A Little about me from a child... to now.

[DarrylJ]

Just logged in to look at FlipFlops Dreambox Thread... and this caught my eye.. I can promise this thread is THE truth, not seeking attention - Just wanting to let people know what I've experienced from growing up, what I had at Uni... and so forth.

As a child, memory is abit of a mosaic to say the least... However, my earliest memory of anything out of the ordinary was when I was laid in bed and I had a constant fear of 'something' , I was roughly 11-12, and I always felt something was in my room.

Anyway - this is how it all started... (for me) - My mam has earlier memories when I was even younger, which I don't recall (I'll mention this later).

Anyway, as a child I had constant fears - It got to the point I enjoyed being at school due to what was happening. I was hearing whispers as such on the landing... This was really the tip of the iceberg for me though, as at the time I didn't have a clue what it was (Sleep paralysis - I think it is anyway) - and well, as anyone would be at that age VERY confused. I literally put it down to ghosts (I only knew of the name ghosts at that age).

But yeah, these episodes would literally go on during the night, we're talking weeks here, eventually I started putting the quilt over my ears... Which I still do to this day, I'm 24.

Anyway, it all stopped... Up until around GSCE's, stress levels raised, and yeah you guessed it... same again. I went to the doctors, and I was given 10mg anti-depressants, as he said I was suffering from Anxiety, depression etc etc... Didn't help, if anything it made me go abit nutty with a short fuse.

My worst nightmare was realised however, when both of the bedrooms were being decorated so I slept in the parents bedroom on a mattress, and I seen a man.. literally walk through the door looking directly at me while laid on the floor (I had my ears covered and my face was just peering out of the quilt)... at this point I closed my eyes and I could literally hear my heartbeat in my ears.. I was that terrified. I then opened my eyes and the face was in my face smiling... at which point it faded away very slowly while he was smiling - I was terrified for hours after this that was the worst episode visually to date..... SO....

Finished school and went to college - and I can honestly say I was fine for 2-3 year with random moments of seeing things in the Television when It was turned off, faces and such - but that didn't bother me as I put it down to me looking at it for a while trying to work out if I was seeing it or not.

So Uni.... First 3 year all fine, it all went bit crazy in the final year.... I believe It may have been the house.

Ok, so first few nights were fine - fellow housemate had a little episode where he felt something get into bed with him, but that was that - for everyone else, anyway!

Started literally around about a couple of weeks after I'd moved in, I'd get the sense's again of which you could link it to the 'episode' my housemate had. I was just dozing off to sleep and I would hear banging on the window shouting let me in, and I'm not talking quietly, I felt myself moving to the banging in my sleep.. as if my bed was shaking - it was as if the fella was at the opposite side of the window shouting this, I woke up very confused, and my heart was pounding a little.

December last year, (Just before we broke up for Christmas Holidays) I felt something touching me on the final night... that was that until I moved back in January where I had forgot about it, and the first night it started again, this touching... I was confused, and scared... but it continued for months. I would see what you would no as heat shimmers.. but rather than on the road, it was cross the walls. I'd also seen a figure move towards me, but you could see the wall behind it and it was blurred..

During the touching episodes, I would always see who's house I could sleep at, normally trying to phone a friend to pick me up to literally go back home, a good hour round trip at 2-3 in the morning.

Anyway, this touching continued and i could feel it touching my face, my hair (yes it was moving my hair) - and I had no other option to consult mediums - of which most said i was gifted, or cursed. Whichever way you want to look at it, obviously... for me, the latter.

I would also randomly get pushed as falling to sleep, I would jerk either backwards or forwards, it really was random. But it would be enough to wake me.

I got in touch with a good number of them, went to spiritualist church's and tried to find out what was going on. Closest I got to finding out was a woman in Redcar, she said his name as michael and he had hung himself - I done a little googling, and had found a hanging post dated a few years go, also on Ayresome Street - However, his name wasn't michael - but the person who had written his death certificate was - coincidence, im not sure.

One occasion, about 9am on the morning I was just dozing off to sleep and I heard a whisper - I'm not sure what it said, but it was clearly 3 words, I snapped and woke up but that was that.

Anyway, I still get sleep paralysis to this day, and on one occasion I've felt myself move as if I was out of body, but im not sure.

I've moved back home now, and I still get the odd touching, and the pushing, but not enough to scare me.

Oh and lastly about me as a child, my mother once said I'd ran to her stating an old woman had pinched my Teenage Ninja Mutant turtle.. I'd ran to her, and I followed 'something' around the room.

My mam's also seen a little girl in this house, but the last one prior to this was strange aswell. Tapping on my Cot as I slept and stuff such as that.

I see face's when my eyes are closed, random spots of light, I also get tonnes of De Ja Vu - Had one today too.

Had a few hairs stand up as I wrote this, sorry if it's abit jumbled.

Cheers for reading, assuming you got this far down due to being bored! Haha.

Darryl.