Elizabeth's Journal

Entry Seven

Feb 4, 2019

Last summer, I went to a band camp. I stayed at the camp for five days, and when I got home my dad told me about something that had happened while I was gone. He had tucked my brother in bed, and as he was walking by my door he thought he saw something draped over a clothing rack in my room. When he went to put it back on top of the rack, his hand passed through it and he felt a chill. He looked around the room to see if it was a shadow cast by something else, and when he looked back it was gone. Of course he thought this was odd but it takes a lot to faze my dad so he thought nothing of it.

Lately I have been having sleep paralysis. One night I woke up to someone standing over me and talking to me. I thought it was my mom telling me to get up because I had things to do. I had my eyes open just a little, and I thought I saw her outline, but when I decided to listen to her and open my eyes there was no one there. I could still hear someone talking, but I couldn't move. I soon realized that it was sleep paralysis, and I knew that if I moved I would wake up. I tried to move and as soon as I did the talking stopped, so I went back to sleep. It wasn't until a few days later that I realized that the shadowy outline that I saw was in the same place that my dad saw a shadow last summer. That was six months ago so I don't know why it would be starting now, maybe it's nothing.

On another note, I have a new Most Terrifying Dream, so here are a few of them:

I was laying in bed, starting to fall asleep, when the air changed. It sounded like sharp whispers stuck in a loop. Then I heard some thing coming up the stairs, or trying to at least. I couldn't see it, but it definitely wasn't a human. I knew that it was coming to get me, and I couldn't move. I tried to move because I wanted to get away, or wake up. As soon as I moved, all sounds stopped, and everything went back to normal.

I was laying in bed, staring at my ceiling fan. The air changed like it did before, and I felt like I was spinning. Then I realized that I wasn't spinning, but the ceiling was. Instead of a ceiling, there were lots of decaying stuffed animals above me, spinning as if they were attached to a mobile that you would hang over a baby's crib. As I studied them closer, I realized that they were floating on the top of the water, and I was trapped below them, in the bed of a river. Then I rolled over and everything went back to normal.

I was laying in bed, and the air changed again. It was a little different than the other times, it felt worse. I was really nervous because I knew that I would probably see something soon, and I didn't want to see anything scary. I couldn't move anything except for my eyes, so I decided to close them so I wouldn't see anything. As soon as I did, I saw a woman's face a few inches away from mine. Her face was long and narrow and her eyes were empty black pits. I freaked out and managed to move. Everything went back to how it should have been and I went to sleep.

My sleep paralysis has gotten worse over time, and sometimes when I go to sleep I can feel it waiting for me to let my guard down. I can usually tell when it is starting, so I focus on moving and it goes away before anything happens. I don't know if that's how sleep paralysis works so maybe I'm just crazy.