I m not a superstitious person but as a mulsim, i firmly believe what is mentioned in Quran about Djinns. It happened to me at least twice so far.
Several years ago, while sleeping on the roof due to heatwave and heavy load shedding prevailing in the city, at around 2am, i began feeling pressure on my chest and shoulders and could not move a finger despite several attempts. For some reason, i felt as if something from that nearby tree came down but i saw nothing around. Worse, i wanted to shout but couldnt. I was damn scared, almost quivering.
Whatever it was, it shook me pretty badly. I read some literature and found about how djinns move around at places late in the night especially after 2am.
Sleep paralysis?
I'm not a superstitious person either and I'm rather quite scientific in my approach to everything...i would consider that sleep paralysis but then again I didn't get to experience it as u did.
As a Muslim I do believe what the Quran has described about the existence of Jinns and Angels(as other sentient beings besides humans). I have been fascinated about this "unknown"(unknown to me) and I have gone looking. I have visited places that were supposedly haunted according to various accounts...I lost a bet once and spent a night in a graveyard...and nothing ever happened
...nothing happened in that graveyard nor in those haunted places...I didn't see/hear/experience anything.
but...
there were two instances that come close to being supernatural. Once I was asleep in my bed...my feet towards my closet...my head away from it but facing in that direction(of my closet). I dreamt that I'm awake in my bed looking towards my closet and the closet door is partially open(it was a sliding door)...through it I can see some of my clothes hanging and there is some dark figure staring at me. I just somehow know in my dream that it's a lady(if u can even assign a gender to something supernatural?). The rest of her is just a dark silhouette but on her face she has this veil(black net thing) and u can barely see a face...like not quite human but human like and creepy.
The sight of that(in my dream) immediately woke me up...and normally I would've chalked it up to a nightmare...I've had quite a few throught my life but the reason that I don't think this one was like any typical nightmare is bcuz the moment I opened my eyes(with the memory of this dream fresh in my head)...everything was exactly the same. The position in which I dreamt I was laying...the way I was facing...the closet door partially opened the exact same way and even the same clothes(not just any clothes) were visible through that partially opened door. The only thing missing was the creepy lady...it felt like I opened my eyes and the only thing that disappeared was that lady while I somehow perceived everything else down to every detail while sleeping.
A second instance I can't explain except to say that perhaps I was dreaming?
This happened a while back...I came home from work where I had stayed late to catch up with some work. It was a long drive too and I was exhausted...so I just grabbed a blanket and passed out on the couch in my living room.
- side note: my bedroom is upstairs...when entering the house u enter the living room first.
That was on Friday and I don't work weekends so I was gonna sleep in. I woke up late(or so I think that I woke up?)...but I still had the blanket over my head and my eyes closed...still sleepy...and then I felt like somebody had put their hands around my neck over the blanket. I was sort of surprised and sort of in disbelief for a second bcuz no one was home except me. Then the next instant I thought "hey it's here...what I've been looking for...let's take a good look at it"...
So I grab the arms(of whatever it was) through the blanket and I tossed "it" on to the couch(over my legs) while simultaneously sitting up...
...and nothing...there was nothing.
Soooo...that left me sort of scratching my head...did I actually do that? Did that happen? Or was that a dream? Was I only "awake" in my dream and then this happened? And maybe in reality I only woke up while sitting up(as I threw that thing? down on the couch also in my dream perhaps). However I'm fairly certain that I was awake...and I didn't wake up after this sequence of events...but considering that it would make no sense...while the part where I could've dreamt this whole thing makes more logical sense(based on my lack of seeing anything supernatural)...I therefore just use the whole dreaming it explanation.
The more I think about those two experience the more confused I get...and the only explanations I can give myself that sound reasonable are that I was just dreaming. Both of these experiences were quite far apart temporally speaking...and quite a few years have passed since...everything has been normal. So maybe it was just my obsession of trying to find/know/interact with this unknown that made my brain perceive things that were normal as if they were something more? something unusual?
Idk how to have a solid explanation for these...but I do hope to one day find out whether I'm just going crazy over analyzing this or was there something more to these experiences.
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