A freakish awakening: spectral figure through the ceiling

Just thought I’d share this strange happening that occurred a few weeks ago: I went to bed around midnight, and around 1:20am, the torso and right knee of a dark figure with a silent, open mouth started decending out of the ceiling right above my bed. All I could sense was animosity and an intent to harm. I threw myself out of the bed, but when my left foot touched the floor, I knew my leg was still in full sleep paralysis. The knee buckled and crashed into my desk. I thought it was broken, the knee cap shattered, but the first thing I did was swing around to check the ceiling. Nothing there.

I've had strange, fully-tactile hallucinations in early sleep before, ranging from the common tripping to metamorphosing into a Pepsi machine and feeling a soda can travel all the way up my esophagus before causing me to sit and expel it out of my mouth, but this one was different. My room was in full detail. The antique light fixture on my ceiling next to which the figure emerged was exactly the same as it is in waking life. The furniture in my room was in perfect placement. I wasn't dreaming about my room when this happened - I was just suddenly thrust into awareness of the fact that some shadowy figure was descending from my ceiling to harm me. It was seriously freaky, to say the least. Needless to say, I reverted back to the insecurity of a five-year-old and slept with the light on for the rest of the night.

that sounds pretty freaky , are you saying that you were dreaming a perfect copy of your room or are you saying that maybe you were awake but this hallucenation happened infront of you?
The only experince i can come near to relating towards yours is when i gues i was mid dream(non-lucid)2 nights ago and i woke up, sitting right infront of me,clear as day was this little wicker basket that is set on 3 wheels(its a little thing that is for show downstairs in my dining room) floating about 3 feet infront of me in my room i check to see if im awake and i am, i jump out of bed and blink a few times and its gone.

Dont know if this helps, but if it was what you experinced next time try just shuttting you eyes ,and blinking as thats what worked for me
Brent

so you hurt yourself? That sucks even if it was your mind playing tricks on you it caused you to bang your knee.

Yup - swollen and wrapped in ice for two days straight. Once I figured out the figure was part of a dream or hallucination, I was rather embarassed about the whole thing.

My friend the next day: "Hey, why have you got a huge bag of ice tied to your knee with a kitchen towel?"
Me: "... Bedroom antics?"

I've even got a nice oblong, quarter-sized scar now where the handle on the desk drawer ripped off the skin. At least it matches the scar on my right knee I got doing bike tricks when I was 7...

Man I hate it when you think you fall when you're only half asleep.

Ouch... thanks for sharing the experience :)
It's no wonder why so many cultures around the world believe in some kind of demon that comes to you when you're falling asleep or just woke up.

That's pretty strange that you were able to throw yourself out of bed and your leg was still in sleep paralysis. The fact that you could move makes your experience all the more terrifying!

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LOL. Nicely put.