Man, I don't even know where to start, I've got so many sleeping problems.
But I'll get to those later since the thread title is "weird things that happen at night" (or osmething like that). So I'll start with a story.
To start, my family is broken up now, but many years ago my mom (who's hobby was painting portraits) used to store he paintings in our one of our houses more empty rooms. We always called it the painting room (hence it's function), and when we were young, me and my brother weren't allowed back there.
But once after that, once we had that room livable, I had to stay there when I caught the flu, so I wouldn't pass it on. It was a pretty miserable night for me, needless to say. Well once I felt I was finally ready to fall asleep, I set the sleep-timer on the TV to 60 minutes, and laid back, and closed my eyes. After what felt like only 5 minutes, I heared a small click, and the room was suddenly dark. A bit startled, I spun around and stared at the darkness right in front of me. I can't say why, but I felt a tension... for some reason I didn't reach for the remote next to me on my bed. I stood there still, trying to adjust my night-vision.
Now this may sound a little hysterical, but I'm being dead serious. And you know if this happened to you, it would freak you the hell out too! So there I was sitting completely still...until something happened that made me almost jump out of my skin. There standing over my bed was what seemed to be an extremely tall, figure with long arms standing over my bed....dancing...just swaying back and forth at me, and waving it's out-stretched armsforward then backwards. As you can imagine I was pretty scared at that point. I finally got my nerve back, garbbed my flashlight, and darted as fast as I could out of that room.
I know you're probably thinking that that could be accounted for in a number of completely logical ways...and I'm really hoping that thats the case...It's only happened to me once after that. But that incident haunted me till I was 13...I'm 14...
On a much brighter note, I have also been known to sleepwalk, and sometimes fall asleep near people, sit back up, engage in casual conversation, and lay back down....and not be able to remember any of it.
But what happened to me only recently was probably worse. I've always had pretty bad asthma, but the side effects of the drug I was on, is what really got to me, after I started taking it. Besides all of the emotional, and erm... trying not to come across as a wuss, but it has that sort of effect on you when you are on a steroid, and an anxiety medication at the same time. Yea, anyways besides all of the emotional stuff, the physical stuff took it's toll. I couldn't sleep for a long time. , and I was really messed up then, I was convinced it would reach a boiling point, and I would eventually die, I was trying to come to grips with death, and was terrified to sleep at all. Waking up not being able to braethe isn't a pleasant thing to wake up to. I was short of breath through the entire ordeal. The lack of sleep didn't help either, was completely out of it alot of the time, and I would constantly see stuff that wasn't there. And while I was digging in my medicine cabinet I would almost always see my moms cat (who didn't live there0 scuttle across the floor. It all looked very vivid.
That was one of the worst times of my life, and I'm still trying to get my asthma under control, and I'm doing better now...damn, I just realized how long this post is...
But yea, thats a few strange things that come to mind.
