Now, if only these people could convince their sleepwalking spouses to do the dishes!
1. I rolled over to hug him and he accused me of entering his exclusion zone, and if I proceeded I would be fired upon.
2. I used to try to wake up before my girlfriend to go to the gym. One morning I got out of bed, slipped into my shoes, opened the door and she whispered very meekly, "Sad... Cold..." I don't go to the gym very often anymore.
3. I woke up to him elbowing me in the side. Looked over and he was scratching his balls. He then reached his hand up to his nose, sniffed, and gently mumbled "my brand!"
4. She farted loudly enough to wake herself up. Then promptly told me I was gross.
5. My mom told me I once said, "Don't go to that party, they have spaghetti. It'll mess up your circuits." Honestly I have no idea.
6. My Fiance yelled out "Yeah well at least I'm not a 90's game console!"
I laughed so loud it woke him up hahaha.
7. Not funny but very sweet. My husband lost his dad when he was ten. We had traveled to a football with tons of friends and all crammed into a rented house together. My friend who had lost her husband at 27 was sleeping with us in a king bed...nothing kinky, just drunk making use of space. My husband is sound asleep and starts (continued)
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telling his dad all about how fun the day was and how much fun his brother had. At the end he said, "Wait dad...one more thing. I love ya. Okay, I know you have to go...bye." It was cool that our friend was there too as she understood loss in a similar way.
8. I got up to piss, my then girlfriend said "are you going to fight the battle now?". She was still asleep.
9. A small collection from my boyfriend:
"Laundry's here!"
"What, honey?"
"Laundry's here. Weren't you listening?"
"When will I ever get this answer out of you?!"
"Don't touch my gingerbread house again, Mum, I mean it"
A really big exasperated sigh followed by "Pants with buttons. GROSS."
"Small." - said while gently patting my face
"Are your balls sweaty too?"
"I don't have balls, honey."
"I knew it!"
Every damn night. He's a riot.
10. My SO regularly giggles in his sleep. Not any normal giggle, but like Tigger from Winnie the Pooh.
I'm a pretty light sleeper, so I'll be dozing off and all of the sudden
Hoo hoo hoo hoooooo
11. I had been dreaming about working in a fish hatchery ( a character in a book I was reading worked in one) and I was trying to explain to my then boyfriend how to fertilize the fish eggs. Except what I was actually saying was "pass me the sperm" 3 or 4 times while holding out my hand.
For some reason he still decided to marry me.
12. This happened today!
Took him to have all four wisdom teeth removed this morning. Towards the end, he asked the dentist if he could go to the bathroom. I walked him there. When he finished washing his hands, he looked at me, still 100% numb in the face, and said (Continued)
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When he finished washing his hands, he looked at me, still 100% numb in the face, and said "chubby bunny".
13. I used to sleep walk and sleep talk a lot during Middle School. My mother got into a habit of video-taping all my sleep walking/sleep talking adventures for the fun of it. One day she showed me a video of me walking aimlessly to the living room, where my mother had a group of 10-ish friends over for a book reading club. I stopped at the edge of the room and stood there for 2-3 minutes while my mom video taped me. Before leaving, I waved my hand in an arc over my head, said in a regal tone "Death to all of the villagers", and went back upstairs.
14. I sleep walk all the time, go to the toilet, grab drinks etc. come back naked no idea how. But one night my girlfriend woke me up shaking me as I was stood on the end of the bed (raised up foot post end) and I was moving my hands crystal ball style around the unlit light bulb on our ceiling say "isn't it beautiful" then whenever she was trying to stop me I was saying "ssssshhhhh... don't touch it, it will fly away"
15. A few weeks ago I fell asleep on the couch while my boyfriend was playing video games on our laptop in the bedroom. Apparently I walked into the bathroom turned on the hot water in the sink and filled a cup, then walked into the bedroom and asked how his game was going. He said he was getting slaughtered. I laughed said "it's about to get worse" and threw the water at him.
16. I said to my fianc in my sleep: "I love you because you have such long antennae."
17. My ex talked a lot in his sleep and had recurring dreams. He was the "Owl-slayer", a superhero in them because he hated owls. I always knew when he had his superhero dream because he would (Continued)
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I always knew when he had his superhero dream because he would start to hum the theme tune to "Dallas", that was the superhero's intro and he would keep mumbling "Die stupid owls." and "There's another one of the winged bugger" etc. It was hilarious.
18. My girlfriend woke up to find me in my underwear, with the vacuum steering it back and forth over the carpet, not even on, electrical cord still wound tight, just vacuuming.
19. A boyfriend said in his sleep "I love you Mary Margaret". It was the name of his parents' pet duck, which had recently disappeared.
20. My mum, after falling asleep on the couch.
Mum: "We'll need to find a replacement..." Me: "for what?" Mum: "Your sister"
21. This is not my story, but my ex-girlfriend's. She was sleepwalking once and woke up in her living room, only to look out of the backdoor straight into the eyes of a man (Continued)
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trying to break in. Needless to say she did not sleep well for a couple of months.
22. Husband: I don't want any tater tots from you. I can get tater tots from anyone on the damn street.
23. She sang "Captain, why you such a lovely fellaaaaaaa" and elbowed me in the throat.
24. When my girlfriend is asleep I'm able to have full blown conversations with her. One night I asked her what she thought of her fellow classmates and she commented about how this one guys hair made him look like a Chia pet. I laughed so hard I woke her up. When I told her about it she said, "But he really does look like one!"
25. My friend Heather regularly talks in her sleep. Her partner, Luke, records it and will gladly play it for friends. Once Heather was dreaming about motorcycles and explained she had a special motorcycle made from potatoes. Luke asked "What does your motorcycle sound like?" Heather replied "IT'S A POTATOCYCLE! IT GOES POTATO POTATO POTATO"
26. My wife and I had been dating for about a year when I took off my tee shirt and offered it to her as armor. Apparently, I told her that "the land is rife with (Continued)
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Apparently, I told her that "the land is rife with beasts." I woke up shirtless, so I believe her.
27. Was still awake working when my boyfriend sleep talked "I'm going father the kittens"
28. It's me, I'm the sleep talker.
"No no I can't help, the giant chickens! There are giant chickens!"
"I have to enjoy the go-karting first. Sorry."
The 'worst' incident was when I was a young child, though. I'd had a bad fever, stayed in all day playing Sonic 2 on the Mega Drive, and went to bed.
I started sleepwalking at 3am, SOAKED in blood from a nosebleed. I silently got into my parents room, stood inches away from my dad trying to wake him up... and when I finally did, I started screaming that the "red man" was going to get me, and kill me, all while sprinting full tilt around this tiny room.
My dad confessed years later that he'd never been so scared in his life; he'd watched The Shining earlier that day, so a tiny kid in a dressing gown coated in blood kinda messed with him.
29. Ex-wife once screamed "but the tacos aren't free dude" Then another time "the cats pepperoni slid off the tree, I repeat, the cats pepperoni has slid off the tree."
30. Another one : husband.
He sat up in the bed, shook me and told me : "the spiders ! I saw them ! They are under the bed, and they are huge !!" And then he fell asleep again immediately.
I... not so much. I'm arachnophobic, and didn't sleep at all anymore that night.
I can't definitively say I've come face to face with the spirits. But I have had some unsettling feelings in the dark. Shadows are just shadows sometimes, but who can be sure.
I hear it...
Nbc Wings GIF by HULUGiphy"I was helping my dad clean my grandma's house after she passed and I went in and was trying to find a song in my phone and before I could I heard a cough plain as day come from down the hallway where her room was. She died of lung and throat cancer it was pretty crazy."
Running Past...
"When I was 5 I remember getting home from my grandpa's birthday party. For context my mom was pregnant with my brother at the time, so my parents had already bought his crib. I woke up in the middle of the night to find a women in a white dress and long black hair standing over my brother's crib. I managed to wake up my dad so he could take me to the bathroom. When I got back it was still there. It was only until morning when it disappeared. Every now and then I see a glance of what I assume is that thing running past the backyard."
The Cat
"My best friend and his wife had moved to a new apartment. I came over to visit a few times, and each time I'd see the motion of a cat in my peripheral vision. Not the image of a cat, but a sense of how a cat moves. Anyway, one day I finally cracked some joke about the ghost cat in the place and his wife was instantly saying "See! See! I told you we had a ghost cat!"
"excuse me"
"I worked graveyard shift in a dementia ward for 4 years and it was anything but quiet. I was working with a nurse one night when we both heard a resident say "excuse me." We looked around and no-one was there. I checked on the resident in question and she was fast asleep in her own room. Many of us also experienced someone whistling in the ward late at night and one nurse even managed to catch a video of it happening. It was unnerving to say the least."
Clueless
Skeleton GIFGiphy"I once saw someone short walk by me in my house. They walked into the laundry room which only has one way in. I walked into it behind them and they where gone. I thought it was my little brother but I went to his room and he was asleep. I still have no clue what that was."
- ImBolio
Now was everyone here positive they were sober? Just asking. Those are certainly spooky moments. I'd like some video footage please. Continue...
Reflections
ghost library GIFGiphy"I was up at 3am when I was maybe 7 or 8. I looked out the window and saw a woman in a white dress run across my yard. I could see through her. She was transparent like the reflections on the window."
"you alright?"
"So, my work place is haunted. I was having a really crap day, and as a cleaner, it's normal that me and my co worker will be the only ones left at night. So I was standing on the second floor, leaning on the banister for the stair case, when I heard this male voice say in my ear "you alright?" Clear as day. I turned around so fast and nobody was there and it scared the hell out of me."
- Rex-the-
Watching Me
"I remember as a young kid I usually use to sit in my bed and watch tv with my room door open while the adjacent guest bedroom next to mine would always have the door shut. I always remember seeing that door fully open and close by itself multiple times a day very slowly and gently. Never really bothered me much now that I think about it… but there were other creepier experiences I had in the same house that made me feel uncomfortable like I was being watched."
Betsy
"I went to the Betsy Ross House as a really little kid in the early 90s. Normal house but I was confused why the tour guide never talked about the woman on the chair crying at the edge of the bed in Betsy Ross's bedroom. So I asked about it. No one else saw the woman at the edge of the bed. I figured it was just a wax museum since there was a wax statue of a man in uniform rolling bullets in the basement."
"Years later, I was looking at haunted Philadelphia tours to go on with a friend and the Betsy Ross House was on it. I was like "woah! I was there!" and looked into it some more. Turns out there is a woman at the end of the bed crying and a uniformed man in the basement that people have reported seeing. There is no way that 8 year old me would have known about either of these things."
hello kitty...
hello kitty lol GIF by Animation Domination High-DefGiphy"I had this hello kitty Balloon In my bed room, it had a string and weight on it. So it was late, I had the lights on just Sitting on my bed. The Balloon turns, faces my door, slowly floats into my hallway and turns and floats into my sister's room. To this day I am scared of balloons."
They are among us and they like Hello Kitty. I'm probably rattling the paranormal cages and they'll come for me next, but I'm ready. I feel like this thread has prepared me.
Boo!
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