u/Sobbing_into_soup

Okay so let me start off by saying this story is 1000% true. When I was a child, pretty much from ages 6 to around 9, I would have frequent night terrors that would result in screaming, except the thing was I wouldn’t wake up. I would scream and scream, and my mom would shake me until I stopped because I wouldn’t wake up. The next morning, I would tell her about the same dream.

It was a man in in a coat, no features, just darkness. He would stand underneath the streetlight outside my window and stare into my bedroom. That was it. That was the whole dream.

Then, every time I had the night terror, my aunt would call unprompted the next day. She would claim my cousin woke up crying saying there was a man outside my bedroom. My mom and her would talk, tell each other how weird it was we would see the same thing, and hang up.

Until one night.

I was screaming in my sleep like I did several times a week, waking the whole house and prompting a shake from my mom. This time, though, I didn’t wake up. I just kept screaming, and screaming, and screaming, until I suddenly collapsed in my moms arms like a rag doll. When I finally awoke several minutes later, right before she was about to call the police, I told her something really spooky for a 9 year old.

I said “he got what he wanted” and then fell the fuck back asleep like I didn’t just traumatize everyone.

The next morning, my aunt called my mom once again, unprompted, and told her my cousin came into her room last night and woke her up, saying I was in danger. She was really scared and adamant I needed help, but my aunt just told her that I was thousands of miles away, and everything was okay. My mom asked me what my dream was the next day after that phone call, and I told her the man crawled through my window and into my bed, then I woke up. No details, just plain as that.

I don’t know what that means or why I said it, but I will say I developed a chronic illness a few years later, and continue to have frequent health issues that started immediately following this incident.

So, what do I do now? I went to sleep last night as normal and woke up to my boyfriend shaking me telling me I was screaming in my sleep. This hasn’t happened in years, and I am scared its gonna start up again.