I was attacked...

I was staying the night at a friend's house right after her grandmother died to console her and I woke up around 4 am. I had been having a dream where I was in the exact same position: it was the middle of the night and I was sleeping on the couch, but I woke up because I had heard pounding on the wall. I thought maybe someone was frantically knocking on the door, so I called to my friend in the bedroom that someone was knocking. She got up and opened the door, but no one was there. I said to her that maybe someone was outside. She pulled the curtain back and looked out the window, but no one was there. So I closed my eyes and said, "That was weird. I guess no one was there." I heard her making some strange noise, like a humming noise as she walked toward me and knelt by the couch. Then I felt her boxing my ears really heard. At first I was like "knock it off that hurts," but then something dawned on me and I realized it wasn't my friend.
That's when I woke up, but the thing was still boxing my ears! It kind of hurt, but kind of didn't, but I was scared shitless thinking, "OMFG, YOU'RE NOT BILLIE!" and my heart was pounding out of my chest. I tired to speak- tried to open my mouth and ask "who are you?" but I could only move my head from side to side, trying to shake it off. I was too afraid to open my eyes, even after it stopped, which it did, quite suddenly.
I've heard of sleep paralysis and all that, where you have a nightmare and it wakes you up so suddenly that your body is still in its paralyzed sleep mode, and that probably happens in a lot of cases, but this wasn't it.
I could move- I just couldn't speak, and I didn't open my eyes because I was afraid of what I might see. I actually shut them tighter.
I think what happened was either the thing attacked me after I started having the dream and the pounding was imagined, or I heard the sounds and things started happening and my mind created the dream to make sense of the sounds I was hearing.
I didn't tell my friend when she woke up, since she just moved into this place and shortly after lost her grandmother (she had died about 3 days ago at this point and she was very very close with my friend) and I didn't want to add to her instability. She hadn't shared any scary things with me, and I know she would have (we are BEST friends), so maybe the thing will leave her alone and just bug me when I'm there (joy). I've kind of got a history of paranormal experiences, so I'm not going crazy about it or anything. It was just so scary being woke out of a sound sleep to something like that! Seriously wasn't prepared...
So do you guys think I should tell her? I feel bad keeping it from her, but she is so easily scared it's not funny and she seems REALLY happy in her new apartment. It doesn't seem to be bothering her, so maybe I should just keep quiet.

 

lol Maybe you can just see more than she can?

Scary for you, I'm sure, but it may have been the grandmother trying to protect your friend, that or this energy was just too strong that it was physically painful to you... generally a spirit can't hurt you, but when it comes down to it they can confuse you enough to hurt yourself... but if you two are close, when it comes down to it, she'll tell you.

Otherwise... you do have a story for over coffee. Maybe she isn't ready to tell you and wants you to say something first?

 

IMO it was thoughtful of you not to tell her to begin with and there's no point in telling her now, especially since you say she scares easily. You don't know what happened so what's the point of freaking her out about her new place. Something similar happened to me at my sister's house. She had recently moved there and I was house sitting alone for the weekend. I don't know WHAT it was but I kept my lips sealed because I knew she'd be there alone a lot and I didn't want to scare her. This was several years ago and she hasn't brought up anything strange so I never mentioned it. If SHE were to bring up a similar experience there I would probably share my story... but otherwise, there's no point. Could have just been a dream after all.

 

She knows I'm cool about ghosts and would never call her crazy. She had ghosts in her last house and thought she was going crazy until I and a psychic friend of ours convinced her otherwise. She never hesitated to say something to us then....

I dunno. If she says something, I'll let her know, but I think I'm just going to be quiet lest she start looking for reasons to panic and move out... She can be like that sometimes. :tongue: