Ever since I was a child I have been experiencing strange things when I go to sleep. I've been having visions, or lucid nightmares throughout my entire life. I doesn't happen very often, but when it does, I never forget the experience. One of the most frightening ones was when I lived in Sedona, Arizona in 1994. One night, just out of the blue, I woke up. Nothing strange was going on, I just lay in my bed and looked at my clock. It was 5:55am, noted it for some reason, and went back to sleep. The next night the exact same thing happened and it happened again and again for four consecutive nights. I never got alarmed, only slightly curious. I figured there must have been some kind of noise that woke me up, or something mundane like that. Until the fifth night. I remember waking up, just as on the previous nights before, but this time I felt weird, like I was in a daze. I was lying on my stomach and staring at the wall opposite my door (my back was to the door). I heard my door open and someone enter. I wasn't too frightened because we always had people sleeping over, and I thought someone was going to play a prank on me. I didn't move, and pretended to be asleep. Then, on the wall I was looking towards I saw a laser point, like the ones you see from a laser pointer. It started high on the wall, and moved down slowly to the level of my body. As soon as it touched me, I was jarred by someone forcefully sitting on my bed and with great strength pushing me down into my bed. I didn't struggle because I couldn't move. Then, I felt this thing/person put something cold and sharp to my neck and there was a surge of what felt like electricity through my body. It started roughly in the center of my body, and extended outward through all my arms and legs. My body started to convulse like it was being electrocuted. Then everything went black. The next thing I remember is opening my eyes, realizing I was awake, and literally jumping out of bed. I looked at my clock: 5:55am. Then I ran into the bathroom to see if there was a mark on my neck where the strange metallic device had touched me, there was nothing.

This was one of the wierdest experiences I have had, there are others, even ones more frightening, but this one was the strangest, and most real feeling in my life. After reading your article on sleep paralysis I realized that this experience has all the classic symptoms, but before that, I didn't know what to think.

Submitted from: Eric, Pennsylvania, USA