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Saw it last night right before bedtime


I've had "sleep paralysis" episodes at least twice in my life. The third one occurred last night...

The first time occurred several years ago, in an ancient hotel's bed, when I went abroad on vacation. I was on my stomach, head to one side. I could've sworn I was awake or half-awake. I didn't hear but "felt" someone enter the room. That someone stopped by my bed and, after a couple expectant seconds, started to lightly push my head once against the bed, as if wanting to asphyxiate me. I woke up at once. It was a SCARY experience & for years I was sure I had been visited by a ghost.
With the passing of years, learning about sleep disorders and stuff and remembering how exhausted I was everyday of my vacation (on my feet the WHOLE day trying to see as many museums as possible) I came to the conclusion it was an episode of sleep paralysis.

The second time, it happened at home I was on my back on the bed. I don't sleep like that (I must have dozed off in that - perfect position for sleep paralysis to happen - way). "Saw" the silhouette of a wild-haired hag enter the room & approached me, ready to climb on top of me. Felt a heaviness on my chest and woke up.

Third time was last night...after watching this documentary. I unwittingly felt asleep on my back again. I see the silhouette of a bulky woman with long hair entering the room with her arms straight up. As she came closer, I thought I saw two huge, shiny beady eyes. I realized she was wearing glasses. She stopped in front of the bed and saw her grinning face thanks to the moonlight coming thru the window. "Oh god, no." I gasped. It was Kim Davis. A big crucifix dangled from her neck. For a second there, in the back of my mind, I got an image of Kathy Bates in MISERY when she was standing at the foot of the bed with her hammer. I started trembling.

She climbed on top of the bed, veeeery slooowly. Right over me. Until THAT FACE was right on top of mine. She smiled. But the look in her eyes could have come from a python. She whispered: "You will be mine tonight. I'm going to pop your cherry. And then you will convert to us. Because we are legion. Wash all your sins away". She stuck her tongue out (it looked purple, as if she had just been drinking grape juice) and dropped her face on mine. I JUMPED UP the bed with a loud cry. I hope my neighbor didn't hear that. I was hyperventilating. I took 4 aspirins and went back to bed. Made sure not to lay on my back...

Okay. The third episode didn't happen. Ha ha. Hope it amused some of you.

But the first two did.

😁

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