Seeing another room before falling asleep

[Shadoecat]

Hi, I'm just curious if anyone else has ever seen another room before falling asleep? This has happened to me twice now. The first one was about a two or three years ago. I couldn't afford heat for the house during winter, and the temperature dipped pretty low at night. I was bundled in seven layers of clothes, with crocheted hat and scarf covering almost all of my face (just my eyes peeking out). I was trying to put my gloves on, when I looked at the wall beside my bed, and it was like it wasn't there. My room was dark, but there was still enough light for me to see another room where the wall should have been. In the other room, I saw a man laying on his own bed, kind of mirroring me (only not bundled in layers of clothes). I know who he is, I just didn't understand why or how I was seeing him. Then it got stranger. He reached out and took hold of my bare hands (I hadn't been able to get the gloves on) as if the wall didn't exist at all. As if the two bedrooms were one big room. He cupped my hands in his, and used his own breath to try and warm them. I actually felt his hands on mine, and felt the warmth of his breath. After a few seconds, he let go, and smiled at me as his room vanished, the wall back again. The thing is, the wall where I saw him is on the second floor of our house, and is an outside wall. If you touch it in the winter, it's cold. But after the guy breathed on my hands, they were warm, and I didn't need the gloves. I've never been able to explain that.
The second time happened recently. The same wall vanished again as I was about to fall asleep. I saw the same bedroom as before, with the same guy. Once again, mirroring me as I lay facing him. It was a summer night, so I wasn't bundled head to toe. But this time, I reached out to him. I touched his face as if he were right there with me. When I brought my hand back, the room vanished like before. The wall was back. Has anyone else had a similar thing happen, or am I just losing my mind?

 

[SeaAndSky]

Hi Shadoecat,

I don't think you are losing your mind. It sounds like some kind of strange visionary experience. Have you mentioned anything about this to the other person? Is he unusual in any way?

Cordially,
S&S

 

[ChrisR]

Yes, similar thing has happened to me although there weren't any people involved. The house I live in now was built in the 1860's and at one time I was sitting in my chair dozing off when I suddenly woke up, except I don't know if I actually woke up or whether I dreamed that I woke up, but when this happened I wasn't sitting in my room anymore. Actually it was my room but not how I recognised it. The interior wall was no longer there and this room and the adjoining bedroom were now one big room. There was a Christmas tree in the corner where my bed usually is and the usually closed fireplace was now open with a fire burning in it. There were thick heavy dark red curtains at the window instead of my familiar beige one's and a dark green wallpaper instead of the usual plain magnolia walls I am used to seeing. Overall the furnishing had a very 'Victorian' era look about it and I'm sure I was somehow tuning in to how it used to appear in the past, or maybe it was just a kind of lucid dream.

 

[Leaf]

What an interesting experience, Shadoecat! I don't know what it is, but I think this time between sleep and wakefulness is a kind of liminal space where we can perceive easier some "not ordinary things". I wonder, as SeaAndSky if you mentioned something to the other person and if he have had some similar sensations.

About seeing another room, it happened to me being totally awake, it was in the time of my main flood of memories. I went into a room in my house and suddenly I "see" another room where I was hiding for a while during the WWII, in a past life. Both rooms have similar size and structure, but everything else was very different. I could see in a flash a lot of details of the another room, even the flaking paint on the window that showed another colour of an older paint, and a lamp with a peculiar form. I was like seeing the two rooms somehow overlapped for an instant.