Make Of This What You Like.

Theland | 22:43 Tue 20th Nov 2018 | Society & Culture

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Last night, my son, (27), who lives alone, went to bed, and his Jack Russel dog settled down beside him.
Twenty minutes later, the dog sat up, stared at the ceiling and started growling.
My son settled the dog down.
This happened twice more over the next half hour.
Then my son felt pressure on the mattress like somebody pressing down on the mattress just behind him.
THEN, he said he felt the bed shaking. Went on for a few minutes then stopped.
My son (sadly ) is an atheist and doesn't go in for mumbo jumbo or things that go bump in the night.
It spooked him a bit.
What do you think?

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Peter Pedant

it sorrta well described
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

hypnopompic or hypnogogic - going off to sleep or on waking - cant remember which way round the words go

Theland

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Thanks Peter. Thank you all. Very interesting.

mibn2cweus

//Make Of This What You Like.\\

Supposin' I don't like it . . . what then?

DarceyK123

That doesnt explain about the dog tho.

My friend was reading her daughter a bedtime story when she kept looking up at the ceiling, my friend asked what she was looking at, the daughter said "i was just wondering who that lady was up there"

My friends mum had passed over a while earlier.

Spooky!

Theland

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Mibs - " Ve haff vays und meenz to make you like eet!"

Theland

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Mibs - you are, "Mr Rational & Reason." What is your valued opinion?

mibn2cweus

When my bed starts shaking for some unknown reason I'm out of here.

naomi24

Theland, If something untoward was happening – and ‘odd’ things do happen – his atheism is irrelevant. Religion has no bearing on ‘odd’ occurrences …. in my opinion.

emmie

possibly sleep paralysis, i can testify that its horrible

douglas9401

The dog is the reincarnation of a painter and decorator trying to hint that the ceiling needs doing.
As for the mattresss shenanigans, well we've all been young and fruity once.
Imagination.

Rockrose

Had he been drinking? If so his imagination if not he was dreaming.
And well done on him for not believing in mumbo jumbo religious rubbish.

naomi24

//THEN, he said he felt the bed shaking. Went on for a few minutes//

Actually, Theland, a few minutes is quite a long time. I wonder why he didn't jump out of bed? He was probably half asleep and dreaming.

rowanwitch

Two separate things, the dog was responding to a stimulus he couldn't hear probably something moving in the ceiling. Mouse maybe. That spooked your son enough to prime him for either a waking dream or sleep paralysis as has been suggested earlier. A full dream can last a few seconds even though we remember it playing out in real time. So he could have been asleep and not registered it because the interval was so short.