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Hi there, I am a 22 year old female who has had many experinces very similar to your own. Basically, I keep have this recurring experience, that usually happens somewhere between sleep and waking up, where I feel and hear some sort of presence in my room (a negative one). Usually I get this familiar feeling right before it is about to happen accompanied by a noise ( this noise have ranged from a clicking type noise that comes closer and closer, to a noise I can only describe as orbs spinning or something, at first slower and then much faster) The noise comes from the far side of the room, and the gets louder as it approaches me until it is right around my ears and intensely loud, almost like a scream. At this point and as soon as I begin to hear it, I am frozen, and I can't move, and each time I feel a presence, sometimes several holding me down against my will. Each time I fight it in my mind, and feel like I am attempting to move my limbs in some sort of slow motion and to no avail. I always feel that I need to fight it for fear of something worse happening, even though I know I can't stop it. Before these experience, I had had other night terrors on an infrequent basis where I might wake up screaming...the first one I can remember was when I was 15 when a long, tall, black shadowy figure was standing over my bed, and when I looked up, swooped down on me. This was a weekend my parents were out of the house and I had a friends over in my room, who screamed at the same time as me. I remember feeling that there were some sort of presences around me that were holding me down and examining me or something....I always call them aliens, but I don't know what they are. They are very real. Sometime I will actually wake up in the morning and hear everyone moving around the house and talking and am about to get up and then the experience will happen..this is the most common, occurring in the morning. Sometimes I feel like I fought it off, and then as soon as I go to get up again, it comes back even stronger. I have mostly remedied this by sleeping with a coloured rainbow light on in my room, and leaving my door open, since it never happens when I do this. It mostly happens when I slept in a dark room , with my door closed. The only time it does not happened when I am in the dark with the door closed, is when someone else is sleeping with me lik my boyfriend. Recently I slept over at my boyfriends house, and he like to sleep in a dark room with the door closed which seems to be ok, because I have never had an experience away from my own bedroom or with someone else in my room. Unfortunately this night I did. It was around 3am and he could not sleep and went downstairs without waking me I guess. Around this time, I was roused from my sleep by this noise I described above ..( I have never "seen" anything, because i can't open my eyes") This time it was very intense and very loud, much more than before. The scary part about this one thought was that my body was actually being moved. I was sleeping in a double bed facing the wall and I felt my body being turned sideways and I was trying to hold onto the wall to stop myself from being dragged off the bed, to no avail. I felt turned again so that I was moving towards the closet on the far side of the room ...at this point I gave in because there was nothing I could do. I remember thinking that I was going to hit the closet doors which were open in my stomach, but my whole body stopped just short of this, where I could feel the closet door against me, but I had not flown into it, just was suspended....then I found myself back in the bed, awake and terrified, and saw that my boyfriend was not in the room, and it was dark etc. After I resolved some courage about 30 minutes later I got up and went downstairs to find him. This was an experience that came out of sleep though, in the middle of the night, and different yet similar to the other ones I have had before. I was worried about the escalating nature of the experiences though. anyway, any insights from others are helpful too