I have always seen things, a lot when I was younger, but the visions went away for a few years, or I had learned to just disregard them somehow. They first happened again to me when I came down with a progressed stage of Lyme Disease. The first thing I saw were bugs flying all over my face biting and stinging and crawling into my nose and mouth, but I was able to sweep the vision away. I began to see flittings of shadows randomly, then one night, while wide awake, siting in bed I looked up at my doorway and a huge armoured figure came in my room and stabbed my chest with a spear. I quickly disregarded the vision and the pain and blood and everything went away. I recently began trying pot and it showed me the visions everytime I got high. I was able to observe and try so many things with this new "world" I had learned to open up. Normally, this might sound crazy to people, but considering we have all be experiencing the same thing allow me to relate my thoughts.
I believe that all people can potentially experience this "world" while some, us here, to list a few of the minority, have a natural ability to access this "world". I honestly believe that it is the spirit world. We only catch shadows or a few individuals from the spirit world for many reasons. One is that our mind would not be able to comprehend the collective local history of the area we are in, the spirits inhabiting the area, and the flow of the universe. It would make us crazy. Which brings me to schizophrenia. I think that schizophrenic people are wrongfully diagnosed. Not everything is known about the disorder, but I believe that people with schizophrenia are actually existing between our physical world and the spiritual world.
These things that we see are spirits. For most of us we will only allow ourselves to see things that are familiar to us, such as bugs, even if we do not like them. Its a coping mechanism to keep us sane instead of making us see whatever it could actually be, usually just the essence of some spirit(s). There is a whole lot more that goes into this, but one can obtain a measure of control with the energy from this realm, such as I have been able to explode a bottle of soda by holding it, as well as, other non-tangible acts.
Long story short, in our ancestry, or perhaps just being us, ourselves, I believe there is some shamanic linkage or ancient wellspring of forgotten knowledge locked deep in our psyche that has somehow trickled out to our conscious mind and allows us to see these things. I ask you all to explore what you see, and think on some of what I've said. Find some measure of control over the visions so that you can always find yourself back in this physical realm, and once you have accomplished that, works towards discovering these visions. Travel with caution until you have reached a level of familiarity with the visions.
Mayhaps we will meet one day on the paths of the spirit. Travel well.
hi!im 21 and i have also seen the same spiders and shadow figures from a young age were i used to either wake up and scream or run out of bed and when i tried to explain it to family and friends they used to think i was crazy thank god im not and im greatful iv read this forum
Hi you are definitely not alone on this, I posted some of my experiences on the "Wake up seeing things???" thread, in my case, my night visions are getting creepier than ever... remember the girl from the Grudge movie? I saw this woman with long black hair covering her face, coming out of my closet, towards me, then I focused my attention and she went back in, this other night I saw I shadowy figure on one corner of my room, I yelled at it and it jumped( once again back into my closet). The most terrifying experience which could've been a nightmare because it was so real was when I sensed a person right next to me on my bed..., this time I saw her face, it was a woman(dead looking) staring at me, I kept telling me "I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid" until I went back to sleep. Then the visions stopped... atleast for a while... last week I woke up in the middle of the night and I could swear I saw a cloud made of semi-transparent white fabrics floating on top of me.
Wow, I thought i was stupid typing in the words seeing spiders at night into Bing. I've been seeing spiders and people in my room since i was very young, at least three, I'm 30 now with an eight year career in the military. I've seen these things every where I've gone, in several coutries, in any living space from a ship to a tent.
Your stories sound so much like mine, the fear is horrifing and embarrassing when I'm sleeping next to someone (especially when its a tent, berthing or room full of females that are all peacefully sleeping) I can't beleive the relief i feel at seeing that I am not alone with these night time scares. We all try to put a scientific twist to this, but what if there isn't one? The people I see at night are very realistic looking. I've begun to accept that perhaps I (we) may be seeing someone that has passed on. The spiders? I don't know, perhaps something that our brain can recognize. Just food for thought. Thank you all for sharing, and to the first person that wrote 2 years ago...thank you for being so brave.
This sounds like my exact same story! I do sleep with the light on and it helps a lot. But a night light is not bright enough to keep the visions at bay. I have to have a t.v. or an actual lamp on. I am not sure what this is but I graduated from seeing spiders and flying bugs to people in door ways. Some times I go years without seeing anything then all of a sudden it is every night for a few weeks! My heart is racing so fast I feel like I am going to have a heart attack! I guess some might say they are night terrors and you are not fully awake. I am not sure what it is but it is scary!!!
hay my name is stefanie, im 19 years old and will be 20 next month. iv been seeing spiders in my sleep for almost 2 years now. i dont kno if im dreaming or not since my eyes are open and i actually kno what im doing. these episodes happen to me off and on, but lately its been happening almost every other night. i wake up literally seeing spiders. i will see them on my dresser, floating in the air, on my walls, pillows, or coming off my ceiling from a web. immedialty when i see them i freak out, ill scream, jump out of bed and run out of my room. the other night i was so freaked out at these spiders that were coming towards my face very fast, i ran out of bed and out of my room, down the hall into my parents room crying, shakey, and breathless. i couldnt go back to sleep. also last night there was a big black spider crawling up my dresser across the room, i grabbed my baby boy(who sleeps in my bed) and i ran out of the room into the hall then i snapped out of it but i was stilll terrified, i turned on my light and looked for it.. im very worried tho cus now im involving my son into this. i even wake up with alot of spiders spread out in my room floating and i wake up dodging them trying to get out of my room. i dont understand why this has been happening to me. im scared to close my eyes and go to sleep now, its gotten to the point where i sleep with my tv on or my light /: but im relived that im not the only one having this problem..