Is this happening to just me? Does this happen to other people?
I get woken up all of a sudden in the middle of the night every day. I feel like someone is watching me.I am very scared because of this.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
It's something like a recurring nightmare: I used to be prone to them though in a different form.
You are doing the waking, all by your own subconscious efforts. Nothing or no-one else is waking you. No-one is watching you. It is just a sort of bad dream.
I think the more you worry about it the more likely it is to recur.
This might help:
How dark is your room when you awaken? Can you see the sky through the window, from your bed, or is there any light such as from street-lamps coming in? If you can, that may help you. It need only be a very faint grey but enough to contrast with the much darker wall next to it.
I found seeing even the faintest definition of the basic rectangle of the window was enough to orientate myself; but if I woke without that cue I struggled to overcome the bad dream.
Alternatively, try one of those electric night-lights that plug into the wall socket, and emit a very low level of red-tinted light.
The trick is simply to have something to concentrate on that is enough to orientate yourself by but not enough to keep you awake. I face the window but also have a combined radio / alarm clock next to the bed, with an illuminated display.
You are doing the waking, all by your own subconscious efforts. Nothing or no-one else is waking you. No-one is watching you. It is just a sort of bad dream.
I think the more you worry about it the more likely it is to recur.
This might help:
How dark is your room when you awaken? Can you see the sky through the window, from your bed, or is there any light such as from street-lamps coming in? If you can, that may help you. It need only be a very faint grey but enough to contrast with the much darker wall next to it.
I found seeing even the faintest definition of the basic rectangle of the window was enough to orientate myself; but if I woke without that cue I struggled to overcome the bad dream.
Alternatively, try one of those electric night-lights that plug into the wall socket, and emit a very low level of red-tinted light.
The trick is simply to have something to concentrate on that is enough to orientate yourself by but not enough to keep you awake. I face the window but also have a combined radio / alarm clock next to the bed, with an illuminated display.
LamontCranston · M
@ArishMell A night light is a very good idea. i prefer a regular rather than red-tinted. Helps avoid stubbed toes at night as well.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@LamontCranston Thankyou!
I have one of those lamps, and have just paused to try it as I don't normally use it. It has a pale red glow but emits very little light, just enough to illuminate the floor near it.
There is a reason for the red tint: it is less disturbing than other colours, or white light. It is used in night-time hours in submarines to give some semblance of day and night cycles, and for the instruments on the bridges of ships so it does not reduce the watch-keepers' night vision. It is also common in car instruments, for the same reason.
With being a male of Certain Age, little nocturnal expeditions around the house are a fact of life. For that I use a small wind-up lantern as it gives enough light without making it difficult to go back to sleep.
I have one of those lamps, and have just paused to try it as I don't normally use it. It has a pale red glow but emits very little light, just enough to illuminate the floor near it.
There is a reason for the red tint: it is less disturbing than other colours, or white light. It is used in night-time hours in submarines to give some semblance of day and night cycles, and for the instruments on the bridges of ships so it does not reduce the watch-keepers' night vision. It is also common in car instruments, for the same reason.
With being a male of Certain Age, little nocturnal expeditions around the house are a fact of life. For that I use a small wind-up lantern as it gives enough light without making it difficult to go back to sleep.
rinkydinkydoink · M
I sleep in an almost totally blacked-out room now that I sleep alone (it was my shift work room).
I used to have those thoughts until I asked myself "If I can't see anything in this totally black room, how can anyone else?"
Superstitions and irrational bedtime fears are what every child goes through. Adults should have no time for this kind of childlike thinking (for that's what it is).
I used to have those thoughts until I asked myself "If I can't see anything in this totally black room, how can anyone else?"
Superstitions and irrational bedtime fears are what every child goes through. Adults should have no time for this kind of childlike thinking (for that's what it is).
Lyndawifeandmom · F
There's a lot of kids / young people that live in our neighborhood . They're always roaming around the neighborhood at night peeping into windows . I don't think they mean any harm to anyone . They're just curious kids being curious kids . I certainly don't wake up at night having dreams or nightmares about it .
AngelUnforgiven · 51-55, F
@Lyndawifeandmom please dont normalize that behavior. There is absolutely nothing normal about that behavior. "Kids being kids" can sometimes turn into rapists and sex offenders in the making.
Tumbleweed · F
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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
It has never happened to me but I heard about it before.
Sazzio · 36-40, M
No but I have had sleep paralysis twice.
Turn off your cell phone and any of those amazon listening devices. Also put black tape over any cameras on your laptop or computers. It is very possible someone is actually watching.
You can also buy a camera detector off Amazon to scan your room and search for hidden cameras.
If it is a demon though, none of that will help, best option is to just prepare yourself for breeding. (I think I saw that in a movie once)
You can also buy a camera detector off Amazon to scan your room and search for hidden cameras.
If it is a demon though, none of that will help, best option is to just prepare yourself for breeding. (I think I saw that in a movie once)
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@JamesBugman I am still trying to decide if you being serious or humorous!
If your computer is off so is its camera - if it has one, of course. If you really are worried about it, you don't bother about black tape. You simply turn it off and you don't have it in the bedroom. Same with any gadget like an Alexa or Siri - though why anyone even buys those eavesdroppers, beats me.
What makes you imagine there may be a hidden camera in Kalifan's bedroom anyway? There might be a camera in the room in Peking or Moscow, but otherwise all you are likely to do there is make the poor lady even more anxious.
A camera detector seems like a whizzo wheeze to keep Jeff Bezos in the style to which he is accustomed, rather than for any genuine purpose.
"A demon"? And only thinking you once saw one in a film? Ah, clearly you are being humorous...!
If your computer is off so is its camera - if it has one, of course. If you really are worried about it, you don't bother about black tape. You simply turn it off and you don't have it in the bedroom. Same with any gadget like an Alexa or Siri - though why anyone even buys those eavesdroppers, beats me.
What makes you imagine there may be a hidden camera in Kalifan's bedroom anyway? There might be a camera in the room in Peking or Moscow, but otherwise all you are likely to do there is make the poor lady even more anxious.
A camera detector seems like a whizzo wheeze to keep Jeff Bezos in the style to which he is accustomed, rather than for any genuine purpose.
"A demon"? And only thinking you once saw one in a film? Ah, clearly you are being humorous...!
@ArishMell I was sort of joking, but I did have a couple instances for real.
One is some hacker who emails me every six months wanting bitcoins or he is going to show the video he captured to my family. Unfortunately for him he has no idea who I am or where I live, he only has that one email address, but it was clearly taken from my laptop camera when I was walking around semi-dressed (I saw the video). Nothing really incriminating in the video anyways, so I just delete his correspondence.
Another one is that I was using my cell phone as my alarm clock for work, and several times I woke up to noises coming from it. I think someone had access to it which lets them listen to me snoring and then can make noises to spoil my sleep. Why that is fun for someone is a mystery. I turned cell phone off at night and that issue went away.
The demon thing is kinda hot to me, so I included it.
One is some hacker who emails me every six months wanting bitcoins or he is going to show the video he captured to my family. Unfortunately for him he has no idea who I am or where I live, he only has that one email address, but it was clearly taken from my laptop camera when I was walking around semi-dressed (I saw the video). Nothing really incriminating in the video anyways, so I just delete his correspondence.
Another one is that I was using my cell phone as my alarm clock for work, and several times I woke up to noises coming from it. I think someone had access to it which lets them listen to me snoring and then can make noises to spoil my sleep. Why that is fun for someone is a mystery. I turned cell phone off at night and that issue went away.
The demon thing is kinda hot to me, so I included it.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@JamesBugman I'd know straight away any attempt to blackmaill me in the same way would be absurd because a) I don't make videos of myself, b) my phone is not connected to the internet and there is no camera on my computer, and c) as you say these people do not really know who you are, where you live and who are your friends and relations!
I receive other types of criminal e-mail and always report, block and delete them.
For anyone to have such access to your 'phone like that means it would be switched on and transmitting to that person. More likely it was some sort of electrical interference. Odd though - does it make strange noises at other times.
Charles Dickens was before you with the electronics and the supernatural - his ghost-story The Signalman was bang up-to-date in its time with it using the railway's telegraph system!
I receive other types of criminal e-mail and always report, block and delete them.
For anyone to have such access to your 'phone like that means it would be switched on and transmitting to that person. More likely it was some sort of electrical interference. Odd though - does it make strange noises at other times.
Charles Dickens was before you with the electronics and the supernatural - his ghost-story The Signalman was bang up-to-date in its time with it using the railway's telegraph system!
SomeMichGuy · M
@Quimliqer Indeed!
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pdockal · 56-60, M
Hmmmmm
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Middle of the night every day 🤔 you like too be watched?
CloudAngel80 · 41-45, F
Annoint yourself and your house, pray and read ur bible. End times are here, 😈 evil is increasingly crazy. Don't stop praying 🙏
come2gether · 46-50, M
It's just your hubs
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SomeMichGuy · M
@Summer2025 Stop it.
That’ll be the dead guy.
daddybloke · 46-50, M
SomeMichGuy · M
@daddybloke She should have checked the nametag and seen it was you! lol
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