Sentinels

From: Liv (hi_its_liv@hotmail.com)
Story type: Out of Body Experience
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Tue Jul  5 00:59:13 2011

I have always had things like the following happen to me. But strangely everything has stopped and been dormant for the past two to three years. I have thought about what i can do to try and get it back, but I don’t know if I want it back. These types of things are always double-edged.

Anyway, about four years ago I went to bed like any other normal night. I started drifting off to sleep, and I was in that ‘half awake/half asleep’ mode. I like this stage of sleep, I can usually play around with my dreams for that short period of time before falling into really deep sleep.

Anyway, I felt compelled to open my eyes. Something was wrong. Upon opening my eyes I looked around and found that I was crouched down, sitting in my cupboard. I could see and feel the clothes either side of my hanging from the cupboard rack. I could feel the shoes I was sitting on beneath my feet. I figured I was sleep walking, but when I looked up to my bed (the cupboard doors were open) I could see myself asleep on the bed next to my boyfriend. That’s when I knew something was wrong. And it wasn’t dream like either, I could feel things that were physical, like the clothes and the shoes. Everything was clear as if I was awake and time was different: it was slow and fast, like all that mattered was the now (no past, no future, everything was now). And I felt normal, I remember even to the point where I thought ‘my butt looks big under that doona’. That’s how much detail there was and clearly I could think. This was no dream.

Anyway, it felt like I was looking at me sleeping for ages, or it could have been a split second, I don’t know, but then I was able to see the whole room, not just the bed. That’s when I saw three figures standing around the bed looking down at me (the me asleep in the bed). They were absolutely beautiful, they had no features to them, just the outline of men I think- they were glowing every colour of the rainbow, really bright but contained as well. I remember I literally had to shut my mouth because I couldn’t stop staring at them in shock. And then my brain started thinking.

I was in the cupboard watching three ‘things’ watching me sleep. What the hell were they doing in my room? And what were they waiting for? The impression that I got was that they were guarding me, they did not have any bad intentions, they were like statues, almost sentinels, and I got the impression that that was all they ever did, was watch, guard and wait. It was weird. So, I had a dilemma.

I didn’t know what to do from there. How was I going to get back to the bed without being seen? I knew that I couldn’t stay in the cupboard, and even though I knew they would not hurt me, I wanted my body again because something else was telling me to return to my body. It was a strong feeling, like I wasn’t complete. But like most weird situations I turned to sarcasm. “Okkaayyyyyy…” I said out loud. I knew I had talked out loud, I heard my voice bounce off the walls, and I knew they had heard me, because the one closest to me turned his head and looked straight at me sitting in the cupboard. And in that one moment it was just me and him. I felt his surprise and he felt my panic. Im certain of that part. And then I knew it was time to dash for the bed. But I didn’t run, I just wished myself in that instant and then I felt the sheets and the doona on top of me, I felt my boyfriend asleep next to me, and I knew I had made it.

With my eyes shut, I told myself not to open them. Don’t open them, cos they were there, I knew it, I could still feel their surprise. I was certain of this. I opened them anyway, but the room was empty. I saw a shift of the light (or the dark) in the room, and I knew they were there. I rolled over, put the sheet off my head, and tried to wake my boyfriend up. I told him there were ghosts in the room, and he just mumbled ‘don’t tell me that’ and rolled over again. (great protection he is). So I dug myself into his back, and I said out loud “I want to go to sleep” and that was the last thing I remember of that night. But I think its kinda enlightening, to know that things are’nt just black and white, that there is more than our senses can perceive.