Scary

There are good witches and bad ones.. Chocoholic turned me into a Pannacotta with poached rhubarb...

Luckily, i got better.. :o)

good post Pilgram.That sleep paralysis does sound scary.Q

Guys - This is only a nightmare, not real.  It is the year 2011 - not 1300! There is no such thing as witches, fairies, magic, ghosts, etc... Invisible people do NOT exist.All the people that say that they have seen something are mistaken.  Please stop this sillyness by saying that it is true, this is not funny. you will scare poor centrino.  Read and learn something new and be less ignorant.It is a scientific fact that the brain can play tricks on your mind. UkEngQatar has touched on some very good points in his post above.  For those that might be interested I will take the time to try and explain very briefly a little bit more about how and why this happens below, especially when combined with tiredness/ sleep/ dreams (with or without eyes partially open) etc....The Brain is a very strange and complex organism.  The best way to think of it is by comparing it to a computer.  The human brain is basically a computer processor receiving inputs from different devices, inputs from your webcam are like your eyes, inputs from the mike are like your ears, the screen is the output (what the computer tells you it saw - Not always the same as what actually happened!), etc...The problem is this... the inputs we receive at the eye are not exactly what the brain tells us. (same with the ears too, more later on that, if I have time).  The eye is pretty good all round but it has its limitations.  For example if we examine the eye closely we know it is made up of "rods" and "cones".  There are 120 million rods and only 6-7 million cones. the rods are more sensitive but can only see in black and white and the cones see in colour and are in a donut shape around the very centre of the eye's vision.  We can not see colour in the dark but we can see in black and white (quite well after a few minutes, after the eye adjusts).  Also we can see nothing at the centre of our vision.  The brain fills in this bit of information for us!  Yes that's right, the brain actually processes an incomplete picture and fills in the gaps in the middle and around the sides with what it "thinks" should be there.  It also does this for colour in our peripheral vision. google it.  Imagine if you bought a brand new LED TV screen and it gave you a picture like that - It would be in the bin straight away. Unfortunately we have to struggle on with our old eye design for the time being.  It works very well 99.99% of the time though.  The other 0.01% of the time we think we saw something else (or the brain makes it up for us!). Strange but true.The brain basically does not like anything unknown.  In fact it cannot stand the unresolved.  If the brain does not recognise something it receives from the eye (due to distance or low lighting or the first look at something it has never seen before) it will do this.... and this is the important thing to understand.... First it will try and make it fit into the shape of a person, then it will try and make it fit the shape of an animal, then it will try and make it fit the shape of a know object.This is why some people "see" what they think is a person or dark shape/ object when it is dark. because of how the brain processes the "poor quality" information from the senses. Also you can't see in colour when its dark! and you have a small hole in your vision in the very centre of the eye.  You think you see a white or black shape (which the brain misleadingly turns into a human shape) and then when the light comes on, or you fully wake up, the thing you think you were looking at turns back into the cat or bedside lamp!I have experienced this phenomenon myself when walking home from the pub late at night and I took a short cut on a path through a dark tall oak tree lined park.  I saw a person (you guessed it, in black) hiding behind one of the trees, about 2/3 of the way down the path.  I had drunk one or two shandies, so was feeling brave and took the path anyway, (thinking that I would be able to take pretty good care of myself if I got into any danger).  I stopped about 1/3 of the way along and almost turned back, as this guy looked quite a bit bigger than me and he was crouching on the floor behind the tree, which seemed very suspicious.  I stared for about 20 seconds - definitely a large man hiding behind a tree - about to pounce on me if I went that way.  If I had turned back that night I would have been 100% convinced I saw a man there (or ghost perhaps?).  Anyway I continued.  Got a bit nearer and guess what?  Thats right, it was a dog, going to the toilet beside a tree, I could clearly see its tail wagging and its nose.  If I was scared of dogs I'd have turned back and I would have realised that I only saw a dog that night and not a man hiding.  Except that I wasn't scared of dogs, even big ones, so I carried on and to my surprise it wasn't a dog at all - it was a thick branch with bark on that had fallen off the tree, the leaves slowly moving in the wind.So - 3 options there as to what I could have seen.  It all depended on picking up more detail for the brain to process.  But I couldn't have seen a better example of how the brain plays tricks on you.  Unbelievable.No time to go into the ears now, as I'm off out.  if interested google "cocktail party effect" and speach de-verberation for an insight into how the brain processes sound.  Also look at audio memory duration. If you appreciated my time trying to explain the above, you are more than welcome, any time.  If you still believe in ghosts and invisible things.  I'm sorry I can not help any more, go back to the 13th century and continue being ill informed and ignorant. Hope that cures your fear of ghosts.Q

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis Physiologically, sleep paralysis is closely related to REM atonia, the paralysis that occurs as a natural part of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Sleep paralysis occurs either when falling asleep, or when awakening. When it occurs upon falling asleep, the person remains aware while the body shuts down for REM sleep, and it is called hypnagogic or predormital sleep paralysis. When it occurs upon awakening, the person becomes aware before the REM cycle is complete, and it is called hypnopompic or postdormital.[5] The paralysis can last from several seconds to several minutes "by which the individual may experience panic symptoms".[6] (described below) As the correlation with REM sleep suggests, the paralysis is not entirely complete; use of EOG traces shows that eye movement is still possible during such episodes.[7] When there is an absence of narcolepsy, sleep paralysis is referred to as isolated sleep paralysis (ISP).[8]In addition, the paralysis may be accompanied by terrifying hallucinations (hypnopompic or hypnagogic) and an acute sense of danger.[9] Sleep paralysis is particularly frightening to the individual because of the vividness of such hallucinations.[8] The hallucinatory element to sleep paralysis makes it even more likely that someone will interpret the experience as a dream, since completely fanciful or dream-like objects may appear in the room alongside one's normal vision. Some scientists have proposed this condition as an explanation for alien abductions and ghostly encounters

centrino .....>>>>> I can relate to your story cuz the same thing happened to me one time.  i was  fast asleep  around 3 AM when I suddenly woke up to go to the toilet and there it was! omg was so weird and scary and ambiguous  and I was strapped to my bed couldn't move, yell, scream kick or anything else for that matter and then the black thing got closer to my bedside and started placing it's hand over my thighs and pressed me so hard ( for those who might say I was dreaming then tell me how can  any of you explain the pressure I was feeling physically and the scars I had on my thighs later) so  just like you did I too began saying prayers I could remember cuz at the point my brain was almost blank could not even  finish one line of prayers after almost 10 minutes the pressure was gone and I could move again I’m 100% sure I was  fully awake and aware of my surroundings when it happened other ppl  I know also say they experienced something like that at some point in their lives.  

I saw that in discovery channel on one Tv program

It's not a ghost, what you're suffering from is something called Sleep Paralysis.  Google it.

dont watch horror movies... its just an illusions.....

"..throat stuck and you feel lying there helpless without energy and you cant move.."

I know the feeling ...... Don't get it as often as I used to :O(

You should read this:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18828_the-creepy-scientific-explanation-behind-ghost-sightings.html

If you've ever had a nightmare, you're in good company. Almost everyone gets them once in a while — adults, as well as kids. A nightmare is a bad dream. It can may make you feel scared, anxious, or upset, but nightmares are not real and can't harm you.

While you sleep, your brain doesn't just turn off. It goes through several sleep stages, including REM, or Rapid Eye Movement, sleep. Why do they call it that? Because during this stage of sleep, your eyes move back and forth under your closed eyelids. During REM sleep, you have dreams and sometimes those dreams can be scary or upsetting.

About every 90 minutes your brain switches between non-REM sleep and REM sleep. The amount of time spent in REM sleep increases with each sleep cycle through the night. The longest periods of REM sleep occur towards morning. If you wake during this REM stage, it is easier for you to remember what you were dreaming about. That's why your most vivid dreams — and nightmares — occur in the early morning hours.

Lmao Colt....

good u didnt come to my house...orelse i would have intoxitated something else of urs....:)

When it happens throat stuck and you feel lying there helpless without energy and you cant move..This is true..Tell me if you felt being heavy and unmovable?It so than it was a true feeling of somebody's presence.Few days back I removed all my rings and bracelets becasue somebody was demanding them.I came to office without wearing them and only upto 11 o clock i was not aware.When i came to know i rush back to home and i found my precious things at bedside my husband sleeps.It happened to me 3-4 weeks back.It is still a mystery to me.

I wanted to scare the shyt outta WK. I just came back intoxicated from my Halloween party, is why I went to the wrong house :-P

lol Colt....

Was it you? And I thought it was WK... oops, sorry, worng house :-P

what was the halo party like

Re the forum i think you are chatting chite please sort your head out before you are taken to the looney bin

i should've said "nightmare", but since it's in the afternoon, UK might be able to help me. :)

O yes one more thing. This sort of things normally happen to people who sleep in the day!

From your description It could well have been the angel of death.. Glad your mobile just saved your life.:)

lol WK, you never fail to amuse me...

I sometimes wake up and see someone standing next to the chair and shouting ,"YOU FELL ASLEEP IN OFFICE AGAIN!!!!!"

Ah well...

I sometimes wake up after midnight and see someone sitting on the chiar...

I didn't do it!

And I'll not do it again! :)

Easy solution.......Find a Bed-Mate, you will never feel any Ghost.

Watch the movie - Others.... you will find who they are...

Dreams we have when in half sleep state almost feel real....

its happen sumtimes....cannot make out whether thats dream,imaginations r reality..

You see you are imagining things.Don't let your imagination run away with you.

They walk among us

I agree with britexpat that The Others do exist.

hooo.. its really scary... but my doubt wen alarm was on what happnd... ghost got scared??

So ur mom too felt the GHOST's presence in the house??

It's time to leave the place now..

Ofcourse there are others...

Some are good and some not so... :O(

So you had a dream and are confusing it with reality?