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[Romulus]

So the other night me and my gf wake up to a loud boom, like someone is breaking in. I grab the gun and look around. Nothing.
I check the outside cameras, again, nothing.
We go upstairs and my gf had left her phone on one of those auto charger decks on the TV stand.
Surprisingly, the phone was laying 22ft away in the hallway face down. The charger wasn't moved.
We live alone.
My first theory was the boom caused the phone to fly across the room into the hall, somehow, but its carpet so it doesn't slide at all. I even tried to replicate it twice by smacking my phone off the charger and it never went more than 6ft. Her phone is even heavier with those thick rubber cases.

And why are all the pictures and charger left completely undisturbed on the same TV stand if the boom somehow caused this? Makes no fucking sense.

The only other thought I had was the boom was the phone itself, smacking into the wall, but I dont know what would cause that.

 

[Tschumi]

I once got woken up by a swat operation outside my window

And when i was about 11 i learned that my mum gets off on not modulating her voice while humping my dad in the wee hours.. totally don't hold that against her, you be you, mum

 

[Husky]

Someone broke in and hid in a closet or under a bed. They might still be there.

 

[Romulus]

Someone broke in and hid in a closet or under a bed. They might still be there.

Break in and knock the phone into the hall then go hide. And of course, leave all the valuables alone that are in plain sight.

 

[nush]

An earthquake in England not known at all for having earthquakes. It was like someone standing at the end of the bed kicking it. Really freaked me out as I lived alone at the time.

 

[nkarafo]

Some time ago, when i was half sleeping and saw a dream, i actually suspected that i'm dreaming so to prove it i would take control of the dream and start flying around. Because, hey, that would meant i'm dreaming so i might as well do something cool, like flying.

Now, here's the weird part:

The floating felt nice but whenever i tried to enjoy myself by flying higher, i felt this intense pressure in my head... It felt like it's going to explode and i couldn't go back so i forced myself to wake up. Sometimes i wouldn't even be able to wake up, locking myself in that state and the only thing that worked was to make a very sudden twitch or even scream for the "real", half asleep me to hear and take control.

It was a very weird thing that hasn't happened again for a while now but i used to get it very often for a few years at least.

 

[niilokin]

the time, like, fast forwards or something when I sleep

 

[nush]

the time, like, fast forwards or something when I sleep

This is the weirdest shit in this topic so far.

 

[Thaedolus]

I had a dream last night that I really had to pee but there was a huge line outside the two available stalls in a game of…Halo Infinite, which I played one time in its first beta. So I’m just patiently waiting until I get attacked by blue team and have to go handle some shit, then I lost my place in line and really had to pee. So I TK’d a guy to get into the bathroom stall and he got mad, and I was like blame Bungie for not putting more stalls on the map. Then he’s like Bungie doesn’t make Halo anymore, which jolted me awake. Then I got out of bed to go pee.

 

[Dural]

So the other night me and my gf wake up to a loud boom, like someone is breaking in. I grab the gun and look around. Nothing.
I check the outside cameras, again, nothing.
We go upstairs and my gf had left her phone on one of those auto charger decks on the TV stand.
Surprisingly, the phone was laying 22ft away in the hallway face down. The charger wasn't moved.
We live alone.
My first theory was the boom caused the phone to fly across the room into the hall, somehow, but its carpet so it doesn't slide at all. I even tried to replicate it twice by smacking my phone off the charger and it never went more than 6ft. Her phone is even heavier with those thick rubber cases.

And why are all the pictures and charger left completely undisturbed on the same TV stand if the boom somehow caused this? Makes no fucking sense.

The only other thought I had was the boom was the phone itself, smacking into the wall, but I dont know what would cause that.

No animals? Maybe it wasn't left on the charger like you thought?

A year or so ago there was banging on our front door in the middle of the night, I jumped up and looked outside and the police were at the door. I was thinking something must have happened to someone in my family so I rushed downstairs and it turns out the garage door was left up when my son took the garbage out and they wanted to make sure everything was alright as it's not usually left up.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

As a young kid on a family driving vacation we stayed in a motel. I proceed to wake up to bikes roaring in circles around the entire hotel and bottles smashing for 2 hours. A bikey crew had rolled into the same motel and decide to tear things up for a bit.

 

[Romulus]

No animals? Maybe it wasn't left on the charger like you thought?

A year or so ago there was banging on our front door in the middle of the night, I jumped up and looked outside and the police were at the door. I was thinking something must have happened to someone in my family so I rushed downstairs and it turns out the garage door was left up when my son took the garbage out and they wanted to make sure everything was alright as it's not usually left up.

We have a dog, but he was in the kennel at the time sleeping next to us. It was definitely on the charger. The phone was found at 3:20am with 100% charge when it was near dead when we went to bed.

 

[SJRB]

 

[22:22:22]

I dream a lot and have since birth

The "(mis)adventures across dimensions" type

Multiple ones per night that linger throughout my day


I've grown fond of them

I call them: "Tales from my higher self"

That and having had Sleep Paralysis without hallucinations expect for when I was grabbed by a hand a couple of times

Man those dreams are so lifelike and intense (lucid) .. You know that lingering memory of a really intense movie you saw last night that made such an Impact on you? Yeah every morning lol

Fun Fact: my other choice for my handle here would've been Vivid Dreams so there you go lol

 

[Dural]

We have a dog, but he was in the kennel at the time sleeping next to us. It was definitely on the charger. The phone was found at 3:20am with 100% charge when it was near dead when we went to bed.

Ghosts...

 

[8bitpill]

Set up a camera and put the phone in the same place.

We bought a house last June. It's newer (built in the 90's) and not a house that was built a hundred plus years ago.

A couple months back, my wife was upstairs late at night watering her plants in our bonus room. Well attached to that room is the "cold storage" that runs the length of the room and all the way to the stair well to get up to the second floor. Well in that stair well is doors to the cold storage for easy access to store things. There are also two doors in the bonus room as to the storage area.

When she walked up the doors were closed in the stair well. She watered the plants and as she was turning the corner, the left side of the doors was wide open. I could mark it up to possible wind, but the thing is, there are two magnetic latches on each door, and you need a proper amount of pull to open them.

I was sleeping and she came into the room and said there was something weird going on with the cold storage and that one of the doors open on its own. I was half out of sleep and assured her it must of been the wind or something.

When checking the door the next day I realized it couldn't have been that at all.

It hasn't happen since.

 

[Star-Lord]

My sleep is pretty dull compared to everyone else in this thread. I have a recurring dream about floating uncontrollably, but that’s it. I need to start taking crack before bed.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Some time ago, when i was half sleeping and saw a dream, i actually suspected that i'm dreaming so to prove it i would take control of the dream and start flying around. Because, hey, that would meant i'm dreaming so i might as well do something cool, like flying.

Now, here's the weird part:

The floating felt nice but whenever i tried to enjoy myself by flying higher, i felt this intense pressure in my head... It felt like it's going to explode and i couldn't go back so i forced myself to wake up. Sometimes i wouldn't even be able to wake up, locking myself in that state and the only thing that worked was to make a very sudden twitch or even scream for the "real", half asleep me to hear and take control.

It was a very weird thing that hasn't happened again for a while now but i used to get it very often for a few years at least.

I had a few dreams where went into a room and it felt 'demonic'. The pressure on my head was intense and then almost felt like I was sniffing pure ammonia. The pain in my head was intense. I think I backed out of the room. This has happened a few times and I wonder if there was some demon or something going on.

 

[Pejo]

There was a period about a year ago where I would stop breathing while I was sleeping, not like sleep apnea or anything, but just like stop breathing. I'd wake up gasping for dear life. It only lasted like 2 weeks and hasn't happened since, but boy that was troubling while it was going on.

 

[Rival]

OP it sounds like a demon has attached itself to your house. Good luck.

 

[German Hops]

I make money while I sleep. Get on my level, poor folks.

 

[NoLootBoxDev]

A few weeks back, I wake up due to a sound. I have a TV which turns off each time the light goes out, must be a setting or something. I hear the TV...., I watch what time is it, and it was 3:00 am, usually, this is supposed a time when evil is stronger(Jesus was killed at 3:00 pm in the afternoon), making this the opposite. I most of the time do not care, but for some reason or another, I fuking keep waking up at this time regularly, when some weird things happen, random noises inside or outside the house. Ok, I decide to wait and see what I can hear, then I listen "God this" and "God that", I decide not to go down, until morning.

 

[DeceptiveAlarm]

 

[spawn]

You should set up a camera in your room. You might have demons

 

[bitbydeath]

OP it sounds like a demon has attached itself to your house. Good luck.

 

[AJUMP23]

Nothing happens because I sleep so well nothing wakes me.

 

[Sidney Prescott]

Nothing, really. Although I do remember the time I woke up with my parent's cat on my bed staring at me and almost had a heart attack. I never did get used to that. Little guy was cute but when you're half-awake and just see something.

 

[Mossybrew]

I'm boring. I don't think anything weird or unexpected has ever happened to wake me from sleep other than the occasional nightmare.

 

[Dr.D00p]

Sleep...I remember that, good times.

 

[Cutty Flam]

Wrote about it in a different thread once before, but one time I believe I saw a succubus, an ethereal being with blue complexion and very bright blue and white eyes slurping the mustard right out my hogg

 

[Ailynn]

My two younger sisters and I would occasionally wake up with random almost papercut like razor-thin painless scratches on our skin that would heal and disappear within a couple of days.

I will still wake up with this on very rare occasions. Sometimes they even show up in spots I cannot easily reach on my back.

 

[Tschumi]

My two younger sisters and I would occasionally wake up with random almost papercut like razor-thin painless scratches on our skin that would heal and disappear within a couple of days.

I will still wake up with this on very rare occasions. Sometimes they even show up in spots I cannot easily reach on my back.

stuff ur mattresses with hemp not corn shucks!

 

[nightmare-slain]

i just moved house last weekend but i was dreaming i was at my old house. there was this group of people attacking someone outside in the street and i tried stopping them and they did let the person go. this dream spanned many days and multiple times a day this group of people would bang at my door trying to get me. they "just want to talk" but i knew if i opened the door i'd get my ass kicked. 5v1 i had no chance. anyway, this went on for multiple days in my dream and i was planning on a way of sneaking out the house and getting to my current house cause i knew if i could do that i'd be safe cause they wouldn't be able to find me.

as i was waking up i could still hear the banging noise. it was probably cause i was just dreaming about it but i woke up in a panic cause i thought someone was actually banging at my door. this was at ~2AM. i lay they in fear listening. if someone was at the door it's really nothing to be scared of but i was terrified. plus i'm in a new house, don't know anyone here, and there's no reason for anyone to be at my house at 2AM. again probably it was the dream spilling over but i've had dreams where i hear stuff in my dreams when they actually are happening but passing over into my dreams. maybe someone was banging at the door (or someone banging elsewhere).

i think it's crazy how our brains still pay attention to sounds around us and can they make a dream/story up about it. if that noise was actually real then my brain took it and came up with a "story" for me to dream about. in my old house people would press a buzzer and many times i would hear that in my dream and when i woke up someone was actually buzzing my house.

My two younger sisters and I would occasionally wake up with random almost papercut like razor-thin painless scratches on our skin that would heal and disappear within a couple of days.

I will still wake up with this on very rare occasions. Sometimes they even show up in spots I cannot easily reach on my back.

that happens if you sleep on a mattress with no sheets. well, i had a matteress with little plastic bits on it not sure what they are called. but i suppose you have sheets on lol.

 

[jufonuk]

There was a period about a year ago where I would stop breathing while I was sleeping, not like sleep apnea or anything, but just like stop breathing. I'd wake up gasping for dear life. It only lasted like 2 weeks and hasn't happened since, but boy that was troubling while it was going on.

Covid?

had a weird one I was dreaming someone was letting of tnt in my road and I woke up to a massive thunderstorm. The lightening strike happened at the same Time I woke up just as the tnt hit the ground in my dream. Weird.

also loads of waking up at 3am’s that’s it really

 

[borborygmus]

I had a few dreams where went into a room and it felt 'demonic'. The pressure on my head was intense and then almost felt like I was sniffing pure ammonia. The pain in my head was intense. I think I backed out of the room. This has happened a few times and I wonder if there was some demon or something going on.

Residue from cleaning products...? It's very rare to smell things that happen in dreams and far more likely that there's something with ammonia in your house. It could also be a sinus infection; apparently some bacteria produce sulfur or other things that smell bad.

 

[Javthusiast]

Okay you got me op. Yes I was watching you both sleep.

 

[catvonpee]

Hearing loud banging noises and seeing things can actually be a symptom of carbon monoxide poisoning. I would definitely put a CO detector in your bedroom and one down in the basement if you have one.

 

[nightmare-slain]

Hearing loud banging noises and seeing things can actually be a symptom of carbon monoxide poisoning. I would definitely put a CO detector in your bedroom and one down in the basement if you have one.

i think you're replying to me. i have 2 detectors in the house.

 

[22:22:22]

More spoopy stories pls

 

[6502]

OP I would make sure her phone battery is not fucked and check condition of charger.

 

[catvonpee]

i think you're replying to me. i have 2 detectors in the house.

It was more of a blanket cautionary statement. Like the phone that flew across the room could be explained by this too. Like whoever didn't remember doing it because they are being deprived oxygen. I hope everyone has at least one smoke detector near their bedroom and a CO detector too.

 

[nightmare-slain]

not really a sleeping story but like i said above, i just moved house. i lived in that old house since 1996 and even until the last night i slept there i was still freaked out by one of the bedrooms. shortly after i had moved in (~25 years ago) i swear i saw two ghosts in my bedroom. one inside the room and the other was standing at the door looking in at me. the first ghost i could maybe write off because i just got out my bed so maybe i had fell asleep and woke up a bit confused when i saw it but the second one i was wide awake and watching TV. the first one i was standing in front of for maybe a minute or two and actually spoke to it. the second i looked away and back a few times and it was still there. after that i moved bedroom but every time i left my bedroom i had to go past the old one and every single time i would panic and run down the stairs while avoiding looking at the door of the old room.

it feels so strange that after 2 and a half decades i don't feel scared anymore when going to downstairs or to the bathroom during the night. i would ALWAYS turn the light on and run through the hall in the old house but in my new house walking in the dark doesn't bother me. this new house makes a shit load more noise but it doesn't bother me. that old room really creeped me out.

It was more of a blanket cautionary statement. Like the phone that flew across the room could be explained by this too. Like whoever didn't remember doing it because they are being deprived oxygen. I hope everyone has at least one smoke detector near their bedroom and a CO detector too.

yup, it's no joke. my house was inspected/tested before i moved in to make sure everything was in order with legal requirements. smoke/carbon monoxide detectors are all working

 

[catvonpee]

I often feel like a am pressed against the ceiling when I am sleeping looking down on myself. I think it could be post traumatic stress from seeing the movie Poltergeist too young. Also I have tried DMT a dozen or so times and my brain could be recalling the trips I've had because your brain releases DMT in very deep sleep.

 

[22:22:22]

Ghost as a phenomenon is real.

nightmare-slain can you describe those apparitions?

 

[Keihart]

So the other night me and my gf wake up to a loud boom, like someone is breaking in. I grab the gun and look around. Nothing.
I check the outside cameras, again, nothing.
We go upstairs and my gf had left her phone on one of those auto charger decks on the TV stand.
Surprisingly, the phone was laying 22ft away in the hallway face down. The charger wasn't moved.
We live alone.
My first theory was the boom caused the phone to fly across the room into the hall, somehow, but its carpet so it doesn't slide at all. I even tried to replicate it twice by smacking my phone off the charger and it never went more than 6ft. Her phone is even heavier with those thick rubber cases.

And why are all the pictures and charger left completely undisturbed on the same TV stand if the boom somehow caused this? Makes no fucking sense.

The only other thought I had was the boom was the phone itself, smacking into the wall, but I dont know what would cause that.

What made you think that the phone flew across the room instead of being missplaced? Memory can be fickle.

 

[22:22:22]

What made you think that the phone flew across the room instead of being missplaced? Memory can be fickle.

Memory can be fickle indeed but when you find a item, especially as *important* as your phone in a place you never place it..

 

[Romulus]

What made you think that the phone flew across the room instead of being missplaced? Memory can be fickle.

When we went to bed the phone was almost dead. Loud noise happened, went upstairs and suddenly the phone is laying 22ft away with 100% charge in the middle of a hallway. How did it increase the charge on the floor? Why did a loud noise coincide with the phone being 22ft away also?
The only way it was "misplaced" in the middle of a hallway was if she was walking with it and dropped it. Why didn't she pick it up? Just leave in the magic hallway that also charges dead phones? lol

 

[catvonpee]

When we went to bed the phone was almost dead. Loud noise happened, went upstairs and suddenly the phone is laying 22ft away with 100% charge in the middle of a hallway. How did it increase the charge on the floor? Why did a loud noise coincide with the phone being 22ft away also?
The only way it was "misplaced" in the middle of a hallway was if she was walking with it and dropped it. Why didn't she pick it up? Just leave in the magic hallway that also charges dead phones? lol

Yeah that is very odd. I have been trying to reason some kind of logical explanation for this to happen. Pretty weird.

 

[Keihart]

When we went to bed the phone was almost dead. Loud noise happened, went upstairs and suddenly the phone is laying 22ft away with 100% charge in the middle of a hallway. How did it increase the charge on the floor? Why did a loud noise coincide with the phone being 22ft away also?
The only way it was "misplaced" in the middle of a hallway was if she was walking with it and dropped it. Why didn't she pick it up? Just leave in the magic hallway that also charges dead phones? lol

That's what i mean, there are too many suppositions in the theory that it "flew" away.
Dropping the phone makes a hell lot more sense than a ghost picking it up and putting it there, if it has a rubber cover makes even more sense since the thud would be lower.
Also how long does it take for 1)charge the phone from what it was to 100% ? and 2)how long does it stay at 100%? if you can calculate that it would give you a better time window that could help you pin point what really happened.

There is no reason for the sound to be tied to the phone in how you tell the story.

Also, if we are throwing crazy theories around, maybe an intruder took the phone and drop it, maybe a bang was the same intruder dropping something like a gun or that very same phone? idk.
If the bang wasn't like something hitting the floor maybe it came from outside and the phone on the floor was already there for a while?

 

[22:22:22]

Yeah that is very odd. I have been trying to reason some kind of logical explanation for this to happen. Pretty weird.

Are you a logical person?

Just messing around friend.. It's the best way to initially approach these kind of situations <3

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