The DU Lounge
In reply to the discussion: Paranormal experiences? [View all]LudwigPastorius
(9,265 posts)One night I dreamed my mother had injured her eye. The feeling the dream left me with was so strong enough to nag at me at work.
I called her around lunch, and asked how she was. She said she just got back from Urgent Care because she was doing laundry that morning and had splashed some bleach into her eye. I told her of my dream. She asked which eye I had dreamed about. I told her it was her right eye. She went quiet for a beat and just said, "That's right".
Years later. My dad was dying of cancer, but at this point was still at home and not in hospice. I came by for a while to help mom out.
Dad was in the middle bedroom, where a hospital bed had been set up, with the head of the bed against the wall adjoining the guest room at the end of the hall. That is where I slept that night.
I woke up some time late in the middle of the night out of a sound sleep. It was dark in the room, but I was startled to see a small, very bright light that appeared to emerge from the wall from my father's room. (Later, I noticed that it came from almost the exact spot where his head would be as he was sleeping in the next room.) This pin point of light then moved to the corner of my room where it stayed.
I was kind of terrified of seeing something that just should't be there, so I rolled over in bed, away from the light, and pulled the covers up to my chin, thinking that I was hallucinating or something. Then I became petrified as I felt someone (or something) sit down on the side of the bed almost right up against my back. I just laid there as still as I could, for a long time until I thought that it was gone, finally drifting off to sleep.
I am a frequent dreamer, and have even gone through periods of sleep walking, but this was very unlike any dream I've ever had. Logically, I want to dismiss it as a dream, but I really don't think it was at all. I don't know what it was.
My dad was moved to hospice 4 days later and died there a couple of days after that.