Anomaly2012-07-07
i have had sleep paralysis a handful of times, but there are two instances that really stand out: the first time it happened to me was (i think) eight years ago... i thought i had died. I woke up on my back in the early morning an…
Counted by measurement, not by keyword. That is the point.
Shadow people
Dark figures, seen clearly, with nothing to see
A figure darker than the dark. Often in a doorway, often at the foot of a bed, often gone the moment a light goes on. It is one of the most commonly described experiences in the world and one of the least recorded, because most people who see one tell nobody. This page used to count every dark silhouette in the record and call it a collection. A reader asked what those accounts actually were, and the honest answer was: mostly animals' eyes and treeline shadows from the woods archive. So now the page says what is true.
What the record honestly holds
The archives this record started from asked about the sky and the woods, and a dark shape at a treeline is not the figure in the doorway. The number above is measured by the record's strict classifier, and most of it lives in the dream record: dark figures standing, watching, in rooms that look like the dreamer's own. The waking share is small, which is the gap this site was built to close. Whether the dreamed figure and the waking one are the same experience is exactly the kind of question this site exists to leave open.
What this record actually holds
264
accounts out of 52,378 touch on this. Measured, not guessed: 264 accounts carry this signature under the record's classifier, 227 of them in the dream record and 37 written by people awake. The waking sliver is the founding gap of this record; the dream side is the archive nobody had until now. If it has happened to you, this page is where your account belongs.
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2014-07-15
Non-Lucid I am in my living room with mom and <PERSON> when a commercial for "Wolf Children" comes on TV. It mainly showcases clips from the snow scene. It showed them howling. It was dubbed in English! A better dubbing than the o…
2013-05-30
Been a long time since I wrote here... typing is so much easier than writing it all down in detail with pencil. I was lying down on my bed in my room and got up and walked to my TV to take a good look at it and I noticed that thin…
2008-06-12
Bristol (Uk/England)
large figure stoof in my doorway and flashes of light. ((NUFORC Note: May not be a serious report?? PD))…
2010-09-07
AUDIO-INDUCED LUCID DREAM EXPERIMENT ENTRY #6 Day #7 (NO LUCID): ~Tried a later time for the MP3 to go off in hopes that it would hit me during a clearer dream, but it was not late enough...I naturally awoke before the MP3 started…
2017-08-02
This is still really fresh in my mind; it happened to me this morning at around 7:30AM. As I am writing this I will explain my current states throughout the experience. A little back story, this was a WBTB kind of thing. I woke up…
2015-10-15
Recounting my experience from last night when I tried to astral project. I have been attempting to astral project for months now but this is the closest I have come. So I started my usual relaxation techniques like I do almost eve…
2018-01-25
2018, 01-24 Game of Dreams - Gunslinger Takedown I am in the tower with Bran, I am <PERSON>. Bran is unconscious in his bed. There is an idiot trying to talk to me about numbers. I tell him I do not care about the numbers. He is t…
2012-11-26
Last nights SP and FA I was getting vibrations as I was lying down in bed trying to get to sleep, I must have nodded off after a short while. I now remember waking up at some point in the night and again woke with strong vibration…
2011-06-25
Non-Dream/Lucid/Non-Lucid I dreamed it when I was little. I tried to remember this dream as hard as I could. Between the first and the last dream I mentioned were a lot of more dreams. I remember I was frustrated that I could not…
The nearest thing the record does have
being unable to move 640a dark figure 263the feeling of being watched 231a hooded figure 161sudden dread 38no face 15
Written by people describing something else entirely, which is what makes the overlap worth looking at rather than circular
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Other kinds of experience
21
The same dream, the same place, or the thing before it happened.
2,673
The moment the forest goes quiet.
43
Hours that cannot be accounted for.
9,396
The oldest phenomenon in the record, and the most often explained.