Being stood over while I'm in bed

[mugatea]

a very short dream I had last night, I was dreaming I was lying in bed and this dark figure (no physical appearance or anything) almost like a transparent silhouette came over and stood over me which caused great anxiety. Thankfully it woke me up, but kinda disturbing. I'm on melatonin to help sleep.

 

[sid]

@mugatea , have you only recently started taking Melotonin? Keep in mind that initially there could be some vivid dreams with melotonin. Best to put them out of your mind and rest easy. The sleep gets better and deeper, sometimes with no dreams.

 

[mugatea]

Thanks Sid, not really concerned by it, but its not often I get dreams like that or just generally dreams I can remember.

 

[Veszna]

This has happened to me often in the past, both in hypnopompic and hypnagogic states. These figures never did anything but stood and watched me. What is interesting is that they were not transparent, rather formed by grey/black spiral-like vortices...like Mandelbrot fractals.
I didn't take melatonin.
When I moved out of that apartment, this phenomenon stopped.

 

[SOTTREADER]

If it's any consolation I've also had similar dreams

Post in thread 'Dreaming in a Totalitarian Society' Dreaming in a Totalitarian Society

 

[Arwenn]

That sounds quite creepy mugatea, and a bit like a Dark Man Dream. Cass wiki which has this to say about it:

”Dark Man” dream is a dream experience where a dark predator is present in one’s environment and a warning that it is about to rob the dreamer of something precious. Generally, the ”Dark Man” dreams are wake-up calls for the soul and can reveal what predicament the dreamer is facing…The ”Dark Man” imagery appears to be as old as time, and there are several interpretations for it (Joseph Campbell, Robert Graves, etc.) but the general consensus is that this type of dream appears in one’s life when a time of changes is occuring.

The Cass Wiki PDF can be downloaded here and you can read the rest of the entry for further information on this phenomenon (page 1223).