A little out of my depth!

[Lynnette]

Umm, not quite sure how if this is the right place to ask this, or if I may, but I really need some input and advice, and quickly.

For the last couple of nights now, I have been waking up struggling to breathe, with the feeling of being suffocated, having really unusual and lucid dreams. That by-the-by, these all culminated last night with a very frightening ending.

After some convoluted and un-understandable dreams, I suddenly found myself in an old building. It was empty and neglected. For some reason it was thought I could contact and speak to the ghosts that had resided there, so I had been coerced into coming. I wasn't happy about it. I like to leave such matters as they are without inviting them to contact me.

I was put into a room with various bits of equipment while the other people busied themselves with other preparations before coming in to me. I could feel there were things there and tried desperately to remember and correctly recite protective prayers I had learnt as a child. I had not uttered them for years. Whilst trying to remember, I was carrying the thoughts that nothing harmful or bad or evil comes near me, and was asking for guidance and protection.

The people still had not finished preparing, so I left the room to use the bathroom. I pushed the door shut, but am sure I did not lock it. It was a very old, un-naturally cold room. There was a mirror in front of the toilet, and as I sat down, I jumped, sure I saw a reflection move behind me. But the room was empty.

A second later, as I sat, I felt my hair being thrown and lifted up. I came to cry out in fright and surprise, but had my cry cut off by someone prodding my stomach. I tried to cry out again and ask for help - the people were just outside, but again, I was cut off by another poke into my stomach. I hoped they would hear the sounds of my struggle, but then I realised the door was locked. I tried to keep my breath and focus inside myself to remember the prayers and word I had been using, but at that instant I was poked again, my hair thrown up in the air, and in my fright, I woke myself.

I am sure it was just a dream, though a frightening one. (I seek to reassure myself!) but, I still cannot shake off the feeling. Especially given the following few nights, and am getting a little concerned now. I may have sensed things in the past, living in different houses, but this is the first time I have had this physical experience and felt this unusual atmosphere in my house. Even my cat has taken to sticking by my side or hiding in the corners.

 

[SkyeSpitfire]

This happens to me a lot. There's something that visited you that's either latched onto you or onto the place where you're staying. I believe it's either a negative entity/demon/however someone wants to word it and something happened to them in this place you dreamed about, hence they 'became' like whatever evil they experienced. Or they're someone who's lost and they want to show you what happened to them in this place. These types of dreams which are lucid, where you come into contact with something in your dream, usually manifests in some way in reality because there is actually something there, it's just they can only communicate with us in dreams. Hence the weird atmosphere in your house. To determine what/who it is, you should try and ask it what it wants next time. You might just end up feeling more suffocated. If the thing isn't malevolent, it will try and answer you. If it is, it'll be annoyed and probably plant more things in your dreams. You said yourself that when you entered the room, you just felt something was there and your instinct was saying you had to protect yourself - that means something bad is there or something bad happened there.


When I get visited by demons, they plant very evil situations in my dreams and they enjoy it. Sometimes I'll have the sensation that my wrists are being grabbed or someone's on top of me. If they're not creating evil situations or toying with you, then it could be that this spirit just wants your attention and wants you to know what happened to them in this place. That's why I feel it's best to ask next time. And if this is causing you to feel fear, causing you to need urgent responses, then this is something to take notice of - it's just you have to find out what it is. And don't listen to anyone who says these things aren't real - they don't know ****, not unless they're been through it themselves, and most people who love to spout their opinion on it have never experienced what it's like.

 

[argonne1918]

Both of you are psychic "sensitives". Do you have any idea when this "haunted" building was time wise? It actually sounds recent with all of the ghost-hunting groups that exist today. There are online forums for this kind of thing. If you are interested PM me and I will give you some links. Ghost hunting is taken somewhat more seriously now because there electronic devices that indicate anomalies that can't be seen. People who are sensitives are now vindicated when the devices go off at the same time they are feeling an unseen presence.

 

[Lynnette]

Skye and Argonne, thank you so much for your replies. I would probably not call myself psychic sensitive, though. I have never had an experience quite like this before. I have a feeling about places sometimes, and once frightened myself out of my wits when I arrived home and saw a man sat in an armchair in my lounge who was not actually there. But this was in a league of its own.


I felt something almost immediately after I came back home last night, and this morning actually, while I am writing about it. But I got bossy when I went to bed and basically demanded it skedaddle, or if it had something to say, to say it. Else to quit fooling around. That I had work to go to in the morning, and it is not safe for me to drive and work when I am being so tired. I then had my first decent night's sleep all week, and no feeling of suffocation, and no invisible shadows poking and pulling my hair!


Thank you for advice about other forums and links, too, Argonne. But, ghost-hunting is not something that particularly interests me, or that I wish to get in to. I couldn't say exactly where the building was, time-wise, but I got the impression it was now-ish. In fact, if I had to describe it, I felt very much like being there in the present moment.


The building itself was almost semi-old church/semi-old house. It was a large empty room with the closet off the side, which was used as the bathroom, and where I had the strange experience. And another chamber just next to that, where the people were setting up shop, as it were. If the bits of dream I remember before it were anything to go by I would say it was somewhere on one of the islands up in the north of Scotland. Namely the Orcadian archipelago or Shetland. I have been there before though, but cannot specifically recall entering any building with the specifications of this one.


Also to mention, though don't know if it is relevant, but I have recently been wearing laboradorite. Needless to say my amber has swiftly taken its place!

 

[Mere Dreamer]

Strength of will is extremely useful, as is being aware of who you are. Sounds like you hit on the correct plan, Lynnette.

 

[deborah]

Jeremy Taylor wrote some good books on dreams. There are a few common dream themes on his site. This one about HAIR might be useful. Only you will know. There are a few others there that might be of interest to you too. Check him out.

Something Weird Has Happened To My Hair
"Hair" in the dream world is a reliable metaphor of the other stuff that comes spontaneously out of our heads, namely our thoughts and opinions. Whenever odd things having to do with "hair" show up in the dream world, it's always worth asking the question:


"How do these images of hair symbolize my changing thoughts and opinions?". Are they "changing color"? Getting "longer"? "Shorter"? Am I afraid that people will think that I'm strange if I express my new thoughts and ideas? (Just the way they might react if I were to show up with my hair changed the way it is in the dream.)


© Jeremy Taylor, 1996

 

[Lynnette]

Thanks Deborah,


That is an interesting insight. I am not quite sure though where I would place one's hair being suddenly flipped from behind. How might one extrapolate that? Being unexpectedly surprised, maybe?


Since that night though, I have had no further frightening wake-in-sleep dreams like that. I have had to lay down authority a wee bit though and tell the feeling of a presence to skedaddle.


I still have a bit of a strange atmosphere in my house though, and my cat is still clingy. (I have also acquired an influx of spider, which does not help!)


Interestingly, when I thought about it driving to work this morning, I realised, that the impression I had from the dream was being somewhere in the Orkney islands... It was around about this time of year when I visited there and was scared by the image of a man sat in my armchair where I was staying... I wonder if there is a correlation?

 

[shadowsofmypast]

I had dreams like that many times before.


One, I have had of late, most likely a past memory


I was kidnapped, beaten etc


in a old building. They were going shoot me.


Somehow I got the upper hand?


And shot both kidnappers .


It was quite disturbing.


I have to figure out it was dream or memory or both.

 

[SkyeSpitfire]

From what I know, telling these things to go leaves them no choice but to go. They're not strong enough yet to physically defy you. But telling them to leave doesn't actually get rid of them, it just keeps them dormant for a while. Might explain why the odd feeling is still lingering in your home.

 

[starrynight]

Hi lynette, the best piece of advice i have had is the same as what skye says & you have done. you are in charge & stronger than them & to tell them it's your house now & they"re not welcome. I think i was abit soft with mine at first & tried to help them-never again, encouraged really bad vibes. It does sound like you've got there.