JoanV Posted June 29, 2015 #1 Share Posted June 29, 2015 I've been hearing strange stories from my son's girlfriend and I wonder if anyone has heard anything like this. She claims to see scary orb-like things that come out at night and float around her room. At times she sees freaky faces and forms moving about inside them. She says she is "paralyzed" when they are around, and can't remember anything soon after seeing them until she wakes up the next day. Like a missing time thing. There is also physical evidence that they did something to her. My son has not seen them, this only happens when she is alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeOnlyMe Posted June 29, 2015 #2 Share Posted June 29, 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis Its not really about "what" as much as it is "why" 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrLzs Posted June 29, 2015 #3 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Install recording equipment. Problem will vanish. And not sought first was medical advice, and straight here you came? Puzzled, Yoda is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashotep Posted June 29, 2015 #4 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Sounds like sleep paralysis. If she thinks otherwise she should set up cameras. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenore Graves Posted June 29, 2015 #5 Share Posted June 29, 2015 I agree...sounds like sleep paralysis. There's many threads on UM about it, I would recommend reading up on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoanV Posted June 30, 2015 Author #6 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I thought of sleep paralysis too at first. But she swears she's awake and even standing and doing things many of the times before she experiences this. As for getting help, medical or otherwise, she lives with her mother and neither of them would go for help if there was a knife in their head. Very closed off. The girl, who is 19, met my son at work almost a year ago and even he has not been in her house. She said her moms a hoarder just like on that TV show. She only opened up about this (to my son, he's relating all this to me) a little while ago. And she told him it's been going on every now and again ever since she was a little girl. My son is trying to get her to set up a camera but she feels no need to prove this to anyone else and although she is clearly terrified of whatever it is, she feels resigned to it happening to her. What she is most concerned with is what is happening to her during the blackouts. She shows signs of trauma (I actually saw this once) around her eyes. Like broken blood vessels and bruising. And she says there is evidence that she left her room during this but has no idea where she went or what she did. Oh, and she is definite that this is not a traditional ghost-like thing. She says these things are flesh and blood and have touched her many times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrLzs Posted June 30, 2015 #7 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Wow.. If all that is true then I gotta say - try to help get your son out of that relationship...!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoanV Posted June 30, 2015 Author #8 Share Posted June 30, 2015 That is what I am trying to do. This really has me freaked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenore Graves Posted June 30, 2015 #9 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I thought of sleep paralysis too at first. But she swears she's awake and even standing and doing things many of the times before she experiences this. As for getting help, medical or otherwise, she lives with her mother and neither of them would go for help if there was a knife in their head. Very closed off. The girl, who is 19, met my son at work almost a year ago and even he has not been in her house. She said her moms a hoarder just like on that TV show. She only opened up about this (to my son, he's relating all this to me) a little while ago. And she told him it's been going on every now and again ever since she was a little girl. My son is trying to get her to set up a camera but she feels no need to prove this to anyone else and although she is clearly terrified of whatever it is, she feels resigned to it happening to her. What she is most concerned with is what is happening to her during the blackouts. She shows signs of trauma (I actually saw this once) around her eyes. Like broken blood vessels and bruising. And she says there is evidence that she left her room during this but has no idea where she went or what she did. Oh, and she is definite that this is not a traditional ghost-like thing. She says these things are flesh and blood and have touched her many times. I sounds to me like she's having issues at home which she cannot fix and is feeling helpless. I still stay it's probably some kind of sleeping disorder. When SP happens, most of the time the person will swear they really are awake. She probably doesnt want to set up cameras because shes embarassed of her living condition. Sounds like a cry for help in my opinion, I think she should speak to a professional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesseCuster Posted June 30, 2015 #10 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Oh, and she is definite that this is not a traditional ghost-like thing. She says these things are flesh and blood and have touched her many times. I have experienced tactile hallucinations as part of sleep paralysis or hypnopompic experiences in general. I sometimes feel claws scratching at my skin, hands groping me or squeezing my neck, etc.You say that she swears she's awake. The thing about sleep paralysis is how vivid and real it feels. You are awake, but your mind hasn't fully woken up from the REM dream state, so your body is paralysed and you continue to dream things that aren't really there. For some reason, shadowy figures moving around the bedroom is a common symptom of the experience. The first couple of times it happened to me, I swore I was fully awake and that some sort of malevolent entity (in my case a grim reaper figure in black robes, complete with scythe) had been visiting me at night. The experience can be extremely vivid and quite scary, so it's no surprise that people convince themselves that it was real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoanV Posted July 1, 2015 Author #11 Share Posted July 1, 2015 All of these comments are really helpful! I think I have convinced my son to bring his girlfriend over for dinner this holiday weekend. I will try to bring up all of everyone's suggestions to see if it will help. I'm not overly optimistic, but I will try to convince her to get help and suggest what her experiences are really about. I will post how it goes. Wish me luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrLzs Posted July 1, 2015 #12 Share Posted July 1, 2015 (edited) All of these comments are really helpful! I think I have convinced my son to bring his girlfriend over for dinner this holiday weekend. I will try to bring up all of everyone's suggestions to see if it will help. I'm not overly optimistic, but I will try to convince her to get help and suggest what her experiences are really about. I will post how it goes. Wish me luck! Hmm. What could go wrong...? May I suggest another approach would be talk to your son, and just say you'd really love to help which is why you sought out opinions, and then ask him if he would like to consider all the possibilities and then he can offer them as potential solutions to the girlfriend.. If he doesn't want to, then I think you would be advised to stay out of it and he'll have to learn whatever lesson is coming, the hard way... If he does take it back and she rejects it, you can simply express puzzlement as to why she wouldn't want to help herself, and hope that your son starts to see what type of person he is tangling himself up with... If you take the lead here, your son and girlfriend may both see you as interfering and put up walls.. Edited July 1, 2015 by ChrLzs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoanV Posted July 7, 2015 Author #13 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Well, I guess I should have taken your advice but I just saw it now. Things started out fine but went really bad. We were just getting into it when I told them that I posted to this site and some people suggested sleep paralysis. Suddenly she freaks out, saying she wasn't asleep during the events, and then she storms off. My son went after her. On Sunday he finally returned my calls and came over by himself. He gave me his cell phone and told me to listen to a message he received from his girlfriend a few weeks ago. She must have accidentally dialed him during one of her encounters. He never told her about the message. My son is completely behind her in the belief that this is paranormal and not sleep paralysis. He is worried that she is in danger and wanted me to post this and get more input. Does this sound like anything anyone has heard in a paranormal recording before? You can just make out what seems to be her talking to something. After listening to this I am starting to think they are right.trim.82DDCDA3-0B14-47C3-B691-A51A798E331C.MOV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoanV Posted July 7, 2015 Author #14 Share Posted July 7, 2015 00120150706221031_MyRecording.mp3 Sorry, I think that file was no good, Im new to this. Try this one instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrLzs Posted July 7, 2015 #15 Share Posted July 7, 2015 My last suggestion would be (assuming this is fair dinkum, and frankly I now have serious doubts) is simply: Tell your son and his girlfriend to get professional counselling, and stay well out of it. Are you seriously suggesting this be played out with you posting here and acting as middle person? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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