seeing things at night ? spiders and insects and people oh my !!

[kat2913]

i posted this response in another forum , and am re posting them alone because i feel there are some aspects that are different from the other cases , such as the tremors ,and the length in which this is happening to me ... not only in how long these attacks last , but also in the amount of time in my life they have been happening .

there are also some other symptoms i would like to add . such as a low heart rate , that is increasingly lowered during sleep time . and arm and leg pains that only happen at night . ive had an mri , ekg, cat scan , worn a heart monitor , slept at a sleep study clinic , taken vitamins  , gone to routine check ups . and there is nothing "wrong" with me . i am a healthly 26 year old female .

i think that its strange that every case i have read about everyone is seeing the same images , this leads me to believe and im not a doctor that these things are possible stemming form a part of the brain that would trigger these images . hundreds of people from all over the world that see spiders when trying to sleep . just seems odd that people wouldnt be seeing different things depending on the individual

i have been experiencing this since i was a child . when i was young i believed that there were people in my room at night standing over my bed watching me sleep . sometimes they would grab at me , i felt it as though it was really . my mother would tell me that i would wake up screaming in the middle of the night . but the funny thing was i wasnt asleep . i was only laying there ,sometimes i would wake up with strange scratches or marks on my body . the doctor said i was just a restless sleeper and  it quickly got brushed under the table so to speak as night terrors , and i learned to live with it , as time went on and i got older the "visions" changed . i would see what you guys are calling spiders or insects crawling on the walls , only i think your brain is choosing to see it that way because its something its firmiliar with . i believe that its actually more like a ball of electricity (like those balls in science class you touch and the electric charges shoot to where your fingers are )..... the more i focused on them the more it would look like spiders or something i would naturally see crawling on walls . i also still see people standing in corners . sitting on my bed standing next to the bed . always the same things .and unlike when your eyes play tricks on you i find that when i look away from the image instead of it moving to where i look it stays in one place . my "visions" have started to last longer instead of seeing them for 10 seconds and closing my eyes and having them disappear , its lasting 30 seconds or more . giving me time to actually ponder what im seeing . i am also experiencing a different symptom non of you have mentioned . i sake , sometimes either before or after the visions happen my body trembles i thought it was fear , but now i think its as if its decompressing . its hard to explain . ive seen many doctors , had every test you can think of preformed ,done more then one sleep study . and the diagnoses is all over the place ive heard diet , mild narcolepsy ,sleep paralysis , and my favorite that im stressed . non of which i feel is correct im not excessively tired , i eat healthy , and dont consider my self suffering for any extra stress . i think its strange that we are all seeing the same things , the same 5 images , and that there is no study being done that this could be a completely isolated experience / disorder . i would love to have some answers

[EyesWideOpen00]

I had EXACT same experience as you.  First shadow people at 22 years of age, then spiders at around 24, and now nightly visits from people hovering next to me, above me or by the door in my bedroom - always during that relaxed state just before sleep, hypnogogic state of mind / body.  I have some vague recollections of visits from 'alien' type formations from early youth, but those images are very vague.  I am 31 years old and I see these images as clear as day.  Exactly the same as most accounts - between 10-20 seconds if I can stretch it, but as consciouness comes back to 'fully alert' the image disappears.  I have noticed re-occuring themes of blue eyes, but the people are all different ages, sexes and dressed very differently, possible from different time periods.  I once asked a young boy what he wanted (I didn't actually speak to him but I asked the question in my mind) and he disappeared before I got an answer.  The thing that scares you is that when your eyes open (involuntarily) you are always shocked to see it because you are not expecting it!  And it is kinda freaky having someone watch you sleep.  Just SO INTERESTING THAT WE ALL SEE THE SAME THING!!!  Seriously, I broke down crying just reading the entries because it is so nice to read that I am not alone in this experience, whatever this experience is...

[Loumck84]

I have had vivid experiences from when I was a child. I would sit up in bed and the entire room would be swarming with 1000s of crabs everywhere - across the floor, my bed, the curtains. More recently I see swarms of spiders/bugs/maggots pouring out of my pillow covering the bed and getting in my hair. I feel awake when these episodes happen - I have my eyes open and I am terrified. My heart beats so fast and I am drenched in sweat, it takes a long time to calm back down. Over the last few years I have been seeing people in my room. They started off as dark figures in the corners that wouldn't move, then they started to walk towards me when I looked at them. Now they've progressed to standing over the bed and staring at me, and they're in a lot of detail. Last night a police woman was staring at me and when I woke up tried to touch me. It's terrifying, especially as the people are getting a bit threatening and trying to grab and touch me. O have no idea what this is, but a similar thing happens to my man too - so maybe there is a hereditary element to it.

[pruney961]

Hi I totally agree with you.  I began seeing a big spider in a web a couple of months ago.  It moves around and lately it has been right over my head while I'm sleeping.  I personally believe that the spiders are trying to give us a message of some kind.  It is up to us to interpret the meaning and find out what the message is.  I see the spider through my third eye, normally when I am just dropping off to sleep or it wakes me up a couple of times a night.  Also I have had eperience with seeing spirits and feeling things on top of me.  When I told them to go and learnt how to protect myself they have diminished except for the spider.  The best thing to do is to contact reputable spiritual experts who can give you guidance on these types of things.  Some people you can't talk to about these things as they might think you're crazy but we are not we're just experiencing something which is not common for the majority of people.

[Abby453453]

Hi I'm 13 and I see people in my room I also see crocodiles and spiders I also told my mum I had flies on my pillow? :-/ I hate it...
at night my mum wakes me up and says I was screeming it is really terrifying and I'm glad I found someone who is going through the same thing

[Kat0516]

Damn I am 34 and had these for the last ten years. Always the same damn freaky spiders. I am so embarrassed. I take off covers and even frames off walls. I sleep in other rooms or couches or basement. Yea strange huh. My ex thought I was nuts. I am in great shape... but yes I would say average stress.  Why hasn't anyone found a solution yet?

[lpgirl29]

I have a similar problem, I see roaches crawling walls or running around,I really fear this insects. I usually see them during the day at various times, I don't have any sleeping problems in fact I can sleep anytime no problems but I am expiriencing some lack of memory, I feel better now but I really would like to know what's happening to me am I going crazy?lol