Drowning quietly in sleep,
at approximately 3:00 a.m.
I'm stupefied as I half-opened my eyelids
to find a figure stand at my bedside!!!
Millions of ideas scatter within my mind
to account for this terror.
Petrified, I forced myself to speak.
Nothing came out.
And I can't move at all!!!
Perhaps this person was a burglar?
A sinister killer?
Was I dreaming? Or something unexplained?
Such as an angel or ghost?
"What do you want?!"
"Why do you stay there?"
"WHO ARE YOU?!" I said in the head.
The face was vague;
nothing descriptive for me to recall.
I stood up all of a sudden, wide-awake,
to see darkness in my room.
No one was there at all...
Author's Notes/Comments:
Last night I had the most terrifying experience. So if you're skeptical about it as you read, I can understand. Yet I swear there was something in my room with me. I've already explained what happened above on the poem so I'll present two explanations I came up with. One was that I was experiencing sleep paralysis. In truth, I've experienced this several times already. It's very hard to explain what sleep paralysis is but according to my experiences it's like you're asleep but then all of a sudden you find yourself "awake" ��� but you're still sleeping! You're not dreaming at all because you can think thoughts in you're head as if you're awake. Then you become completely awake but you find out that you're body is paralyzed. You can't move it no matter what you command it to do. But then you struggle to move your body until you can finally gain control of it. That's what it is. I found out two years ago when I read a scientific research journal that 1 out of every 4 Americans will experience at least one sleep paralysis in their entire lives. Sleep paralysis is still under research. Nothing can explain it yet. The other explanation for that figure I saw was that it was some sort of spirit. And I'm not crazy!!! Honestly, there was something there before I stood up from my bed. And no one I know was in my room at the time. I remember that figure's body can be easily seen but the head, I couldn't see the head clearly. And also I'm not one to believe in ghosts but that was the first time I've experienced something like that. By the way, I ended up staying awake the rest of the night (partly becuz' I was not only f***ing shocked but frightened about what happened) Thanx for reading. I just thought I'd share this to lessen my fears. If you have some comments that you want to share no matter how skeptical it is, I'll be willing to hear it...
It seems scary to me to know that something like this could happen to anyone, and as for me, I don't know what it is that I have, but if it is something that's indeed happened to me, I'd either have forgotten it or not remember exactly how everything was when I experienced it, but I don't even know if I do have sleep paralysis. Life can be scary that way, I guess. Often when I'm dreaming, I'd feel like it's all 100% real, and though it's just a dream, I'm still able to think things through my head, thinking things like, "I'm actually singing!! I'm actually up in front of a sold-out crowd who came to my concert!!" I don't have any concerts to perform in in real life, but in my dream, I was suddenly in a concert which was my own, and I was jumping around, playing my guitar, and the crowd was rocking out with me, and I was like, "Come on!! Sing with me!!" And I held out my microphone for everyone to sing along. It was fun, even though it was just a dream, but it totally felt 100% real!! I was even able to think things through in my head, too, and so I don't know if that's sleep paralysis, but I think it's more of just a dream. I doubt that it could even be sleep paralysis since I'm moving around in the dream, but not moving around as I'm sleeping. Sounds crazy, but it's true. Well, anyways, I really like this poem, even though it does frighten me to know that this could happen to people sometimes, or very often as well.
Thanks for posting on my poems! I have this happen to me all the time. Its actully quite scarry! Like when i need water i think im going to go get it and when i go turn on the faucet i wake up and im still in my bed. OH and about the shadow i always have a shadow around me. Maybe its because im a wicca? Anyways you write really well and it was easy to read and not hard!