[Emapymosy]

I had an experience like this about 3 years ago. I went to sleep on two or three pillows so I was sitting up a little. When I woke up in the middle of the night, my room was pretty dark as usual. However, there was something directly in front of me maybe about 6 feet away just hovering. My room was dark, but this thing was really dark! It was like a little cloud or something. I tried to move, but I couldn't. I didn't feel like anything was holding me, I just couldn't move. I couldn't feel any limbs. I was just reduced to my eyes. I'm not even sure if I was breathing. I don't scare easily and I know I wasn't afraid when this happened, just confused. The cloud started moving toward me and it appeared to take on the shape of a face similar to a jack-o-lantern, but black. It moved faster the closer it got. Then it either went into me or through me. After that, I could move. I laid to the side off the pillows and went back to sleep.

I think the return from out of body experience explanation makes the most sense to me. I used to have the same one when I was a kid, maybe about 6. I'd be floating or flying a few blocks from my house. Stop at a stop sign that was at the intersection, turn right and go down about 3 blocks. I'd always end up at the door to a garage in the back of one of the houses just before one of the city's main streets. Every time without fail a German Shepard would jump up barking in my face through the glass of the door. Then the experience would be over. I always had this experience while asleep at night and it was always dark/night during the "dream." All the streets and everything were as they would have been if I were awake so I always viewed that as more than just a dream. When I moved to a different side of the city, I stopped having those experiences.