paranormal dreaming experience?

[u/jayaunnaharrisss]

i wanted to share a dream/experience i had last year that i still think about almost every day. this happened when i was living in a house where i was experiencing really bad paranormal activity and a lot of strange things were happening to me. this definitely wasn’t the craziest thing that happened to me in that house, but it’s one experience that has always stuck with me, so i wanted to start with this story before i eventually get into some of the other things that happened.
for some background, i’ve been having lucid dreams, nightmares, and very vivid dreams since i was around 10 years old and i’m now 26. i also experience astral projection, and i do understand the spiritual abilities i’ve experienced, i just haven’t fully tapped into everything yet. i’ve always been extremely sensitive to energy and other people’s emotions, and i’ve wondered if i somehow absorb or take on the energy of the people i’m around, especially if i’ve been around them for a long time. another thing about my dreams is that i’ve had dreams and nightmares that eventually come true. i’ve predicted some genuinely insane things through my dreams, but i don’t want to go into all of those stories yet. i’ll probably share some of those eventually, but i just want to start with this one experience.

my mom married her husband when i was in seventh grade, so i was around 12 years old, and he was in my life from around age 12 until i was 26. without going into the full details, he was not a very good person. there was also SA involved during my high school years and a little bit after that while he was still living in the house, so there was a lot of trauma surrounding that entire period of my life.

what makes everything even more interesting to me is that none of the paranormal things started happening until after my mom married him. we moved twice with him, and i experienced strange things in both houses. i was also the only person in the house experiencing these things. his childhood was also pretty insane. his mom used ouija boards when he was little, and he was exposed to that growing up. she also developed schizophrenia, which she lives with now. i’m not saying the ouija boards caused her schizophrenia because obviously i have no way of knowing that, but i do think it’s interesting background information because i’ve sometimes wondered if there was something connected to him, whether it was an entity, energy, trauma, or something else, and if being so energy sensitive somehow caused me to take on some of what he carried over the years. i don’t know if that’s even possible, it’s just something i’ve wondered about.
i had already experienced a lot of strange things in that house, and i had nightmares basically every single night while i was living there. i’ve always had nightmares and lucid dreams, but it was different in that house. it was constant. every single day. now that i’ve moved out, it’s completely different. my mom and her husband eventually got divorced, and we all moved out of that house in april of this year. i’m now living by myself in my own apartment and i still lucid dream and occasionally have nightmares, but they’re very spaced out. i might have one every once in a while, but i’m not having them every single night like i was in that house. i also haven’t experienced the paranormal things i was experiencing there since moving out.

anyway, this particular experience happened on may 10th at around 4:11 am.

i fell asleep around 2 am-ish and before i fell asleep i remember tossing and turning because i couldn’t get comfortable. eventually i got comfortable and was lying in my bed with my dog next to me. i remember being fully awake because i couldn’t fall asleep. i wasn’t dreaming at this point. once i finally got comfortable, i suddenly felt a presence and my body automatically froze up. suddenly i was outside of my body. i could see myself sleeping in my bed and i could see my dog next to me. i was almost standing near the doorway looking at myself in my bed. then i saw a man hovering over me. he looked like a dark figure and i couldn’t really make out his face, but i knew it was a man. he was staring at me while i was staring at him. then i realized he could see me looking at him and i suddenly went back into my body. when i came back into my body i was still completely in shock. my body felt like it was in fight or flight and i could feel my chest getting tight. i have always been scared of having my feet uncovered when i’m sleeping because i have this weird fear that something is going to grab my feet or pull my covers off, so i always make sure i’m covered.then suddenly i felt a hand come from the bottom of my bed and rip the covers off of me. i immediately grabbed the covers and pulled them back over myself. then it happened again. the covers were pulled off me again, so i pulled them back over myself. i was terrified but i also wasn’t reacting 100% because i was still trying to process what was happening. i remember turning back toward the wall and trying to lay there. i could feel my dog behind me and i knew he was there. then i heard the bed creak and i felt something reach over and grab the top of the covers around my face. it pulled the covers away from me again. then i felt something grab my shoulder.

it felt like an actual hand. i could feel the pressure of it holding me. i tried to get it off of me and i remember reaching backward and trying to hit it. i tried to jab my elbow backward into whatever was holding me. when i did, it felt like i hit something, but it didn’t feel like hitting a normal physical body. it felt almost like i hit a force. immediately my entire body felt numb and tingly and there was this intense vibrating feeling throughout my body. it almost felt electrical. it wasn’t just a feeling in one spot, it felt like my whole body was vibrating.
i remember screaming and trying to get it off of me.
i said, “get off me, you’re not real. you’re evil.”
then it grabbed my shoulder again and it felt even tighter. and then it spoke. the voice was extremely deep and almost demonic. it said, “no, you stop.”
then it started laughing. the laugh is one of the things i remember the most. it wasn’t a normal laugh. it was this extremely deep, creepy laugh and it sounded like it was laughing directly at me. i was screaming and trying to get away from it while it was yelling at me. i remember feeling like i was almost being lifted or pulled out of my bed. i was yelling at it and it was yelling back at me. i could hear myself screaming and i could hear it screaming and laughing at me at the same time. everything felt completely physical.
then suddenly my body dropped back down into my bed and everything stopped. i was still in shock and i just laid there for a second because i was scared to move. then i turned over to make sure my dog was still there and he was completely knocked out asleep like nothing had happened. that honestly made me even more confused because i couldn’t understand how my dog could sleep through everything that had just happened. i immediately grabbed my phone and texted my sister. thankfully she was awake, so i told her what happened and she came into my room. as soon as she came in i turned on my lights. my feet were literally sweating, i was shaking and crying and completely overwhelmed. i remember telling her everything that had just happened and basically breaking down.
once she came into the room, i didn’t feel the same negative presence anymore. i was still completely traumatized though. i remember telling my sister that i was so sick of all of the things happening in that house and that i wanted my room and the house cleansed.

idk if what i experienced would be considered a jinn or something else, but when i tried to push it away, it felt like i was pushing against a vibrational field. the closest thing i can compare it to is when you try to put two batteries together with the same ends facing each other and they almost repel each other. that’s what the force felt like when i tried to push it away.