. I even thought something along the lines of "Oh no, this must be that weird thing I read about!" while it was happening.

Well...  There were a few nights when I woke up in the middle of the night and saw things that weren't there:

One night, I saw an arm sticking out of the floor holding a golden, bejeweled chalice.  I watched it for a while and it sank into the ground.

The next night, I saw a gun pointed at me.  I waved my hand at it and when my hand went through the gun, it faded away.

The third night, I saw a person wearing blue jeans and a white t-shirt standing in my room.  When I noticed him, he started to advance on me.  I sat up and he backed away and disappeared when he touched a chair.

I remember having these all the time at night when I was little, so I don`t think that this is something you should worry about.   Sometimes I also heard and saw something that sounded like a thundering rain of thrashcans falling from to sky and landing next to my bed.  

[arj0n]

Allow me: BY READING THIS you have a ghostly experience.

Like deamons in the attick, whoooooohh!!!

[Calin Leafshade]

once right, I went to McDonalds and there were no Chicken McNuggets left.

I felt a cold chill down my spine.

[Ghost]

once right, I went to McDonalds and there were no Chicken McNuggets left.

Poultryghost, right? 

[Mouth for war]

Nah! more likely a poultrygeist...evil things!!!

[Ghost]

Nah! more likely a poultrygeist...evil things!!!

Poltergeist in the Pantry!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ops_tXYjF2g

[Wyz]

How about Skeletons in the Closet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDsoN48HI54

[Ghost]

How about Skeletons in the Closet?

Sweet! And the scariest, merriest of them all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MXYC_jX2Wc

[Igor Hardy]

How philosophy deals with the whole ghost thing (even before finishing its breakfast):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRnGkAiNhyQ

[Darth Mandarb]

>> Long post alert <<

When I was a teenager (many moons ago) I used to get regular instances of sleep paralysis.  Now this was back in the stone age (before the internet) so I didn't have the resources to investigate what this might be that was happening to me.  I was very stressed out trying to come to grips with what was happening.  It was an odd time.  Anyway...

The three most horrifying examples were (that were repetitive examples and happened on several occasions):

1) I awake, but can't move, and am facing the window (which is open, though I am certain I had closed it before going to bed).  All of a sudden three HUGE dragonflies come into through the open window into my room.  The are bigger than eagles, have massive eyes and even bigger teeth.  They are quite terrifying to behold.  They hover over my bed and I can feel the wind from their wings tussling the sheets and my hair.  They drool on me and I can feel the hot snot like stuff land on my face but there's nothing I can do... I'm totally frozen and cannot move a muscle.  They hover there for a bit while my heart muscle gets a work-out and they they leave the same way they came in (sometimes they would just vanish).  Then I can move again and I wipe at my face but, of course, there's no snot-like dragonfly drool to be found!

2) I awake, but can't move, and am facing the door of my bedroom (which is open, though I am certain I had closed it before going to bed).  This three-legged cat comes in (well it has four legs but the front/left is gimpy and she doesn't use it to walk).  She (I say she because this is a cat we had had at one point (with the gimpy leg - we called her Garbage kitty 'cause my brother had found her in a dumpster)) comes over to the bed and stares up at me and then starts hissing and growling ... then she leaps up on the edge of the bad and just starts biting and slashing at my face.  I can feel the huge gouges being torn into my flesh.  I can't do anything ... I can't even scream I have NO control of my body at all and am powerless!  After a bit of mauling my face she jumps down and leaves or, as with the dragonflies, she simply vanishes as I regain control of my faculties.  Again I feel my face (even go to the bathroom mirror to make sure) to see how bad the scratches are but there's nothing there and the 'perceived' pain ebbs.

And this last one I had, at least, once a week for a long time and was, by far, the one that creeped me out the most!

3) I awake, but can't move, and am on my back.  I suddenly become aware that I'm not alone in the room.  I feel a small pressure on my chest.  I am able to move my eyes slightly and as far "down" as I can look I can see this little man standing on my chest.  He's only about 6-7 inches tall and is wearing a white garb of some kind (I can get only the vaguest hint of what he's wearing).  The only part of him I can see with any kind of clarity is his head ... he has no hair and his skin is very slightly tinted red.  He's got his chin down slightly and is just staring at me with this horrifyingly evil expression like "I'm about to kill you ... and there's nothing you can do about it".  He never says anything, never moves, just stands there staring at me.  Unlike the cat/dragonflies he never leaves on his own... he simply vanishes as I regain control of my body.

In all these cases (after the first time), while they were happening, on some level I knew I had experienced this before but it was almost like I couldn't hold on to that... it was real, it was happening now for the first time (especially #3) and I would react the same startled way (checking for injuries) afterwards.  I have never been one to subscribe to "possession" or anything of that sort but I just couldn't find a logical explanation for why this was happening to me.  It stopped around the time I turned 17 (well I have had a few cases in the years since then, but nothing regular).  It wasn't until years later when I learned of phenomenon called sleep paralysis and sort of put all the pieces of that old puzzle together!

I still don't know why I was having these episodes of sleep paralysis, but I'm satisfied now that that is what it was and not some demon possession or anything supernatural.

[Mouth for war]

Paralysis indeed but that sounds pretty damn creepy to me nonetheless

[Eggie]

Lots and lots of reports of that sort of thing...

The explanation is demons, naturally.

[Mouth for war]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_E_e9Tlz0M&feature=related hehe I just had to share this video here