Bizarre Memories?
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:25 pm
Hi, I'm new here and don't really know what to say, but here goes.
I'll preface this by saying that I'm usually a pretty big skeptic. I struggle to accept things without evidence but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. Not really one to buy into new age concepts but the UFO phenomenon has long been an interesting mystery where there's compelling evidence of something going on. Admittedly it's more like an obsession that comes back every few years. I'm 25 now and I can't stop reading on the subject lately, yet as I investigate I recall strange memories from my childhood sometimes.
It's worth mentioning that I never remember my dreams. Ever. I don't know why but I've always been that way. I'm pretty sure that I dream, but the moment I wake it's gone. Strangely though I have a series of memories from where I was a young child. I think they're dreams but I don't remember having them, and they seem different somehow.
The first type involves running through our house being chased by these short, grey things. I can't remember how it started or where they came from... It's even pretty difficult to remember exactly what they looked like, like they can't be seen properly? Nonetheless it opens with me running scared, trying to get downstairs to my parents. I get the sense that they're chasing me and are surprisingly agile, almost bouncing in pursuit if that makes any sense. While trying to go down some stairs I'm suddenly unable to move at all. Literally frozen in mid air. I remember the sensation really well and it feels really weird. It's tingly, like you're slightly numb all over. You can try to move your muscles but you don't move at all, it's like being encased in a forcefield that coats your skin. No matter how hard I try to push nothing happens, I can't call out either, my mouth won't open. The creatures - 2 or 3 of them, each about 3 feet tall - catch up and the memory fades. I've a few memories like this, every time covering less distance before being frozen.
The other set of memories involves sorta floating in air, another peculiar sensation. I'm in my room and moving slowly upwards. I can still look around and move my body but I can't stop the floating. I keep trying to "swim" in the air but don't go anywhere. At one point I could swear I might have gone through a closed door, as crazy as that sounds. Nonetheless after a minute or so it cuts off just as it started and I can't remember anything before or after... not even waking up from a dream or something.
I haven't had any more of these memories since I was young, so there's that. Strangely though I do sometimes wake up dressed differently to how I went to sleep, or at the wrong end of the bed, that sort of thing. I usually dismiss it as having gotten up sometime in the night and forgotten doing so, but looking back... I'm not so sure.
Anyway I know this all sounds a bit weird, but I figured there might be some insight from the people on this forum. The typical explanations tend to fall flat - never had sleep paralysis, but I can't remember a lot and it's all so confusing.
I guess I'm just wondering if I'm mad, dreaming, or something more sinister?
Thanks for reading
I'll preface this by saying that I'm usually a pretty big skeptic. I struggle to accept things without evidence but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. Not really one to buy into new age concepts but the UFO phenomenon has long been an interesting mystery where there's compelling evidence of something going on. Admittedly it's more like an obsession that comes back every few years. I'm 25 now and I can't stop reading on the subject lately, yet as I investigate I recall strange memories from my childhood sometimes.
It's worth mentioning that I never remember my dreams. Ever. I don't know why but I've always been that way. I'm pretty sure that I dream, but the moment I wake it's gone. Strangely though I have a series of memories from where I was a young child. I think they're dreams but I don't remember having them, and they seem different somehow.
The first type involves running through our house being chased by these short, grey things. I can't remember how it started or where they came from... It's even pretty difficult to remember exactly what they looked like, like they can't be seen properly? Nonetheless it opens with me running scared, trying to get downstairs to my parents. I get the sense that they're chasing me and are surprisingly agile, almost bouncing in pursuit if that makes any sense. While trying to go down some stairs I'm suddenly unable to move at all. Literally frozen in mid air. I remember the sensation really well and it feels really weird. It's tingly, like you're slightly numb all over. You can try to move your muscles but you don't move at all, it's like being encased in a forcefield that coats your skin. No matter how hard I try to push nothing happens, I can't call out either, my mouth won't open. The creatures - 2 or 3 of them, each about 3 feet tall - catch up and the memory fades. I've a few memories like this, every time covering less distance before being frozen.
The other set of memories involves sorta floating in air, another peculiar sensation. I'm in my room and moving slowly upwards. I can still look around and move my body but I can't stop the floating. I keep trying to "swim" in the air but don't go anywhere. At one point I could swear I might have gone through a closed door, as crazy as that sounds. Nonetheless after a minute or so it cuts off just as it started and I can't remember anything before or after... not even waking up from a dream or something.
I haven't had any more of these memories since I was young, so there's that. Strangely though I do sometimes wake up dressed differently to how I went to sleep, or at the wrong end of the bed, that sort of thing. I usually dismiss it as having gotten up sometime in the night and forgotten doing so, but looking back... I'm not so sure.
Anyway I know this all sounds a bit weird, but I figured there might be some insight from the people on this forum. The typical explanations tend to fall flat - never had sleep paralysis, but I can't remember a lot and it's all so confusing.
I guess I'm just wondering if I'm mad, dreaming, or something more sinister?
Thanks for reading